In this talk, Vincent Wang, Chief Digital Officer at Legrand, explains why simply adding AI to existing processes isn't enough to transform a business — much like the electrification of factories a century ago, where swapping a steam engine for an electric motor changed nothing until the organization of work itself was rethought.
Vincent Wang presents the Legrand Agent Factory, a program structured around quarterly "seasons" that bring together business teams ("squads") around concrete business challenges, backed by a shared production line (agents, connectors, orchestration, evaluation, FinOps) and common governance, notably through the Dataiku platform.
He illustrates the approach with a concrete case: redesigning product data management for a catalog of 500,000 references, distributed across more than 90 countries and 40 languages. Thanks to a team of specialized AI agents, deploying a full catalog in a new country went from 12 months to 3 weeks — a 98% reduction in time-to-market — without replacing teams, but by freeing them up to focus on higher-value work.
