Bart Voorn - Director A.I & Robotics at Ahold Delhaize

Bart is currently leading the activities within A.I & Robotics at the Dutch-Belgian retail company Ahold Delhaize. With an annual revenue of 66.26 billion Euro (2019) the company employs over 300.000 people worldwide. Together with Bart we are talking about the current activities within A.I and Robotics from a retail perspective and how he is pushing forward the application of it within the organization.   Bart is also the Co-Founder of the AIRLab (A.I for retail lab) with the goal to conduct research into socially responsible algorithms that can be used to make recommendations to consumers and into transparent AI technology for managing goods flows.  We dive into the culture of Ahold Delhaize and discuss how the organization keeps a high drive for innovation while operating on thin margins.