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Ms. James founded Ampere Computing in 2017, where she is currently the Chairman and CEO. Ampere produces high performance microprocessors for cloud and edge computing. Ms. James had a lengthy career at Intel where she served as President of Intel until her departure in 2016. During her tenure with Intel, she was the first female General Manager of a business unit as well as the first woman Executive Vice President that led R&D and global manufacturing operations. Ms. James was also chief of staff to Intel founder, Andy Grove midway through her career for over 4 years.

James has vast, global operating experience in both hardware and software development and manufacturing of semiconductors. She has led several development sites around the globe as well as directed the government affairs in those regions. She is an active voice for diversity and representation in technology as well as the future of the U.S. Semiconductor industry.

James was on the Fast Company list of “100 Most Creative People in Business,” ranked 21st on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in Business, and, has been recognized on the Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women List.

James is a member of the board of directors of Citi Corp and Oracle. James has been a member of the National Security Advisory Committee to the President by presidential appointment since 2011 and is the most recent Chairman emeritus.

He is a self-taught entrepreneur and has worked in the Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993 he co-founded France’s first ISP, and in 1999 he created Free – France’s first free-access ISP. 

He co-invented triple-play and the concept of the box, launching the Freebox in 2002 – a unique, state-of-the-art, multiservices box combining broadband Internet with telephony and television. Xavier has invested in telecom operators in a personal capacity in many countries outside France, including Switzerland, Ireland and Monaco. 

In 2013, he founded “42”, a not-for-profit organization that delivers free coding training based on peer-to-peer learning. This training is available in a large number of countries and the network of “42" schools currently trains over 5,000 students worldwide. In 2017, the “42” school in Paris, France, was voted the best coding school in the world. 

Xavier is also the founder of Station F – the world’s largest start-up campus – which opened its doors in 2017 and hosts a thousand start-ups in a former railway station in Paris occupying 34,000 sq.m. In november 2023, Xavier co-founded Kyutai – a non-profit, open science AI research lab based in Paris – alongside Rodolphe Saadé (Chairman and CEO of CMA CGM) and Eric Schmidt (former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Google). 

Resolutely committed to the democratization of AI, Kyutai is positioning itself as a leading player in AI open science. Its ambition is to share its advances with the entire AI ecosystem – the scientific community, developers, companies, society at large and decision-makers in democracies.

Michael Dell is chairman and chief executive officer of Dell Technologies, an innovator and technology leader providing the essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important information.

Dell Technologies is one of the world’s largest IT companies serving the needs of global corporations and governments to small businesses and consumers. Dell Technologies’ commitment to ethics and privacy is a source of pride and inspiration within the company. Dell has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute, and has also been recognized by Fortune as a Most Admired Company and Best Place to Work, by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers For Women and by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace.

Bryan Catanzaro is Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, where he leads a team of AI researchers working on multimodal language modeling, chip design, audio and speech, graphics and vision, with the goal of finding practical new ways to use AI for NVIDIA’s products and workflows. He was recently named one of FastCompany’s AI-20 for his role in transforming NVIDIA into an AI company, which started when he created CUDNN, NVIDIA’s first AI product. He helped create DLSS, the most widely deployed neural rendering system, which uses AI to render more than 500 of the most advanced virtual worlds in gaming and design. He headed the Megatron project, which set speed records at scale for training large language models and forms the technical basis for many LLM projects around the industry. Bryan received his PhD in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Chips will never be enough

Damien Lucas joined Scaleway as CEO early 2023. Since then, he has continued to transform the iliad Group's cloud provider into a major player in its sector, with a clear objective: to become the next hyperscaler. This includes the installation, at the end of 2023, of the largest AI computing power in the European cloud in DC5, iliad's flagship datacenter. But also by opening up Scaleway to a dozen key sectors, from finance to retail to manufacturing, with a resolute focus on value creation. Lucas is convinced of the need for European leaders in the cloud sector, based on the key values of sovereignty, open source and sustainability.

A graduate of Centrale Supélec, Lucas is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 20 years' experience in the French Tech ecosystem. He began his career in the software sector, contributing to the creation of VLC Media Player, before co-founding Anevia, a company specializing in video streaming software solutions. As a driver of business development and guardian of product-first strategies, Lucas has led major projects, including the opening of international subsidiaries, consolidation of operations and an IPO. His leadership has been particularly noticed in defining product strategy and managing software development teams, and skilfully orchestrating the transition to the cloud ecosystem. 

