Joelle Pineau
Speaker
Sessions (2)
Sessions featuring Joelle Pineau at HumanX Amsterdam 2026
The AI Efficiency Race: What It Takes to Scale Smarter
Roxanne Parza and JL Pinot discuss how AI startups can scale beyond Silicon Valley, using Station F’s FAI program, Hugging Face, Mistral, Cohere, and Aleph Alpha as examples. They emphasize leaner founder teams, research-to-startup pipelines, multi-location talent strategies, and enterprise sovereignty defined by model choice, deployment agency, and resiliency.
Building Sovereign AI
The panel framed sovereign AI as enterprise and national control over AI stacks, data centers, models, and supply chains rather than only model ownership. Speakers discussed the Cohere-Aleph Alpha partnership, European dependence on American capabilities, a 40,000,000 Dutch chip-design program, and enterprise patterns such as on-prem GPU stacks, model harnesses, and agnostic benchmarking to preserve optionality.