No AI Without Clean Data: Inside Caterpillar’s Platform Transformation

February 16, 2026

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Ogi Redzic

Chief Digital Officer | Caterpillar

Ogi Redzic is the Chief Digital Officer of Caterpillar, the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, industrial engines, and power systems, generating nearly $65 billion in annual revenue. He leads Caterpillar’s digital organization responsible for off-board technologies connecting customers, dealers, and machines; digital platforms; e-commerce; field service experiences; and AI-driven innovation. Under his leadership, CAT Digital has grown from roughly 600 to nearly 3,000 professionals and built Helios, a cloud-native data platform managing 16 petabytes of data across 1.5 million connected assets. His team recently launched CAT AI Assistant in just 10 months—powered by a foundational modernization of legacy systems and data architecture.

Episode Overview

You can’t scale AI on fragmented data.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Ogi Redzic, Chief Digital Officer of Caterpillar, about the foundational platform transformation that made rapid AI innovation possible across a $65B industrial enterprise.

Ogi shares how retiring legacy systems, consolidating data into the Helios cloud platform, and establishing trusted data pipelines enabled CAT Digital to launch an enterprise AI assistant in just 10 months.

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