World AI Cannes Festival 2024 | Corp Agency | 7 February 2024 | Palais des Festivals et Des Congrès de Cannes, Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, 1 Bd de la Croisette, 06400 Cannes, FR

This event brings together the people and companies that are currently building the most game-changing and purposeful AI strategies on the planet.

Fuel by the ambition to support and inspire the next generation of groundbreaking leaders, this 3rd edition will celebrate, beyond the profit line, the AI future in all its forms.

2024 Speakers

Rodrigo ACUÑA AGOST
Head of Research Department, AMADEUS

Monika ADAMCZYK
Cybersecurity Expert, European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

Esma AIMEUR
Professor at the Department of Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL

Claudia ALCELAY
AI Product Manager, PROJECT MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE (PMI)

Uthman Ali
Adviser in AI Ethics at BP and Responsible AI Adviser for the AI Alliance at the World Economic Forum's

Ebtesam ALMAZROUEI
Expert AI Executitve & Tech Visionary Leader

Stephen ALSTRUP
Professor in algorithms, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN

Caitlin ANDERSON
Vice President PC Client Category, INTEL

Armand Angeli
Expert EuropIA & Vice-President Digital Transformation Group, DFCG

Corina APACHITE
Program Head Artificial Intelligence and Data, CONTINENTAL

Karine ARAMA
Partner, SGH CAPITAL

Erik ÅSBERG
Chief Technology Officer, ESMART SYSTEMS

Anthony AUBERT
Co-founder & winemaker, AUBERT & MATHIEU

Florent Aziosmanoff

Mahesh BALASUBRAMANIAN
Director Product Marketing Data Center GPU, AMD

Antonio Baldassarra
CEO, DHH SpA

Jeremy BASSINDER
Generative AI and watsonx leader, IBM CONSULTING

Aurore BELFRAGE
Tech Investor and Geopolitical strategist, SUSTECHABLE

Saïda BELOUALI
Professor of A.I. Ethics, MOHAMMED I UNIVERSITY

Brando Benifei
Member of the European Parliament, Co-Rapporteur of the AI Act, AI Act

Janine BERG
Senior Economist, INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION (ILO)

Arin Bhowmick
Chief Design Officer, SAP

Tomas Blazquez
Vice President Digital Architecture, ACWA Power

Frédéric Bossard
Président WACAN,Directeur du Master Digital Marketing et du Master Digital Business et Intelligence Artificielle, Skema Business School

Nick BOSTROM
Professor at Oxford University and head of the Future of Humanity Institute

Nozha BOUJEMAA
Digital Trust Officer at DECATHLON and Co-Chair of the OECD.AI Experts' Group, OECD.AI

Stéphane BOUT
Senior Partner, MCKINSEY FRANCE'S DIGITAL COMPETENCE CENTER AND QUANTUM BLACK, AI BY MCKINSEY

Mark BRAKEL
Director of Policy, FUTURE OF LIFE INSTITUTE

Sébastien Bratières
Director of AI at Translated and Managing Director, Pi School

Jean-Louis Brelet
Président et co-fondateur, EuropIA Capital

Eric Buatois
General Partner, BGV

Peter BUSCH
Global Product Owner DLT Mobility, BOSCH

Tommaso Calarco
Director, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Carolina CAMACHO R.
Associate Partner - Program Leader, IBM

Barbara Carfagna
Author, Anchor, Journalist, Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana

Laurent CARLIER
Global Head of AI, BNP PARIBAS GLOBAL MARKET

Julien CASARIN
Head of XR, INETUM

Nia CASTELLY
Co-founder & Head of Legal, Checks, GOOGLE

Alain CHANCÉ
Founder and CEO, QUANTALAIN SASU

Debu Chatterjee
Founder & CEO, KONFER

Michael CHEN
VP Strategic Alliances & Development, POLYAI

Adam CHEYER
Co-Founder Siri, Sentient, & Viv Labs. Founding member of Change.org. VP AI Experience, AIRBNB

Massimo Chiriatti
Chief Technical & Innovation Officer, Lenovo Italy

Axel CLEEREMANS
Professor, UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES

Matteo Colombo
President, ASSO DOPO

Marta Colonna
General Counsel, PagoPA

Davide Corbelletto
Quantum Technology Specialist, Intesa San Paolo

Georgie COURTOIS
Lawyer - Partner, DE GAULLE FLEURANCE & ASSOCIES

Steve CRACKNELL
Chief Product Officer & Founder Director, INSIG AI

Gianfranco Cuscito
Managing Director& Partner, CEO BCG Platinion EMC

Laurent DAUDET
CEO and co-founder, LIGHTON

Anilkumar Dave

Mieke DE KETELAERE
Adjunct Professor, VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL

David De Lallo
Principal and Executive Tech Editor

David Loren

Thierry Debuisschert
Senior expert, Thales Research & Technology

Antoine Delugeau
Scalian PM center of excellence director, SCALIAN

Jean-Philippe DESBIOLLES
Managing Director and Vice President, Financial Services, IBM

