François Pelletier is a data science and privacy professional with an actuarial background. His experience includes research and development in the casualty insurance industry and medical data management. His expertise is in privacy-aware data life-cycle management, open-source software and open standards. He’s also a freelance consultant and casual influencer on social platforms such as LinkedIn, on topics such as technology dependencies, SaaS business models and social harms of consumer AI products. He’s also critical of gender imbalances in the tech industry, including the non-consent culture stemming from Silicon Valley and the burden of corporate AI ethics being overwhelmingly born by women. François is interested in researching the societal impacts of the adoption of generative AI by the public and the actual return of investment of large scale IT projects, and advocates for small scale, ecological and selective usage of AI technology. He is based in Lévis, Quebec and he’s from Saguenay, the blueberry and tourtière paradise.
