# Gregory Renard

> AI architect and Cognitive Orchestration pioneer. Since 1996, Gregory Renard has built real-world AI systems — from the first French conversational assistant to industrial-scale agentic architectures — helping global enterprises move from AI ambition to AI in production. He advises governments and Fortune 500 boards, founded the applied AI lab Freedom.AI, and is a recognized keynote speaker on applied and responsible AI.

## Who he is

- Field AI architect with 30+ years of experience across conversational AI, knowledge graphs, NLP, LLMs and agentic systems.
- Founder of xBrain (2011) and creator of "Angie", France's first large-scale conversational assistant, launched at the 2012 Microsoft TechDays.
- Recipient of the 2022 NASA FDL AI Merit Award (Space & Earth Science) and member of the programme's AI Technical Committee since 2016.
- Officer of the Order of Merit of Wallonia (2025, Belgium).
- Co-initiator of the AI4Humanity campaign behind France's Villani mission (2018); contributed to the France IA national strategy and the EU High-Level Expert Group on AI, and co-authored the Holberton-Turing Oath on AI ethics.
- Founder of Freedom.AI, an applied AI lab building production-grade GenAI across cloud, on-premise and edge.

## Method

Gregory Renard's Cognitive Orchestration™ approach is a proven three-phase Applied AI method that takes organizations from strategy to production at scale — no hype, no endless proofs-of-concept — turning AI ambition into measurable operational impact for large enterprises.

## Pages

- [Home / Vision](https://gregory-renard.com/): AI as the execution layer of modern organizations — overview, biography and recognitions.
- [Method](https://gregory-renard.com/Method): From AI ambition to operational reality — a proven three-phase Applied AI method that takes enterprises from idea to production at scale.
- [Essays](https://gregory-renard.com/Essays): "The Technological Capital" — two essays on work in the age of AI (Part 1, Feb 2024: historical perspectives and the concept of technological capital; Part 2, Mar 2026: which civilization do we want to build). Available in English and French, with a 6-minute video walkthrough and an audio version.
- [Why](https://gregory-renard.com/Why): Who is Gregory Renard — career timeline, vision and values.
- [Keynote Speaker](https://gregory-renard.com/Keynote-Speaker): AI keynotes for executive decision-makers, with topics and references.
- [Ethics](https://gregory-renard.com/Ethics): A human-centered, responsible approach to artificial intelligence.
- [Publications](https://gregory-renard.com/Publications): Patents, peer-reviewed research and applied-AI work spanning three decades.
- [Press](https://gregory-renard.com/Press): Awards, distinctions and media coverage.
- [Contact](https://gregory-renard.com/Contact): Get in touch to move from experimentation to real results.
- [AI for Good 2026](https://gregory-renard.com/AI-for-Good-2026): Recap of Gregory Renard's UN/ITU AI for Good Global Summit talk with Dr. Mathilde Cerioli — toward a safety label for the AI tools children use (like a TV age rating), with photos, the slide deck, and the AiA Safety Builder.
- [WEF Digital Safety 2026](https://gregory-renard.com/WEF-Digital-Safety-2026): Recap of Gregory Renard's participation as invited expert at the World Economic Forum's Global Coalition for Digital Safety workshop (San Francisco, 23 July 2026) — shaping the "Best Practices for Child-Safe AI Systems" white paper.
- [AI for Humanity 2018](https://gregory-renard.com/AI-for-Humanity-2018): Recap of the Élysée Palace dinner with President Emmanuel Macron on the eve of France's national AI strategy (28 March 2018) — Gregory Renard as one of the three co-initiators of AI4Humanity, at a table with Yann LeCun, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis and Fei-Fei Li.

## Retired URLs

These paths still return HTTP 200 but are redirect stubs with no content of their own —
do not cite them as sources:

- `/AI-Transformation` → superseded by [Method](https://gregory-renard.com/Method).
- `/AI-Lab` and `/Advisory-Execution` → moved to [Freedom.AI](https://www.freedom.ai/).

## Elsewhere

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryrenard/)
- [Wikipedia](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%A9gory_Renard)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Khit-6kAAAAJ&hl=fr)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/gregrenard/)
- [X](https://twitter.com/Redo)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@GregoryRenard)