How Datadog is transforming into an AI-first company

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# AI

# Change Management

# Productivity

Laurent Paris

SVP Engineering @ Datadog

Laurent Paris is SVP of Engineering at Datadog where he is leading the Core Engineering team building the infrastructure, development tools, and data platforms underlying all Datadog’s products.

Prior to Datadog, he was CTO at WeWork, VP of Engineering at Spotify in charge of the music recommendations team, Director of Engineering in the data infrastructure team at Yahoo!, and held leadership roles at various startups.

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Slide deck available here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pSYLyRdKmPQfLdnzSRHch4kJSZUa7jKYhw5Qconzs-w/preview?slide=id.g37c71d9037b_0_0

2025 is the year where Datadog is massively investing in AI to transform its products, which requires the cultural transformation of a Product and Engineering organization of 3,000+ persons.

In this presentation you will learn what we did to create the necessary sense of urgency, how our development teams use AI in their day to day to improve their productivity, how we help them develop AI features, and how we foster AI innovation in our products.

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