Patrick Pérez is CEO at Kyutai, a non-profit open-science AI lab, based in Paris. Prior to this, Patrick was at Valeo as VP of AI and Scientific Director of valeo.ai (2018-2023), and with Technicolor (2009-2018), Inria (1993-2000, 2004-2009) and Microsoft Research Cambridge (2000-2004) as research scientist. His research interests lie in reliable multimodal AI for the benefit of all.

Renen Hallak is the founder and CEO of VAST Data. 

Prior to founding VAST, Renen led the architecture and development of an all-flash array at XtremIO, from inception to over a billion dollars in revenue while acting as VP R&D and leading a team of over 200 engineers. He holds a BA and an MSc in Computer Science, both summa cum laude.

Rana joined Balderton as a General Partner in 2020.

Previously, Rana was a Partner at Goldman Sachs, first in the Principal Strategic Investments Group and later in GS Growth. In that capacity, she oversaw investments in Financial Technology and Enterprise Technology, as well as the commercialization of Goldman Sachs’ technology assets in both New York and London.

She joined Goldman Sachs as an analyst in 2006 and was named Managing Director in 2013 and Partner in 2018. She serves on the board of Tradeweb in an independent capacity.

Rana holds a Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, both from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Investing in AI: builders vs. adopters

Laurent is the Chief Technology Officer at Kyutai, an open-science research lab launched one year ago to advance and democratize artificial intelligence. Before co-founding Kyutai, Laurent spent nearly 15 years in the trading industry, first at Goldman Sachs, then at Jane Street, working as both a software developer and quantitative researcher, where he focused on developing new modeling techniques.

Laurent studied mathematics and computer science at École Polytechnique and earned a PhD at the intersection of cryptography and formal methods. Over the years, he has also made significant open-source contributions, including two of the most widely used machine learning libraries for Rust.

Moshi’s behind the scenes: From conception to inference

Dr. Antoine Bordes is the VP AI at Helsing. He has a deep knowledge of AI R&D from his 9 years of experience building out the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) laboratory of Meta, the last 3 years as FAIR’s co-managing director. Prior to joining Meta (then Facebook) in 2014, he was a research scientist at CNRS in France and a postdoctoral fellow in Yoshua Bengio's lab at the University of Montreal. He received his Ph.D. in AI from Sorbonne University in Paris in 2010, with two awards for best Ph.D. from the French Association for Artificial Intelligence and from the French Armament Agency. He has published more than 60 papers cumulating more than 40,000 citations.

Nacim Rahal is the Senior Director of Data & AI at Doctolib. With over 15 years of experience in software engineering and data science, Nacim is a seasoned leader driving Doctolib’s AI vision and strategy. He leads a team of 100+ data and machine learning engineers dedicated to transforming the daily lives of health professionals and enhancing patient health journeys through innovative AI products.

AI-Powered Medical Assistant: Transforming Caregivers' Work Life

"Christian is the Product Lead for Generative AI Research at Meta, and is based in Paris. Before working on LLaMa, our leading open source Large Language Model (LLM), Christian led the product function for PyTorch, including launching PyTorch 2.0 and ExecuTorch. He enabled AI at scale for the open source community and billions of Facebook users, partnering with other teams including Oculus, Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and FAIR.

Prior to this, Christian was an entrepreneur with 20 years of experience, and a dual machine learning engineer and business background. He has implemented AI solutions in several industries from data gathering to deployment at scale."

AI at Meta: Llama and Open Research at Scale

Julia Gimbernat Mayol is the Head of Product for DeepChain™ at InstaDeep, where she leads the development of cutting-edge AI solutions for the life sciences. 

Her expertise centers on transforming research into impactful products and leveraging AI to drive innovation in genomics and healthcare. 

Prior to joining InstaDeep, Julia conducted research at Stanford University, specializing in AI techniques for genetic data analysis, which she later applied in industry during her time at Illumina, a global leader in sequencing technologies. She holds a Master’s degree from MIT, where she earned a Research Award in Operations Research for translating research into industry applications, and cross-trained in business studies at Harvard Business School. T

rained as a Biomedical Engineer at Imperial College London and having led multiple entrepreneurial ventures, Julia combines technical expertise with strategic insight to deliver pioneering AI solutions in computational biology and genomics.

Overcoming AI Scaling Barriers in Healthcare & Biotech

Lionel works at the intersection of engineering and biology to improve healthcare. He is currently leading the development of AI-based cancer diagnostics using digital pathology images at Owkin. Previously, Lionel worked as an analyst at McKinsey focused on complex models and predictions, and developed first-in-class AI-based sepsis diagnostics tests at Cytovale, from initial POC to FDA approval.

