Carl Fugère – General Manager, REAI

Mr. Fugère is a serial entrepreneur who, over the past 19 years, has created, transformed and sold seven technology companies. For the past 9 years, Mr. Fugère has acted as entrepreneur in residence for several clients in the technological field to help them set up their business strategies and support them in the execution and […]
Serge Auclair – Vice President, Strategy, Human Resources & Digitalization, Montreal Port Authority

Serge Auclair brings almost 20 years of human resources, managing, organizational and strategic development experience to his position. He held several senior positions throughout his career, mostly in the private sector. M. Auclair joined the Montreal Port Authority (MPQ) as Director of Human Resources in 2011 and was appointed Vice-President of Strategy and Human Resources […]
Paolo Guglielminetti – Partner, Global Railways & Roads Leader, PwC

Paolo Guglielminetti is Partner in PwC that he joined in 2001, and global PwC railway transport leader. Holding a Degree in Transportation and Civil Engineering of the Politecnico di Torino, he has more than 20 years of experience in transportation planning and infrastructure project assessment. Before joining PwC, he worked as university assistant in the […]
Sanzio Bassini – Director Supercomputing Applications and Innovation Department, CINECA

Sanzio Bassini. Director of the Supercomputing Applications and Innovation Department of CINECA, Interuniversity Consortium. He has been an independent reviewer of many international digital infrastructure projects, recently a member of the expert committee of the Canadian Major Science Initiative Fund 2017 – 2022. Over the years he has been Vice President of the Research Area […]
Annie Veillet – Partner, AI and Automation, PwC Canada

Annie leads the National Intelligent Automation practice at PwC Canada and brings over 15 years of experience in the planning and execution of complex Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Automation solutions. More specifically she focuses on responsible AI, leveraging AI techniques to automate, and Robot Process Automation (RPA).
Frank Béraud – Chief Executive Officer, Montréal InVivo

Holding more than 25 years of experience in the life sciences sector, Mr. Béraud has particularly acquired a solid expertise in business development. With a background in sales and marketing within multinationals in the field of clinical diagnostics, his career path has led him to assume responsibility for business development for an SME in the […]
Giacomo Copani – Cluster Manager, AFIL

He is the Cluster Manager of “AFIL”, the Advanced Manufacturing Cluster of the Lombardy Region, and the Head of Manufacturing Business Models Research at the Institute STIIMA of the National Research Council of Italy. He is an expert in innovation and cluster policies, business models design/assessment and industrial servitization processes in the frame of the […]
Giacomo Soprani – Laboratory Coordinator, Redox Progetti

Giacomo Soprani has been the Laboratory coordinator at Redox progetti, a SME operating in design, manufacturing and testing of electronic devices, since 1992. He studied at the University of Parma and received his professional training in Electronic Engineering. He worked as a firmware developer in RELOC for a couple of years and then he worked […]
Simone Calderara – Associate Professor of Machine and Deep Learning, UNIMORE

Simone Calderara is Associate Professor of Machine and Deep Learning at the Enzo Ferrari Engineering Department of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE). He is representative for APRE-EU Cluster Digital, Industry and Space, UNIMORE representative in the CINI National Artificial Intelligent and Intelligent System AIIS laboratory, senior member of the Artificial Intelligence Research and […]