Bastien Laforet EN

Bastien Laforet is currently Vice-President of Digital Quality and Operations within the Volvo Group (which brings together several brands, including Volvo Trucks, Renault Trucks, Mack Trucks, Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta… to name but a few). After seven years with Sogeti/Capgemini, Bastien Laforet joined the Volvo Group in 2006 and held a number of manufacturing-related positions, supporting local delivery teams and the Volvo Group in their IT quality journey. This experience led him to work in the Group’s various factories to implement lean manufacturing within local IT teams, from Curitiba in Brazil to Ageo in Japan. Based in Lyon, with teams spread across eight countries, Bastien has made a move to connect IT security and quality in 2019, focusing mainly on the ‘non-standard’: all the connected tools that cannot be managed in a fleet and are specific to the Volvo Group’s core business. In 2021, this new area gave rise to the Quality & Security entity, which Bastien headed up and which, in addition to these two areas, brought together all the cross-functional processes (asset management, request management, vulnerability management, etc.). The last change came in July 2024, when the Quality & Security entity became Digital Quality & Ops. This new entity covers the fields of OT, IT and IOT as a whole, and aims to support the Group in securing and managing the lifecycle of everything with an IP address in the Volvo domain.