Wit.ai is an AI platform that makes it easy for developers to create applications that users can talk to. It was acquired by Facebook in January 2015. Before founding Wit.ai, Alex was the founder and CEO of VirtuOz, “Siri for the Enterprise” virtual agents, acquired by Nuance Communications in 2013.
Alex received a MS in Computer Science from Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France, and spent many years learning Chinese language and culture.
Talk "Teaching Language to Machines" given at Lift16:
Another day trip to beautiful Vienna for a last round fo visits in order to select the venue(s) for an upcoming innovation workshop organized for 120 people. After an intense day we've decided to host most of the event in a Hotel while organizing a special half-day program at the old Vienna's stock exchange. Can't wait to make this event happening!
It's time for the Global Entrepreneurship Week to take place. The city is buzzing with tons of events and happenings related to entrepreneurship! See you on Friday at the University of Geneva to crown the winner of the Pitch contest where I'll be a member of the jury.
Honored to participate to the official inauguration of -Pulse Incubator HES with all the representants of the schools of HES-SO in Geneva as well as members of the City and Canton of Geneva. We loved working on this project and we are looking forward to contributing to -Pulse future endeavours.
Day trip to beautiful Vienna to scope venues for an upcoming event. The city is beautiful and the architecture just splendid, very inspiring but hard to choose between the locations ;-)
After the first ever bootcamp hold last week at -Pulse Incubator HES, the Incubator is now officially open! There's life at -Pulse :-)
The first -Pulse cohort is joined by the participants of the Prix Genilem Hes-So for a 2-day bootcamp in the freshly renovated space made for -Pulse Incubator HES. Time for some action!
Facilitating a 3-day agile design sprint for a team of scientist from a Pharma company in beautiful Copehagen. It's time for the to work hard in order to prototype, test and learn while having some fun too!
Delighted to take some time to share all the knowledge about our work for -Pulse Incubator HES to help Caroline Widmer prepare for her new position as the director of the incubator!
The Lift team is enjoying some days off to enjoy summer time and take some rest. Happy holidays!
Today we're selecting the first cohort of entrepreneurs and innovators that will join -Pulse Incubator HES in September 2019. The jury is looking forward to discover the pre-selected batch of projects!
Participating in the Strategyzer Bootcamp to sharpen my innovation management and innovation skills. It's a great opportunity to deepen my understanding of innovation tools and exchange with a fantastic cohort of practitioners.
Co-facilitating a 3-day innovation workshop with Greg Bernarda in a beautiful venue along Lago Maggiore. This is the 2nd out of a series of 3 workshops to support pilots projects from a Pharma company. Experts are invited to co-design and support teams in order to navigate uncertainty and de-risk their projects.
Today is the graduation ceremony of the third edition of the CAS Kick Off. The CAS Kick Off is a program that I'm organizing since 2016 with HEAD Geneva, fostering entrepreneurship and self-marketing for designers and creatives. Our 2018-19 cohort will pitch before receiving their diplomas, exciting!
Facilitating Lift:Lab Seoul with Jean-Henry Morin, a one-day creativity sprint offering an opportunity for participants to collaborate towards identifying new ideas, designs or ventures leveraging technology to serve challenges of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
I'm facilitating a the Swiss-Korean startup workshop in Seoul to help startups from each country to develop mutual trust and creativity, learning with and from each other, while exchanging about business difficulties and tricks.
Delighted to join the Swiss-Korean Innovation Week 2019 organized by the Science & Technology Office Seoul, where experts from Switzerland and Korea active in the academic and industrial worlds are invited to bring visions and examples for a “smart living”.
Facilitating a 2-day workshop designed for early stage projects from a big Pharma company with Greg Bernarda. The goal is to enable teams to iteratively progress towards their 2029 vision.
We're facilitating a hackathon during Open Geneva for students from HES-SO Geneva to support them in their innovation journey. The format has been designed to foster interdisciplinarity among engineers, designers, artist and business students.
Facilitating a 2-day workshop with a big Pharma company in collaboration with Greg Bernarda. This is the first of a series of 3 workshops planned during the year to support pilots projects to go from idea to execution.
