Gregory Renard
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Hands-on AI architect since 1996 | Belgian-born, French-built, Silicon-Valley California-boosted.
· 25+ Years in Applied AI
· NASA Merit Award 2022
· 50+ AI Publications & Patents
Gregory Renard is a pioneering Artificial Intelligence entrepreneur and architect with 25 + years of experience in applied NLP, Knowledge Graph, LLM and large-scale AI systems.
In 2012 he launched Angie, France’s first large-scale conversational assistant, holds 200+ publications,
patents, awards, and received NASA’s 2022 Merit Award for his applied artificial intelligence contributions to space and earth sciences.
A leading and inspiring voice in AI, Gregory advises governments and Fortune 500 companies on AI strategy, known for his pragmatic, deeply hands-on approach—captivating audiences at TEDx, MIT, IAS, Stanford, and Berkeley with substance, clarity, and real-world impact.
His focus: turning visionary AI into measurable business impact.
NASA, SETI , FDL.AI and the U.S. DOE recognized his applied-AI work with the 2022 NASA FDL AI Merit Award for Space & Earth Science , and he has served since 2016 on the programme’s AI Technical Committee, guiding projects from storm prediction to H₂-discovery engines.
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Gregory Renard is a hands-on AI architect whose track record reaches back to 1996, when he shipped France’s first NLP call-center stack and began a career dedicated to making language technology work at industrial scale.
In 2012 he introduced Angie — the “French Siri” — a fully-featured personal assistant that set a new bar for European dialogue systems. (Techdays 2012)
Today his portfolio includes a dozen issued AI patents in voice, zero-shot dialogue, and knowledge transfer, along with over 200 publications and talks—among them a Nature paper on generative AI and machine intelligence.
The Walloon Merit Awards are presented each year during the Walloon Festival to honor outstanding contributors to Wallonia.
Gregory Renard received the distinction in 2025 for his pioneering work in conversational AI and his commitment to ethical, human-centered innovation.
Gregory’s policy impact is equally concrete: co-initiator of AI4Humanity (2018) and contributor to the Villani report (2017) that anchors France and Europe’s AI strategy ; reserve member of the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI ; co-author of the Holberton-Turing Oath setting early ethical guard-rails for the industry in 2018.
He has been invited as a Speaker, an Advisor or a member of those prestigious organizations, providing information and solutions.
In academia he co-founded the Sociology-NLP Research Group at UC Berkeley’s Matrix Department in 2020 and regularly lectures at TEDx (Jun 7, 2015), Stanford, Institute for Advanced Study, Berkeley, Holberthon School (2016) and 42 School.
Across sectors—automotive (2015) and humanoid robots voice platforms (2013), customer-service augmentation for global banks, supply-chain AI for e-commerce and award-winning space-tech—his common thread is delivering impactful, production-grade applied AI systems at scale and on-time.
How you can engage Gregory:
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Executive workshops, lectures & keynotes speaker on applied AI at scale.
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Board or C-suite advisory on AI strategy and governance.
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Pragmatic consulting to deploy NLP, LLMs or Agents —measurable impact, clear timelines, no hype.
Whether the mandate is policy design, patent-level innovation or getting an LLM into production, Gregory blends deep research with battle-tested engineering to remove the last barriers between ambitious ideas and tangible results.
Since 2016, Grégory Renard has been a public advocate for an ethical and responsible approach to artificial intelligence rooted in the belief that every technological advancement must remain centered on humanity.
He also co-founded Everyone.AI, a nonprofit organization dedicated to anticipating and raising awareness about the opportunities and risks of AI for children — notably through the publication of The Future of Child Development in the AI Era (2024).
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