What does it really take to make HR “AI ready” when perfect preparedness guarantees you’ll be late?

This session goes inside Sanofi’s journey as an AI-powered biopharmaceutical company, exploring how they are deliberately designing an AI-ready HR ecosystem and strategically sequencing a two-year program to stay focused on value, not noise.

The conversation will get practical on balancing ambition with constraints: anchoring a complex tech stack, navigating European AI governance and localization, and deciding where to push ahead versus remediate based on a matrix of business value and organizational readiness. We’ll explore how Sanofi is thinking about human-AI collaboration in performance and talent decisions, managing sensitive HR data within an agentic ecosystem, and building a portfolio of AI use cases rather than a single flagship project. Attendees will leave with concrete ways to prioritize where to start, structure an AI readiness journey, and govern human and agent contributions in a way that makes value, risk, and readiness transparent across the HR ecosystem.