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From Florian Douetteau, CEO at Dataiku | Live from HumanX 2026 · · PeopleReign

“It's dystopian if the only thing we get of AI is some people being replaced and asking for a salary. It's positive if you can accelerate research, if you can make the economy actually more efficient and so on. And so you have to balance those use cases in order to get from a dystopian to utopia.”

Florian Douetteau
Cofounder, Dataiku
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Florian Douetteau, CEO at Dataiku | Live from HumanX 2026
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Florian Douetteau, CEO at Dataiku | Live from HumanX 2026
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Send us Fan Mail (https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/fan...) Florian Douetteau is the CEO and co-founder of Dataiku, the enterprise AI platform he has been building for over a decade to make data and AI accessible at scale. Recorded live from the floor of HumanX 2026, this lightning round explores how the rise of agents is reshaping the role of data teams and what a genuinely AI-native way of working looks like in practice. Florian and host Dan Turchin go deep on where agentic AI actually creates economic value, why most enterprises are still thinking about agents the way people thought about websites in 1997, and what it means for humanity when machines start doing things we thought only humans could do. What You'll Learn • How Dataiku evolved from data science platform to full agent studio for the enterprise • Why business teams need to become their own AI enablers, not just consumers of data insights • What a truly agentic workday looks like for knowledge workers in the near future • Why the dystopian AI narrative misses the use cases that actually grow the economy • What it means to be human when intelligence is no longer exclusively a human trait 🎙️ Part of our HumanX 2026 compilation series. Listen to the full compilation here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/520474/epi... Resources • Subscribe to the AI & The Future of Work Newsletter (https://aiandwork.beehiiv.com/subscribe) • Connect with Florian on LinkedIn (  / fdouetteau  )
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Cofounder · Dataiku

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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