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David Sadek is VP Research, Technology & Innovation at Thales, notably in charge of AI and Quantum Computing. He was Chairman of the Executive committee of the French national industrial program on Trustworthy AI (Confiance.AI) and, previously, SVP Research at IMT (Institut Mines-Télécom) and VP R&D at Orange.
Doctor in AI, he created and led for more than fifteen years at Orange the R&D teams on intelligent agents and human-machine dialogue. His research work led to the design and implementation of the first worldwide technologies of conversational agents, as well as to the inter-agent communication language standard ACL. He also directed several industrial programs of technology transfer and service deployment, and was Chairman of the evaluation committee of the French National Research Agency (ANR) program on "Digital Contents”. He was also co-founder of the Digital Ethics Commission which foreshadowed the National Consultative Committee on Digital Ethics.
David Sadek was a leader of FranceIA, the first French national strategy on AI. He is member of the OECD Experts, and was member of the GPAI (Global Partnership on AI), and France representative within the G7 Innovators. He was Orange Fellow and received several awards such as Best Technology and Service Innovations, and Blondel Medal in AI and Cognitive Science.
