Gilles Babinet is a French entrepreneur who has founded a number of companies in various fields, including Musiwave, which specialises in mobile music.
He was the first chairman of the Conseil National du Numérique in 2011 and has been co-chairman of this institution since 2021, advising the French government on digital issues.
Since 2012, he has also been France's ‘Digital Champion’ to the European Commission, promoting the benefits of digital within the European Union.

Paul Labrogère, who holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from EFREI Paris (Class of ’95), has served as CEO of the SystemX, a research and technology organization, since 2018. With over 25 years of experience in the software and technology sectors, he is a leading expert in digital engineering and a driving force in fostering collaboration across research and industry. Through applied digital technology research, he bridges startups and large corporations, aligning system design with real- world applications. As a dedicated advocate for trustworthy AI, Paul Labrogère spearheads the Confiance.ai program, a flagship initiative focused on trustworthy AI deployment. Actively involved in the Paris-Saclay Deeptech ecosystem, he is a member of the executive board for the Systematic Paris-Region cluster, the selection committee for IncubAlliance, the research committee of Telecom Sud-Paris (IP Paris) and the development council of the Paris-Saclay Urban Community.

An alumna of ENS Ulm and holder of a doctorate in philosophy, Anastasia Stasenko is co-founder of the French start-up pleias, which has developed the first LLMs to be trained solely on the CommonCorpus, a permissively licensed data corpus also built by pleias. Other recent projects include the development of Albert, the first sovereign AI system to assist French civil servants in responding to citizens' requests, in collaboration with Étalab. In addition to her role at pleias, she is an associate lecturer at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle, where she co-directs the master's programme in digital communication and data analysis.

Guillaume Avrin is an engineering graduate of CentraleSupélec and Arts et Métiers, with a PhD in robotics and neuroscience.
Since January 2023, he has held the position of national coordinator for artificial intelligence in France, reporting to the Director General of Enterprise at the Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty.
Previously, he was head of the ‘Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence’ department at the Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais (LNE), where he developed protocols and methodologies for the evaluation of intelligent systems.

Ciarán O’Riordan has been working on EU policy and legal issues of free and open source software since 2003. His current work focusses on artificial intelligence policy and the market regulation aspects of cybersecurity and liability. A user of GNU/Linux since 1998, Ciarán worked as a software developer in Dublin before moving to Brussels in 2004. In Brussels he obtained a law degree from UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles and has also worked on EU policy for the automotive sector, GDPR, and corporate finance.

Axel Naumann is a senior applied physicist at CERN. He earned his PhD in
high-energy physics in the Netherlands before joining CERN as a software
expert. There, he became the project leader of ROOT, an open-source
analysis software. Axel also served as the founding chair of the CERN
Open Source Program Office. He is an active speaker at scientific
conferences and regularly teaches at seminars and scientific schools.
His current research focuses on high-throughput scientific computing,
machine learning / artificial intelligence. Axel continues to drive
advancements at the intersection of these fields with open source.

Dr. David Manset is a leader in open source, digital public goods (DPGs), and advanced ICTs, serving as Senior Coordinator of the Open Source Ecosystem Enabler (OSEE) project at the ITU. He drives innovation by deploying Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) and advancing open source AI for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). He also coordinates the UN Common Policy Framework on Open Source to harmonize global practices.
A researcher-entrepreneur, Dr. Manset has founded four companies and two industrial groups, earning 17 international awards, including the Gold Medal at the Geneva Invention Expo and European ICT Prizes. His notable work includes designing platforms in healthcare and data privacy, such as MyHealthMyData.eu.
He has held prestigious roles, including advisor to the European Commission and UN agencies, Commanding Officer of the Strategic Military Reserve at the French Ministry of Defense, and liaison agent for blockchain standardization. Dr. Manset holds an HDR, a Doctorate, and an Executive MBA, and has authored 80+ publications, including a study in Nature. Knighted in 2019 for his contributions to education and innovation, he remains dedicated to transformative initiatives at the nexus of technology and global development.

Jonathan Sprauel is an expert in artificial intelligence, a graduate of École Polytechnique (X08), an engineer from Supaéro, and holds a PhD in artificial intelligence.
With over 10 years of experience in innovation and the data office at Thales Alenia Space, he has gained deep expertise in designing and implementing innovative solutions based on artificial intelligence, particularly in the context of satellite constellations, and has also developed partnerships and collaborations with companies and institutions to create AI solutions.
Since 2024, Jonathan Sprauel leads the France-Quebec research program FOR—led by ANITI, CRIAQ, IRT Saint Exupéry, and IVADO—where he applies his skills to advance research in generative artificial intelligence. He also teaches machine learning courses for third-year and master's students at ISAE Supaéro.

