Massimo is an AI and Blockchain Expert at NEVA SGR, a prominent venture capital firm in Italy. Massimo is a board advisor and consultant for international organizations, start-ups, central banks, and corporates. After working in international financial markets for 20 years as a Senior equity banking analyst, Massimo worked as a fintech and international finance university professor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Turin, Italy, and Wuhan, China. Massimo is a regular keynote speaker at many international conferences and webinars. Massimo is Senior Expert and Advisor in fintech and blockchain in finance. For several international organizations, i.e., United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT)-UNECE Italy, etc. Massimo lived in Europe, China, the USA, and South America and is fluent in Italian, English, and Portuguese. Massimo regularly gives interviews in the international press on AI, Metaverse, NFTs, blockchain, alternative data issues.
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Artificial Intelligence | Blockchain | Machine Learning
Mike has been involved in and coordinated several European and national collaborative projects and is currently leading the international R&D collaborations at VRT. Mike is currently responsible manager for collaborative projects and partnerships in the Innovation team of VRT. He is also a co-chair of the NEM Initiative, a European Technology Platform for the media industry and a member of the programme committee of the EBU Data Technology Seminar.
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Computer Science | Artificial Intelligence | Media Innovation | Project Management
In modl.ai, Christoffer bridges a deep understanding of game development processes and technology with the possibilities and limitations of modern artificial intelligence. In leading and building modl.ai, he leverages his experience from Die Gute Fabrik and his background in organizational psychology. Christoffer holds a BA degree in Psychology from the University of Copenhagen and an MSc in Media technology from the IT University of Copenhagen. In 2015, Christoffer earned a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Procedural Content Generation from the IT University of Copenhagen, and further earned a post-doctorate in Game Engineering from New York University.
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Behavioural Modelling | Neural Networks for Decision Making | Search-driven Decision Making | Game and Simulation Technology | Technology Development
Hervé Le Borgne is a researcher at the CEA-List since 2006, carrying out research on computer vision and focusing on the links between visual and textual content. He specialises in AI methods for image analysis with a focus on frugal and trustworthy AI.
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Vision and Language | Visual Generative AI | Multimedia Retrieval
As a design researcher at VRT Innovation, I outline the needs and wishes of users towards new technologies and products. I strongly believe in Design Thinking as a methodology and apply this iterative process during several stages of an innovation project, ranking from generating ideas, developing concepts, prototyping to implementation. In order to understand and engage the user in this process as much as possible, this is often paired with co creation sessions and workshops. The main focus of my current work is disinformation and AI.
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Media Innovation | Disinformation | AI | Design Thinking
Axel’s current research interest focuses on advancing deep learning techniques for tasks related to voice and music processing, analysis, and transformation. This includes neural vocoding, the exploration of signal representation and manipulation within latent spaces, as well as the investigation of disentangling strategies in these latent spaces. The research results are regularly used for artistic or commercial media productions.
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Digital Signal Processing | Signal Models | Neural Vocoding | Sound Representation and Transformation with Deep Neural Networks