Marcin DETYNIECKI
Head of Research and Development & Group Chief Data Scientist, AXA

Marco Di Dio Roccazzella
General Manager, Jakala

Giuseppe DI FRANCO
Chief Executive Officer, LUTECH GROUP

Pam DIXON
Founder and executive director, WORLD PRIVACY FORUM

Raphaël Falco
« Adaptation » R&D program leader, SCALIAN

Anna Fellander
Founder & CEO, ANCH.AI

Franz Fischnaller

Carmelo Fontana
AI Senior Regional Counsel, Google

Ash FONTANA
Author and investor

Romain FORESTIER
Tech & Scientific Research Director, JEDI

Claude FRASSON
Honorary Professor and Associate Professor in Computer Science, UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL

Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA
Professor, SORBONNE UNIVERSITY

Santanu GANGULY
Quantum Advisor, QORO

Jean-François GAUDY
VP, Head of Innovation, INETUM

Giancarlo Genta

Dileep George
Director of Research, Google DeepMind

Elisa Giomi
Commissioner, AGCOM – Italian Independent Regulatory Authority of Communications

Giuseppe Giovanni Pavone
Head Voice of Customer, Poste Italiane

Constanza GOMEZ MONT
founder and Principal of C Minds; founder of AI for Climate; cofounder and Director of NaturaTech LAC., C MINDS

Jeannette GORZALA
Vice-President, EUROPEAN AI FORUM

Tom GRAHAM
CEO & co-founder, METAPHYSIC.AI

Michele Grossi
Senior Quantum Computing Scientist, CERN Quantum Technology Initiative

Sebastian HALLENSLEBEN
Chair of CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 / Head of Digitalisation and AI, VDE

Jean-Bernard HENTZ
Industrial modelling and simulation expert, AIRBUS

Cyrill HUG
AI Solution Engineer, HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE

Antonio Iavarone
Head of Digital Innovation, IREN

Giacomo Indiveri
Professor, researcher, and director of the Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich

Arnault IOUALALEN
CEO et Directeur R&D, NUMALIS

Lucas JOPPA
Senior Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer, HAVELI INVESTMENTS

Luc Julia
Scientific Director, RENAULT

Sanchit JUNEJA
Director-Product (Big Data & ML/AI), BOOKING.COM

Mansour KARAM
GVP Products, Data Center, JUNIPER NETWORKS

Shameer KHADER
Executive Director / Global Head of Computational Biology Cluster & Precision Medicine, SANOFI

Sam KHALIL
Vice President, Data Insights, NOVO NORDISK

Nayur KHAN
Partner, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey

Carsten KRAUS
Founder & CEO, CK HOLDING

Antonio KRÜGER
Chief Executive Officer, GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Albena KUYUMDZHIEVA
Policy Officer at European Innovation Council Unit, DG Research and Innovation, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Giovanni Landi
Vice-President, Istituto EuropIA.it

Diana Landi
President of Art-Tech and AI & Art expert, The EuropIA Institute

Marco LANDI
President, THE EUROPIA INSTITUTE

Laure Le Bars
Research Project Director, SAP President, European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC), SAP

Yann LECUN
Vice-President and Chief AI Scientist, META AI

Giovanni Leoni
Head of Business Strategy & Development, CREDO.AI

Nico Losito
Vice Presidente, IBM Technology Italia

David LY
CEO and Founder, IVEDA

Shai Machnes
CEO, QRUISE

Nollie MAOTO
Chief Data and Analytics Officer - Merchant Services, FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA

Anna Mareschi Danieli
Presidente, Confindustria Slovenia

Anna MARESCHI DANIELI
Group Executive, Board Member, DANIELI & C SPA

Patrick MARTIN
Président, MEDEF

Massimiliano Masnada
Partner, Hogan Lovells

Jean-Charles MATHIEU
Co-founder, AUBERT & MATHIEU

Juliette MATTIOLI
Senior Expert in Artificial Intelligence, THALES

Guillaume Maurino
Co-founder, AIR STREAM

Gérard MEDIONI
Vice President and Distinguished Scientist, AMAZON

Jérôme MONCEAUX
CEO and Founder, ENCHANTED TOOLS

Olivier MONNIER
Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer, MATMUT

Simone Montangero
Professor of Quantum Physics, University of Padova

Aayush MUDGAL
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, PINTEREST

Philippe MURAT
Project Manager - Immersive Training Incubator Pedagogy, Coaching and Digital Department Innovation Engineering Department, MNSP

Sean MURPHY
CEO, IMPACTSCOPE

Max MURPHY
Data Scientist, OVERWATCH DATA

Shubhradeep NANDI
Senior Data Scientist, GOVERNMENT DATA ANALYTICS UNIT OF INDIA

Giuliano Noci
Prorettore Politecnico Milano, Membro del Comitato di coordinamento per le strategie nazionali sull'Intelligenza Artificiale della Presidenza del Consiglio, Politecnico Milano

