Conformity Debt: When Your AI Changes Faster Than You Can Explain It Why the extension of selected EU AI Act deadlines should not be mistaken for time off By Richard Mort On 27 July 2026, the European Union moved two important AI Act clocks. The high-risk requireme... Oct 5, 2026
Two Days at Europe's Largest PropTech Event Two days at Europe's largest real estate tech event, and one theme kept surfacing: the conversation around AI is maturing fast. On 9 and 10 September, I attended PropTech Connect in London, Europe's... Oct 5, 2026
My First Onsite Client Assignment: Working Alongside Tanalink in Malaysia As young people, many of us dream of exploring the world beyond our hometowns. But dreams and opportunities aren't always the same thing, and when an opportunity arrives unexpectedly, we don't always ... Oct 5, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting Control as the Main Angle for IT Strategy By Bruno Sivanandan Roques de Borda , Cybersecurity Consultant Cybersecurity and compliance as the foundation of transformation I initially started my career working on IT projects from an archite... Jul 18, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting Sovereignty Debt: The Hidden Bill Inside Your AI Stack By Richard Mort , Strategic Intelligence Consultant In December 2025, the United States did something that should make every board pause. It agreed to let Nvidia sell its H200 chips to China again, ... Jul 14, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting Web Summit Rio 2026: An Immersion at the Heart of Global Tech On June 9, 2026, Baulders and Dirox took part in Web Summit Rio for the very first time. Set in the Barra da Tijuca district, Riocentro spreads across more than 90,000 m² devoted to innovation. For ... Jul 13, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting The Future of Resilience: Three Lessons from Insurtech Insights London 2026 By Laurent Peguret , Chairman, Dirox London, earlier this week. Six thousand of the insurance industry's most forward-thinking leaders gathered at the InterContinental London – The O2 for Insurtech ... May 5, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting The Hidden Costs Of Enterprise AI: Where The Bill Actually Arrives As enterprise AI accelerates, the most expensive question is no longer whether the tool works . It is whether the tool can prove its work, on demand, to someone with the authority to stop it. The re... May 4, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting Chinese AI, European Caution: The Gap That Widens With Every Quarter Some evenings teach you more about the world in three hours than six months of watching from the sidelines. The dinner-debate hosted by Club Panda & Coq at restaurant Bayan was one of them. Laurent Pe... May 4, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting From Cannes to the Boardroom: What WAICF 2026 Really Says About AI By Laurent Pégure t, Chairman, Dirox Cannes, February 2026. Between panel sessions and the busy aisles of the Palais des Festivals, one observation came through with striking clarity: the era of hyp... Mar 23, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting The Japan Factor: What Western Companies Get Wrong About Asian Tech Partnerships By Richard Mort | Strategic Intelligence Consultant Twenty years in Japan. And the one thing I keep coming back to is this: the companies that fail there rarely fail because Japan is difficult. They... Mar 23, 2026
Olivier Optisio Consulting The Great Displacement: Insights From SaaStr AI London LONDON — The conference halls of SaaStr AI 2025 bore witness to a significant moment in enterprise technology Over two December days, as industry leaders gathered in London's financial district, a con... Feb 2, 2026
