AI, Clean Data, and New Flavors: McCormick’s Digital Playbook with CIDO Guy Peri

From predicting the next flavor trend to revolutionizing procurement with AI, Guy Peri is leading a bold digital transformation at McCormick & Company. In this episode of Technovation, host Peter High speaks with Guy about how he’s bringing AI and data strategy to life at a 135-year-old flavor giant. Drawing from nearly three decades at Procter & Gamble, Guy shares how McCormick is building a modern digital backbone, using AI to forecast demand and ingredient pricing, and upskilling employees into citizen data scientists.

Highlights include:

• McCormick’s digital transformation pillars

• How AI predicts procurement costs and retail trends

• The making of the Flavor Forecast

• The future of Agentic AI and human-machine collaboration

• Upskilling and shifting organizational culture through digital fluency