Marc Michel Pic trained as an engineer before obtaining his PhD in computer sciences at the University of Paris VI-Jussieu. His fascination with information theory and its practical applications - digital imaging, high-performance computing, compilers etc - goes back a long way. He has published a number of articles in international reviews, and spoken at international conferences. He has also contributed to several books on digital signal analysis and languages for parallel programming. Marc's experience includes project management in industry (medical, Shell, knowledge management) and research (CEA - the French Atomic Energy agency; INRIA - National Institute for Research in Information and Automation Technologies). Internationally, he has organized collaborative projects with Indiana University and with a number of European research centers. He has been an assessor for the RNTL, a French ministry organization supporting private/public sector cooperative research in IT. He has been a member of several standardization organizations, including MPEG and ISO (AFNOR). He is also a member of Cyberlex, a think-tank looking into the legislative implications of new technologies.

Jean-Marc KERISIT, 45 years old, has an extensive experience in software technology. He started his career as a research engineer, moved rapidly to software R&D and services, and management. He has held various positions in his career, among them: Director of ITPL software at EDS, Chief Architect and Director of R&D at Business Objects. His experience has then been mostly focused on developing and structuring the R&D activity of small innovative software companies, among them : Artech (now Reportive), Instranet, Pertinence (now Intercim). His main competencies embrace management of applied research as well as software development teams, technological positioning and vision, complex algorithms, R&D process and organization." Jean-Marc graduated from “Ecole Polytechnique” in Paris, France and holds a PhD in Theoretical Computer Sciences at the Paris Diderot University.

François Guély has been responsible of Schneider Electric’s advanced automatic control and signal processing research laboratory. He then took responsibility of the company’s corporate e-business project (Marketing Direction), and later was the co-founder of MatchVision, a software editor of intelligent search engines, and Product Management Director of Pertinence, an editor of data mining based process optimization software." François is a graduated Engineer (Ecole Centrale de Paris) and a PhD in artificial intelligence.