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Engineering trends

What leaders think – strategies for a fast changing world

How are 300 leaders at global engineering and R&D companies planning for the future?

Our new research sets out to answer these questions, providing insight into how the world’s biggest engineering companies are thinking about the biggest global challenges.

  • What are their strategic priorities?
  • Where do they see the biggest macro-economic challenges?
  • How are they reconciling long-term business direction with sustainability imperatives?
  • How are they thinking about digital technologies?
  • What’s holding back their ability to innovate?
  • How are they repivoting global and outsourced operations?
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We have entered the next era of digital transformation. This is characterized by a growing convergence of product, software, data, and services across all industries. At Capgemini we call this ‘Intelligent Industry’.

Our leadership

William Rozé*

CEO of Capgemini EngineeringMember of the Group Executive Board
Capgemini Engineering

Alexandre Audoin

Head of Global Automotive Capgemini Group & Head of Automotive Capgemini Engineering
Alexandre Audoin is Capgemini Group’s global leader for the automotive industry and head of automotive within Capgemini Engineering (formerly Altran). Alexandre maintains a special focus on the creation of Intelligent Industry, helping clients master the end-to-end software-driven transformation and do business in a new way through technologies like 5G, Edge computing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Laurent Bromet

Global Head of Business to Planet, Capgemini Engineering
Laurent Bromet is the Global Head of the Sustainable and Climate Technologies offerings of Capgemini Engineering. With over 20 years of experience in industrial sectors before joining Capgemini, Laurent has developed extensive expertise in environmental management, resources optimization, carbon emission reduction and spearheaded disruptive innovative and sustainable projects. Previously of his current role, Laurent has led Capgemini Engineering Global Energy Transition and Utilities sector for 7 years.

Idriss Elasri

Chief Core Engineering Officer, Capgemini Engineering
Idriss leads global Core Engineering at Capgemini, driving engineering-led transformations across 20 countries, including Best Cost Countries. He has successfully helped Fortune 500 clients in Aerospace, Automotive, Life Sciences, and Energy boost product and process performance, reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market, and advance sustainability—through industrialized delivery models and AI-augmented engineering, powered by 21,500 engineers, scientists, and experts. Passionate about innovation, sustainability, and inclusive leadership, Idriss connects strategy to execution to turn engineering into a catalyst for better, more resilient futures.
Nicolas Rousseau

Nicolas Rousseau

Chief digital and manufacturing officer, Capgemini Engineering | Group Offer Leader, Intelligent Products & Services | Executive Vice-President
Nicolas Rousseau enables the intelligent industry. He brings his holistic view on technologies and business to work with companies to successfully imagine, build and operate new products and services. He has helped businesses transform, orient their R&D, reinvent their manufacturing and run customer experiences across the globe, in all industries.

Jiani Zhang

Executive Vice President, Chief Software Officer, Capgemini Engineering
Jiani Zhang is Executive Vice President and Chief Software Officer of Capgemini Engineering, the Engineering and R&D Services powerhouse of Capgemini. Jiani is responsible for the leadership and growth of Capgemini’s Global Software Product Engineering Growth Platform, accelerating client outcomes by building embedded, digital, and industry software platforms.

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