Dr Moez Draief, vice president analytics, Capgemini Invent

What has been your path to power?

I started my career as an academic at Imperial College London where I spent ten years. In addition to engaging in teaching and research, I collaborated extensively with companies such as Microsoft, Technicolor and IBM. Through this dual path, I have learnt to bring together the messy world of data and analytics in business and the more harmonious world of research. From optimising energy in telecommunication systems to helping hospitals provide better care, I translate business challenges into the language of data and algorithms and then back into strategies and technologies.

Since I joined Capgemini two years ago, I have been supporting many clients across Europe to transform their processes and businesses. My teams and I help clients in the public sector, financial services, life sciences and telecommunications to define their AI strategy, deploy use cases to transform their businesses and to empower their employees to own and shape these transformations. This combines innovative design thinking and delivery approaches, creative data processing techniques, state-of-the-art technologies and algorithms, and a great emphasis on making our solutions robust, ethical and centered on the humans that interact with it.