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Laurent Simoneau

Cofounder, Coveo

Search every verified Laurent Simoneau interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Laurent Simoneau, co-founder and CEO of Coveo, discussed the company's record new bookings performance in a January 2026 interview with BNN Bloomberg, attributing the results to demand across its commerce and knowledge solutions. He cited new contracts with companies including Boston Scientific, United Airlines, and Thomson Reuters, as well as the company's largest new customer win, a seven-figure annual subscription with a Fortune 500 industrial firm. Simoneau also discussed a December agreement with the Canadian government to improve self-service for citizens and employee productivity, and stated that geopolitical trade tensions had not affected the company, citing its cloud infrastructure in multiple regions. In a November 2025 keynote, Simoneau said many organizations are struggling to scale AI initiatives and argued that enterprises need AI grounded on secure, relevant content. He reported that Coveo's generative search product generated over eight million euros in annual cost savings for SAP Concur and that a similar deployment on SAP's global customer portal was estimated to produce 182 million euros in yearly savings. He also described Coveo's evolution toward agentic RAG and its integration with agentic platforms, including AWS's agent builder. In earlier appearances, Simoneau discussed the risks of large language model hallucination, the importance of measurable ROI for AI investments, and Coveo's platform capabilities in search, recommendations, and personalization.

Recent appearances

  • Coveo swings to Q3 loss despite revenue increase

    January 30, 2026 · 📺 BNN Bloomberg

    Laurent Simoneau, CEO and co-founder at Coveo, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the company's earnings and performance. +++ Subscribe to BNN Bloomberg to watch more videos:    / bnnbloomberg   Connect with BNN Bloomberg: For the latest news visit: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca For a full video offering visit BNN Bloomberg: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video BNN Bloomberg on Twitter:   / bnnbloomberg   BNN Bloomberg on LinkedIn:   / bnn-bloomberg   -- BNN Bloomberg is Canada’s only TV service devoted exclusively to business, finance and the markets. #BNNBloomberg #Canadiannews #Businessnews

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  • Welcome & Agentic AI: From Trend to Enterprise Differentiator

    November 24, 2025 · 📺 CoveoAI

    From Generative AI to Agentic: How Coveo Powers Scalable, Real-World AI Experiences | Laurent Simoneau (Coveo) Welcome to Relevance 360, presented by Coveo — where industry leaders explore how to turn AI, Generative AI, and Agentic technologies into measurable business impact. In this keynote, Laurent Simoneau, CEO and Founder of Coveo, reveals how some of the world’s most innovative organizations — including SAP, DocuSign, Dell, Vanguard, Xero, and F5 — are achieving real, scalable results with Coveo AI. 🔥 What You’ll Learn: • Why most AI initiatives stall — and how to break free from “AI…

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  • Drill Down Insider Ep. #21: Coveo ($CVP.TO) CEO Laurent Simoneau

    August 29, 2025 · 📺 The Drill Down

    Coveo has spent years embedding AI into enterprise search and recommendations. Now the company is pushing into agentic AI, promising systems that act with context and initiative inside the enterprise. CEO Laurent Simoneau explains what this shift means for adoption, ROI, and competition in the AI era. #thedrilldown #Coveo #LaurentSimoneau #agenticai #enterpriseai #generativeai #saas #EnterpriseSearch #aiadoption

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  • E6 : Transforming Search

    September 17, 2024 · 📺 The Authority Company

    Gerry welcomes Laurent Simoneau to the podcast. Laurent is the President and CTO of Coveo and is considered one of the industry's top enterprise search experts. Coveo is a leader in AI-powered relevance platforms that transform search, recommendations, personalization, and merchandising within digital experiences. Gerry and Laurent discuss how AI is transforming the way we search and how search enabled by AI can find the proverbial needle in the haystack.

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  • The Importance of AI Search for GenAI Success

    April 30, 2024 · 📺 CoveoAI

    We firmly believe that AI search matters – and without great search relevance, your AI and GenAI plans will fail. AI Search augments generative question-answering – and the results must be cohesive, drawing from reliable sources of truth, and compliant with security and privacy standards to consistently deliver relevant answers. Join Laurent Simoneau, Coveo's Founder and CTO, as he shares how Coveo harnesses unparalleled expertise in AI to develop an enterprise-ready AI solutions. Learn how you can transform your organization's approach to information discovery and decision-making, harnessi…

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  • The 4 Elements of the Coveo AI Platform

    November 24, 2023 · 📺 CoveoAI

    President & CTO of Coveo AI Laurent Simoneau provides exciting updates on the latest innovations we will be releasing in the next year. The Coveo AI Platform is really a single, composable AI Search & Generative Experience platform that supports and delivers Semantic Search, AI Recommendations, Generative Answering and Unified Personalization. Learn more about how these elements combine to deliver the AI-Experience Advantage here: https://www.coveo.com/en/relevance-36...

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  • Coveo Impact Keynote: The Present and Future of the Coveo Platform

    July 19, 2017 · 📺 CoveoAI

    Innovation is at the core of what we do at Coveo and we’ve made significant investments to create a true relevance platform. Watch as our founder and CTO, Laurent Simoneau, along with the product leadership team, go on a virtual tour of all of the exciting new Coveo developments, and get a sneak peek at our vision for the not-so-distant future. Twitter -   / coveo   LinkedIn -   / coveo   Instagram -   / coveolife   Facebook -   / coveolife  

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  • Coveo Impact: Q&A with Coveo Leadership Team

    July 19, 2017 · 📺 CoveoAI

    Get the highlights from an informal question and answer session with the Coveo leadership team that took place during our first ever customer event, Coveo Impact. Discover what Coveo's exit strategy is, if Coveo will look to use unlisted clouds in the future, and how Coveo will share it's product roadmap moving forward. This is a recap that cannot be missed. Hosted by: Louis Tetu (CEO), Laurent Simoneau (CTO), Mark Floisand (CMO), and Jennifer MacIntosh (VP, Customer Success) Twitter -   / coveo   LinkedIn -   / coveo   Instagram -   / coveolife   Facebook -   / coveolife  

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  • AI-Powered Search Can Impact Your Business: Takeaways from the Gartner MQ for Insight Engines

    April 28, 2017 · 📺 CoveoAI

    Watch this webinar replay with our CTO Laurent Simoneau to learn how AI-powered search engines are transforming the way brands like Salesforce and Logitech are harnessing the intelligence of their crowds to drive transformative business results.

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  • SUGCON Coveo Lunch Keynote - Intelligent Search: The Killer App for Sitecore Sites

    October 20, 2015 · 📺 SUGCON

    Great search drives site performance, boosts visitor engagement, and accelerates conversions. Coveo CTO Laurent Simoneau explores how the role of site search has evolved in our increasingly mobile, social, and personalized web, and shows real-world examples of great search in action. He shares options & resources for building high-impact search experiences that are more cost-effective than open source, and discusses the new innovations Coveo has planned for the Sitecore community.

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