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Chairman, CEO and co-founder, holds an engineering degree from INPG (ENSPG) and a PhD in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University. He is one of the co-founders of the Paris Machine Learning Applications Group meetup, which attracts over 8,000 attendees and has hosted over 250 presenters at more than a hundred Artificial Intelligence meetups over the past ten years. He is also Assistant Director of the NASA-funded Spacecraft Technology Center.

Managing Director and co-founder. Laurent Daudet is currently on leave from his position as Professor of Physics at Université Paris Cité, where he is a recognized expert at the crossroads of signal processing, information theory and wave physics. He has held various academic positions: member of the Institut Universitaire de France, lecturer at UPMC - Paris 6, visiting lecturer at Queen Mary University of London (UK), and visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo (Japan). Laurent is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications, has been a consultant to a number of large and small companies, and is co-inventor of several patents. He is regularly consulted by various national and international bodies (OECD, French Presidency, France 2030...) on policies to support the Artificial Intelligence sector. He is considered to be one of the 250 leading thinkers in AI according to the media50.
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He is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Marseille, and a habilitation to supervise research from UPMC - Paris 6.

Chairman, CEO and co-founder, holds an engineering degree from INPG (ENSPG) and a PhD in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University. He is one of the co-founders of the Paris Machine Learning Applications Group meetup, which attracts over 8,000 attendees and has hosted over 250 presenters at more than a hundred Artificial Intelligence meetups over the past ten years. He is also Assistant Director of the NASA-funded Spacecraft Technology Center.

Managing Director and co-founder. Laurent Daudet is currently on leave from his position as Professor of Physics at Université Paris Cité, where he is a recognized expert at the crossroads of signal processing, information theory and wave physics. He has held various academic positions: member of the Institut Universitaire de France, lecturer at UPMC - Paris 6, visiting lecturer at Queen Mary University of London (UK), and visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo (Japan). Laurent is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications, has been a consultant to a number of large and small companies, and is co-inventor of several patents. He is regularly consulted by various national and international bodies (OECD, French Presidency, France 2030...) on policies to support the Artificial Intelligence sector. He is considered to be one of the 250 leading thinkers in AI according to the media50.
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He is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, and holds a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Marseille, and a habilitation to supervise research from UPMC - Paris 6.

Full professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. His research interests include statistical physics, machine learning, statistics, computer science and computational optics. He heads the IdePHICS “Information, Learning and Physics” laboratory in EPFL's Physics and Electrical Engineering departments. After obtaining a master's degree in particle physics, he switched fields and obtained a doctorate in statistical physics in 2002 jointly from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the Université Paris-Sud. In 2004, he was appointed associate professor at ESPCI Paris, in the Gulliver laboratory. In 2013, he became a full professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, and joined the École Normale Supérieure physics laboratory. In September 2020, he was appointed Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and Physics at EPFL, Switzerland, where he founded the IdePHICS laboratory. He has also held various visiting positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University and the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

University Professor at Sorbonne University (2014-present). Previously, he was Maitre de Conférence at ESPCI ParisTech (2007- 2014), Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna, Austria (2004-2007), and Doctoral Fellow at Pierre et Marie Curie University (2001-2004).

Dominique Druon founded Aliath in 2012, a firm specializing in governance consulting and training, as well as director recruitment. She is also Lead Director of scale-up ENTECH Smart Energies following its IPO in 2021, an independent director of listed ETI COGELEC, and an independent member of the Strategy Committee of the PROVA family group. From 2019 to 2022, she was an independent member of the Supervisory Board of industrial group CLAYENS. From 2015 to 2020, she was an independent director and member of the Audit Committee and Nomination/Compensation Committee of the listed LE BELIER group. From 2013 to 2019, she was also an independent director, Chairwoman of the Nomination/Compensation Committee and member of the Strategy Committee of the listed APRIL group, and an independent director of the SCHUMACHER family group from 2016 to 2019. Dominique Druon's 20 years' experience as Group General Manager for France, the UK, the USA and the Middle East at Altran, a multinational in innovative technologies (listed on the SBF 120 before its takeover by Capgemini), has given her an in-depth understanding of the requirements of managers in the growth, structuring, internationalization and restructuring phases of their businesses.

Dominique is also a guest speaker on governance at INSEAD, IFA-HEC (governance program dedicated to family businesses), ESSEC, EM Lyon, Dauphine, and IFA-Audencia (governance program dedicated to ETIs). Dominique is an engineer, a graduate of UTC, and a certified director of ESSEC, a business angel with the Finance & Technology club, a member of IFA (Institut Français des Administrateurs), APIA (Administrateurs Professionnels Indépendants Associés), CDA (Cercle des Administrateurs), WCD (Women Corporate Directors), VoxFemina and the Gouvernance & Equilibre circle.

Marie de Lauzon began her career in investment banking at Citigroup, where she spent 7 years in London and Zurich. She then joined PwC as Chief of Staff to the CEO for 3 years, before becoming COO of an investment fund and Managing Director - Partner of a French asset management company. General Secretary and member of the Executive Committee of Voltalia (an international player in renewable energies) from 2014 to 2019, where she was also in charge of marketing & communications, information systems, CSR and investor relations. From 2019 to 2022, she was Managing Director of 2CRSi (manufacturer of energy-efficient high-performance computer servers). In 2023, she created the Nomizo firm to serve and advise entrepreneurs of fast-growing companies (109). In 2024, she was appointed co-manager and Chief Operating Officer of Novocarbo, a producer of green energy, biochar and carbon credits. Marie de Lauzon has held several directorships in companies listed on Euronext and Euronext Growth. Marie de Lauzon is a graduate of HEC Paris and holds a CEMS Master's degree from the University of St. Gallen.