Daniel Andler is professor emeritus of philosophy at Sorbonne Université and a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques. He founded and directed a number of institutions, among which the Department of Cognitive Studies (DEC) at École normale supérieure, where he currently works, and the Sorbonne-CNRS research team “Sciences, normes, démocratie”.
He started out as a mathematical logician (with a PhD from Berkeley and a doctorat d’État from Paris 7) before moving to philosophy of science, with a focus on cognitive science and artificial intelligence. His latest book is Intelligence artificielle, intelligence humaine : la double énigme (2023, revised edition 2026).

Jean Tirole is honorary chairman of the Foundation JJ Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), and scientific director of TSE-Partnership. He is also affiliated with MIT, where he holds a visiting position, and the Institut de France. Professor Tirole’s research covers industrial organization, regulation, finance, macroeconomics and banking, and psychology-based economics. Jean Tirole has published over two hundred articles in international reviews, as well as twelve scientific books. Published in English in 2017, his latest book entitled Economics for the Common Good is accessible to a wide audience and available in a number of other languages. He is laureate of numerous international distinctions, including the 2007 CNRS gold medal and the 2014 Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Marco Di Dio Roccazzella is a Shareholder and a Managing Director at JAKALA, where he has a dual role as the Global Strategy, Data & AI Leader and the Global Retail & Consumer Market Leader; he also leads the division at JAKALA that supports the Private Equity’s Asset Development universe. He has more than thirty years of international experience, supporting companies in defining their Strategic Plan, and implementing Sales, Marketing, Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence plans. He advises numerous Private Equity firms, in both the due diligence phase and in the unfolding of the full potential of their portfolio companies. He has authored academic and general interest publications on Strategy, Leadership, Sales, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence and Technology. A lover of innovation, he is an entrepreneur, and an Advisory Board Member in numerous companies. He is a lecturer in several Italian and international Universities and Masters’ programs.

Anne-Laure Giret spearheads the commercialization of Google Cloud's AI solutions in Southern Europe, empowering organizations to harness the potential of artificial intelligence.  Her work provides a front-row seat to the challenges and triumphs of AI adoption at scale, whether within the enterprise or by citizens.  A veteran of finance, marketing, and technology, Anne-Laure thrives on building bridges between different disciplines, recognizing the same potential in AI to connect business and IT, and the public and private sectors, driving innovation and progress.

Dr. Fanjuan Shi is CIO and Chief Data & AI Officer at Prosol (Grand Frais), where he leads AI and data strategy for one of France's leading fresh food retailers. With a PhD in Computer Science specializing in deep learning and over 18 years in technology leadership — including senior data roles at LVMH and Pierre & Vacances-Center Parcs — he brings a blend of deep technical expertise and business impact. 

Helen Lee Bouygues is Head of Embedded Value Creation and member of the Buyout Management Committee. Helen has over 25 years of C-level executive experience managing large scale transformation and turnarounds, in the context of carve-outs, sale processes, mergers, add-on acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts. She has also been Partner at consulting firms, Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey. Helen has also held a number of board responsibilities for large, global listed and private businesses and today is on the Board of Total Energies amongst others. She graduated from Princeton University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Olivier Darmouni is Associate Professor at HEC Paris where he holds the Pierre Andurand Chair in Sustainability. Olivier is a financial economist whose research interests span credit markets, the energy transition, and monetary policy. He applies a variety of empirical methods to understand how frictions affect firms' financing and investment. Prior to joining HEC, Olivier was Associate Professor at Columbia Business School in New York City. Olivier graduated with a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.

Alexandre is a co-founder of Kyutai, a non profit lab for research in artificial intelligence based in Paris committed to open science. His work covers generative speech and multimodal AI (Moshi, Hibiki, DSM) with a strong focus on handling multiple streams jointly across modalities in a streaming and low latency fashion. He is also a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Gradium, a startup launched in 2025 whose mission is to commercialize the best possible voice AI experience. Before that, Alexandre was a scientist for 3 years at Facebook AI Research in Paris, where he led the development of models for audio compression and modeling (AudioCraft, MusicGen, EnCodec).

