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Imad Touil

QuantumBlack · 2026

Imad Touil works on engineering transformation at QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey. At AI Engineer World’s Fair 2026, he represented the organization as a distinguished engineer focused on helping enterprises adopt AI throughout software development.

He treats agent skills as reusable organizational knowledge that needs explicit ownership. His approach pairs specialized skills with a shared catalog, versioning, access controls, evaluations and security checks, so that teams can improve whole workflows without losing track of how an agent is allowed to act.

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AI Engineer World's Fair 202620:30

AI-Native Organisations Run on Skills: How to Structure and Scale Them — Imad Touil, QuantumBlack

Imad Touil argues that agent skills encode organizational know-how and need deliberate design, shared infrastructure, and human ownership. He proposes reusable, specialized skills managed through a central catalog with versioning, access controls, evaluation, and security checks. He illustrates governance through a team simulation and extends the approach…

Imad Touil

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