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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.

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.

Building trustworthy AI: accuracy and explainability across sectors

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.

Overcoming AI Scaling Barriers in Healthcare & Biotech

AI-Powered Medical Assistant: Transforming Healthcare Efficiency

"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."

On Building Llama 3 

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.

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

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.

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.

, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Vincent Luciani est un entrepreneur français né en 1985 à Paris, actuellement PDG d'

, entreprise spécialisée dans les technologies d’intelligence artificielle. Diplômé de l’École Polytechnique et de HEC, il a travaillé chez McKinsey & Co dans les domaines de l’aéronautique et de l’industrie.

En 2014, il a cofondé Artefact avec Guillaume de Roquemaurel et Philippe Rolet. Sous sa direction, Artefact est devenu un leader mondial en data & intelligence artificielle. L'entreprise qui fête ses 10 ans cette année, regroupe à présent 1500 collaborateurs répartis dans 25 bureaux, et couvre l'ensemble des continents.

Vincent Luciani a également lancé la 'School of Data' pour former les personnes aux métiers de la donnée. Vincent est également investisseur dans plusieurs entreprises d'intelligence artificielle et participe régulièrement à des conférences et événements pour partager son expertise.

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

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.

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. 

AI’s Role in Transforming Financial Services

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.

Advancing AI Infrastructure: Quantum, Storage, and Edge Solutions

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.

Co-founder and CEO of Batisia, the first AI copilot designed for construction professionals and real estate developers. Batisia delivers cutting-edge AI technologies that revolutionize productivity in the construction industry by speeding up critical tasks. With a mission to lead the European market in Generative AI for construction, Batisia collaborates with leading European companies and French leaders in construction, real estate development, and engineering.

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.

The Data Pipeline: From Creation to Training

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. 

Former CIO of BNP Paribas and Schneider Electric, Alain Marbach is convinced that the digital sector can become the first Net-Zero Carbon industry.

In this spirit, he founded and has chaired IJO since 2019, a consulting and research firm dedicated 100% to the challenges of Sustainable IT practices.

With a team of engineers combining recognized expertise with over 60 clients and deep environmental convictions, IJO offers to measure the environmental footprint of information systems (from overall measurement to individual products and services - including IT projects) and helps to reduce it (roadmap and SBTi trajectory, engaging suppliers, industrializing reduction processes, training, and awareness-raising).

Scientific rigor, service excellence, total transparency, and knowledge sharing guide IJO's goal: to harness digital technology for a habitable Earth.

Decoding GenAI’s carbon footprint

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.

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.

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

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

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