Yassir Idsougou — Where AI Meets Business

Where AI meets business, and actually creates impact.

Nine years of turning business requirements into enterprise AI that reaches production across EMEA and APAC — from data science and machine learning to AI Agents and Agentic AI, all built to scale and deliver measurable ROI.

Meet Yassir — AI Principal Leader at Oracle, based in Dubai.

I sit where AI technology meets strategic business priorities.

With over 9 years of experience leading AI transformation, I build scalable AI products for major international companies across global markets including EMEA & APAC, serving a wide range of industries including Insurance, Banking, Retail, E-commerce, Telecom, Media & Real Estate.

Having built my career across Paris, London, Singapore & Dubai, I have always operated at the intersection of AI & Business, designing AI solutions, leading both technical and business discussions, and turning business requirements into AI that goes live and delivers measurable ROI.

With two Master's degrees from one of France's Top 5 engineering schools, I have combined AI Engineering and Data Science alongside Business Management and Leadership.

Experience

Nine years, four countries, seven organisations.

Current Oct 2024 — Present · Dubai, UAE

World's leading enterprise software & cloud applications provider

AI Applications Principal Leader — ECEMEA
- Grew the regional AI pipeline and contributed to major Applications & AI deals through AI advisory, client workshops and executive engagements.
- Defined and delivered the go-to-market strategy for Oracle AI Agent Studio, presented at COO, SVP and VP level, then rolled it out regionally through AI Hackathons and executive AI Master Classes.
- Drove Oracle AI innovation and adoption across ECEMEA, aligning AI strategy with business objectives, product roadmaps and customer needs.
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- Led the end-to-end customer-facing AI lifecycle, from ideation and use case qualification through solution design and deployment to value realisation.
- Strengthened Oracle's AI value proposition by identifying where AI, data and cloud unlock strategic impact, working with Product, Development, Sales and Industry Leads.
- Acted as AI subject-matter expert and speaker at regional and international conferences, executive roundtables and innovation forums.
Sep 2020 — Sep 2024 · Paris, France

One of the world's leading insurance & asset management groups

Lead Data & AI — Innovation Lab & AI CoE · 2022—2024
- Delivered substantial cost savings by deploying AI solutions for business process optimisation.
- Led a team of 4 to 7 AI specialists across data science and data engineering, owning the full cycle from architecture and POC to production.
- Drove internal expansion by presenting delivered projects to C-level executives, and enabled international growth by onboarding AI specialists from Allianz entities worldwide.
Earlier at Allianz

Senior AI Engineer — AI & Big Data Team · 2020—2023
- Led development of an end-to-end AI solution to identify, parse and extract clean data from contracts, invoices, IDs and driving licenses.
- Built a document search engine across a database holding over 3M documents annually, plus a GenAI document Q&A solution.
- Contributed to an internal fraud detection product for reported claims, including a graph-based detection module.
Feb — Aug 2020 · Singapore

Leading global insurer

Data Scientist — APAC Customer Analytics
- Developed an OCR module for extracting and recognising information from Singaporean ID cards, combining a deep learning architecture with a regex-based extractor.
- Improved the data quality of the customer database through a de-duplication method, a rule-based segmentation model and a golden flags generator.
- Presented AI product results to the whole department, including the CDO and senior data & AI directors.
Mar — Aug 2019 · Bordeaux, France

France & West Europe's leading e-commerce platform

Data Scientist — Marketing Targeting
- Implemented a machine learning model to optimise commercial pressure via email and predict the optimum number of advertising emails sent weekly to each customer.
- Analysed statistical results and presented findings to the CMO, CIO and senior AI directors.
- Created Power BI reports giving CRM teams direct access to commercial pressure KPIs.
Sep 2018 — Feb 2019 · Paris, France

Major media and pay-TV player across Europe & Africa

Data Scientist — Customer Retention
- Developed a scoring algorithm to determine potential clients and predict customer churn.
- Presented final results to the CMO, CIO and senior AI directors as well as business teams.
- Followed up the activity of the CANAL+ CONTACT business unit across Africa and the French Overseas Departments through daily reports and dashboards.
May — Aug 2018 · London, UK

Leading UK university in computer science research

Research AI Scientist — Natural Language Processing
- Designed deep learning architectures for sentiment analysis on large-scale Twitter data.
- Built an automated data collection pipeline to extract and structure academic publications.
- Assessed emerging NLP techniques and presented findings to the research group.
Sep 2017 — May 2018 · Strasbourg, France

Top-tier French robotics institution

IT Team Manager — Data & Robotics
- Managed a team of four software engineers to develop a three-wheeled robot end to end.
- Prepared weekly reports for the client and presented both the technical detail and the business proposal.
- Competed in the French National Robotics Cup 2017/2018, reaching the finals.

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Where AI meets business, and actually creates impact.

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I sit where AI technology meets strategic business priorities.

Nine years, four countries, seven organisations.

Shifting the conversation from AI theory to AI execution.

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