Agentic Development, Part 6: The Factory as a Living Contract
Our factory is becoming an operating system for human and AI work. Its next challenge is to connect that intelligence to the signals and actions of the real business.
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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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