Bertrand Rondepierre

Bertrand Rondepierre is the General Manager of the French Agency for Artificial Intelligence in Defence (AMIAD). He leads the execution of the AI strategy of French Ministry of the Armed Forces. The AMIAD is responsible for ensuring the acceleration of AI deployment at scale, from weapon systems and operational superiority up to everyday use cases.

From 2018 to 2023, Bertrand Rondepierre was program manager at Google, first within the Europe Research teams during Google Research's expansion in Europe. He then joined Google's Brain team at the forefront of AI Research and managed a portfolio involving process optimization, research impact measurement as well as research projects in the early days of Generative AI. Before leaving Google, he worked on the Google DeepMind merger and ended up program lead of the AI for future product portfolio under Zoubin Ghahramani.

Before joining Google, from 2017 to 2018, he worked with Cédric Villani, a member of French Parliament tasked by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe to design and write down the strategy to make France a leader in AI. He is one of the authors of the report « AI for Humanity » that led to President Emmanuel Macron's 2018-2024 national AI strategy.

Bertrand Rondepierre graduated from Ecole polytechnique and holds both an engineering degree from Télécom Paris and a master degree from Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris-Saclay, in applied mathematics and machine learning.