Experience

AI4Belgium

• Belgium
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• AI4Belgium Chief Evangelist Officer

  • Mar 2019 - Present

  Brussels



FPS Policy and Support

• Belgium
• Government Administration
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Head of AI - Blockchain & Digital Minds

  • Jul 2019 - Present



GPAI

• France
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Expert & Belgian Federal Government Delegate

  • Feb 2022 - Present



UNESCO

• France
• International Affairs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Member of the Belgian Delegation to the AI Ethics Committee

  • Apr 2021 - Present



OECD.AI

• France
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member of the OECD Network of Experts on AI (ONE AI)

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  In the ONE AI working group on National AI policies, we develop practical guidance with good practices for implementing the 5 recommendations to policy makers contained in the OECD AI Principles: i) investing in AI R&D; ii) fostering data, infrastructure, technologies, & knowledge for AI; iii) shaping institutional, policy and legal frameworks to promote AI innovation, including through experimentation, oversight and assessment; iv) building skills and preparing for labour market… Show more In the ONE AI working group on National AI policies, we develop practical guidance with good practices for implementing the 5 recommendations to policy makers contained in the OECD AI Principles: i) investing in AI R&D; ii) fostering data, infrastructure, technologies, & knowledge for AI; iii) shaping institutional, policy and legal frameworks to promote AI innovation, including through experimentation, oversight and assessment; iv) building skills and preparing for labour market transformation, and v) co-operating internationally. The group is also leveraging the Observatory’s database of national AI policies and strategies. Show less



AI-on-Demand Platform

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• National Contact Point

  • Oct 2020 - Present



Hub France IA

• France
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• co-Founder & General Manager

  • Jun 2017 - Mar 2019

  France After my office at Bercy, in the cabinets of Axelle Lemaire and Christophe Sirugue, we felt that the dynamic launched during the writing of the AI strategy was still vive. We took the initiative to launch the Hub France IA (www.hub-franceia.fr), with Patrick Albert as President, and more than 100 founding members. We managed to find the seed financement from ten French Big Corporates. François Taddéi offered us to locate the Hub at the Learning Planet Institute. Currently, the Hub France IA is… Show more After my office at Bercy, in the cabinets of Axelle Lemaire and Christophe Sirugue, we felt that the dynamic launched during the writing of the AI strategy was still vive. We took the initiative to launch the Hub France IA (www.hub-franceia.fr), with Patrick Albert as President, and more than 100 founding members. We managed to find the seed financement from ten French Big Corporates. François Taddéi offered us to locate the Hub at the Learning Planet Institute. Currently, the Hub France IA is still very active and continuously growing and a partner of choice for AI4Belgium Show less



AXTAN

• Owner - CEO

  • Oct 2014 - Mar 2019

  Brussels Based on my 15 years of experience in tech, artificial intelligence, research, teaching and innovation, business creation, entrepreneurship and people management/coaching, I launched my own management & innovation company, active mainly in digital companies, I contributed to the strategy of several of them, developed their business activity, and set up new offers/business Unit "Data Analytics & AI". I stopped the activities to join the French government.



Ministère de l’Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique

• France
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Conseiller Innovation et Intelligence Artificielle @Secrétariat d'Etat Numérique et Innovation