Oguzhan OGUZ
Alliances Director, NVIDIA

Enrico Panai
AI Ethicist, Association of AI Ethicists

Francesco PAOLA
Chief Growth Officer, MOZAIQ, LLC

Jean-Paul PAOLI-MICHON
Generative AI Business Transformation Director, L'OREAL

Massimiliano Pappalardo
Partner, Ughi e Nunziante

Gerald Pfeifer
CTO EMEA, SUSE

Mara Pometti
Associate Director AI Strategy, McKinsey & Company

Laurent PRUD'HON
Cognitive Factory Leader, Credit Mutuel

Edoardo Raffiotta
Prof. Diritto Costituzionale Universita’ Milano Bicocca, Membro del Comitato di coordinamento per le strategie nazionali sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Universita Milano Bicocca

Ram Rajagopal
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University

Philippe Rambach
Senior Vice President, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, Schneider Electric

Agathe Ravilly
AI Product Manager, Pole Emploi

Ramine Roane
Corporate Vice President of AI Product Management, AMD

Robin Röhm
CEO & Co-Founder, APHERIS

Dominick Romano
Founder, DRAINPIPE

Bjoern Rosenthal
Head of Product, DFL Digital sports

Francesca Rossi
IBM Fellow and AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM

Carlo Rossi Chauvenet
Managing Partner, CRC Lex

Valentina Russo
CMO, Contents.com

Neil Sahota
CEO / UN AI Advisor, ACSI LABS / UNITED NATIONS

Alessandra Sala
Sr. Director of AI and Data Science, Shutterstock

Nyasha Samhembere
Founder, Feels

Federico Sartore
CEO, DexAI

Raphaël Savalle
CFO, Executive Board Weleda Group

Stefano Scarpetta
Director, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, OECD

Dafu Shi
Director of Cloud & AI Solution France, Huawei France

Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist, Hugging Face

Lisa Spelman
Corporate Vice President Xeon Products, INTEL

Milie Taing
CEO and Founder, LILI.AI

Yonatan Teboul
Group Head of Digital Products and Services Strategy, MBDA

Lisa Thee
Data for Good Practice Lead, Launch Consulting

Sylvain Theveniaud
Founder, Allianz Accelerator

Oriol TINTORE
Co-CEO and Co-Founder, BELVO

Leila Toplic
Chief Communications and Trust Officer, Carbonfuture

Jorge Torres
Co-Founder & CEO, MINDSDB

Dragoș Tudorache
Member, European Parliament

Kate Turner
Decarbonisation & Ethics Consultant, Frazer-Nash Consultancy

Wouter Van Beek
Vice-President Transformation, Air France/KLM

Davide Venturelli
Associate Director, Quantum Technologies, Universities Space Research Association

Cyril Verbruggghe
Co-founder, OFFOLIO

Patrick Verdugo
Director, IoT Product Management, Claro Enterprise Solutions

Raul VILLAMARIN RODRIGUEZ
Vice-President, WOXSEN UNIVERSITY

Yonah WELKER
Explorer, Public Evaluator, Board Member - Future Of Algorithms, Research & Policy, Yonah.ai /.org, EU Commission

Frederic Werner
Head of the Strategic Engagement Division, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Russ Whitman
Directeur de la stratégie, Launchcg

Benjamin Wolba
Blogger, future-of-computing.com, Venture Partner, Lunar Ventures

David Wray
Board Member and Chair, ESG for International CFO Alliance (ICFOA)

Udo Würtz
CDO and Business Development Director of the European Platform Business, FUJITSU

Elliott Young
CTO, DELL TECHNOLOGIES

Sharon Zhou
PhD Cofounder & CEO, LAMINI

Scott ZOLDI
Chief Analytics Officer, FICO

Stefano Zoni
CDO, CREDEM

Eugenio ZUCCARELLI
Manager, Data Science, CVS HEALTH

2024 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• AMD
• IBM

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Intel

STRATEGIC PARTNERS:
• Lutech
• Dell Technologies
• Inetum
• Juniper Networks
• SUSE
• Fujitsu
• Huawei

VILLAGE SPONSOR:
• 06 Departement Des Alpes-Maritimes

VC SUMMIT SPONSOR:
• Accelerateur Allianz

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Ryte
• HP
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Single Store
• Drainpipe.io
• Armee De L'air
• OVHcloud
• PNY
• Amadeus
• Project Management Institute
• RadicalBit
• Reply Data
• Oracle
• Aleia Fast Track to AI
• CGI
• Saagie
• Altilia
• Expert.ai

OFFICIAL SPONSORS:
• Nebius AI
• Gigabyte

PAVILION SPONSORS:
• Maison De L'Intelligence Artificielle
• Confindustria Trento
• Wallonia.be
• Confidustria Udine
• Universite Cote D'Azur
• Italian Trade Agency
• Institut Europia