Marine Miglianico, founder of theClinique de Psychologie Positive de Montréal

Conference: Développement du bien-être et de la performance

Marine Miglianico is a clinical psychologist and member of the Regroupement Québécois de Psychologie Positive (RQPP) whose mission is the development of positive psychology in Quebec.

She is currently doing a PhD in positive psychology (PhD research) co-directed in France and in Quebec. Her thesis focuses on the use of strengths and appreciative inquiry in organizational settings. Marine works at the individual, group and organizational levels.

After teaching at the Cégep and working for the McGill University Clinic, Marine now gives training in positive psychology and public speaking and has coached speakers at TEDxHECMontreal. She teaches at the HEC Montreal Executive School and speaks at the University of Montreal.

From Madness to Genius | TEDxHECMontréal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_QF398FmM0

Yvon Brousseau, PDG de la firme AKKA Technologies inc.

Conference: La zone de l'Impensée, source idéelle des concepts de rupture

Yvon Brousseau is a scientist who has served as President/Founder/Creator of the patented mathematical algorithms of the Quantisweb, Initiator/Cofounder of the COOP Carbone, first President and CEO of the Centre of Excellence in Energy Efficiency (C3E) and Initiator/Cofounder of the Complexe Europe Québec Numérico Industriel pour la Compétitivité Stratégique (CEQNICS), a European consortium (G.E.I.E).

Today, he is President of AKKA Technologies Inc, a company that shares, in partnership with experienced international people, the reconciliation of best practices to develop a systemic business vision of the Quantum/Artificial Intelligence/Spintronics/Photonics sectors and dedicates his energy, skills and focus to contribute to the next giant leap in harnessing human knowledge to effectively tackle the environmental and social challenges we face.

Symphonic poetry of the Unthinking of the Intelligible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYpvHrZGS4

Pierre Gravel, Scientifique de données, Institut intelligence et données (IID, U. Laval)

Conference: L'impact de l'intelligence artificielle sur la société

With a bachelor's degree in engineering physics (U. Laval), Pierre Gravel worked in dynamic simulation at CAE in Montreal before finally returning to school to study physics (M.Sc., U. of Montreal) and astrophysics (Phd, U. Toronto).

His passion for imaging and data analysis led him to The MathWorks, near Boston, to develop image analysis methods for Matlab and it was the love of French and homesickness that made him return to R&D and teaching in biomedical engineering and medical physics. He worked in various laboratories in Montreal (LIO and LCTI at Notre-Dame Hospital) and in Quebec City (CERVO center), in addition to teaching physics at CEGEP. During this period, he completed two postdoctoral internships, one at L'ÉTS and the other at ENVA, in Paris.

He also worked as a lecturer and CNRS guest researcher (Institut de Biomécanique Humaine Georges Charpak at Arts et Métiers ParisTech) to teach image and data analysis and medical imaging. Before coming to IID, his most recent job was in industry where he worked in machine learning and deep learning (Genetec Inc., Montreal).