Lionel was trained as an engineer at Ecole Polytechnique, then learned to apply engineering to medical problems at Stanford University, completing his education by a PhD at Ecole Polytechnique on cell biophysics.

Building trustworthy AI: accuracy and explainability across sectors

"Solène is an investor at Balderton Capital, London-based multi-stage VC fund investing from Seed to IPO in Europe (e.g. Revolut, Contentful, Darktrace, etc.). Balderton just announced $1.3bn of new funds to invest in the best European founders, in a wide range of sectors, including AI / ML which has been a big vertical for many years (e.g. investments in Writer.ai, PhotoRoom, Wayve, Deepset). Solène focusses on Early stage, investing at Seed and Series A, and supported Balderton's investments in PhotoRoom, Payflows and others. 

AI’s Role in Transforming Financial Services

Gaël Varoquaux is a research director working on data science at Inria (French computer science national research) where he leads the Soda team. He is also co-founder and scientific advisor of Probabl.

Varoquaux's research covers fundamentals of artificial intelligence, statistical learning, natural language processing, causal inference, as well as applications to health, with a current focus on public health and epidemiology. He also creates technology: he co-founded scikit-learn, one of the reference machine-learning toolboxes, and helped build various central tools for data analysis in Python.

Varoquaux has worked at UC Berkeley, McGill, and university of Florence. He did a PhD in quantum physics supervised by Alain Aspect and is a graduate from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris. 

AI sustainability and specialized models: balancing power and efficiency

Eliot Andres co-founded Photoroom to democratize image editing through AI. As CTO, he leverages 9 years of experience in deep learning and computer vision to put state-of-the-art algorithms into the hands of millions of users. He's currently focusing on training a GenAI foundation model for image generation and making Photoroom's image editing capabilities available to other companies through a powerful API.

Real-time generative AI for video and photo: technical challenges uncovered

Daphné Leprince-Ringuet is a reporter for Sifted based in Paris and covering French tech

Since its inception in 2020, Robert is responsible for the company vision, strategy, investor relations and commercial execution. Prior to Qubit Pharmaceuticals, Robert co-founded Collective Ventures, which operates the Deeptech Founders program, Europe largest acceleration program for Deep Tech Startups.Since 2019, the program has helped more than 200 teams. He notably helped leading quantum startups such as Pasqal, Alice & Bob, Quobly to launch & grow. Robert has close to 20 years experience in technology transfer and entrepreneurship. Robert is a chemist by training and holds a PhD on Quantum Memories.

Jean-Philippe Vert is the Chief R&D Officer at Owkin, an AI Techbio company focused on developing treatments for unmet medical needs. He co-founded Bioptimus, which creates AI foundation models in biology, and is a professor (on leave) at PSL University Mines Paris. Previously, he worked at Google Brain, leading a team in machine learning and computational biology, and held positions at ENS Paris, UC Berkeley, and the Curie Institute. Jean-Philippe earned degrees from Ecole Polytechnique and corps des Mines, and completed his PhD in mathematics at Paris University. His research focuses on statistical machine learning and AI for complex data modeling in computational biology and medicine.

Naila Murray obtained a BSE in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2007, and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 2012. She has conducted and led AI research for more than a decade, in the fields of computer vision and applied machine learning. She has also led AI research teams in Xerox, NAVER, and Meta. She is currently a director of AI research in Meta’s FAIR team.

Dounia ZOUINE is a leading expert in Digital, Data, and Artificial Intelligence, known for her impactful leadership as Chief Digital Officer (CDO) and Chief AI Officer (CAIO) in the digital and media sectors (TF1 digital, Brut.).

In 2024, she co-founded MEUF, where she now serves as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Product Officer (CPO). MEUF is pioneering the world’s 100% secure global social network exclusively for women, aiming to create a safe and empowering online community, leveraging various fields in AI and Cybersecurity .

Dounia is also the founding partner of Otree.ai, a consulting boutique specialized in AI and Data for Venture Capitals and Start ups.

Beyond the day job, Dounia is passionate about promoting diversity in tech and actively mentors young women in STEM fields.

, a startup he co-founded in 2016. He has a key role in growing a cutting-edge team of 40, and drives the business roadmap while fostering fundraising and key partnerships worldwide. Laurent is currently on full-time leave from his position as Professor of Physics at the Université Paris Cité, one of France's leading universities. He has held various academic positions, including fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France, associate professor at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (now Sorbonne University), and visiting positions in London, Tokyo, and Stanford. Laurent has authored or co-authored more than 200 scientific publications, and has been a consultant to various small and large companies. He is a physics graduate from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Marseille University. Recently, Laurent Daudet co-authored Dream Machine, the first graphic novel on Generative AI.

