Olivier Penel
Data strategist and advisor, SAS Global Technology Practice
Artificial Intelligence and Analytics are re-shaping the world we live in. From life partner choices to political campaign management, sport performance optimization and of course business decisions, AI is weaving into more and more aspects of society, businesses and personal lives. In this innovation race, data is the “new black”, data science is emerging as a new profession, and ethics is becoming the new frontier of technology.
With a long-lasting obsession for data, Olivier is passionate about data-driven innovation, artificial intelligence and how it relates to bigger questions such as privacy and ethics.
As a thought leader, public speaker and trusted advisor, Olivier enjoys providing strategic guidance to customers to accelerate their digital transformation, to truly become data-driven organizations, and to proactively and holistically leverage their most valuable assets: data.
Olivier has an engineering degree in Human-Computer Interactions with a minor in Philosophy, Technology, and Cognition. He is currently acting as an advisor in the Global Technology Practice at SAS Institute.
Speaker engagements
| When | What | Where | Organizer |
| 2020 | CIO Summit | IDC France | |
| 2020 | Global AI, Data Analytics & Insights Summit | Online event | BERRY Professionals |
| 2020 | Qatar World AI Show | Virtual Event | Trescon |
| 2020 | Facilitation of Hannah Fry’s talk “The Trouble with Automated Decision Making” | On-demand | SAS |
| 2020 | Webinar “Resilience & Analytics: what can we learn from the pandemic?” | On-demand Webinar | SAS |
| 2020 | Road2AI roadshow “Step up your Analytics Game” | Bucharest / On-demand Video | SAS |
| 2019 | Moderated a panel discussion during the Telco Executive Experience Day | Analytics Experience / On-demand Video | SAS |
| 2019 | AI Governance, both an ethical and a business imperative | Analytics Experience / On-demand video | SAS |
| 2019 | Vers une IA fiable, responsable et productive - Foundation for Analytics - SAS Roadshow | #Cloud Business Center, Paris | SAS |
| 2019 | Getting AI out of the lab and into the real world - w Frederik Vandenberghe. SAS Roadshow | Pullman Brussels Centre Midi | SAS |
| 2019 | Getting AI out of the lab into the real world - Platform Roadshow | IT University, Copenhagen | SAS |
| 2019 | Trust: The Single Currency for Ethical and Productive AI - Platform Roadshow | InterContinental Hotel, Istanbul | SAS |