Henri Verdier is a French entrepreneur specialising in digital technology.
A former student at the École normale supérieure, he co-founded and ran the company Odile Jacob Multimédia, before joining Lagardère Active as director in charge of innovation.
Since 2018, he has been Ambassador for Digital Affairs at the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, where he coordinates France's digital diplomacy.

Stéphane Requena is Director of Technology and Innovation at the French national supercomputing centre GENCI, where he has worked since 2007.
Before joining GENCI, he spent ten years supervising high-performance computing facilities at the Institut des Grilles et du Calcul Intensif.
An expert in high-performance computing (HPC), massive data analysis (HPDA) and quantum technologies, he plays a key role in implementing France's national strategy in these areas.

Jordan spent the last three years as an assistant to a Member of the European Parliament, campaigning for Open Source Software in negotiations on laws such as the AI Act, where he pioneered the Open Source AI exemption. Jordan is a long-time user of Open Source software and a strong advocate for the Public Money–Public Code principle. He now works for the Open Source Initiative as their EU Policy Analyst.

Manuel Faysse is a second-year doctoral student at CentraleSupélec (Université Paris-Saclay), specialising in automatic natural language processing (NLP) and the confidentiality of machine learning models.
He holds a master's degree in robotics and data science from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and has also worked as a research scientist at Illuin Technology, focusing on deep multimodal models for document processing and neural information retrieval. His work has been published in leading international conferences such as ICML and EMNLP, and he has been invited to present his research at renowned institutions such as Meta and IBM.

Edouard Geoffrois is a French expert in language technologies, having obtained a Master's degree in cognitive sciences and a PhD in automatic speech recognition from the Université Paris-Sud.
He has worked for the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA), where he carried out research into speech and image processing, and managed various projects in these fields.
He was also technical director of the Quaero programme, a strategic research and innovation programme on multimedia content processing.

Clément Bénesse holds a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Toulouse III, specialising in sensitivity analysis and algorithmic fairness.
He was a member of the computer science laboratory at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) and the law laboratory at the University of Ottawa, developing expertise in responsible artificial intelligence.
His work focuses on evaluating and improving the robustness and fairness of machine learning models.

Machine Learning Engineer within the AI Factory of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, a group committed to the open source approach with the release of the Bloomz LLM series at the end of 2023, also a major contributor to the conversational platform TOCK (The Open Conversational Kit) and a contributor to the open source community of the Bloomz Inference Server project.
Within the Group, he is currently involved in the AI for IT initiative, the aim of which is to provide developers with generative AI tools for better development, while favouring open-source solutions.

Joël Gombin is a French political scientist specialising in electoral sociology, affiliated to CURAPP-ESS at the University of Picardie-Jules Verne.
A graduate of the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, he teaches at Sciences Po Paris and Sciences Po Aix.
The author of several books, he is also a member of the Observatoire des radicalités politiques of the Fondation Jean Jaurès.
His publications include ‘Le Front National: Va-t-elle diviser la France?’ published in 2016.

24 years of experience working on Artificial Intelligence applications in aerospace industry, now spearheading AI Research, Education and Innovation activities in ANITI.
Romaric joined the Toulouse's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute ANITI as COO in 2024. ANITI strategic focus is the development of performant and Trustworthy AI to unleash the power of AI for high risk applications. ANITI succesfully federates AI Research, Education and Innovation activities of the Toulouse AI ecosystem.
Previously Romaric occupied various senior AI leadership roles in AIRBUS such global AI roadmap leader, AIRBUS Defense and Space DataLab manager. Together with relevant internal and external stakeholders he lead AIRBUS activities towards safe introduction of AI in critical systems and accelerating AI adoption to create value for the aerospace and defence sector.

As a fullstack developer, he attaches a great deal of importance to development under free licences and Open Source in general, and has been immersed in this environment for many years, both in associations and professionally.

He's a bit of a Jack-of-all-trades, with a Makers and entrepreneurial spirit on the lookout for innovative projects and committed to what I do.
He loves to pass on and share his knowledge, particularly with young computer enthusiasts through the Petits Hackers workshops held every Saturday, or by speaking at conferences and events.

Sam Johnston is an Australian technology executive and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years' experience in global technology companies such as Google, Equinix, Citrix and DXC Technology.
Specialising in emerging technologies including cloud computing and artificial intelligence, he has founded and advised a number of innovative start-ups.
In addition to his professional activities, he shares his knowledge and expertise through articles and conferences, actively contributing to the evolution of the technology sector.

Max Kendrick is a former US diplomat who co-founded Fairchain, a blockchain-based platform aimed at authenticating works of art and guaranteeing royalties to artists on resales.
As CEO of Fairchain, he is committed to using innovative technological approaches to support artists and promote fairness in the art market.
Prior to entrepreneurship, Kendrick served as a diplomat, bringing a unique perspective to the intersection of technology, art and public policy.