The Group Datalab

An ambition: to maximize the contribution of data and AI to the operation of Crédit Agricole.
The Group DataLab is the Group’s reference center for the INTERNAL design of INNOVATIVE AND INDUSTRIAL Data & AI solutions.

It cooperates with all Group entities, their business governance and their IT in order to accelerate the industrialization of Data & AI projects.

He leads the Group Data & AI Business Line: acculturation, ideation, and sharing of experiences through events such as Data & AI Webinars to promote a collective rise in power.

A team: in-house experts at the Group’s service, mastering the state of the art Data & AI, natively industrial development and the CAGIP offer:

Heads of Data & AI Projects,
Analytical Data Scientists, Semantics and Infolinguists,
Data & Machine Learning Engineers and Architects.

This is an issue of control and sovereignty:

• Collective control of AI (project method, explainability, auditability, and interpretability of results vs “Black Box”) which will become increasingly important with the future European AI Act regulation,
• Data and knowledge protection: data from our clients, how we do our business and knowledge of our clients, derived from data by AI or contained in the AI learning databases set up by our businesses,
• Optimum coverage of our needs: rich interaction with the business lines to build original and effective cognitive services vs standardized products,
• Building Group assets: to accelerate our projects, while limiting costs (build and licenses) and the Group’s technological dependence, particularly on players that are difficult to control (GAFAM, commercial leaders, etc.).

Which, with its 19 employees, focuses on its “historic” missions:

• Monitoring and R&D in data and AI technologies and uses
• Manufacturing pioneering projects (i.e. never developed in-house before): innovative solutions to enrich or create common Assets
• Reference data & AI expertise for the Group
• Animation of the Data & AI Business Line

The Group DataLab (ITD) is the 3rd structure in France* and the 1st in its sector to obtain certification by the Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais (LNE). It is a recognition of the excellence of its approach to manufacturing industrial AI solutions. This certification covers all stages of the life cycle of an AI solution, from framing to maintaining operational conditions. All current and future Group DataLab AI projects now comply with this level of requirement. *For more information click here.