The Speakers

Professor at Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University

PhD in Economics, Université Paris 13

Director of the Governance and Regulation Chair, Paris-Dauphine Foundation

Director of the Dauphine Doctoral School

Founder of the European School for New-Institutional Economics (ESNIE)

Former President of the International Society for New-Institutional Economics (ISNIE)

Co-founder of the Master IREN: Network Industries and Digital Economy

Director of the Master in Telecom and Media Management

Associate Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong

Dual Ph.D.s in IP Law (Maastricht University) & Criminal Law (Renmin University of China)

Author of Copyright and Fan Productivity in China (Springer)

Published in American Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., Computer Law & Security Review, Asia Pacific Law Review, etc.

Honorable Mention, Ius Commune Prize 2014

Associate Member, IGIR

President, Asian Pacific Copyright Association

Member, Hong Kong S.A.R. LawTech Consultation Group

Founder of LiVert

CEO of Global AI Assembly

COO of Podspace/Spread

Vice President of the Asian Female Founder Foundation,

President of Honour at FemmEntreprendre

Winner of the 9th Women Startup Competition (2023)

2nd Place at VivaTech – My Global Village Pitch Competition (2023)

Co-founder & CTO of Jimini AI, developing AI copilots for legal professionals

Secretary General of X-IA, connecting École Polytechnique alumni and students in Machine Learning

Co-founder & CEO of LegOmnia, specializing in legal information access in Francophone Africa

Expert in technology and infrastructure projects, including in the African television sector

Artificial Intelligence Ethicist, Professor of AI Ethics at ISEP - Paris Institute of Digital Technology

PhD in Political Science, Sciences Po Paris

Head of the Ethics, Management, Personal & Professional Project Department at ISEP

Ethics expert advising companies and public authorities on digital ethics integration

PhD in Philosophy, National University of Singapore

Expert at the Greater Bay Area AI & Sustainability Project Incubation Network

Author of Online Urbanization, recognized as a high-impact publication on SpringerLink SDGs

2nd Place Winner, 2024 Future of Life Institute (FLI) & Foresight “Xhope” AI Hackathon

Editor of AI and Sustainable Development Outlook, focusing on AI and sustainability in human-machine symbiosis

Founder & CEO of Concordia AI,

Member of the consultative network for the UN High-Level Advisory Body on AI

Expert at the AI Safety Governance Committee, China’s AI Industry Alliance

Policy Affiliate at the Centre for the Governance of AI

Former Senior Advisor to the Partnership on AI

Scientific Advisor, France Stratégie (Prime Minister’s Office)

Expert in Autonomous Mobility & Transport Innovation

Former Head of Driverless Cars, France’s Transport Ministry

Former Deputy General Manager, French National Railway Network (RFF)

Author, France Stratégie Report on Autonomous Vehicles (2024)

CEO of RAYSOLUTION Healthcare

Pioneer in fully digital PET technology

Senior Engineer & Mentor, University of Science and Technology of China

Contributor, China’s Digital PET Standards & National Medical Products Administration Guidelines

Winner, China Medical Major Progress Award 2019

Winner, Huang Jiashu Biomedical Engineering Award – First Prize for Technical Invention

Holds 30+ patents and 10+ research publications

Co-founder, Insurtech France & France Meta

Expert in AI, Blockchain, and Disruptive Technologies

Winner, CES 2018 Blockchain Application Award

Author of Artificial Intelligence and Insurance and Metaverse: A Practical Vision

Web3 Trainer & Strategic Advisor

Director of Research, CNRS | Professor, ENS (École Normale Supérieure)

Expert in Microfluidics, Semiconductor Quantum Heterostructures, and Photonic Crystals

Researcher in Cancer Diagnosis and Stem Cell Devices for In-Vitro Modeling

Author of 500+ scientific publications

Supervisor of 50+ Ph.D. and postdoctoral researchers

Seed Investor & Board Member at InnerKen

Former Investment Banker at Deutsche Bank and Private Equity Investor at China Merchants Group, specializing in Enterprise Software investments

Holds a B.Sc. in Financial Mathematics & Business Administration from the University of Cologne

Co-author of nearly 10 books, including The Dao of Capital

President & Founder of BAULD, a Paris-based consulting firm specializing in data & AI strategies

Former consultant in Luxembourg, Belgium, and France

Author of The Human in the Age of AI, advocating for human-centric technology

Visionary leader promoting holistic and systemic approaches to AI deployment

CEO Firstbrick: Tailor-made support for integrating AI, from A to Z

+10 companies supported

+500 people trained

Speaker at BPI France

AI content creator - +6000 LinkedIn subscribers

Full Professor at Tsinghua University, specializing in digital broadcasting, network convergence, wireless communications, VLC, and PLC

Fellow of IEEE and IET

VP for Publications, IEEE Broadcasting Technology Society (BTS)

Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Access (BTS) and founding EiC of the ITU Academic Journal

Vice Chairman, ITU-R WP 6A

Recipient of Best Paper Award (IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting), Gold Medal (International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva, 2019 & 2022), ITU WSIS Champion Award, and Chinese National First-Class Award

Ph.D. candidate, Machine Learning Group (THUML), School of Software, Tsinghua University

Bachelor in Software Engineering & Pure and Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University

Research in Reinforcement Learning, World Models, and Deep Learning

Publications in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CoRL

Reviewer/PC Member for NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and TMLR

Recipient of National Scholarship, Future Researcher Scholarship, and Outstanding Graduate Awards

Silver Medalist, National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI)

Maître de conférences (≈ Associate Professor), Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne, Université de Bourgogne

PhD in Applied Mathematics, Institut Polytechnique de Paris

Former Postdoctoral Researcher, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Chair for Dynamics, Control, Machine Learning, and Numerics)

Expert in Mean-Field Optimization, Aggregative Games, and Numerical Analysis

Author of publications in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, SIAM Journal on Optimization, ESAIM: M2AN, and Mathematics of Operations Research

Recipient of AMX & Monge Scholarship (École Polytechnique) and PGSM Scholarship (Fondation Scientifique des Mathématiques de Paris)