Patrick Chataignier

Co-Founder

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region, France14 yrs 10 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Innovative leader in AI and telecommunications.
Proven track record in partnership management.
Award-winning projects in sports technology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications and AI Innovation Leader with a focus on B2B and consumer markets.

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Skills

Core Skills

Generative AiTelecommunicationsPartnership ManagementInnovation StrategyEvent Management5g InnovationHome Consumer Services InnovationProduct DevelopmentDigital StrategyCommunity BuildingMarket Strategy

Other Skills

Intelligence artificielle (IA)Partenariats stratégiquesRéflexion stratégiqueBusiness PlanningProduct MarketingMobile DevicesCloud ComputingPre-salesMarket ResearchMarketingStrategyManagementB2BVoIPTélécommunications

About

😎 AI enthusiast 🤝 Creative Partner of Runway/Pimento/Seelab/Magnific AI ⚽ Sports lover: I was born in Saint Etienne 💚 if you know what I mean 🥋 Karateka: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face" Mike Tyson My LinkedIn profile has also a french version!

Experience

Orange

5 roles

AI & Networks | Innovation and Value Creation

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

I work at the intersection of AI and networks, focusing on innovation, real-world use cases, and business value.
My mission is to create real business value at the intersection of AI and networks:
Identifying concrete AI x networks use cases for enterprise and consumer markets
Exploring how networks can make AI more reliable, scalable, and secure
Studying how AI can make networks smarter, more adaptive, and more efficient
Turning insights into concepts, proofs of value, and business opportunities

Generative AIIntelligence artificielle (IA)Partenariats stratégiquesRéflexion stratégiqueBusiness PlanningProduct Marketing+19

Olympics Partnerships Innovation Director #Paris2024

Promoted

Sep 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

My mission was to build strong partnerships to create exceptional and inclusive services for the Paris Olympic Games.
Main touchpoint to partners on innovation (Media, Sports federations, BPI, Paris2024 etc.)
Lead consortium program dedicated to Innovation for Paris 2024 (CEA, Inria, Ericsson)
Spokesman of this program to Minister of Economy
Start-ups mentoring
Product owner for 4 start-ups during the tests phase (Touch2See, Refmate, Arkady, Kinomap)
Proof of concepts set-up on sports events (Roland Garros, Tour de France, etc.)
🏆 Achievements
Deployment of 4 Spectator Innovation Experiences during Paris 2024 Games
Creation of a Startup Challenge in June 2022: 130 applications / 5 winners
🥇Innovation Awards
2024 Winner Technological Innovation Trophy in the Inclusion Category @Alliancy /Orange- Touch2see
2024 Winner Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards / Orange- Touch2see
2023 Finalist at Netexplo Change for Orange-CEA-Touch2see experience /Orange- Touch2see
6 awards for Immersive now (including Best Mobile Video Solution at Juniper Juniper Research Telco - Future Digital Awards) tested at Roland Garros

Partenariats stratégiquesRéflexion stratégiquePartnership ManagementInnovation Strategy

5G Sports Innovation Director

Sep 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

My mission was to create real use cases thanks to 5G for Media, Sports and Entertainment:
Proof of concepts set-up on sports events using 5G for media and B2C
Innovation project lead at Roland Garros
Remote production 5G lead (broadcast capture of live football games thanks to 5G)
🏆 Achievements
First 5G use cases shown to the public in France (Roland Garros 2020 with multiview live and replay)
Immersive B2C experiences at Roland Garros (360 tour of the RG concept store, 360 backstage tour of the tournament with the participation of a Secretary of State of the Prime Minister)
First 5G live broadcast in France in partnership with France TV
5G set-up kit for stadiums
🥇 Innovation Awards
Big Innovation Award 2021 WIN for Tennis Multiview experience

