Agentic Development, Part 4: Intent Harvesting and Pairbuilding
Intent harvesting: bringing AI into the living context of the company, where people and agents clarify what to build together.
Data, AI, and product leadership
Jawad Alaoui
Chief Data and AI Officer at DashQ Ottawa, Canada
At DashQ, I lead data and AI work for leasing products. My work spans machine learning, large-scale data engineering, applied mathematics, and product development.
I founded NORMA, an AI and software services company, and teach machine learning and deep learning part time at Université Gustave Eiffel.
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