Agentic capabilities for enhanced LLMs and GenAI applications

Alexis Robert is a Partner at Kima Ventures, one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms globally, backing around 100 startups per year with a strong focus on technology and AI. Since joining Kima in 2015, Alexis has played a critical role in scaling the firm's investment reach, leveraging his entrepreneurial background. Before Kima, he co-founded PayinTech, a fintech startup, and ShowMango, a subscription platform for events. His work at Kima includes nurturing AI-driven startups, helping them build sustainable business models while scaling their innovative technologies.

Jessica April is the Senior Director of Data and AI Partnerships at Shutterstock, leading the team responsible for licensing the company’s extensive data library and generative 3D and image models. With over two decades of experience in strategic partnerships at prominent media and technology firms—including Wenner Media, Fast Company, Reuters, and Meta—Jessica is passionate about the transformative power of content to drive insights and innovation. As a speaker, she inspires audiences about the future of content and the synergies that arise when technology and creativity intersect, driving meaningful change in the digital landscape.

The Data Pipeline: From Creation to Training

Gabriel de Vinzelles is a Partner at Frst, a Paris-based venture capital firm that focuses on pre-seed and seed investments in technology startups. With a background that blends entrepreneurial experience and investment expertise, Gabriel has played a key role in identifying and supporting high-potential startups, particularly in the AI tech ecosystem.

Dr. Han Heloir, EMEA Generative AI Solutions Architect at MongoDB, brings over 15 years of experience in B2B sectors including finance, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications. With a proven track record of guiding clients through complex technical landscapes, her expertise encompasses a broad array of technical aspects, such as architecture design, system integration, data management, and security. In her role at MongoDB, Dr. Heloir is focused on leveraging her deep industry knowledge and technical skills to promote the adoption of AI technologies across the EMEA region. She is committed to developing strategies that not only meet the unique needs of different industries but also enhance MongoDB’s capabilities in real-time AI applications.

Securing the Future: Strategies to Safeguard Your Business in the Era of Generative AI

Florian Douetteau is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of 

, the Universal AI Platform, uniting the technology teams, and operations needed for companies to build intelligence into their daily operations, from modern analytics to Generative AI.

Florian created Dataiku in 2013 out of his passion for data, machine learning and people. He envisioned a future for businesses with AI becoming mainstream through the collaborative effort of everyone in the company, not just data scientists or technical experts.

Florian studied mathematics, philosophy and economics at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He joined the technology world in 2000 at Exalead, a search engine startup, and held multiple positions in product management, engineering, and data analytics in various fast-growing tech companies.  

Co-founder and CEO of Giskard, an open-source quality assurance platform for ML models. Previous experience includes big data & analytics consulting at Capgemini, and lead data scientist at Dataiku where I worked the development of the NLP and time-series stack. Fostering a world where artificial intelligence is used ethically and responsibly for a better society.

Adrien is a lawyer, passionate about the impact of technologies on society. He founded Entropy, a law firm working at the intersection of law, emerging tech, and public policy. Adrien advises innovative AI companies on their strategy, and cutting-edge regulatory challenges. He also defends organizations in impact litigations and digital rights cases. His latest co-publication with Mozilla: "Towards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models." 

Mastering the AI Act: What every AI Entrepreneur needs to know

Paul Murphy is Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. As a product developer and eventual multiple-time Founder, he discovered a knack for fundraising while working on the other side of the business on behalf of his own companies. After three years at Northzone, Paul once again indulged his passion for building products, creating Katch, an app designed to free busy people from their calendars.

Paul first crossed paths with Lightspeed while he was at Betaworks. Lightspeed had invested in two companies Paul helped develop: Giphy and Poncho. He was reintroduced to Lightspeed years later while working together on a co-investment, and it was then when he decided to make the jump to Lightspeed and help build the firm’s European presence.  Paul was also co-founder and CEO of Dots, a game studio acquired by Take Two Interactive.

Ioan is the CEO and Founder of FlowX.AI, the AI banking modernization platform that

raised the largest Series A globally in enterprise software in 2023. Ioan has been working together with the same core team of founders and engineers for over a decade, having a previous successful exit together. FlowX.AI represents a decade of specialized investment in applying Machine Learning to building large-scale mission-critical enterprise systems, and is the first-ever multi-agent AI platform bringing enterprise-grade AI that is robust and safe to use for large financial services organizations. 

