Metalab Guild Summit #4
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
- Sara Rabhi (Senior data scientist at NVIDIA) on applications of gen AI to biology - online talk
- Florian Barral (co-founder of Evalmee) on the use agentic systems with Evalmee
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.
If you have any questions regarding the presentations and contents, please contact Christoph Mueller-Bloch or Mohamed Ndaoud. For any other request, please contact Déborah Guidez.
From 17:00 - Cocktail Reception (located in the GHALL0).
Details :
- Date : April 16 - 2pm to 6pm.
- Location : ESSEC Cergy campus, Room G.123.
- Registration is mandatory.