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8th Apr 2025

S3 | E4 | Orchestrating the Edge: Said Ouissal on Scaling ZEDEDA

Today on the ThinkData Podcast, I’m excited to welcome Said Ouissal, Co-Founder and CEO of ZEDEDA, a cloud-native SaaS platform for edge orchestration.

Said brings a wealth of experience in networking and telecommunications, having held senior roles at major players like Juniper Networks, Violin Memory, and Ericsson.

Under his leadership, ZEDEDA has experienced rapid global growth, helping businesses deploy and manage edge computing at scale.

Topics Covered

  • Said’s Journey - His background and what inspired him to launch Zededa
  • Understanding Edge Orchestration - What it is, and why it’s becoming essential across industries
  • Building a Global Business - Key steps the founding team took to scale internationally
  • Go-To-Market & Product-Market Fit - Strategy, growing pains, and how ZEDEDA found its niche
  • The Role of AI in IoT - How AI is accelerating innovation, especially in the energy sector
  • Customer Success Stories - Real-world examples of ZEDEDA’s impact on clients
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ThinkData Podcast
Data, AI and the Future of Work
Welcome to the ThinkData Podcast, brought to you in partnership with Dataworks 🎙

If want to stay up-to-date with the latest breakthroughs and trends in the world of Data & Artificial Intelligence, and if you're curious about some of the strategies that companies and founders use to launch Data & AI products, then you're in the right place!

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Alex Hutchings

I am the Co-Founder of the Dataworks group who are a specialist Data & AI Talent partner in the world of Data.
I have over 10 years of experience working in Analytics and have spoken to my fair share of Data professionals, at all levels.
Through our roundtables, in-person events, and the ThinkData podcast, our aim is to provide our community with the most up-to-date insight from the fastest-growing labor market in the world today.