LightOn, a Paris-based startup, offers enterprise customers an alternative to U.S. large language models such as OpenAI’s GPT-3. One of its key differentiators is a strong focus on data sovereignty and security. It is currently running pilots with several companies including EDF, the French multinational electric utility company and Arte, a French-German television channel.
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.
