Luc Julia

World AI Expert, Co-creator of Siri and CSO at Renault Group

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Luc Julia is a French-American engineer and computer scientist, born in Toulouse, and world renowned expert in AI. He co-created voice assistant Siri at Apple, participated in the launch of Nuance Communications, the world leader in speech recognition, and co-founded several start-ups in Silicon Valley. He was also the Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard, and was CTO and SVP of Innovation at Samsung Electronics. In May 2021, he joined the Groupe Renault as Chief Scientific Officer. Luc Julia is the bestselling author of the book "There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence!" with First Editions, and he was honored with the greatest French distinction, the Légion D’honneur (Legion of Honor) and is a member of the National Academy of Technologies.

Throughout his career, Luc Julia conceived, built and deployed complex digital media desktop products, scalable Mobile and Internet applications (500M+ users), worked on big data and distributed architectures. He is interested in all kinds of technologies to improve human lives with a special twist for data fusion, home automation, wearable devices and the next generation of context-based Human-Computer Interactions.