OW2con'25 Keynotes Speakers

Owning your AI, by Yann Lechelle, CEO and Co-founder, Probabl.

Yann is an entrepreneur & tech executive, co-founder & CEO at Probabl.ai, an INRIA spinoff whose mission is to distribute open source data science and machine learning technology globally around Scikit-learn and its more than 2 billion downloads. Previously, he was CEO at Scaleway, a leading regional cloud provider with unique European attributes and values. Over the past decades, he has founded, grown and exited a total of 6 tech startups, including Snips.ai, a privacy-by-design voice processing deep-tech acquired by Nasdaq-listed Sonos. Yann gives back to the community as an angel investor, as digital expert to Matignon’s Secretary General for Investment in its France 2030 investment committees, as co-founding member of France Digitale and board member and VP Ecosystem at HUB France AI, as well as  board member at One-o-One and JEDI. Yann holds a Bachelor of Computer Science summa cum laude from the American University of Paris, as well as an MBA from INSEAD.