Political Greetings
Matthias Kloth
Head of the Digital Governance and Sport Department, Council of Europe
Matthias Kloth is the Head of the Council of Europe's Digital Governance and Sport Department, which is responsible for AI, cybercrime, and data protection. He has previously worked at the Council of Europe as Adviser in the Office of the Secretary General, as Executive Secretary of the Committee on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism (MONEYVAL) and as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights. Before joining the Council of Europe, he worked as a legal officer at the UN Office of Legal Affairs and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology.
Speaker (A-Z by last name)
Emmanuel Chochoy
CEO, Chochoy Conseil
An EFREI engineer specializing in AI, Emmanuel Chochoy has worked on AI for mission aircraft and UAVs at Thales. He now leads Chochoy Conseil, where he oversees an industrial PhD in AI that has produced two international publications, and the development of HNOOSIA, a solution that structures and makes organizational knowledge traceable for trusted AI.
Chochoy Conseil
Chochoy Conseil is a French AI and strategy consultancy developing HNOOSIA and the MSMKC© methodology to help organizations deploy trusted, sovereign and frugal AI.
Dr. Anna Christmann
CEO, SAI Europe
As a long-standing representative for startups and the digital economy for the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, Dr. Anna Christmann has initiated many innovation projects that have advanced Germany as a business location. After serving in the Bundestag from 2017 to 2025, Dr. Christmann decided to start her own business. With her new innovation agency SAI Europe, she continues to work from Berlin to accelerate innovation in Germany and Europe.
SAI Europe
SAI Europe stands for a new pace for innovation in Europe. It is a strategic agency that aims at supporting startups, SMEs, research, and administration in accelerating their innovation activities and helping them to find the right network.
Jérémie Guignard
PhD, R&D Funding Manager, Technology & Strategy (T&S)
A PhD in physics and an expert in innovation funding, Jérémie Guignard has spent over 15 years supporting companies and R&D teams in structuring, financing and showcasing the value of their projects. A specialist in the French Research Tax Credit (CIR), grants and the management of strategic programs, he combines scientific expertise with financial vision, management and business development.
Technology & Strategy (T&S)
T&S is a consulting and engineering group. With advanced domain expertise, T&S supports its clients in software development and product industrialization.
Todor Kostov
CEO, Reasonance GmbH
Todor Kostov, CEO of Reasonance GmbH, has been scaling productive AI systems as Principal AI Engineer since 2016. After studying computer science at KIT and a thesis at Fraunhofer IOSB, he brought ML solutions into deployment across four continents. As founding engineer, he built a market leader for AI-driven district heating and delivered projects for Trumpf, NetzeBW and BASF. Today he optimizes industrial energy costs.
Reasonance GmbH
Reasonance delivers three-times award-winning forecasts for PV, hydro and load, as well as smart BESS/flexibility optimization for industry, energy trading and grid operation.
Saïd Lamri
CEO, Digitallia
CEO and founder of Digitallia, Saïd Lamri is an expert passionate about Data and AI. A member of Impact AI and HIA France, and AI Ambassador and AI Operator for Grand Est, he has been supporting business leaders through their company's technological transformation since 2019.
Digitallia
We design tailor-made solutions to transform business models and generate measurable business impact.
Benjamin Legrand
Strategic Project Manager – Region Grand Est
Benjamin Legrand is Strategic Project Manager for AI at Région Grand Est. After eight years advising the Regional President on higher education, research, innovation, digital affairs and bioeconomy, he has coordinated the Region's renewed AI ambition since March 2026. His work connects internal transformation, public policies, research, economic development and European cooperation.
Région Grand Est
Région Grand Est is a French region serving 5.5M inhabitants at the heart of Europe, with a strong industrial base, dynamic innovation ecosystem and unique cross-border position.
Maximilian von Lonski
Founder & CEO, VISS GmbH
Maximilian von Lonski is founder and CEO of VISS GmbH, a Kehl/Karlsruhe deep-tech start-up building hardware-enforced endpoint isolation. Before VISS, he built his career in enterprise sales, including a top account executive role at Amazon EMEA. VISS was incubated at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, is a NATO DIANA alumnus and pilots in healthcare and critical infrastructure.
VISS GmbH
VISS builds the VISSBOX: hardware-enforced pixel isolation for any PC. External data arrives only as pixels, never as a file. No executable return path. Made in Germany.
