Speakers
Pablo Gervas Gómez-Navarro
Pablo Gervás is full professor on computational creativity and natural language processing (Catedrático de Universidad) at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is the director of the NIL research group (nil.fdi.ucm.es) and for many years he was the director of the Instituto de Tecnología del Conocimiento (www.ucm.es/itc). Professor Gervás has expertise on automatic generation of (fictional) stories and poetry, and has a background in natural language generation, Computational Creativity, and narratology. He is the author of the PropperWryter software which was used in the process of creating Beyond the Fence -- the first computer generated musical, staged at the London West End in 2016.
Loreto Parisi
Loreto Parisi has a MSc in Computer Engineering from UniNa Federico II. He was part of the Splinder team, a micro-blogging platform developed in 2001 and later acquired by Dada Spa in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded Buzzreader, an online monitoring and web reputation platform. In 2010 he joined the founding team of Musixmatch, the world leading music data company with 80 millions users and 50 million active users. He is Director of Engineering and Artificial Intelligence and in 2022 Loreto and the AI Team devised the AI & metadata platform of Musixmatch Podcasts, a new platform for podcasters and listeners, driven by transcription by AI and community.
Yann Toma
Yann Toma is an artist-observer at the United Nations (New York), a university professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a conceptual artist, a member of the ACTE Institute, director of the Master in Arts and Vision (International Master in EAS Creative Creation), co-director of the Master Art & Management of Innovation - Creative Industries. He is also an auditor at IHEST, a member of the Board of the Fondation des États-Unis, founder/curator of Sorbonne Artgallery, and president of Sorbonne Sustainable Development, a collaborative network structure. Yann Toma is a knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
Edouard Treppoz
Edouard Treppoz is Of Counsel at Bird & Bird in Paris, specialising in IP/IT law and international dispute resolution. He is professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon/ Sorbonne teaching copyright law in its internal, European and international dimensions.
His main areas of expertise are copyright law and the intersection of intellectual property and private international law/conflict of laws.
He has been appointed as a member of the International Law Association's Committee, dedicated to intellectual property and private international law. He is currently directing the Master 2 D2A in Economic Law and Audiovisual Management at the University Paris 1 Panthéon/Sorbonne.
Tony Veale
Tony Veale is the outgoing chair of the international Association for Computational Creativity (ACC), and the author of several monographs on the topic of computational creativity and creative language generation, including Exploding The Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity (Bloomsbury, 2012), Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning (with Mike Cook; MIT Press, 2017) and Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor (MIT Press, 2021). He has researched the crossover between AI and language for three decades both in academia and in industry. He currently teaches courses on Computational Creativity, LLMs and Generative AI in UCD's school of Computer Science.
Célia Zolynski
Célia Zolynski is Professor of Private law and codirector of the Master degree Digital law, business law and IP law of Paris Saclay University, she is specialized in European digital law and Intellectual Property.
Member of the Foresight Committee of the French Data protection authority (CNIL) and former member of the French Digital council (CNNum), she leads several national and European projects about privacy protection and business models promoting multidisciplinary researches with computer scientists and researchers on economic. She is the author of various publications on these topics.
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