Luc Julia

Dr. Luc JULIA is a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things. He was Chief Scientific Officer for Renault where he deployed the world-first LLM based Avatar in consumer cars, CTO and Senior Vice President of Innovation for Samsung Electronics, directed Siri at Apple, was Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard and cofounded a number of start-ups in the Silicon Valley. While conducting research at SRI International, he was involved in the creation of Nuance Communications, now the world leader in speech recognition.

Recipient of the Legion of Honor, the highest order of France, Officer of National Order of Merit and member of the French Academy of Technologies, he holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris.

He is the bestselling author of the books “There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence” and “The AI Illusion”, holds dozens of patents and is recognized as one of the top 100 most influential French developers in the digital world.