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Beyond the Hype: Delivering the AI Intelligence Factory
Tuesday, 20 January 2026 | Davos, Switzerland During the World Economic Forum in Davos, Aleria convened an executive panel discussion at IHC House titled Beyond the Hype Delivering the AI Intelligence Factory. The session was designed to move the conversation beyond AI experimentation and toward the real world deployment of AI Intelligence Factories at national and enterprise scale.
The panel featured Eric Leandri, CEO of Aleria, Marc Domenech, Senior Regional Director Enterprise at NVIDIA, and Paul Bloch, President and Co Founder of DDN. The discussion was moderated by McKinsey and Company.
The dialogue focused on a core challenge facing organisations today. While investment and adoption of AI continue to accelerate, many initiatives remain confined to pilots or isolated use cases. The gap between ambition and production remains significant.
The Intelligence Factory framework addresses this gap by positioning AI as infrastructure rather than application. It requires tightly integrated systems that combine high performance compute, data architecture, orchestration, and governance into a single operational layer capable of supporting continuous production.
From an infrastructure perspective, the discussion highlighted the increasing complexity of AI systems. High density compute environments, advanced cooling, data throughput, and operational resilience are now foundational requirements. These systems must be designed to operate reliably at scale, with limited tolerance for inefficiency or failure.
Aleria’s perspective centred on execution and control. Delivering AI at scale requires sovereign architecture that allows governments and enterprises to retain jurisdiction over data, governance, and long term deployment. Trust in infrastructure performance becomes an operational requirement rather than an abstract principle.
The panel reinforced a shared conclusion. The next phase of AI adoption will be defined by disciplined execution rather than experimentation. Organisations that succeed will be those that treat AI as infrastructure engineered for scale, governed for trust, and built to operate in real world conditions.
For Aleria, delivering the AI Intelligence Factory means moving beyond hype and into production reality. It is about enabling intelligence that supports critical decision making, national control, and long term value creation.
