The ESSEC Metalab invites all faculty members to attend its second 2026 AI Guild Summit.

Program: 

14:00 - Introduction
14:15 - Presentations:

• Paul Oudin: Rethinking the Governance of AI Companies
• Luciano Somoza: LLMs for research in Finance
• Ghalia Shamayleh: Affective Technologically-Mediated Interactions

External speakers:

• Sara Rabhi: Some applications of Gen AI to biology

Sara Rabhi is a Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA, where she works on building foundation models for biological data.  Sara received her PhD degree from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris. Her research focused on improving the representation of multimodal and irregular medical time series using deep learning models. She has more than ten years of experience in data science, deep learning and generative AI.

• Florian Barral: Agentic AI for Academic Assessment: Build Ready-to-Run exams in minutes 

Florian Barral is co-founder and CEO of Evalmee, an online assessment and proctoring platform used by 45,000+ students each year across leading French institutions. In parallel, he teaches Business Data Science at ESSEC Business School (where he graduated, MSc DSBA 2017-18) and works as an independent AI consultant. Before founding Evalmee, he worked at Capgemini Invent and Amazon.

From 17:00 - Cocktail Reception (located in the GHALL0)

To register, please fill in the form available here.