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Stephane
Gonthier
Head of Global Support
Builder.io
Stephane is the Head of Global Support at Builder.io, bringing over 23 years of experience leading mission-critical, 24/7 customer support across organisations ranging from fast-moving startups to global industry leaders. A seasoned senior support leader, he combines executional rigour with creativity, change management expertise, and a servant-leadership approach that empowers teams to deliver world-class customer experiences. Before joining Builder.io, he led international support operations and served as Global Head of Drupal Cloud Support at Acquia, overseeing a matrix-model organisation providing exceptional support across multiple PaaS and SaaS product lines worldwide.
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02 December 2026 14:45 - 15:15
Panel | From pilot to production: What it actually takes to scale an AI support deployment
A strong pilot and a production deployment are two different projects. The gap between them, integration debt, edge case handling, change management with frontline agents, is where most AI support initiatives quietly stall. This panel brings together support leaders who have made that jump to talk through what actually changed between their pilot and their production rollout, what they underestimated, and what they would do differently if they started again today. What this session will cover: - The specific technical and process gaps that show up only at production scale - How teams handled agent buy in once the pilot stopped being a side project - What a realistic timeline from pilot to full production actually looks like - Where the business case had to be revisited once real usage data came in