Interview Of The Week

Interview Of The Week, Frederic Vacher, Innovation Expert

Who: Frédéric Vacher is Head of Innovation, Dassault Systèmes and founder of the company’s 3DEXPERIENCE Lab, an open innovation lab with a strong network of incubator partners and five main hubs in Paris, Boston, Pune, Munich and Shanghai. Innovations that have emerged from the lab include 3D printing of organs, autonomous solar drones and stent implant simulation. Vacher is scheduled to speak at the XYZ Generative AI conference at Station F in Paris on September 27 in a fireside chat about innovation and AI with The Innovator’s Editor-in-Chief.

Topic: AI and Innovation

Quote: “Despite the risks, I’m a great believer in GenAI and the opportunities it offers. We’ve all been producing data for 20 years over the Internet, on databases, servers and the Cloud. Thanks to GenAI, we’re finally going to be able to make the most of it and not just gain in productivity but also ramp up innovation.”

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About the author

Jennifer L. Schenker

Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. She is currently the editor-in-chief of The Innovator, an English-language global publication about the digital transformation of business. Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2018 as one of the 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.