Antoine Moyroud

Antoine Moyroud is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and sits on their European investment team since 2022. Specializing in Machine Learning and Data topics, his work on the emerging AI space has brought Lightspeed Venture Partners to partner with Mistral.ai, leading their inaugural round in 2023. Raised in the Netherlands and proficient in 4 languages, Antoine started his career in the data ecosystem with operational roles at FlixBus and Dataiku, spanning Germany, France and the UK. He holds dual degrees in Business Administration and Languages from the University of Lyon III, along with a master's in Data Science from IE Business School in Madrid.

Daniel Nathan

Daniel is an entrepreneur passionate about building impactful companies. Over his career, he has founded five successful ventures and contributed to the hiring of over 2,000 professionals. He is currently the CEO of Homa, a pioneering mobile games company based in France.

Homa boasts a diverse team of 250 employees representing 25 nationalities, specializing in the creation of marketable and engaging games that captivate players worldwide. Under Daniel's leadership, the company has achieved over 2 billion downloads, cementing its position as one of the largest mobile game publishers globally.

Daniel’s strategic vision has driven Homa’s growth, supported by more than $150 million raised from top-tier venture capital firms, including Eurazeo, Northzone, Headline, Singular, and Quadrille. His unwavering focus on innovation and collaboration continues to shape the future of mobile gaming and elevate the industry standard.

Devang Thakkar

Devang serves the Global Head of Christie’s Ventures, leading a new enterprise through which Christie’s engages with earlier stage companies through direct investment and both brand support and market access. New venture opportunities focus on early-stage technology and FinTech companies, built by proven-track record founders, which can apply solutions to opportunities or challenges in our market.

From 2015-2019, Devang Thakkar was VP of Consumer Marketplace at Artsy, the world’s leading and largest online platform for collecting and discovering art.

Before joining Artsy in 2015, Devang spent 11 years at Microsoft in Seattle where he contributed to the development of major operating systems from Windows XP to Windows 10 and product lines such as Bing apps, MSN. His last product at Microsoft was Microsoft Teams.

Devang holds master’s degrees in economics and Computer Science from Columbia University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Washington.

He is also an artist – he paints and maintains a studio practice.

Julien Pradels

Julien Pradels was appointed Global Head of Operations in 2022. Prior to this, he was Managing Director, Christie's France from 2019, having joined Christie’s in 2011 as Operations Director, Paris, assuming additional responsibility for Operations across Continental Europe shortly afterwards. He relocated to Hong Kong in 2013 where he was first Operations Director, Asia and was subsequently promoted in 2016 to General Manager Asia Pacific. Before his time with Christie’s, he spent 12 years working for the Four Seasons Hotel group. Julien’s remit includes leading Christie’s sustainability program to ensure the company can meet its ambitious targets and help to drive positive change across the wider industry. Well placed to oversee these efforts and continue to push new innovative initiatives given his extensive knowledge of operations across the business, he oversees the publication of the annual Environmental Impact Report and is a regular speaker on panels discussing sustainability and the art world.

Mathieu Ceverty

Mathieu Cervety is a seasoned leader at the intersection of gaming, technology, and media. As Vice President of Content at The Sandbox, Mathieu has been instrumental in driving innovation in the gaming and Web3 space, creating immersive experiences that empower a global community of creators. His expertise encompasses digital experiences ecosystems, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies to redefine the future of creativity and interaction.

Before joining The Sandbox, Mathieu held leadership roles at YouTube and Google, where he bridged the gap between brand engagement and technological advancements. With a passion for exploring how technology can revolutionize human interaction and creativity, Mathieu brings a visionary perspective to the potential of gaming as a gateway to innovation in AI.

Meredith Whittaker

Meredith Whittaker is Signal's President and a member of the Signal Foundation Board of Directors.

She has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government. Before joining Signal as President, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, and served as the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute which she co-founded. Her research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google's Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world's largest source of open data on internet performance. She also helped lead organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against the company's insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, internet policy, and measurement. And she recently completed a term as Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair at the US Federal Trade Commission.

Obvious

Obvious is a French trio of artists and researchers working with artificial intelligence to create art. Inspired by the model of the renaissance workshops, Obvious operates at the crossroads of academic research and art. Their work consists in researching and building artificial intelligence algorithms in the creative field, and producing artistic series of artworks using those tools. Their research laboratory hosted in Sorbonne University and founded by the French National Research Agency is leading research in the fields of image, video and sound generation. They are behind the first artwork created using artificial intelligence to go through a major auction house (Christie’s, 2018), and they have been exhibited in some of the world's greatest museums. Obvious is carried by its conviction that science and art are deeply interconnected. They participate actively in the current visual revolution, and believe in an optimistic future, with a deeply humanist approach, and believe technology to be a tool allowing the bettering of our collective future. They develop artificial intelligence algorithms and use them to explore new aesthetic and conceptual grounds, inviting the viewers to an oniric journey that transcends the relationship we have as humans towards technology.

Sarah Buccarelli

Sarah joined Christie’s in 2017 managing continuing education, certificate and online courses at Christie’s Education. Most recently, Sarah has been the Business Manager for Business Development and Client Management. In that role she provided strategic support to the department and closely managed and built the annual operating budget. She has worked as project manager on important auctions including the 2022 sale ‘Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection’ which grossed $1.6B. In her role as Director of Platform, Sarah oversees all Art+Tech Summits and events as well as managing relationships with the Ventures portfolio companies.

Before joining Christie’s, Sarah worked at The Frick Collection and The Hispanic Society Museum & Library. She has an undergraduate degree in Art History from Rutgers University and a master’s degree from New York University.

Yves Ubelmann

Since 2013, Yves Ubelmann has been president and co-founder of Iconem, specialised in digitalisation of 3D rendering of cultural heritage sites in danger. Graduated from the National School of Architecture in Versailles in 2006, Yves has worked as an architect in the Near East and in Central Asia (Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan) for the study and interpretation of archaeological sites. This experience has led to the development of a technological approach to study archaeological sites by digital imaging.

Iconem is currently active in around thirty countries to promote the conservation of cultural heritage threatened by looting, urbanisation, mass tourism, armed conflicts, and climate change. His team develops very large-scale digitised solutions for natural and cultural sites, allowing their recording at very high resolution. Iconem works with various governments, museums, or international institutions such as UNESCO.