  • Oct 2016 - Jun 2017

  Paris Conseiller des Ministres Axelle Lemaire puis Christophe Sirugue In this office, I was mainly in charge of leading the plan "France IA" (France Artificial Intelligence) https://www.economie.gouv.fr/France-IA-intelligence-artificielle. The first French National Strategic Plan on AI was presented to the President of the Republic on March 21, 2017 (Budget : 1,5 B EUR). To prepare this strategy, I had the honor to manage, with the support of my colleagues, 17 working groups composed by… Show more Conseiller des Ministres Axelle Lemaire puis Christophe Sirugue In this office, I was mainly in charge of leading the plan "France IA" (France Artificial Intelligence) https://www.economie.gouv.fr/France-IA-intelligence-artificielle. The first French National Strategic Plan on AI was presented to the President of the Republic on March 21, 2017 (Budget : 1,5 B EUR). To prepare this strategy, I had the honor to manage, with the support of my colleagues, 17 working groups composed by some 600 high-level experts in AI out of academia, private and public sector. It has been a fantastic professional and human experience. Moreover I had in charge the monitoring of the policy of support for innovation, including monitoring the activities of the competitiveness clusters, the Plan d'Investissement d'Avenir, the National Institute of Intellectual Property, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), the French Tech, the Public Investment Bank (BPI-France), ... with the support of the Direction Générale Entreprises (DGE - 1250 civil servants) I also used to be Government Commissioner for the 2017 Finance Law for Innovation I did not sleep much but the experience as already said was simply amazing :-). Show less



Audaxis

• Belgium
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Business Development

  • Jan 2015 - Oct 2016

  Braine l'Alleud - Lille - Paris - Steinfort - Lausanne - Tunis



Mentis

• Belgium
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisory Board Member

  • 2007 - Oct 2016

  Brussels



hub.brussels

• Belgium
• Public Policy Offices
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Director - Innovation & International Department

  • Jan 2012 - Sep 2014

  Brussels Area, Belgium Management of the department composed by the teams of the innovative clusters of the Brussels Capital Region : software.brussels (ICT), screen.brussels (Media & VR), LifeTech.brussels, Ecobuild.brussels, the GreenTech Network; the H2020 National Contact Point team , and the Enterprise Europe Brussels consortium. Policy Support in defining the Brussels Capital Region Innovation Strategy

• Board Member

  • Nov 2010 - May 2012

  Brussels



Université libre de Bruxelles

• Research
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Transfer Manager

  • Sep 2006 - Dec 2011

  BRUSSELS In this position, I managed the University Technology Transfer. My main topics of expertise were Engineering, Physics, Digital Technologies, medical devices, humanities. Activities included : - Getting funding for applied research projects - Managing the patent portfolio - Reaching business agreements with private companies & partners (collaboration agreements, joint research projects, licenses ... ) - coaching spin-off projects - managing a little team During this… Show more In this position, I managed the University Technology Transfer. My main topics of expertise were Engineering, Physics, Digital Technologies, medical devices, humanities. Activities included : - Getting funding for applied research projects - Managing the patent portfolio - Reaching business agreements with private companies & partners (collaboration agreements, joint research projects, licenses ... ) - coaching spin-off projects - managing a little team During this period, Iteached the following courses at ULB : - Project Management (up until 2012) - Artificial Intelligence (Doctoral School in Cognitive Sciences) (until 2010) - Web Technologies (until 2007) - Introduction to Java Programming and Concepts (until 2007) I also gave various classes on Intellectual property rights, entrepreneurship and innovation.

• Researcher & Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 1998 - Sep 2006

  Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles As a teaching assistant, I was in charge of the following practicals, in the last two years of the Master in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science : Artificial Intelligence (C++, Prolog) Logic (Prolog) Object Oriented Programming (Java) Image acquisition and processing (C++, matlab) Product Management (C++, ILOG Rules) I also teached the Artificial Intelligence course in the Doctoral School of Cognitive Sciences My research focused on the one part on machine… Show more As a teaching assistant, I was in charge of the following practicals, in the last two years of the Master in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science : Artificial Intelligence (C++, Prolog) Logic (Prolog) Object Oriented Programming (Java) Image acquisition and processing (C++, matlab) Product Management (C++, ILOG Rules) I also teached the Artificial Intelligence course in the Doctoral School of Cognitive Sciences My research focused on the one part on machine learning (supervised and unsupervised learning) applied to remote sensing data and medical imaging. On the other part, I developed specific applications using rule based expert systems: SHRDLU 2001 with voice, advanced graphics human machine interface ; and semantic web engines. Before that, for my master thesis, I already developed Genetic Grouping Algorithms for phylogenetic inference, that were used among others for AIDS virus evolution analysis.