Florian Douetteau on AI agents
From HumanX 2026: Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau on AI + Brand Refresh · · New York Stock Exchange
“Agent management in particular is a new product enabling to observe and manage agent at scale. Many of our customers already have dozens to hundreds of agents and their question is are they doing the job? Are they actually working? Do they actually derive business value? And um we are building this product to help them figure that out because you're today uh struggling as an organization sometimes to manage people. Tomorrow it will be about managing agents.”
On , Florian Douetteau, Cofounder at Dataiku, spoke about AI agents during HumanX 2026: Dataiku CEO Florian Douetteau on AI + Brand Refresh on New York Stock Exchange.
About Florian Douetteau
During appearances in April and June 2026, Florian Douetteau discussed Dataiku's focus on "semi-deterministic" agents for enterprise use cases such as procurement optimization, supply chain management, and marketing budget allocation. He described this category as requiring "some form of determinism" rather than open-ended exploration. Douetteau stated that Dataiku launched three new products, including an agent management tool designed to "observe and manage agent at scale," and said that many customers already run "dozens to hundreds of agents" and need to assess whether those agents are delivering business value. Douetteau argued that "creating stuff is no longer a limit" for enterprises and emphasized the importance of governance, saying "if you give power to more people, you also need to raise the stake in terms of control." He asserted that "the risk for many organization is to be left behind" if they do not transform core workflows with AI. Regarding CIOs, Douetteau described them as "stuck in between board that want AI to happen but at the same time are worried about AI risk," and said that this represents "a make or break moment" where CIOs can either lead AI transformation or be replaced by "AI first CIOs."
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