People
Who makes Commons AI
An organising team, a scientific committee, and a community of contributors
Organising team
Coordination
Célya Gruson-Daniel
Coordination & scientific committee · inno³
Coordinates the Commons AI initiative and the scientific committee, ensuring the quality and balance of the programme.
Benjamin Jean
Founder & President · inno³
Specialist in open-source law, open models and digital commons; facilitated the governance session of the inaugural edition.
Quality & balance
Scientific committee
The programme is shaped by a scientific committee that guarantees the quality and balance of the contributions, under the coordination of Célya Gruson-Daniel. The committee brings together deliberately varied profiles — businesses, research, associations and the public sector — to cross perspectives and move past siloed approaches.
Edition 2025
Speakers of the inaugural edition
Fifteen voices across resources, governance and communities.
Julie Hunter
Senior Researcher, Linagora
OpenLLM France: transparent, open AI
Head of research for Linagora’s R&D NLP projects and technical coordinator of OpenLLM France, building fully transparent open-source language models focused on French.
Pierre-Carl Langlais
Co-founder, Pleias
Open data flows after the synthetic turn
AI researcher and open-science advocate, Wikipedia administrator; coordinated the Common Corpus, the largest open dataset for training language models.
Bertrand Monthubert
President, Ekitia
Data Spaces and digital commons
Professor of mathematics and former university president; President of OpenIG and of France’s National Council for Geographic Information.
Pauline Zordan
Lawyer, Ekitia
Data Spaces and digital commons
Lawyer specialising in digital law and data governance, working on trusted data spaces to promote digital commons for trustworthy AI.
Bertrand Pailhès
Head of Data, IGN
Effective AI systems for mapping
Head of operations at IGN; led France’s 2016 Digital Republic open-data law and coordinated the national AI strategy; former CNIL technology lead.
Ramya Chandrasekhar
Researcher, CNRS
Legal frictions for re-using the open web
Lawyer and researcher at the CNRS Centre for Internet and Society, member of the SUDACO sustainable data commons project.
Vincent Bachelet
Paris 1 / inno³
The fiduciary model for AI data governance
Doctor of law and specialist in IP and digital law; postdoctoral researcher at Paris 1 and consultant at inno³, focused on open-source AI and IP compliance.
Jean Cattan
Café IA
Data commons as a prerequisite for AI
Leads the national Café IA initiative and co-chairs the data governance working group of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI).
Yann Lechelle
CEO, Probabl
Probabl.ai’s governance and revenue model
Co-founding CEO of Probabl, distributing open-source data science globally; former CEO of Scaleway and serial tech entrepreneur.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
President, VideoLAN
When communities and industry cooperate
President of VideoLAN and lead developer of VLC; entrepreneur and CTO across open-source multimedia ventures (Kyber, VideoLabs).
Round table · A general-interest AI independent of Big Tech
Jean-Marc Borredon
Ville d’Annemasse
Director of communications at Annemasse Agglo, lecturer in public communication, social media and project management.
Raphaël Bournhonesque
Open Food Facts
Machine-learning engineer at Open Food Facts, specialised in ML, deep learning and NLP.
Jeanne Brétecher
Social Good Accelerator
Founder and director of the Social Good Accelerator for the European digital social economy, and of Jungle Coop.
Pierre-Yves Gosset
Framasoft
Digital services coordinator at Framasoft.
Jean-Philippe Clément
Ville de Paris
Deputy Director General at the Ville de Paris and host of the “Parlez-moi d’IA” radio show; former lead of Paris’s Smart City and data initiatives.