Meet Our Speakers

“Benoit Bergeret has worked at the intersection of AI and strategy for over three decades, from the first French AI cohort (UTC, 1987) to co-founding Hub France IA and advising business and political leadership at OECD level on AI strategy, futures and diffusion in the economy. Associated with ESSEC Business School and a lecturer at Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management among others, he is a published author (Intelligence Artificielle et décoincidence, Presses des Mines, 2025), exploring the impacts of AI diffusion in society.”

Benoit Bergeret

“Salem Lahlou is an Assistant Professor at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI). His research focuses on GFlowNets, LLM reasoning, and uncertainty estimation, aiming to build more capable and reliable AI for science. He is a core contributor to the GFlowNet framework and creator of the torchgfn library. Salem obtained his PhD from Mila and Université de Montréal under Yoshua Bengio.”

Salem Lahlou

“Prof. Latifa Oukhellou is a Research Director at Université Gustave Eiffel, where she heads the GRETTIA Laboratory (Transport Engineering and Computer Science). Her research focuses on data mining, machine learning and information fusion, with applications in intelligent transportation systems and urban computing for smart and sustainable cities. She has authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications and sits on the editorial boards of several leading journals.”

Latifa Oukhellou

“Khadidja KADEM is a final-year PhD student at the GRETTIA laboratory, Université Gustave Eiffel. Her work lies at the intersection of optimization and machine learning, with applications in transportation systems and sustainable mobility. She has contributed to projects ranging from automatic code optimization to data-driven approaches in agriculture, with a strong emphasis on methodological development and applied experimentation.”

Khadidja Kadem

“Fayçal Noushi is a technology executive and entrepreneur specializing in data platforms, AIOps, and AI-driven observability for large-scale systems. He has led monitoring and automation initiatives across cloud and telecom environments, focusing on turning operational data into actionable intelligence. His work spans modern observability stacks and emerging agent-based architectures for autonomous IT operations.”

Fayçal Noushi

“Thomas Bapaume is a postdoctoral researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel, within the GRETTIA laboratory. His research focuses on short-term forecasting of passenger load and atypical situations in public transport systems, contributing to international projects on active road safety and innovative sensor-based modeling. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Université Gustave Eiffel.”

Thomas Bapeaume

“Michaël Karpe is a Senior AI/ML Scientist with extensive experience in the financial services industry. He has designed and deployed high-impact machine learning systems for global banking companies and fintech startups across Paris, Berkeley, and Luxembourg. His expertise includes anomaly detection, financial time series forecasters, recommender systems, and AI agents.”

Michael Karpe