RAISE Summit
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'Architecting the Future The Enterprise Revolution through GenAI' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Florence Verzelen, Victoria Weller, Gilles Babinet, Emilie Sidiqian, David Martineau, Charles-Edouard Bouée
Moderated by Charles-Édouard Boué, a panel of industry leaders including Florence Verzelin and Gilles Babinet analyzed the shift of generative AI from experimental phases to enterprise-scale deployment across sectors like luxury retail, life sciences, and construction. The discussion detailed specific value realization strategies, such as Gucci's tripled e-commerce growth and Dassault Systèmes' code acceleration, while outlining strategic frameworks like Martineau's three-category matrix to guide competitive advantage. Furthermore, experts addressed critical workforce implications, emphasizing the transition from job displacement to employability loss and the necessity of human-in-the-loop oversight to manage hallucinations and sustain innovation pipelines.
- 38 min
'International Perspective on GenAI Views from the Frontiers' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Rodrigo Liang, Patrick Perez, Michael Kratsios, Benjamin Cistecky, Chandra Khatri, Antoine Moyroud, Antoine Moreau
Global investors and governments are aggressively pursuing "sovereign AI" strategies, exemplified by Saudi Arabia's rumored $40 billion fund and the EU's push for a trust hub, to ensure cultural alignment and data control over large language models. Industry leaders like Samba Nova and Criterium are addressing critical technical barriers in low-resource environments by developing custom tokenizers and open-source models that overcome the fragmentation of non-Latin languages. This convergence of geopolitical ambition and technical innovation is expected to reshape the market into a diverse ecosystem of local champions and open science, moving beyond English-centric dominance to serve billions of new users.
- 46 min
'AI Blueprint Deploying GenAI for Enterprise Transformation' | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Gabriel Hubert, Biljana Kaitovic, Bruno Zerbib, Laetitia Cailleteau, Philippe Battel, Jérémy Arosh
Moderated by Jérémy Arosh of Capgemini, a roundtable featuring representatives from Dust, Engie, Orange, Oracle, and Accenture explores how generative AI is transforming enterprise operations from specialist tools into universal workforce assets. The discussion details specific implementation strategies, such as Orange's DINO2 platform boosting developer productivity by 40% and Engie's use of AI for predictive safety maintenance, while addressing critical challenges like the EU AI Act compliance and the management of workforce anxiety. Experts conclude that successful adoption requires a cultural shift toward iterative exploration and robust governance frameworks to navigate the transition from deterministic computing to stochastic, high-impact AI systems.
- 12 min
Keynote by Christopher Savoie, Zapata AI CEO | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Zapata, a public company spun from Harvard, deploys an edge-native architecture using tensor networks and specialized small model ensembles to solve latency and cost constraints for enterprise AI. The firm demonstrated this capability by implementing a 60-model system on Formula 1 cars that accurately predicted race disruptions in real-time, alongside a partnership with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank for financial trading applications. By leveraging military-grade hardware to process streaming data locally, Zapata enables high-precision predictions in biomanufacturing, racing, and finance without reliance on unstable cloud connectivity.
- 23 min
Fireside Chat by Arthur Mensch from Mistral AI & Florian Douetteau from Dataiku | RAISE Summit 2024
Arthur Mensch, Florian Douetteau
Dataiku CEO Florian Diot and Mistral.ai CEO Arthur Mendez discussed their strategic collaboration to democratize AI by enabling non-experts to function as "centaurs," blending human domain expertise with advanced models. The companies outlined complementary approaches where Mistral provides high-performance, open-source foundational models for flexible deployment, while Dataiku offers a platform that empowers enterprise users to build complex applications without deep data science training. Their joint vision addresses critical market needs for cost-efficient, sustainable AI through model compression and robust data filtering, while expanding into multimodal capabilities beyond text processing.
- 18 min
Keynote by Carla Bünger & Thomas Taroni, CEOs of KORE & Phoenix Technologies | RAISE Summit 2024
QANDA AI is launching a 1,500-square-meter Innovation Center in Basel, Switzerland, to facilitate collaboration with partners like IBM, Red Hat, and Meta while addressing the security risks of US-based cloud infrastructure. The platform leverages sovereign cloud architecture on IBM Watson X to ensure strict data control, enabling enterprises in sensitive sectors such as Swiss banking and luxury goods to deploy generative models that combat brand dilution and misinformation. By prioritizing cost-efficient, hybrid infrastructure with real-time access governance, the initiative allows organizations to process petabytes of data locally without exposing proprietary information to foreign jurisdictions.
- 19 min
Keynote by Karim Beguir, Co-Founder and CEO InstaDeep | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
The presentation outlines a paradigm shift where artificial intelligence has entered a self-accelerating phase driven by exponential gains in data, compute, and model efficiency, transitioning from passive Large Language Models to active, collaborative smart agents capable of physical and digital execution. Leaders in the field like InstaDeep and Tesla demonstrate that sustainable competitive advantage now relies on a virtuous loop combining differentiated data, deep domain expertise, and robust simulation capabilities to enable autonomous systems that continuously improve. This evolution promises to redefine industrial optimization and software development by deploying specialized multi-agent collaborations that solve complex problems without human intervention.
