The second AI & HR Trophies, hosted by Hub France IA and mc2i, announced its winners. Alstom and 365Talents took home the "Industrialized Project: AI for Dynamic Skills Management" award. This is a big deal.
Why? Because this isn't about hype or potential. It's about real results. This isn't a pilot project sitting on a shelf. It's live, it's at scale, and it's changing how a major global company manages talent.
Alstom's challenge: skills never stay still
Alstom works in a world of technical jobs, strict safety rules, and global markets. After merging with Bombardier, they got even bigger: more job types, more countries. You can't manage skills with a spreadsheet you update once a year.
That's why Alstom's HR team brought in 365Talents. The goal is to build a skills-based organization where the company can track skills across the whole group, and employees can take charge of their own careers.
AI that actually gets used
The 365Talents platform uses AI to pull data from multiple sources—mapping both the skills employees declare and the hidden capabilities revealed through their experience, projects, and career paths. The result? Real-time visibility into your actual talent landscape, not yesterday's org chart.
The architecture is deliberately dual-track: structured frameworks define roles and job families, while employees describe their skills in natural language. AI bridges the gap, connecting individual profiles to company needs and internal opportunities automatically.
Here's what matters: over 70% of Alstom's workforce actively uses the platform to manage their careers.
Most corporate AI lives in HR departments. This didn't. When employees see immediate value—career clarity, relevant opportunities, recognition for skills they actually have—adoption stops being a challenge. The technology becomes infrastructure, not an initiative.
Why this award matters
The AI & HR Trophy doesn't celebrate experiments. It recognizes real impact: tech maturity, measurable innovation, and tangible results—including social and environmental outcomes.
Winning "Industrialized Project" sends a definitive signal. This isn't a pilot anymore. For 365Talents and Alstom, it's proof that AI-powered skills management can scale across a global workforce while keeping people at the center.A big thanks to the team at Alstom who didn't just adopt new technology—they rewired talent management across one of Europe's industrial giants. That takes vision, commitment, and belief that the right tech can unlock human potential.
AI & HR has reached a tipping point in France
This award arrives at a defining moment. Pay transparency regulations, rapidly evolving job roles, and mounting pressure for internal mobility have made one thing clear: legacy HR tools can't keep up. Companies need real-time visibility into their workforce capabilities—and the strategic agility to act on it.
Congratulations to fellow 2026 winners Boulanger, muchbetter.ai, Aéroports de Lyon, and Ideta. The caliber of projects this year proves AI in HR has moved from theory to execution.
What's next?
For 365Talents, this win reinforces our position as Europe's leader in Skills Intelligence. The question has shifted. It's no longer whether AI can transform HR—it's how fast organizations can deploy it so every employee gains clarity on their career trajectory.
2026 is the year skills take center stage. And we're only getting started.
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