Hayley Edmonds is a British bilingual journalist, with extensive experience working in television and on multiple digital platforms. She has moderated at conferences such as Viva Tech, Mipim, Batimat and more. Her capacity to work in both English and French has led to her working as a mediator and presenter on prominent events both in France and internationally.

Aurélie Jean has close to 20 years of experience in computational science applied to a broad range of disciplines. After 11 years of academic research, Aurélie is now running two companies, including a deeptech AI startup in early detection of breast cancer. She is the author of several bestseller essays on algorithmic science as well as a sci-fi novel. Aurélie is also a columnist in magazines, newspapers and on the French radio, on sciences and technology. Aurélie is teaching algorithmic science in executive education. She is also an investor and a board member of several companies in the United-States and in France.

Francis Griffiths is a long-standing executive with more than thirty years of experience in the realms of business and technology. He has a long history of success in the global marketplace with technical and scientific software solutions and has experience with the type of transformation we are driving at ESI. He brings to ESI an impressive track record of growth in Test & Measurement, Simulation and Industrial Automation in various industries including Automotive, Aerospace, Heavy Machinery, Communications, Energy, and Electronics. Prior to joining ESI, Francis held several roles within NI (NATI: NASDAQ) for 29 years, among them European Vice President of Sales and Senior Vice President of Global Sales, Field Marketing and Operations. More recently he founded Maiple, a start-up company focusing on Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning solutions in manufacturing and sustainable energy.

Francis holds a BEng (Hons) degree from Cardiff University in Electrical Engineering and is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering Technology (FIET). He was awarded an Honorary Professorship at Cardiff University in 2019. Francis sits on the advisory board of FLEXIS (Smart Energy Systems Project) and is an advisor on the Cardiff University Strategic Oversight Board. He served as non-executive director of VERV, makers of the Home Energy Assistant.

Emmanuel Leroy is EVP, Chief Product and Technology Officer, in charge of industry strategy, partnerships, product management, go-to-market, innovation and R&D. He joined ESI Group in April 2020 as EVP Industry Solutions in charge of industry strategy and GtM and in 2021 his scope was extended to product management and innovation. Mid-2022, he was appointed head of both Product and R&D organizations (CP&TO). Over the last decade prior to ESI, Emmanuel held different positions of increasing responsibility in the automotive industry, with strong focus on the CAE domain. At Gestamp, after starting in 2012 as CAE/product team leader, he became Manager of the Paris R&D center in 2014, focusing on vehicle design to cost/manufacturing, light-weighting and safety through BIW co-development. Emmanuel then expanded this successful approach, based on advanced CAE activities, globally (Europe, Japan, India, USA, and China). In 2017, he was appointed Global Co-development Director.

Emmanuel graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and from the Ecole des Mines de Paris with a double MSc. in mechanical engineering and materials sciences.

Francisco Chinesta is Professor of computational physics at ENSAM ParisTech, Honorary Fellow of the "Institut Universitaire de France" & Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering. He received many scientific awards most notably the CNRS Silver Medal. He is president of the CSMA and director of the CNRS research group on model order reduction techniques in engineering sciences. He presides ESI Group's Scientific Committee and manages its Scientific Department.