Intervenant – Josée POIRIER

Speakers & Moderators

Josée POIRIER

Principal Project Manager, AI for Humanity

In videoconference - Josée Poirier PhD leads the Climate Strategic Portfolio at the Mila Quebec AI Institute, recognised worldwide for its thought leadership and research. She oversees a programme that transfers cutting-edge AI research into impactful and responsible tools to address the climate and biodiversity crises. She brings 14 years of experience leveraging data and technology to solve real-world problems with positive social impact in a broad range of domains, most recently in the humanitarian sector for the United Nations. She is an advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration, emphasizing the need for technologists, subject matter experts, and affected communities to work together to co-create powerful and adapted solutions.

Speaks on the theme

What do we expect from AI to save us ?

Yann ARNAUD , Director of Member Needs and Innovation at Macif

Allison COHEN , Senior AI Project Manager at Mila, Host of the Podcast "The World We Are Building"

Irakli KHODELI , Head of Ethics of AI Unit, Social and Human Sciences Sector, UNESCO

Marie-Vorgan Le BARZIC , Director of Transformation & Digital at Egis

Josée POIRIER , Principal Project Manager, AI for Humanity

François TADDEI , President of the Learning Planet Institute

Moderation: Leslie COUTTERAND, Speaker, filmmaker, journalist

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La maison de l'UNESCO, 125 avenue Suffren, 75007 Paris – Salle XI

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Saturday, March 15 – 17:00 - 18:30

Streaming - What do we expect from AI to save us ?