Full Name
Francois Pineau
Company
LESAFFRE INTERNATIONAL
Job Title
Factory 4.0 Group Leader
Speaker Bio
I lead the digital manufacturing operations, with a focus on data, connectivity, and the human factors that make technology actually land on the shop floor.
My work sits at the intersection of OT/IT convergence, real-time process intelligence, and organizational change. I believe technology is not a support function. It is the new way to conceive and execute operations.
I also practice what I call Applied AI, or A²I: using AI not as a demo layer, but as a daily cognitive tool, embedded in workflows, decisions, and team dynamics. From agentic orchestration to natural language interfaces on industrial data, I try new things and explore what it means to augment operators and engineers, not replace them.
 
Francois Pineau