Samuel is a leading expert in Green AI and environmental impact assessment of AI services. As Lead AI Architect at Alygne, he designs resource-efficient AI systems for ESG data analysis. He advances sustainable AI practices as President and Co-founder of GenAI Impact and as an active contributor to Boavizta's AI working group. He develops methodologies and open-source tools for assessing AI's environmental impacts, contributes to industry standards, and promotes green AI through educational initiatives like the Green AI Hack.

Jean Senellart is a seasoned technology leader and innovator with over two decades of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine translation. Currently serving as the Chief Product Officer at Quandela, a leading quantum computing company, Jean brings his extensive expertise in AI to the emerging field of quantum technologies.

Prior to his role at Quandela, Jean had a distinguished 21-year career at SYSTRAN, a global leader in language translation software. During his tenure, he held various leadership positions, including Chief Executive Officer, Global Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Scientist. His work at SYSTRAN was instrumental in advancing the field of machine translation and applying AI techniques to language processing.

Passionate about knowledge transmission, Jean has consistently engaged in educational activities throughout his career. He currently teaches practical quantum computing in various schools and master's level degree programs, demonstrating his commitment to nurturing the next generation of quantum computing professionals.

With his unique blend of experience in AI, NLP, and now quantum computing, coupled with his dedication to education, Jean Senellart is well-positioned to provide valuable insights into the future convergence of these cutting-edge technologies and inspire the next wave of innovation in the field.

Building sustainable AI infrastructure: quantum, open and modular systems

AI Meets Quantum: Unlocking New Possibilities in Machine Learning

Alexandre Pasquiou is the co-Founder and Chief Scientist Officer at Neuralk-AI.

At Neuralk-AI, he is building foundation models for structured data to allow any company to build AI applications that natively interact with their structured data (tabular or graph data). 

Alexandre Pasquiou has an engineering degree from Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupélec), and did a PhD in computational neurosciences at Inria in the MIND team, under the supervision of Bertrand Thirion and Christophe Pallier.

Hands-On Integration: Simulating Embedding Models for Structured Data

As Chief Operating Officer at Scaleway, Albane is responsible for the global operations of the company: customer care, supply and hardware chain in its 10 data centers, in France, Holland and Poland, from R&D to fleet maintenance and CSR. Her team is also responsible for managing the strategic projects of Scaleway: operational excellence and internationalization.

Albane spearheads major strategic shifts, transforming Hardware and Customer Care from a functional focus to an enabler of innovation for the business, and integrating the finance organization to support a truly global company. 

Previously, Albane rose through the ranks of the Luxury Industry at L'Oréal and LVMH where she learned rigor and excellence, key values ​​of these companies and their market. She is an inspirational leader who tells stories that inspire action while at the same time is grounded in financial information that levers the business.  Respected as a credible voice in decision making, finding strategic partners, and establishing governance boundaries. 

She holds a Purchasing degree from the Kedge Business School. Albane leads mainly by example, always doing her best and encouraging others to do the same as a mentor and advisor at Startup Weekend Women, and others. She leads CSR projects within Scaleway that align with the company’s vision to serve as an engaged corporate citizen.

Meriem Bendris is a senior deep learning data scientist at NVIDIA, supporting partners delivering AI and deep learning solutions. Meriem's area of expertise is conversational AI and large-scale natural language processing. Meriem holds a Ph.D. in signal and image from Telecom ParisTech, where she studied machine learning applied to speech and computer vision.

Building Speech AI Applications with NVIDIA Riva

For over 20 years, Ludovic has been working in the Data, Analytics, and AI sector.

He has been involved in various activities including R&D, services, use case implementation, and Solution Design for major players in software publishing and industry.

Currently at Dataiku, Ludovic leads the Solution Engineering department for France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Israel.

Together with his team of experts, he helps organizations maximize the benefits of broadly using Data and AI.

Engineer at heart, Vitor has spent the best part of the last 10 years at GitHub and Postman. In a previous life Vitor led Engineering teams in Banking and Healthcare. Big passion to build things with great fun people, hobbies include all manner of sports and motorcycle riding.

Meet frontier AI for software development

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital. Before joining Felix in 2022, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook.  Julien was formerly Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp for 6 years.  He invested in companies like Pigment, Techwolf, Nabla, Agave, Tripledot Studios and Linktree. 

Creative entrepreneur specialized in technology for over 20 years. Olivier co-founded Aive (Artificial Intelligence for Video Experience), a company revolutionizing AI-powered video post-production with the ambition to become the global leader in this space. Previously, he co-founded Teads in 2010, which grew to become the world’s leading online video advertising company, acquired by Altice for $300M in 2017 and by Outbrain for $1 billion in 2021. Earlier in 2003, Olivier launched Airtist, the pioneer of online music platforms funded by video advertising, predating both Deezer and Spotify.

