Vincent Luciani is a French entrepreneur born in 1985 in Paris and currently serves as the CEO of Artefact, a company specializing in artificial intelligence technologies. Graduated from École Polytechnique and HEC Paris, he began his career at McKinsey & Co, where he worked in the aerospace and industrial sectors.

In 2014, he co-founded Artefact alongside Guillaume de Roquemaurel and Philippe Rolet. Under his leadership, Artefact has grown into a global leader in data and artificial intelligence. Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, the company now employs 1,500 people across 27 offices worldwide, spanning all continents.

In 2021, Vincent Luciani launched the 'School of Data' to train individuals in data-related professions. He is also an investor in several artificial intelligence companies and frequently participates in conferences and events to share his expertise.

Riaan Potgieter is a member of StepStone’s infrastructure and real assets team where he leads Responsible Investment and is involved in asset management for European assets. He is also on the StepStone Group Responsible Investment Committee.

Prior to joining StepStone, Mr. Potgieter was a director in KPMG’s Strategy Group, where he led projects with both infrastructure assets and investors. He was also worked in KPMG’s African Infrastructure M&A team where he supported investors to develop and finance projects across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Máté Tóth, Ph.D., is a Director at BlackRock and , among others, leads the Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) research team for improving conversational AI accuracy. He also worked as a lead data scientist on the BlackRock Text Analytics Platform. Máté graduated from INSA de Lyon with a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of the Basque Country in 2017 where he worked on computational models for speech perception.

Pauline Thomson is Managing Director Infrastructure and Head of Data Science at Ardian.
She is Board member of Mila in Iceland and Verne in the UK. She joined Ardian in 2011.

 

 

 

As Chief Technology & CyberSecurity Officer, Philippe Limantour's main mission is to lead Microsoft's strategy in France in terms of innovative technologies and cyber security.

Working closely with the General Management and the various entities concerned, he represents Microsoft France on the technological level with the main government officials and major government agencies, IT departments, standardization committees and the world of education and research. He is also in close contact with Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Research and the various product groups.

Philippe was previously Chief Innovation Officer at EY, responsible for artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud and global Data Fabric platform offering, including ESG projects.

Philippe holds an engineering degree from ESIEA and two master's degrees (science & executive coaching). He has a PhD in mathematics and AI from Normale Sup Ulm.

 

 

 

 

 

Quentin Barenne is a French entrepreneur, co-founder and Managing Director of Wintics, a company specializing in AI-powered video analysis to improve urban mobility and safety of public places. Founded in 2017, Wintics uses AI to transform ordinary cameras into monitoring tools in order to support bold initiatives for creating safer, more sustainable, and more comfortable cities and transportation hubs.

Before creating Wintics, Quentin Barenne worked at Accuracy, a consulting firm specializing in finance and big data. With Wintics, he now focuses on innovative solutions that aim to make cities and transportation hubs smarter and more sustainable, by reducing congestion and waiting time, promoting soft mobility (such as cycling and walking), and improving security. Quentin Barenne is also a strong advocate of the development of an AI both frugal and ethical.

Christophe is a seasoned executive with a 30-year experience in technology.
From 1999 to 2009, Christophe was a senior executive at NXP Semiconductors, holding various roles in sales, marketing and business management. From 2006 to 2009, he was senior vice president and general manager of the Identification business of NXP.
From 2010 to 2020, Christophe was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Linxens, a global leader in the manufacture of smart card components. Under Christophe’s leadership, the group grew from 150m€ in revenues to 500m€, through a mix of organic growth and acquisitions.
Christophe recently cofounded Silian Partners, with 4 other partners from the semiconductors industry, an advisory company working in partnership with Ardian on investments in the semiconductor industry.

Dominic is CEO of Verne, which delivers sustainable data center solutions that enable organisations to cost-effectively scale their digital infrastructure while reducing their environmental impact. The company’s four Nordic data centers – located in Iceland and Finland – are all powered by predictably-priced, 100% renewable energy and are engineered for high intensity workloads, while its hyper-connected central London data center is the optimal location for latency and connectivity sensitive applications.

 Dominic is a highly experienced technology and infrastructure executive. Prior to joining Verne, he ran direct investments at the Wellcome Trust, one of the company's previous shareholders. He began his career at Jones Lang LaSalle Corporate Finance and later co-founded Lepe Partners, a technology investment and advisory firm.

 

 

 

 

Jonas co-founded Greenbyte in 2010 and was its CEO until exit in 2021. Greenbyte was a world leader in asset management and analytics software for wind and solar with more than 50 GWs under management at time of exit to Power Factors. Following the exit, Jonas led strategy and M&A at Power Factors, working closely with Vista Equity Partners. Under Jonas’ lead Power Factors acquired Inaccess – the market leader in controls and automation for utility scale the solar PV. Prior to Greenbyte, Jonas ran a software consultancy company in Gothenburg Sweden. Jonas has a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology with further studies at ETH in Zürich and Stanford University.
Jonas is now an Operating Partner to Ardian Infrastructure advising on matters related to digitalization.