Francis Pieraut

Francis Pieraut

Apply Machine Learning Research Engineer/Entrepreneur/Investor & Mentor

Francis is an hardcore tech entrepreneur, community builder, enabler and connector. By training, Francis is an apply research engineer from MTL's prestigious Yoshua Bengio lab (MILA). Francis was involved in early research on Deep Learning. He is involved directly and indirectly in many tech companies.

Montreal 2026 sessions

How to deal with claude.ai - a ML perspective

French session - Beginner

Are you looking to better understand how to better leverage claude.ai and why it behaves this way? Dealing with claude.ai is counter-intuitive for many people. I will present why claude.ai is behaving this way and how to use the ML perspective to better constrain him to do what you really want with prompts.

Why AI isn’t close to beat human yet: the ML perspective

French session - Beginner

Everyone seems to be scared about AI taking over humanity. I don’t think so and I will present why in a Machine Learning perspective and importance of higher level consciousness. Fear is making us weak and doesn’t allow us to get a clear picture of the true challenge we are facing.

Montreal 2012 sessions