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Bernard-Louis Roques is a Pioneer in European FinTech & Insurtech.
Launched Truffle Capital’s FinTech Incubator in 2015, Early Stage fund in 2018, and Scaleups fund in 2023.
Truffle Capital has 1bn€ AUM, 100 investments & 14 IPOs, with 22 investments in fintechs and insurtech.
Board Member of Finance Innovation (French governmental agency dedicated to Fintech), ACSEL (French digital economy agency). Repeat entrepreneur, co-founded Truffle Capital after selling his robotics company. Started as bond trader @ HSBC. Author of the « Truffle 100 » (research on software) & the « Fintech 100 » (research on Fintech). MBA from ESSEC Business School and ACE from MIT.

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Nicholas Ayache is a research director at Inria, where he leads the EPIONE research team, dedicated to the digital patient and digital medicine. He is also the Scientific Director of the Interdisciplinary AI Institute 3IA Côte d’Azur, where he holds a research chair. His current research focuses on the introduction of AI algorithms to guide the prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy of patients based on their medical images and all available data. N. Ayache is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the French Academy of Surgery. In 2013-2014 he was a visiting professor at the Collège de France, where he introduced a new course on the “personalized digital patient”. N. Ayache published over 400 highly cited scientific articles and a dozen of industrial patents, and co-founded seven high-tech companies. He has been a member of several strategic boards in France and abroad, including the strategic council of the new IHU RespirERA in Nice, dedicated to lung diseases.

Further information: http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Nicholas.Ayache/ayache.html  

Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=29XL16UAAAAJ    

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Doctor and professor of medical ethics and forensic medicine at Université Paris Cité. She heads the ETREs research team dedicated to understanding and studying the ethical issues involved in translational healthcare practices, particularly in oncology.

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Stéphanie Schaer, general engineer of Mines, has been, since September 2022, the interministerial director of the digital sector (DINUM). A former student of the École Polytechnique (1997), she is also a graduate of the École nationale supérieure des telecommunications/Télécom Paris. Her professional career is notably marked by stints at the Central Directorate for Information Systems Security (DCSSI, now ANSSI) from 2002 to 2006, then at the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Employment where she is project manager on embedded electronics then head of the software industry office of the General Directorate of Competitiveness, Industry and Services in 2008. She later became deputy regional director of businesses, competition, of consumption, work and employment (Direccte) of Burgundy, then of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. At the same time, in 2015, as an intrapreneur, she launched the State Startup Signals Faibles, which makes it possible to detect companies in difficulty early, to better support them, using data held by administrations. This service, now deployed throughout France, has benefited from DINUM support programs: entrepreneurs of general interest (EIG) and the State Startup incubation program, Beta.gouv . In 2019, Stéphanie Schaer became deputy director of Élisabeth Borne’s cabinet, at the Ministry of Ecological and Inclusive Transition then at the Ministry of Labor where she would then be appointed head of the cabinet. When Élisabeth Borne is appointed to Matignon in May 2022, Stéphanie Schaer becomes advisor to the Prime Minister. On September 26, 2022, she was appointed head of the interministerial digital department.

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Anne-Marie Lagrange is a Research Director at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratory for Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA) at the Paris Observatory, and associate Professor at Paris Sciences et Lettres University. She is a member of the French Academy of Science, and earned the Irène Joliot-Curie prize for the Female Scientist of the Year in 2011.
She specialized in the field of extra solar planetary systems, with the aim to understand how such systems form and evolve, and to search for planets of various kinds, down to Earth twins. She uses various kinds of approaches and observing techniques, in particular spectroscopy, absolute astrometry and high contrast imaging, and the combination of these techniques, to search for extrasolar planets, and characterize their atmospheres, and to study their link with the dust disks in which they orbit. She was the scientific PI of the first adaptive optics instrument on the VLT, which allowed her team and her to make the first images of extrasolar planets, opening thus a new path in the field. She finally tries to estimate and compensate for the stellar activity, which is the ultimate barrier against detecting Earth twins using radial velocities, and is a necessary step before imaging such planets.

Céline Beji is a researcher in personalised medicine and the founder & CEO at MyTreatment.  Her innovative work at Université Paris Cité uses causal inference in healthcare to bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and its practical application in medical practice. After completing her PhD at Université Paris Dauphine PSL as a member of the Machine Learning team, she furthered her expertise by completing a Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship and Deeptech Innovation at Mines Paris PSL. With MyTreatment, she aims to revolutionise the way cancer treatments are prescribed and make personalised medicine accessible to patients worldwide. Her contributions have been supported by several grants (PSL, PÉPITE Île-de-France), and she has received the i-PhD 2023 award from BpiFrance, which promotes and supports young innovative researchers with entrepreneurial projects in the field of breakthrough technologies.

