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I am a computer scientist with more than 10 years of experience in various fields ranging from web development to big data, including cloud computing and artificial intelligence. My experience combines technical and analytical aptitudes with problem-solving strengths to drive projects to on-time and high-quality completion. I also have a Ph.D. in optimizing the performance of multi-tier distributed systems.
Currently, I am an Engineering Manager at Elastic. We are the leading platform for search-powered solutions.
I love communicating and sharing knowledge with people ;) ( I also love sports and mountains ;) )
My motto in life is LIVE + LOVE + LAUGH :)

Jessica Brightman is pilot and leader with over 25 years experience in government, military, and industry. She manages a team at the Federal Aviation Administration that works on integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or drones into the United States National Airspace System.
Jessica is a former U.S. Air Force Officer and Pilot where she flew C-5 Galaxy aircraft. In addition, she is a FAA Certified Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Engineer and flew for American Airlines throughout North America, the Caribbean, Central America, and Europe.
Jessica has also worked in web communications and marketing at the U.S. Environmental Protection, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, and Sun Microsystems. Jessica earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and a Master of Business Administration.

I am an associate professor at EPITA since September 2022. I am currently a member of the Artificial Intelligence group and also the head of the Machine Learning and Applications Axis. Prior to that, I was a postdoc in Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG).

Nicolas Burger holds a PhD in System Optimisation and Security from the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT). The subject of his doctorate was the study of the trade-offs between security and availability of communicating embedded systems. This thesis later led to research on sustainable information and communication technologies.
He works as R&D engineer at Optimistik on IT solutions to improve industrial performance and reduce its impact, based on data communication, reporting and analysis.
He recently founded Portraits 2 Passages, an initiative to question our use of technology (digital or not) by taking people out of their comfort zone, replacing digital dependency with social contacts through exploration games.

Luis Galárraga is a full-time researcher at the IRISA/Inria Rennes research center, which he joined in 2017. His research lies at the crossroads of three axes: pattern mining, knowledge graphs, and eXplainable AI. He has a particular interest in rule mining approaches on large knowledge graphs, as well as in provenance management on RDF graphs. His work on eXplainable AI focuses both on the functional and human dimensions of explanations for black-box models trained on tabular data, time series, knowledge graphs, and textual corpora. The ultimate goal of his research is to compute explanations that are faithful and stable, but also trustworthy and fully understandable to their human recipients.

Juliette Sénéchal is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Management and deputy director of the Sciences, Law, Politics and Management doctoral school at the University of Lille. She is currently a member of the SPIRALS team at the Inria Centre in Lille.
Her scientific work focuses on two areas: the study of contemporary changes in digital law and in contract law in the context of the construction of the European Union and the development of the single digital market.

Dr. Julia Stoyanovich is Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and of Data Science, and Director of the Center for Responsible AI at NYU. Her goal is to make “responsible AI” synonymous with “AI”. She works towards this goal by engaging in academic research, education and technology policy, and by speaking about the benefits and harms of AI to practitioners and members of the public. Julia’s research interests include AI ethics and legal compliance, and data management and AI systems. She has co-authored over 100 academic publications, and has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and Le Monde. Julia holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, she is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and a Senior Member of the ACM.https://r-ai.co

Nicolas Travers is a Full Professor at ESILV Engineering School at Paris la Défense. Nicolas is deputy director of the DVRC laboratory, a transdisciplinary lab both in Engineering and Management fields. He was habilitated (HDR) in Computer Science from Sorbonne Universités in 2018. His main topics deal with database management and optimization, in distributed and graph databases, as well as ad hoc databases design like Digital Tourism, Musical Scores or Multimodal libraries.DVRC

Keynote speakers

Maha Alsayasneh

Jessica Ann Brightman

Idir Benouaret

Nicolas Burger

Luis Galarraga

Juliette Sénéchal

Julia Stoyanovich

Nicolas Travers

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