Engineering Ethics biographies

After building an international career in capital markets, Renaud Champion created PRIMNEXT, an expertise company specialized in valuing disruptive technologies and investing in as well as accelerating startups operating in Advanced Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Through PRIMNEXT, Renaud Champion founded and managed Robolution Capital, the first venture capital fund dedicated to Robotics & AI in the world. He was involved in the definition of several national robotics roadmaps and he has been an active board member of a dozen startups in this field.

Renaud is currently Executive Director of Emerging Intelligences at EMLYON Business School, in charge of designing and implementing the strategy on Artificial Intelligence. He is also Director of euRobotics AISBL, the European Association of Robotics acting as the private side of SPARC, the Public-Private-Partnership for Robotics in Europe, and an independent expert for the European Commission on innovation and investment.

An engineer fascinated by new technologies, Renaud Champion is particularly interested in the ethical, legal, socio-economic issues linked to Robotics and AI. He is in particular expert-member of the IEEE Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.