Réflexion stratégique5G Innovation

Home Consumer Services Innovation Director

Jan 2015 – Aug 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos

The goal was to shake up the tree of Home consumer services thanks to a bunch of brilliant next gen services may be too early to be delivered to the mass market. Innovation is about trying!
I was helped by 4 talented people whom I managed:
Strategy for a complete brand new ecosystem on TV (Bets, teleshopping, dating etc.)
Partnerships lead (TF1 Téléachat, PMU, Philips, FDJ etc.)
Creation of new media services for the home
🏆 Achievements
Prototype for ambient lighting "TVLights" connected with Orange Tv in partnership with SoftatHome & Philips, a service enabling Philips Hue lights to synchronise with Orange TV for a complete immersive experience
Prototype of a DVD conversion service (scan of QR code to access your movie into the Orange Box) in partnership with Chill
"TVLights" and "Chill DVD" were selected and presented among the top 30 main Orange Innovations at 2016 Orange Hello Show
🥇Innovation Awards
8 awards for "TVLights" WON including "IBC Amsterdam 2017 / CSI award"

Partenariats stratégiquesRéflexion stratégiqueHome Consumer Services Innovation

Director of strategy, Portals & Services

Feb 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Back to my first love Orange ! This is "my Hometown" (Bruce Springsteen).
I made strategy on Orange central portals (Orange.fr in France) and services on web and mobile:
Communication services (webmail and mobile mail, backup & restore, rich address book)
Service enablers (identity, privacy, billing, profile & APIs)
Digital BI
🏆 Achievements
Orange Personal Cloud (Le cloud d'Orange) : service allowing residential customers to access photos, music, videos and documents through Web, Mobile and TV from anywhere. Contribution to its creation, growth and positionning
Comprehensive study of digital recommendations systems (Netflix, Amazon, Orange engines) presented to Orange executive committee
25% annual online service revenue growth thanks to new services and better interactions between existing products

Réflexion stratégiqueDigital Strategy

Big bang ai

Co-Founder

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Big Bang AI is a community of AI enthusiasts dedicated to making the magic of AI easy for everyone.
We share tools, tips, insights & news to empower both curious beginners and seasoned professionals.

Generative AIIntelligence artificielle (IA)Community Building

Devoteam consulting

Strategy and Marketing Senior Consultant

Jul 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 6 mos

I worked on many different projects with great teammates and I also travelled a lot in southern countries (that's fine, I like the heat ☀️)
Market studies for the launch of Etihad Atheeb Telecom in Saudi Arabia (3 months spent in Saudi Arabia + Dubai) 🇸🇦🇦🇪
Market studies (segmentation) for Maroc Telecom 🇲🇦
Product marketing at Orange on the product "Orange Email" and "Instant messaging" for the European mobile and internet consumer market (25 millions of customers) (06/2008 - 01/2011). Responsible for experimentations
Marketing strategic study for Orange mobile business offers
Marketing strategic study for Orange business data offers
Marketing teacher at Devoteam consulting (contribution to a rich training marketing tool)

Réflexion stratégiqueMarket Strategy

Completel

Pre-sales Engineer

Jun 1999 – Apr 2007 · 7 yrs 10 mos

I was part of the core team that started this B2B telco in 1999 now part of SFR Business (Altice Group). What a thrill to win first public tenders and partying with the founder in night clubs to celebrate! It gave me the desire to work fully in Marketing afterwards. "And the fever, gettin' higher. Desire" U2
Pre-sales on B2B telecom services (VoIP, IVPN solutions). A chance to meet many customers!
Operational marketing for Completel intelligent toll free number service
🏆 Achievements
Contributed to the 80M€ customers orders within the first 18 months of the company
One of the leader of the pre-sales team that achieved 70% of success on bids for French government ministries

Orange

Key Accounts Project Manager

Jul 1994 – May 1999 · 4 yrs 10 mos

Everyone was 25 years old in the team. We had the chance to work on big projects with so many responsibilities while being young ( o tempora, o mores !) and we were non stop travelling around Europe, not far from reaching George Clooney 10 Million Frequent Flier Miles ✈️
We would create and implement B2B voice private networks for major accounts of Orange (Global One).
🏆 Achievements
Full charge of IBM voice network (20 sites deployed across Europe)
Creation of UPS International toll free number (I remember smoking a cigar with the UPS CTO in Dublin in his office)
Conception and delivery of a full voice private network in the French Indies (6 months - 5 missions spent in Martinique/Guadeloupe/La Réunion)