With a degree in Electronic Engineering and as the lead inventor on a number of patents, he has worked across a range of industries - semiconductor design, software defined radio, data centre infrastructure and data storage.

As VAST Data’s lead for Enterprise AI adoption and AI service providers (“CSPs”) Dan works with organisations building out next-generation data-centric platforms and services.

As a Digital Responsibility Consultant and Research Officer at IJO, she specializes in assessing the environmental footprint of information technology and assists companies in reducing their IT-related greenhouse gas emissions. Alongside her projects, she leads research initiatives focused on technologies aimed at mitigating the ecological impact of digital activities, develops reporting standards, and analyzes the impact of key players in the sector. She also participates in discussions with organizations such as INR, AGIT, and ADEME. Passionate about making the digital sector more sustainable, she enjoys sharing her knowledge and expertise.

Decoding GenAI’s carbon footprint

Jeff Wittich is the chief product officer at Ampere. Jeff has extensive leadership experience in the semiconductor industry in roles ranging from product and process development to business strategy to marketing. Prior to joining Ampere, he worked at Intel for 15 years in a variety of positions throughout the company. Most recently, he was responsible for the Cloud Service Provider Platform business, driving global market reach, product customization, and ultimately defining the products and platforms being used across the cloud worldwide. While at Intel, Jeff also led a product development team responsible for 5 generations of Xeon processors. He received an Intel Achievement Award for his work in developing the Custom CPU program.

AI in the Fast Lane: From Autonomous Vehicles to Ride Hailing to Racing

Co-founder & CEO @ Mojo – Entrepreneur & Investor in Mobile x AI x Video 

Maciej Mazur is a CTO of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in EMEA at Dell Technologies. Based in Wroclaw, Poland, Maciej works with enterprise and public sector customers to help them successfully integrate and leverage AI solutions for strategic growth as part of their digital transformation. As a lead architect on more than one hundred AI projects, Maciej is a recognized AI expert and industry blogger/podcaster. With cross-sector experience, and deep telco and defense knowledge, Maciej works with the C-Suite and IT leaders to leverage AI across their organizations, breaking down silos and optimizing data investments. Customer inquiries often center on sovereign AI cloud strategies and hybrid cloud optimization, and Maciej works with them to provide expert guidance on architecture, implementation, and maximizing GPU utilization in these environments.

Managing GPU Clusters with Open Source

Damien Juillard is a tech enthousiast with strong experience in IT infrastructures and large-scale enterprises. After playing a key role in building France’s leading IT Asset Management company, Damien turned his focus to the transformative potential of artificial intelligence.

Late 2023, he founded On Behalf AI with a mission to bring AI into practical applications across organizations, while ensuring the enhancement of human capital. His vision: harness AI as a powerful driver of innovation for the modern enterprise.

As the cofounder and CTO of two innovative companies, Kili Technology and DeepIP, Edouard has been at the forefront of transforming AI applications across multiple industries, including data labeling, training data management, and intellectual property. With over a decade of experience in data science, machine learning, and software engineering, Edouard brings deep expertise and a forward-thinking vision for building impactful AI solutions.

At Kili Technology, Edouard has driven the creation of an enterprise-grade training data platform, helping businesses scale AI deployment more efficiently. Meanwhile, at DeepIP, Edouard is revolutionizing the intellectual property landscape by collaborating with legal professionals to leverage AI, streamlining complex workflows, and driving excellence. Passionate about making AI that matters, Edouard continues to lead transformative advancements in the field.

Frontier Data: The Key to AI’s Next Leap Forward

Paul, a graduate of École des Ponts and Télécom Paris, is the technical leader at Molia. From 2015 to 2020, he worked as a Data Scientist and Head of Data in start-ups, while teaching Data Science and specializing in Deep Learning and Generative AI. In 2020, he co-founded Emil, acquired by Le Wagon in 2022, where he is now VP of Data & Content. At Molia, he leads the technical teams and oversees expert training.

Javier is a Senior Solutions Architect for Cloud Service Providers (CSP) at Nvidia. He helps customers to clearly identify their use case and proposes an end-to-end solution to accelerate the corresponding workloads. He has a deep background on networks and infrastructure cybersecurity which allows him to excel at explaining how we build clusters of GPUs at Nvidia. Before Nvidia, he worked as post-sales at Fortinet and at ISP such as Telefonica and Orange

Accelerating Drug Discovery with NVIDIA BioNeMo

Raúl has a rich background in the IT and data center market, with extensive experience in Data center operations. Prior to joining OCP as a Staff Member, Raúl has been participating in the community, with contributions to immersion cooling technologies and Data Center Facilities. He has led various workstreams and co-developed essential guidelines, including Immersion Requirements and Liquid Cooling Facilities. Raúl is also co-leading the OCP European Regional Community project, focusing on outreach and fostering community growth. His expertise has made a meaningful impact in the field, as he actively engages with the data center community to drive innovation and collaboration.

