Artificial intelligence: will we still have freedom of choice?

Pascal GENÉ

Sales Executive France
IBM Watson Health

France

Pascal Gené is a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine, graduated from Alfort French National Veterinary School in 1985. He begun his career as an assistant teacher in Biological and Medical Physics and Chemistry at Alfort Veterinary School, but also veterinary press writer, clinician, and as a participant in a research program at Synthélabo (now Sanofi). His passion for Information Technologies led him join IBM France in 1988, where he has had several positions in sales, working for different industries such as distribution, consumer packaged goods, hospitals, pharmaceutical industry, and financial institutions. He completed his education by entering executive courses at INSEAD, London Business School or Boston University. As of January 2017, he took a position within the IBM Watson Health business unit, as France Sales Executive. IBM Watson Health was launched in 2015 to focus on cognitive solutions for healthcare and life sciences professionals, such as treatment assistance for oncologists,
or medical imaging analysis assistance.

Marie SOULEZ

Attorney-at-law
Lexing Alain Bensoussan partners

France

A lawyer in Paris, Marie Soulez is the Head of the Lexing Alain Bensoussan Avocats’ IP litigation department. Her practice includes civil and criminal litigations in a wide range of areas including infringement of copyright and related rights, unfair competition, protection of privacy and right of personal portrayal. Marie also assists clients in implementing strategies to
protect their technological creations and innovations. She is the Chairman of the “Virtual Reality” Commission of ADDR (Association du droit des robots), an association promoting the creation of a specific legal framework for robotics and teaches IP and Cloud Computing law at Centrale Supelec. She holds a certificate of specialization in intellectual property law, with major in literary and artistic property law.

Erik ORSENNA

Writer; Ambassador; Member
Institut Pasteur ; Académie Française

France

After studying philosophy and political science (Sciences Po Paris), Erik Orsenna chooses economics. Returning to England (London School of Economics), he published his first novel at the same time he became the state doctor. Raymond Barre chairs its board. After eleven years of research and teaching in the field of international finance and development economics (University of Paris I, ENS).
In 1981, he joined the team of Jean-Pierre Cot, Minister for Cooperation. He is in charge of raw materials and multilateral negotiations. Two years later, he joined the Elysee as a cultural adviser to François Mitterrand (writer and drafts of her junior speech).

In the 1990s, with Roland Dumas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, he will process on democratization in Africa and relations between Southern Europe and North Africa. Meanwhile, he left the University to enter, in December 1985, the Council of State. Today State Councillor.

Alongside these administrative activities, he wrote seven novels, including «La vie comme à Lausanne» price Roger Nimier 1978 and «L’exposition coloniale» Prix Goncourt in 1988. He chairs the Center of the Sea (Royal rope at Rochefort) and was elected to the French Academy, in May 28, 1998, at the chair of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (17th chair).