Digital & AI Strategy Manager · FORVIA
Dr.Anass ELHOUD
I'm a Digital & AI Strategy Manager at FORVIA, leading digital transformation projects, Data, AI & GenAI Roadmap at the Group Procurement function.
French-Moroccan, Doctor in AI & Computer Science, with dual engineering degrees from Centrale Lyon and Arts et Métiers.
I have built a strong Industrial AI and Data application background with formal and hands-on experience in Digital Transformation Strategy. I enjoy environments where I can move between vision and execution: defining strategy, building the operating model, and getting AI products into the hands of users. That's why I speak both boardroom and codebase, and use that to turn AI ambition into shipped results.
- France
- Spain
- Portugal
- Italy
- Turkey
- Greece
- Hungary
- Austria
- Belgium
- Morocco
- Germany
- Malaysia
- Singapore
- Indonesia
- Czechia
- Switzerland
- Netherlands
- Luxembourg
Back home, the routine's simpler: Gym and swimming most weeks, non-negotiable at this point. Weekends are also for the fun kind of work, wiring up an IoT device, poking at the home server, or seeing what my MacBook can take before it complains. A few of those live below.
Where the day job stops
Building on the side
A few featured personal projects I built. Scroll for more.
CompletedThe Wallfacer Protocol
A decision-simulation game I vibe-built for IT & AI strategy leaders — a live treasury, five-dimension scoring, and a memory for the calls you got wrong.
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CompletedPRODynamics
AI-powered tool for preliminary assembly-line design, born out of my industrial PhD and now used at company scale to replace days of manual line-design work.
CompletedHydroLog
Tap an NFC tag on a water bottle and it logs the fill — streaks, daily average, and all-time hydration stats.
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In progressHome Lab
A small Raspberry Pi rack running self-hosted storage and services at home — rebuilt whenever there is a new trick worth learning.
Life, Unplugged
Between books, the night sky, and a few too many hours of gaming — each tile is a category, currently featuring a favorite.
Latest writing
Forward Deployment Is the Next Frontier of Digital Transformation in Industry
Why I am convinced that FDE will be the next real chapter of digital transformation
Why Trade-offs Are Steering Industrial AI
A software heuristic and a hand catching a frisbee are running the same trick: skip the perfect calculation, grab the first answer that is good enough, fast. This piece uses that idea, plus hill-climbing, simulated annealing, and a Mona Lisa built out of triangles, to argue that industrial AI runs on trade-offs, not optimality — and that digital transformation is really just organizations getting deliberate about the trade-offs they used to make by accident.
Swarm Intelligence-Based Framework for Accelerated and Optimized Assembly Line Design in the Automotive Industry
Two discrete metaheuristics for hybrid assembly line balancing beat expert-tuned baselines by up to 20% on cycle time. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.
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