This Tech For Industry Show panel brings together four complementary perspectives on industrial intelligence: Sébastien Ory and Ilaria Michelizzi (Aveva), Philippe Mège (Axens), Olivier Traore (Accenture), and Laurent Champaney, Director General of Arts et Métiers.
The speakers stress that industrial AI is only one piece of the puzzle: data quality and the ability to integrate human expertise matter just as much. Axens walks through its operational approach — collecting data, qualifying and contextualizing it, then turning it into concrete action — and explains why hybrid models, combining thermodynamic models with real-time data, are essential to building genuine digital twins.
Accenture shares lessons learned on IT/OT convergence, the tension between central standardization and local autonomy, and proposes a federated approach to make transformation succeed. Arts et Métiers brings the education angle: how to prepare future engineers for these new tools without losing the fundamentals of industrial processes.
The panel closes on what it takes to succeed with an AI-driven transformation: trusted data, field-level adoption, sustained leadership vision, and upskilling junior and senior employees together.
