Jérôme Pesenti

Jérôme Pesenti is the VP of AI at Facebook. He leads Facebook’s AI research (FAIR) arm. Prior to joining Facebook, Jerome joined IBM to lead the development of its Watson platform after the startup he co-founded, Vivisimo, was acquired by the company in 2012. He went on to later become the CEO of BenevolentTech. He is a Member Board Of Directors at BenevolentAI.
He is also active in the big data community through a local non-profit that he created, Pittsburgh DataWorks, whose mission is to promote and provide access to big data education, projects, talent, and technologies and to help establish Pittsburgh as a leader in big data.