Jane Zavalishina is the President and Co-founder of Mechanica AI, a provider of AI-based solutions for the industrial sector. 

Throughout her career, she has always focused on applying innovative technologies to create new and transform traditional businesses. She held various executive positions within Yandex, which she joined in 2000 as its Chief Product Officer. Since 2005, she served as CEO of e-commerce payment service Yandex.Money. Since 2014, she took the leadership of Yandex Data Factory, a new business unit focused on enterprise machine learning solutions. 

Jane is a frequent speaker on the topics of AI strategy and applications at various events in Europe, Middle East and Asia. She also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils.

In 2016, Jane was named in Silicon Republic’s Top 40 Women in Tech as an Inspiring Leader. She is recognized by Inspiring Fifty as one of the top fifty most inspirational women in the technology sector in the Netherlands in 2016, 2017 and 2019. 

Thibault de Assi is the General Manager and Global Head of Digitalization and Automation in the Factory Automation Business Unit of Siemens AG, the world leader in electrification, automation, and digitalization. In his current role, he leads a global department with expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Development, Automation and Simulation. He is driving the overall AI software portfolio and customer co-creation turning data into value and is fairly impacting customers and society allowing companies to leverage AI to generate business impact and scale the benefit with full confidence.

Thibault has earned multiple master’s degrees in engineering in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering, and Image Treatment and CAD Design. He also holds an MBA from IMD Business School in Lausanne. He believes that AI will improve well-being, reduce inequities, and help individual to better achieve their goals in core ethical values  

Romaric is a senior expert in AI, he started in early days with LISP programming and had chance to work with various AI technologies (rules based systems, cased based systems, semantic web, multi-agent systems, Machine learning and deep learning).

He went through various roles: programmer in early days in an Artificial Intelligence startup, Team leader of AIRBUS AI research team, Research roadmap leader for operational Intelligence , AIrbus Defence and Space DataLab manager and he is currently the AIRBUS Artificial Intelligence “Fast Track” Leader reporting directly to AIRBUS CTO.