François Méro
CEO, Probabl
François Méro is CEO of Probabl, the company founded by the creators of scikit-learn, the world's most widely used machine learning library. His career bridges open source and enterprise: he scaled Talend from a startup to a NASDAQ IPO and ultimately a $2.4 billion acquisition. At Cegid, he integrated machine learning into accounting. Now, at Probabl, he's making open-source data science the standard for enterprise AI.
Probabl
Probabl is the Tabular AI company created by the founders and stewards of scikit-learn. It develops software that helps enterprises build reliable tabular AI models faster to make predictions based on their data.
Marion Moliner
AI Team Manager, Hager
Marion Moliner is AI Team Manager at Hager, leading an AI engineering team — data science, cloud engineering, GenAI platform — across all Group functions, from manufacturing and supply chain to sales. She grew the team from zero to 15; part of it also drives Hager's AI Community, building AI skills and acculturation. She previously worked at Altran, after postdocs in physics, including KIT Karlsruhe. She holds a PhD in theoretical physics.
Hager
Hager is a leading supplier of solutions and services for electrical installations in residential, commercial, and industrial buildings.
Dr. Ulf Nehrbass
CEO of LIH, the Luxembourg Institute of Health
Ulf Nehrbass has spent his career focusing on the application of excellent research towards unmet patient needs. As the Director and founder of Institut Pasteur Korea, he established one of the first translational drug discovery institutes. More recently, Ulf started the French German translational center, Ksilink, which was co-founded by Sanofi, INSERM, the Helmholtz Gemeinschaft and others. Ksilink is employing Artificial Intelligence approaches to enable patient-based drug discovery.
Luxembourg Institute of Health
The Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) is a public biomedical research organization focused on precision health and the translation of scientific excellence into meaningful benefits for patients.
Anthony Ohlmann
CEO, ADDI-DATA Group
Anthony Ohlmann is CEO of ADDI-DATA Group, where he leads the company's development in industrial data acquisition, embedded systems and edge intelligence. His work focuses on bridging industrial hardware, real-time data processing and AI to create smarter, more efficient industrial edge and field-level solutions.
ADDI-DATA Group
ADDI-DATA develops industrial data acquisition and edge computing solutions, turning raw signals into reliable, AI-ready data for industrial applications.
Arno Pons
President, aDRI / Digital New Deal
Arno Pons heads Digital New Deal, a think tank dedicated to digital sovereignty, as well as a do tank focused on building trusted digital ecosystems. He is also co-founder of the Digital Resilience Index and the author of government reports addressing the challenges of strategic autonomy in data and AI.
Gen4Travel
Gen4Travel is a European initiative building trusted, interoperable agentic AI for tourism, enabling companies to share data and deliver seamless, personalized journeys.
Steffen Wildner
Head of Data & Platforms, Erbacher the food family
Steffen Wildner is Head of Data & Platforms at ERBACHER – the food family, a family-owned German food producer. Bridging data strategy, AI, and e-commerce, he drives digital transformation and process optimization. With hands-on experience implementing AI in this industry, he brings a grounded, practical perspective to the debate on how established businesses can optimize in the age of AI disruption.
ERBACHER the food family
ERBACHER the food family – pioneering nutrition of today & tomorrow. Shaping the future of food & feed with innovation, sustainability & 80 years of expertise.
Jean Williamson
Co-founder & COO, Vaultys
With over 20 years of experience in the industry, operational transformation, and critical infrastructure, Jean leads Vaultys' development with one goal in mind: to make security actionable, tangible, and adoptable by organizations.
Vaultys
Vaultys is a French cybersecurity company specializing in sovereign digital identity, passwordless authentication, and securing access for humans, machines, and AI agents.
Hans-Peter Zorn
Head of AI/CTO, inovex GmbH
Hans-Peter Zorn is an expert in the industrialization of artificial intelligence. His professional roots lie in both computer science (algorithmics) and computational linguistics (semantics). He actively helped shape the industry's transition from Big Data to Generative AI and currently oversees the technological direction of inovex, among other things. His driving force is "End-to-End Engineering": AI solutions that are technically excellent, trustworthy, and economically successful.
inovex GmbH
Around 500 IT experts support companies in DE & CH with their digital transformation: from app dev, data & AI to scalable cloud infrastructure and Academy training.