Dubai, UAE | October 22, 2026 — Yasmine Durand, Co-Founder of Miles Consulting and a Product and AI Strategy Leader, has been recognized at the AINext Awards & Conference Dubai 2026, winning the Excellence in AI & Technology Industry – Companies – Best AI Strategy & Consulting award on behalf of Miles Consulting. The recognition highlights the firm's work in enterprise AI strategy, agentic AI governance, and helping organizations move from AI experimentation to secure, production-ready business transformation.
Miles Consulting is an independent enterprise AI and technology consulting firm co-founded by Yasmine Durand alongside enterprise architect Sylvain Durand. The firm helps organizations translate AI opportunities into practical initiatives that align business strategy, technical architecture, risk management, and operational execution.
With a background in product leadership at AVIV Group, Yasmine brings experience across complex technology products, including API management, developer platforms, and enterprise back-office systems. Her expertise lies in connecting business objectives with technical architecture and operational delivery to create scalable digital solutions.
As Co-Founder of Miles Consulting, she contributes to the firm's focus on responsible, governed AI adoption. Its services include enterprise AI architecture, product strategy, governance reviews, AI product-to-production initiatives, and fractional leadership. Through these capabilities, Miles Consulting supports enterprise decision-makers in managing the opportunities and risks associated with increasingly autonomous AI systems.
A key part of the firm's work is CROA (Constrained Reachability Orchestration Architecture), an open architectural framework designed to define and enforce the actions AI agents are authorized to execute within enterprise systems. By using explicit authority boundaries and verifiable execution controls, CROA addresses an important challenge in enterprise AI: enabling greater agent autonomy while maintaining oversight and accountability.
Yasmine co-authored CROA alongside Sylvain Durand and Darrin P. Smith, bringing product strategy and enterprise AI governance perspectives to the development of the framework. The initiative reflects Miles Consulting's broader approach to AI transformation, which emphasizes that successful adoption requires not only capable AI systems, but also clear governance structures and effective execution controls.
As organizations increasingly explore agentic AI, the need to balance innovation with security, accountability, and business value continues to grow. Miles Consulting addresses this challenge by helping enterprises establish the architecture, governance, and operating practices needed to put AI into production with greater confidence.
The AINext Awards & Conference Dubai 2026 brings together technology leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and innovators to recognize achievements in artificial intelligence and explore emerging developments shaping the future of business and technology.
The award marks an important recognition for Miles Consulting and its leadership, highlighting the firm's commitment to practical AI strategy, enterprise transformation, and responsible agentic AI governance. Through her work, Yasmine Durand continues to contribute to an approach to enterprise AI that combines innovation with clear boundaries, operational discipline, and measurable business outcomes.