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Dr. Luc JULIA, Chief Scientific Officer for Renault, was CTO and Senior Vice President of Innovation for Samsung Electronics, directed Siri at Apple, was Chief Technologist at Hewlett- Packard and cofounded a number of start-ups in the Silicon Valley. While conducting research at SRI International, he was involved in the creation of Nuance Communications, now the world leader in speech recognition. Recipient of Légion d’Honneur, the highest order of France, and member of its National Academy of Technologies, he holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris. He is the bestselling author of the book “There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence”, holds dozens of patents and is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.

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Sriram Krishnan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he invests in crypto and currently heads up the UK offices of a16z crypto. He works closely with Farcaster, Story Protocol,
Kindred. Prior to joining a16z, Sriram led product and engineering teams at X, Meta and Snap. Sriram
started his career at Microsoft as a founding member of Windows Azure. He was also previously a
personal investor in several prominent tech companies.
Sriram writes actively at @sriramk on Twitter and at sriramk.com. He co-hosts “The Aarthi and
Sriram Show”, a leading podcast on tech and business.

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Anne Bouverot spent most of her career in the technology sector and now advises a number of public and private technology companies. She is currently Chairperson of Cellnex, Europe’s leading operator of telecommunications infrastructure. She also chairs the Board of Ecole Normale Supérieure, France’s leading “grande école” in Science and Humanities. In 2018 she co-founded Fondation Abeona “Championing Responsible AI” on societal impacts of artificial intelligence. Notable programs include a visiting Chair on Social Justice and AI and an introductory MOOC already followed by more than 300 000 people. She spent the first 20 years of her career with Orange in a number of positions, then became Director General of the GSMA (Global Mobile Operators Association) and later CEO of Morpho (digital security and identity solutions). She is a graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure in mathematics and holds a PhD in artificial intelligence.

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Yann LeCun is VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta and Silver Professor at NYU affiliated with the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences & the Center for Data Science. He was the founding Director of FAIR and of the NYU Center for Data Science. He received an Engineering Diploma from ESIEE (Paris) and a PhD from Sorbonne Université. After a postdoc in Toronto he joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1988, and AT&T Labs in 1996 as Head of Image Processing Research. He joined NYU as a professor in 2003 and Meta/Facebook in 2013. His interests include AI, machine learning, computer perception, robotics, and computational neuroscience. He is the recipient of the 2018 ACM Turing Award (with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio) for “conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing”, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the French Académie des Sciences.

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Judith Rousseau works on the theoretical properties of Bayesian methods in high dimensions, with special interests in uncertainty quantifications, semi-parametric inference and scalable methods.

 She received her Phd in Statistics at University Paris 6 in 1997. She was assistant professor in University Paris 5 from 1998 – 2003 and became Professor of Statistics at University Paris Dauphine in 2003. She has been statutory professor at the University of  Oxford since 2017 and has now a joint affiliation between Oxford and Université Paris Dauphine. She has been an AE of a number of journals, such as Annals of Statistics, Bernoulli, JASA, EJS, Scandinavian Journal of statistics and is editor of Bayesian Analysis. She is a fellow of the IMS and ISBA. She received the Ethel Newbold prize in 2015, gave a Medallion lecture at the IMS in 2017 and has received an ERC advanced grant in 2019.  

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Daniel Cremers is Director of the Munich Center for Machine Learning and holds the Chair of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence at TU Munich.  After studying physics and mathematics, he received his doctorate in computer science in 2002. He has conducted research in Heidelberg, Mannheim, Rennes, Los Angeles, Princeton, Bonn, Cambridge, and Oxford. He has co-authored over 500 publications and is listed among the top 10 most influential roboticists of the last decade. He received numerous awards including the Gottfried-Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the biggest award in German academia.  He has served as co-founder, advisor and business angel to several startups.

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Virginie Do is a Research Scientist at Meta, working on safe & responsible AI. She recently completed her PhD at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and Meta (FAIR). Her PhD focused on fairness in recommender systems. Her work has been recognized with an Outstanding Paper Award at AAAI 2022 and a L’Oreal-UNESCO French Young Women In Science award.