- 20 min
'How GenAI Disrupted Customer Support' by Des Traynor, Founder & CSO Intercom | RAISE Summit 2024
Intercom rapidly pivoted to an AI-first strategy following the 2023 launch of ChatGPT, deploying its autonomous Finn agent to resolve eight million support queries while displacing 750,000 hours of human labor. To ensure reliability in high-volume sectors like software and e-commerce, the company prioritizes proprietary data sources over public web content to minimize hallucinations and employs a rigorous model-agnostic evaluation framework. This transformation, which intentionally cannibalizes traditional human agent seats to prevent external disruption, is set to expand into multimodal voice and visual analysis with a collaborative human-AI platform launching in mid-April.
- 23 min
Fireside Chat by SambaNova CEO, Rodrigo Liang & Leila Abboud of the FT | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Samba Nova, a Palo Alto-based hardware and software provider, has launched "Samba 1," the world's only trillion-parameter model constructed entirely from open-source components to offer enterprises full ownership and data sovereignty. Differentiating itself from hyperscalers by combining proprietary RDU architecture with a "composition of experts" strategy, the company delivers a 10x performance increase while enabling secure, on-premises deployment for high-stakes sectors like national security and global energy. With a growing roster including major U.S. Department of Energy facilities and Saudi Aramco, CEO Rodrigo Leung aims to deploy 100 uniquely fine-tuned models for Fortune 500 companies by year-end.
- 21 min
Keynote by Caspar Herzberg, AVEVA Systems CEO | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Caspar Herzberg, Kasper Hesberg
Aveva CEO Kasper Hesberg is set to launch in June an industrial AI assistant that merges predictive analytics with Large Language Models to help engineers overcome data silos and access the insights of veterans with 12 years of experience. This solution, already validated in cases like Duke Energy where it prevents $90 million in losses per event, addresses the critical challenge of 70% unused time-series data by summarizing technical manuals and guiding remote collaboration through 3D asset visualizations. By strictly limiting its scope to verified telemetry and documentation, the system delivers high-accuracy maintenance predictions while mitigating the hallucination risks common to general-purpose AI.
- 11 min
'AI Deployment: Trainwreck or Trailblazer?' Marten Mickos from HackerOne | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
The event addresses the critical deployment gap causing half of enterprises to hesitate on AI adoption due to fears of security breaches, financial loss, and brand damage. Featuring insights from industry leaders like Brett Taylor and case studies from Hugging Face, Anthropic, and Snap, the presentation highlights how rigorous external red teaming and transparent disclosure programs mitigate specific risks such as prompt injections and systemic bias. By demonstrating that preparedness transforms vulnerability into a competitive advantage, the discussion advocates for unbiased validation of AI systems to prevent operational disruption and secure organizational trust.
- 23 min
'Production Ready RAG' by David Leconte from DataStax | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
David Leconte, a Solution Engineer at Datastack, presented a comprehensive framework for transitioning Retrieval-Augmented Generation applications from experimental prototypes to stable, enterprise-grade production environments. The proposed RAG Stack mitigates common industry risks such as library fragmentation and compliance gaps through curated, daily-validated integrations and provides AstraDB, a serverless vector database that delivers 10-millisecond latency and 74% faster retrieval speeds than dedicated competitors. By combining these core components with the newly acquired Longflow workflow engine, Datastack enables organizations to deploy compliant, high-throughput generative AI systems via single-command installation while reducing development time and operational liability.
- 39 min
Threads of Tomorrow: GenAI and the Reinvention of Luxury Experience | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Massimo Moretti, Nicolas, Carla, Patrick
Moderated by Massimo Moretti, the "Threads of Tomorrow" panel featured experts Nicola, Carla, and Patrick in discussing how generative AI is redefining the luxury sector through application-layer innovation, sovereign data infrastructure, and new creative workflows. The discourse highlighted critical challenges including GPU capacity bottlenecks and the necessity of new quality auditors, while citing specific art market transformations where AI co-creates value and reshapes ownership dynamics. Looking ahead, the group predicted that AI-driven efficiency will fundamentally alter the work week to just two or three days, positioning Europe as a competitive frontier for creativity-driven growth despite global capital competition.
- 36 min
Building the Impossible: Technical Frontiers in GenAI for Enterprises | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
Solène, Baptiste Pannier, Elias, Mathieu Valland, David Begassarian, Romain Guyett
Founders from Adaptive, PhotoRoom, Google Cloud, and Crisp discussed the strategic divergence between building in-house infrastructure for core competitive advantages and leveraging external APIs for validation or non-critical functions. The panel highlighted that while data moats and proprietary RLHF techniques offer defensibility in niche verticals, startups face significant hurdles regarding high GPU costs, senior talent acquisition, and navigating the uncertainty of the EU AI Act. Ultimately, the consensus emphasized that sustainable AI growth requires balancing rapid product iteration with long-term architectural control to avoid market bubbles and regulatory pitfalls.
- 11 min
Florian Douettau, CEO and Co-Founder of Dataiku | RAISE Summit 2024 | Paris
DataIQ founder and CEO Florian guides the French-born AI enterprise software firm, which has achieved unicorn status with over $850 million in funding and serves 600 global clients. While maintaining its engineering roots in France to leverage top talent, the company strategically positions itself as an American entity to meet U.S. market expectations and fund its research operations. The organization promotes a long-term "co-creation" model to help large enterprises overcome generative AI adoption barriers like hallucinations, forecasting full responsible integration within five to ten years rather than the current hype cycle.