DEFENCE & ENGINEERING
Thales | Building an AI-Ready Engineering Organization
From fragmented engineering knowledge to scalable AI capabilities.
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Yassine Aqejjaj · HEAD OF AI · PRODUCT BUILDER · AI STRATEGIST
I lead AI. I build products. I turn ideas into reality.
Head of AI Factory at Devoteam · NOVA deployed to 800 employees · 13 years in AI
13
Years of experience
€12M+
Commercial pipeline
800
NOVA users
1,500+
Professionals trained
4
Books published
14
Public repos on GitHub
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“Successful AI products are measured by the business indicators they improve, not by the complexity of their algorithms.”
ABOUT ME
Hi, I’m Yassine. I lead AI at scale, and I build it myself.
I'm Yassine Aqejjaj, an AI leader with 13 years of experience building AI products, shaping enterprise AI operating models and leading cross-functional delivery across defence, public services, retail and financial services. I joined Devoteam in 2023 as Principal Product Manager, became Lead of AI in 2024 and have headed the AI Factory since 2026, where internal platform development, client delivery and workforce enablement come together.
I started in digital banking in Casablanca, then moved to Paris to work on AI products at Carrefour, Fujitsu and AXA. Along the way I trained in machine learning at Stanford and in AI product management at Duke. Today I lead the NOVA Suite, our agentic platform deployed to 800 employees, and I've trained 1,500+ professionals in generative AI, agentic AI and RAG.
I also build on my own: TrustRail, MedGuard AI, M3aya Santé and the TRAIL Academy learning platform I founded. I share what I learn in four books and on stage, including Google Cloud Summit and AICamp. I focus on agentic AI, responsible deployment and measurable business adoption.
- Paris, France
- French · Arabic · English
- AI Champion, Devoteam 2024–2026
- Founder, TRAIL Academy
I don’t just lead AI. I build it.
Strategy, delivery and shipped code, under one roof.
EXPERIENCE · INTERACTIVE CV
Thirteen years, one thread: making AI useful
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13
years turning AI from slides into systems in production.
CLIENT WORK
Where AI meets the real world
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800
employees use NOVA, the agentic platform I lead.
AI LAB · PRODUCTS I BUILT
Built, shipped, used
Agentic platforms, health and learning tools I design, code and ship myself. Featured projects are curated; the full list lives on GitHub.
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HEALTHTECH2026
M3aya Santé
Patient-journey coordination platform for healthcare facilities in Morocco (FR/AR): 9 integrated care pathways, AI agents under human supervision.
- 9/9Care pathways covered
- 94%Workflow test success
- −35%Administrative time reduction
EDUCATIONFounder
TRAIL Academy
E-learning platform for professionals: 18 practice-oriented modules (70% hands-on) on generative AI, agentic AI, RAG, context engineering and AI leadership.
- 18Learning modules
- 82%Learning completion rate
- 70%Hands-on content
1,500+
professionals trained in generative AI, agentic AI and RAG.
EXPERTISE
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INSIGHTS
What I write, say and teach
Four books, talks and training programmes on AI, leadership and the future of work.
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NEW · WHITE PAPERAgentic transformationAgentic transformation: from assistants to agents, method and roadmap.NEW · WHITE PAPERThe AI Factory guideThe AI Factory guide: model, platform, governance, adoption, measurement.
LATEST ARTICLES
AI AGENTS · 11 min readThe AI Agent Mind Map: From Idea to ProductionCODING AGENTS · 9 min readEarned Autonomy: Governing AI Coding Agents Across the SDLCMCP · 9 min readMCP in the Enterprise: Connecting Agents to Confluence, Jira and Microsoft 365 SafelyGOVERNANCE · 9 min readAI Agent Governance: Policies, Human Approval and Signed Receipts
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What enterprise AI programmes has he led?
Yassine joined Devoteam in August 2023 as Principal Product Manager, became Lead of AI in 2024 and has been Head of AI Factory since 2026. Engagements he led include an AI operating model for Thales (5 people), a sovereign generative AI platform for DILA, the services of the Prime Minister (9 people, 70% faster content creation), a €4M AI transformation programme at Decathlon (13 people, 2.6× productivity gains from augmented teams) and an ML/MLOps engagement at Carrefour (10 people).
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What enterprise AI programmes has he led?
Yassine joined Devoteam in August 2023 as Principal Product Manager, became Lead of AI in 2024 and has been Head of AI Factory since 2026. Engagements he led include an AI operating model for Thales (5 people), a sovereign generative AI platform for DILA, the services of the Prime Minister (9 people, 70% faster content creation), a €4M AI transformation programme at Decathlon (13 people, 2.6× productivity gains from augmented teams) and an ML/MLOps engagement at Carrefour (10 people).
Show his agentic AI products
NOVA Suite is the AI Factory's agentic platform, built by a 15-person team and deployed to 800 employees within a group of 10,000+ consultants in 25 countries: Nova Agents orchestrate applications, Nova Context retrieves targeted context and Nova Evals / FORGE evaluate results. He also built TrustRail, an AI-agent control gateway, and MedGuard AI, an open-source healthcare AI evaluation platform.
What makes his profile suitable for a VP AI role?
Three proofs in one profile: he sets AI strategy and operating models, delivers AI in production for large enterprises, and builds agentic platforms himself. 13 years of experience, a €12M+ commercial pipeline, 800 NOVA users and 1,500+ professionals trained.
Which client results can he share?
Public figures from his CV: 2.6× productivity gains from augmented teams on a €4M AI transformation programme at Decathlon, and 70% faster content creation on a sovereign AI platform for DILA, the services of the Prime Minister. On the DILA sovereign AI platform, results include a 60% shorter delivery time for a RAG application (from 10 weeks to 4), 75% of common technical capabilities reused, a RAG faithfulness of 0.94 and a 30% lower cost per AI request. Other results are shared on request, with client approval.
What has he built himself?
NOVA Suite (Nova Agents, Nova Context, Nova Evals / FORGE), TrustRail (an AI-agent control gateway), MedGuard AI (an open-source healthcare AI evaluation platform), M3aya Santé (a patient-journey platform for healthcare facilities in Morocco) and the TRAIL Academy learning platform he founded.
What has he written?
Four books: Symbiose on human–AI collaboration, Leading with AI on healthcare and on education, and The Artificial Candidate on generative AI and US elections.