Jean-Francois Gagné is a veteran AI entrepreneur and co-founder and chief executive officer of Element AI, one of the fastest growing AI start-ups in the world. He was formerly chief product officer and chief innovation officer at JDA Software, where he was the youngest global C-level executive of a top 20 enterprise software company. He is the only non-European member of the EUs High Level Expert Group on AI, a member of the World Economic Forum's Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and his company Element AI is the only Canadian member of the Partnership on AI, based in the US.