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Gregory Renard (born August 12, 1975) is an American-Belg-French social entrepreneur and a Pioneer in Personal Assistant, Machine Learning and more generally in the field of Artificial Intelligence. As a co-founder of many developers or data scientists’ communities, Gregory is fighting for education and a connected world where universal access to information and knowledge frees people to achieve their full potential. Gregory works on supervised and unsupervised machine learning, deep learning, personal assistant, voice and semantic search from more than 20 years. He’s focused on how to augment People through applied AI Solutions for Voice in Cars and Customer Services.

During his entire career, he has focused on how to apply Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning for good, for all the people and not only for a few people or companies. As one of the fathers of Personal Assistants and conversational solutions with the launch of the French Siri, ‘Angie’ in 2012 in France, he started to build applied AI solution for Natural Language and Knowledge Discovery from more than 20 years and started to evangelize the risks and opportunities of AI for the Society early in 2006.

From Stanford in California, he convinced the French President Team in October 2016 to launch the first report about Artificial Intelligence National Strategy for France. He was the co-writer of the education part in the first report and he was one of the advisors for the current France Strategy “AI for Humanity”. He was one the 15 VIP guests AI Experts at the Elysée Palace for the private discussions diner about Artificial Intelligence with the French President, Mr Emmanuel Macron.

Early Life
Born in Belgium in 1975 in Belgium, he has been always passionate by new technologies and codes his first lines at 8 years old. At universities, he studied Math and creates his first startup at 21 (Form&Soft). After graduation he teaches C, C++, OOP, machine learning & later deep learning. Gregory makes its first steps in the field of Artificial Intelligence (language management) in 1996 with the deployment of semantic search tools for call centers in Roubaix, France. At this time, he also starts a fun side project inspired by Shirka – Ulysse 31 (dialogue with a ubiquitous computer).

Involvement in Artificial Intelligence
As a former Math Professor and Data Scientist, he’s passionate about a connected world where universal access to information and knowledge frees people to achieve their full potential. He’s deeply concerned about the future impact of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in the people daily life. Not only for the uses but mainly for the free will of everyone, for the privacy and also for the fair distribution of the value generated by this innovations. Today Gregory is leading Vision, R&D and Technical Team at xBrain which has created an easy to use AI cloud-based platform supports natural language and knowledge discovery.