Khaled Maalej is a French entrepreneur and engineer, a graduate of École Polytechnique and Télécom Paris. He built his expertise across several leading semiconductor companies, before founding DiBcom, which was later successfully acquired. Driven by a relentless focus on pushing the boundaries of chip design, he then joined forces with a team of seasoned semiconductor engineers to found Vsora, a Paris-based deep-tech company competing in the global AI semiconductor race. VSORA designs high-performance AI inference chips for next-generation AI infrastructure.

Marion Calcine is Chief Investment Officer at Ardian Infrastructure and Member of the Ardian France Executive Board.
As CIO she supervises investment processes for Ardian Infrastructure Funds in Europe and in the Americas. She participated to a number of transactions on behalf of Ardian (Indigo car parks in France, Ascendi motorways in Portugal, London Luton Airports, and more than 500MW of renewable assets in Italy). She is or was on the board of 3New, 4New, 2i Rete Gas, Trados M45, Mila.
Marion also leads digital project Opta, which aims at optimizing operational performance and minimizing merchant risk of a 2GW portfolio.

Daniela Ordonez has over 15 years of experience in macroeconomic and country-risk analysis, supporting investment decision-making across global markets. She began her career in economic research, holding senior roles at Rexecode and Euler Hermes (now Allianz Trade), before joining Oxford Economics as Chief French Economist, where she advised institutional investors and corporates. Daniela also lectures on country risk and international economics. She is currently Ardian’s Senior Economist, where she leads the analysis of global macroeconomic trends, financial conditions and policy risks relevant to private markets. She is based in Paris.

Alberto Calcagno is Group CEO at Dedalus, European Leader in the Healthcare Software Industry operating in 38 countries with over 8,000 employees since October 2023. Before he was CEO at FASTWEB, the Italian leading ICT attacker player for more than 10 years. Alberto has driven both companies in a successful streak of more than 51 consecutive quarters of growth while he performed his early carrier within Investment Banking. Personal motivation books author, creator and founder of STEP digital museum and TED speaker.

Nadine joined Ardian in 2019 as an Investment Manager in the Buyout Team in Milan. Prior to joining Ardian, Nadine worked at Permira Debt Managers in London for a year within the Direct Lending team undertaking analysis on potential new investments across sectors in the European market and, previously was a Senior Associate in the BNP Paribas Leveraged Finance team where she worked for four and a half years covering both loan and high yield debt products across sectors in the Italian market. Before that, she completed various internships in Morgan Stanley, Société Générale and Mazars.

Skander joined Ardian in 2021 as an Analyst – Data Scientist within the Infrastructure Team in Paris following an internship. Skander is a member of Ardian Infrastructure Digital and Data Science Team. Prior to joining Ardian, Skander completed internships as a data scientist at Air France – KLM in the Operations Research department and in investment banking both at Citi and Société Générale.

Olivier Roy is an Investment Director at Ardian, focusing on Growth Buyout transactions across Europe primarily across Technology and Healthcare sectors. He notably invested in Ennov, Healthy Group, Taxually and Translated. Olivier started his career in 2015 as a TMT & Industrials investment banker at Goldman Sachs in London and then moved to TPG Sixth Street Partners before joining Ardian in 2019.

Sophie Pedder has been the Paris Bureau Chief and the political and economic correspondent of the The Economist since 2003. A British and French citizen, she began her career at The Economist in London in 1990. She also covered the end of the apartheid from Johannesburg for three years. She graduated from Oxford University and the University of Chicago (Fulbright Scholar). Before joining The Economist, she was a researcher for William Julius Wilson, at the Urban Family Life and Poverty Project at the University of Chicago. In 2006, Sophie received the David Watt Prize for the best political article of the year. She is the author of "Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation" Bloomsbury, 2018; 2019).

Jonas Corné co-founded Greenbyte in 2010 and was its CEO until exit in 2021. Greenbyte was a world leader in asset management and analytics software for wind and solar with more than 50 GWs under management at time of exit to Power Factors. Following the exit, Jonas led strategy and M&A at Power Factors, working closely with Vista Equity Partners. Under Jonas’ lead Power Factors acquired Inaccess – the market leader in controls and automation for utility scale the solar PV. Prior to Greenbyte, Jonas ran a software consultancy company in Gothenburg Sweden. Jonas has a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology with further studies at ETH in Zürich and Stanford University. Jonas is now an Operating Partner to Ardian Infrastructure advising on matters related to digitalization.