Nick completed his Ph.D. in AI for protein engineering at University College London, following a Master's in drug discovery from Imperial College London. With a background in chemistry, he specializes in data science workflows for protein engineering and drug discovery. Nick's expertise spans machine learning techniques, including scikit-learn, XGBoost, and GNNs, with a focus on hyperparameter optimization and applying both shallow and deep learning models to complex biological problems. His experience in startups has involved implementing cutting-edge data science solutions in computational drug design and protein optimization.

Hanan has been a key driver in Artefact’s AI journey since its inception a decade ago, aligning advanced AI technology with the unique needs of clients across diverse sectors. A graduate of both Centrale Lille and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Hanan completed his MVA research master’s (Mathématiques, Vision, Apprentissage) at ENS—one of Europe’s most prestigious programs in Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Statistical Learning. Leading Artefact’s full AI portfolio, including Generative AI, he heads a specialized task force to scale operational use cases for clients. From strategic design to on-the-ground implementation, Hanan ensures smooth transformation, broad adoption, and industrial-grade deployment of AI solutions.

I am thrilled by computers. I spent a lot of time designing them at architectural and hardware level, and participated to crazy projects, including building up the biggest european super computer in the late 90's. I love to share my knowledge and enable people to design better computers. I am particularly focused on open technologies currently, which includes design tools like FreeCAD, KiCAD, and open source firmware projects like linuxboot and OpenBMC. I used to work for big companies, created a french based startup that I successfully sold to an american company in 2018. I am now part of HPE mainly focused on open platforms. What does it mean will be known in a couple of months / quarters and years. 

James is responsible for the technology direction, roadmap and performance analysis of DDN solutions. One of his main tasks is engaging with, and understanding the issues of organizations that are exploring the extremes of IO performance across the range of industries from Life Sciences through to Finance with use cases from Cloud, Enterprise Big Data though to HPC. James’ career started with a PhD in Theoretical Physics followed by over 10 years at Sun Microsystems and Dell, in a wide range of roles from L3 support through consultancy, training, installation and pre-sales. James turned to focus on IO and storage in a move to DDN in 2011.

Since 2017, James has been instrumental in shaping DDN’s storage solutions to meet the rigorous demands of AI-driven environments. 

Fabrice le Chatelier is the Head of the Data Science Office at BNP Paribas, federating a community of more than 700 AI professionals located in the Analytics teams covering the various businesses of the Bank. 

Fabrice joined Banque Paribas in 1997 in London as a developer on Trading Systems. He moved to the RISK department in 2001 as a market risk analyst for Fixed Income before holding various management positions in Capital Markets, ALM Treasury and Wealth Management market activities.

Fabrice graduated from Dauphine University in Finance with a specialisation in IT systems. He is also a certified Securities & Financial Derivatives representative and followed the École Polytechnique Data Science Starter Program in 2017

American tech journalist based in Paris where je is founder and editor of The French Tech Journal, a publisher of newsletters about the global community of French founders and investors. This includes La Machine, a newsletter focused on France's AI ecosystem. Before moving to France in 2014, he spent 15 years covering Silicon Valley for the Los Angeles Times and San Jose Mercury News.

Victor Jakubiuk is the Head of AI at Ampere Computing. An entrepreneur by nature, Victor is a pioneer in the AI industry and has decades of experience building AI software solutions. Previously, he was the Co-Founder of OnSpecta, a leading provider of AI deployment and acceleration software. Victor has an MS & BS in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Leveraging AI agents and efficient LLM inference on COP-ARM

Graduating from a digital engineering school, Elise brings a strong interest in technical subjects to her work. Known for her dedication, motivation, and organized, methodical approach, she effectively tackles a wide range of tasks. Elise curiosity drives her to engage in various activities across associative, professional, and personal spheres. Additionally, she has a passion for self-directed learning, embracing opportunities to explore new areas and consistently challenge herself.

Accurately measuring your cloud activity’s full impact: wishful thinking?

