Jean-Raphael Eid
Head of AI - Manufacturing at Arkema
Speaking at TFEST26: Wednesday, December 2 2026 at 10:00–10:30 on the Main Stage: “The AI-Human Equation: Navigating Disruption and Legacy Knowledge”.
About Jean-Raphael
Jean-Raphael Eid is Head of AI - Manufacturing at Arkema, based in Paris. He has been with Arkema since 2020, first as Project & Process Manager and then as Global Technology Operations Manager. He studied Engineering Management & Business at Tsinghua University and AI Engineering at the University of Oxford.
Session Overview
Featuring representatives from leading AI consortia, industry leaders, and WEF contributors. As organisations accelerate AI adoption, they face a growing challenge beyond technology itself: preserving the experience, judgment, and institutional wisdom that cannot be automated. Workforce transformation is creating new opportunities while simultaneously risking the loss of decades of tacit knowledge. This panel brings together global leaders to discuss how organisations can deploy AI responsibly, capture legacy expertise, and prepare leaders to thrive alongside intelligent systems. It explores strategies for navigating post-restructuring realities, ensuring leadership readiness, and fostering a productive, sustainable AI-human coexistence.
About TFEST26
TFEST26 is Europe's most senior supply chain conference, taking place December 1–2 2026 at Colosseum Berlin. It brings together 400+ Director-level and above leaders (Chief Supply Chain Officers, VPs, and senior directors from Cisco, Henkel, Estée Lauder, Diageo, Schneider Electric, Novartis, Mars, and others) for two days of peer benchmarking, candid practitioner firesides, themed roundtables, and pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings.