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Carrefour’s Data-centric and Digital-first Strategy with Olivier Gibert

Sponsored by VTEX

📍Massy, France

Olivier Gibert has an impressive career in technology. He started in consulting and went to retail because he enjoys the challenge. Almost 10 years later, he became the Global CTO of Carrefour a huge retailer present in 40 countries with direct operations in 8 around Europe and Latin America.

With over 10 billion transactions per year and 80 million customers served, Carrefour announced its Digital Retail 2026 strategy to transform its business into data-driven and digital-first by accelerating its ecommerce, creating the data supermarket, and powering its retail media business.

In this episode, you will meet Olivier Gibert and understand his leadership, accomplishments, and views on the future of digital grocery. He talks about going 100% to the cloud, investing in innovation, and even everything Carrefour is doing with Generative AI.

We finish the conversation by talking about what it takes to be a CTO of a huge retailer and the partnership with Carrefour and the Olympics.

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