Petr Bednarik is Enterprise AI Global Lead at Bull, the newly independent French sovereign AI company carved out of Atos and backed by the French sovereign fund. In this episode, Kevin Jackson talks with Petr about Bull's strategic transformation — from HPC hardware vendor to a full-stack AI provider covering infrastructure, data platforms, and end-to-end use case delivery. Petr brings a rare vantage point: he founded DataSentics, the 300-person AI consultancy Bull acquired four years ago, and now leads the use-case side of the combined business.

Petr explains Bull's four-challenge framework — impact, regional control, openness, and sustainability — and why Bull insists on starting every client engagement with use-case value before touching infrastructure. He walks through a concrete case from a major Asian financial institution where Bull  ...