Ramine Roane is the Corporate Vice President of AI Product Management at AMD in San Jose, CA, where he focuses on enabling AI workloads across AMD platforms, from endpoint to edge to cloud. In 2022, he served as the VP of Data Center Acceleration within AMD's Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group. Prior to AMD’s acquisition of Xilinx, Ramine was the VP of Software & AI Product Management at Xilinx, overseeing electronic design automation (EDA) tools such as the Vivado Design Suite, as well as software and AI development tools like Vitis and Vitis AI. Earlier in his career, he held positions at EDA companies such as Synopsys and Mentor Graphics. Ramine earned a Master's degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France.

Overcoming memory Hurdles in AI - Performance and choice at scale

Driving the company's AI/ML and Web3 initiatives by partnering with key strategic partners and ISVs to deliver innovative proof of concepts and customized compute accelerator features. Leading global Web3 consortium activities with a focus on setting industry standards and fostering collaboration across ecosystems.

AMD x Hugging Face: “No Code Change LLM Deployment on AMD GPUs"

Agentic AI powered by Generative APIs: Building high-precision function calling on open-weight LLMs

With 25+ years of experience in Digital products, Fabien Da Silva is AI Product Manager in Scaleway, in charge of the GPU instances, HGX as a service clusters and other AI hardware accelerated products. With a Master Degree in Engineering, his experience at different positions in IT, management and Innovation, grew his passion for Deep Learning and lead him to focus on harnessing the power of AI . He works to make AI responsible, efficient and accessible to all."

Guided session: mapping inference workflows on the right GPU

Dr. Stéphan-Eloïse Gras, is an assistant professor in Communication Sciences at CNAM in Paris, an entrepreneur and independent board member at Probabl:, a new AI company built around popular open-source library scikit-learn. With over 15 years of international experience in the digital sector, her passion for AI, education, innovation, and impact in emerging markets has been a driving force in her career. Previously, she served as the CEO of Digital Africa, a 130M€ initiative launched by French President Emmanuel Macron to support African start-ups in their early stages. Gras also co-founded the open innovation bootcamp Africa 4 Tech and led the strategic development in Africa for the online education platform Open Classrooms. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and in Philosophy. Her doctoral thesis traces the emergence of the first AI models through the analysis of a music recommendation algorithm acquired by Spotify in 2014. In addition to her position at CNAM, Gras teaches at Sciences Po-Paris, New York University and Sorbonne-Université. Currently, she is writing a book about the geoeconomics of AI.

"Sebastian has over 15 years of experience in GPU-driven image processing solutions. He helped create the first Digital Intermediate pipeline in Mexico City then moved on to work on real-time color grading and transcoding systems, training teams in Tokyo, Moscow, Bucharest and Paris. Now, he is dedicated to making Scaleway the leading European platform for AI and HPC solutions."

"Tristan Ladrech is an Industry Technical Solution Specialist at Intel, where he empowers automotive and financial sectors through innovative AI, cloud, and Client computing solutions. With a strong background in strategic technology implementations, Tristan collaborates with his clients to drive transformative outcomes. His expertise spans across major accounts, providing tailored solutions that leverage Intel’s advanced technologies, including confidential computing and AI applications.

An active contributor to Intel’s AI strategy in France, Tristan also trains partners on cutting-edge topics like machine learning, confidential computing, and GenAI. Tristan’s approach integrates deep technical knowledge with business acumen, making him a sought-after speaker in AI-driven solutions for industry innovation."

Bringing Choice to Gen AI with the Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator Powered by Dell Servers

Diane Sempéré is Head of Product at Scaleway, where she oversees product vision and roadmap execution across multiple squads, focusing on core features that enhance user experience in public cloud solutions.

With over 12 years of experience in digital project management, product strategy, and marketing, Diane is skilled in transforming customer insights into strategic growth opportunities and leading cross-functional teams to bring impactful digital solutions to market.

"After graduating from École Polytechnique and completing an MSc in Machine Learning, Stéphane Béreux joined Entrepreneur First, where he co-founded Jimini AI. His startup focuses on developing an AI copilot designed to empower legal professionals, automating routine tasks and intelligently leveraging their document databases to enable a focus on high-value work. 

In addition to his work at Jimini AI, Stéphane serves as the Secretary General of X-IA, a community dedicated to connecting École Polytechnique alumni and students in the field of Machine Learning."

Building a RAG system for lawyers: behind the scenes

We gathered leaders and engineers for a **one-day technical conference** dedicated to AI breakthroughs, research & demonstrations

Large models & Large clusters: AI’s dependence on vast amounts of data and computing power to train and deploy models raises the critical question: how can we ensure access to high-quality training data and computing power.

Specialization & Efficiency: Is bigger always better? Emerging optimization techniques allow for significant model size reduction without compromising performance. Efficient, specialized models not only address performance needs but also offer a more sustainable path forward for AI development.


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