00:00Hello, thank you very much for being with us.
00:02You are Vice President in Charité d'Innovation, Digital, and IT at Air Liquide,
00:06a world leader in hydrogen use, pioneer in innovation on all fronts,
00:11from energy transition to healthcare to deep tech as well.
00:15What defines innovation in Air Liquide?
00:18Hello, everyone. Can you hear me?
00:20Yes, very well. There's a lot of noise, but everybody can hear you.
00:23All right. Innovation and technologies at Air Liquide
00:26have really always been a driving force of our strategy,
00:30and it's really been of our culture since the creation of LED in 1902,
00:35so really part of our DNA.
00:37What we do in innovation, so we focus on all our markets,
00:40but more specifically lately on energy transition.
00:44You wouldn't be surprised about that.
00:45So we spend about 100 million euros in innovation every year,
00:50really related to energy transition,
00:52in particular low-carbon hydrogen production,
00:55carbon capture, biomethane.
00:58And really, I think what makes us special in Air Liquide
01:03and about innovation is three things.
01:05First, we are very close to our customers,
01:07so we have five innovation campuses on three continents
01:10to really have this proximity with the field and with customers.
01:14Also, we are going from the idea, the concept,
01:18up to the end product,
01:19so it's really an end-to-end process.
01:20And lastly, we don't innovate just ourselves,
01:24but we partner with more than 400 companies,
01:29large companies, startups, academics,
01:31to make innovation possible.
01:34I read that you're an advocate of vulgarization of data
01:37and artificial intelligence.
01:39What exactly do you mean by that?
01:42Absolutely.
01:43We are trying to really strengthen the culture around data and AI within the company
01:50and not just among a few specialists and data scientists.
01:54So we have a program that we launched a year ago that is called AI Readiness.
02:00The objective of this program is to train 300 data scientists in the field,
02:07in our operations.
02:09So, again, to help day-to-day decisions.
02:12Those 300 data scientists really are part of this upscaling program.
02:17And I think this is quite unique for an industrial company
02:20to rely not only on central teams,
02:22but really on data scientists spread across the world in our operations.
02:28How can this help the energy transition
02:30and help achieve the carbon-neutral pledge by 2050?
02:35So that's right.
02:36We have this commitment to be carbon-neutral by 2050,
02:39and I think artificial intelligence can help us do that.
02:44Artificial intelligence is used in many ways already at Aliquid.
02:48Maybe I'll give you two examples.
02:50One in our large industrial plants
02:53where we use artificial intelligence to do predictive maintenance.
02:56and also to optimize the energy consumption of our plants,
03:03which at the end of the day reduce as well our CO2 emissions.
03:06The second example is on the supply chain
03:09where we use also AI-powered tools
03:13plus connected tanks at our customer sites
03:16and connected trucks
03:17to optimize our supply chain and our routes
03:22to improve or reduce the number of kilometers
03:25that we drive every year
03:28with the objective to reduce by 10%
03:30the number of kilometers we drive to supply our customers by 2025.
03:34And by doing that, of course,
03:36we will reduce as well our CO2 emissions.
03:38I have read that you also use AI for healthcare
03:42and to improve patient care.
03:44How do you do that?
03:45That's right.
03:47So in healthcare,
03:48maybe to give you a bit of an illustration,
03:50we use AI and data
03:52to do personalized care plans for our patients
03:57who are treated at home
03:58for chronic diseases
04:00like respiratory disease
04:02or sleep apnea, for instance.
04:05And we also use it
04:06to help our field technicians,
04:10our nurses,
04:11to provide a more digital experience
04:14to our patients.
04:15And the last example in healthcare
04:17is during the COVID time,
04:19we used AI to forecast
04:22the demand of oxygen in the hospitals.
04:25That was really, really helpful
04:26during the COVID time.
04:27The world is changing.
04:28Thank you so much.
04:29Thank you, Emily Mouren-Renoir,
04:30for coming here.
04:32As a reminder for our viewers,
04:33you are VP of Air Liquide.
04:36Thanks again for being with us today.
04:37Thank you, Emily.
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