Orange’s AI supremo Steve Jarrett: ‘There’s no magic, it’s just doing our job’

Anne Morris2026-03-11T15:34:00

Source: Montage: Orange + Steve Jarrett / LinkedIn

Steve Jarrett, Orange’s Chief AI Officer, talks through how the operator is going to execute — and validate — the value gains it is targeting, as part of new Trust the Future strategy. Key challenges revolve around culture, data governance, and agent development and management, he says.

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Organisations: Anthropic; Gemini; Mistral; OpenAI; Orange Business; Orange Group.
Geographies: Africa; Europe; France; Poland; Romania; Spain.
People: Steve Jarrett.
Themes: Agent development; Artificial intelligence (AI); Churn reduction; Collaborative work culture; Cost efficiency; Customer care; Customer intimacy; Data democracy; Data governance; Digital transformation; Enterprise (B2B); Execution strategy; Generative AI (GenAI); Holdout groups; Innovation (R&D); Large language models (LLM); Network efficiency; Operational efficiency; Revenue generation; Sales growth; Strategic objectives; Targeting systems; Training programmes; Value creation.

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