Sacha Leprêtre is Presagis’ Chief Technology Officer leading the company’s Innovation and Technology effort to create VELOCITY 5D a Next Generation 3D large-scale Digital Twins and simulation platform using Artificial Intelligence (AI). He is representing Presagis in various working group at the Open Geospatial Consortium, the USGIF Game and Modeling & Simulation Working Group, the Metaverse Standards forum, Digital Twin Consortium, the Autonomy Institute.
He has deep knowledge and expertise in AI, Deep Learning, Cloud, HPC infrastructure and in 3D. Before joining Presagis, he was Director of Innovation Development & Technology at the Mila AI Institute in Montreal, working on innovative projects with Prof. Yoshua Bengio (Turing Award winner in Artificial Intelligence aka “The Nobel Prize of computing”) one of the deep learning godfathers, along with Hinton, and LeCun. Sacha also worked for the software company Autodesk, in M&E, AEC and manufacturing industries leveraging AI , 3D and Cloud for products with millions of customers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachalepretre/