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Sébastien SchneiderSS

Sébastien Schneider

AI Program Director / AI Strategy / Innovation

€850/day
Paris, FR
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Sébastien

Former Bpifrance, Former Société Générale, now co-founder and CTO of Brayn AI, and founder & private investor of Tech-in-Landes Capital.

I help general management, CIOs, and business units transform generative AI into concrete results: framing strategy, identifying high-ROI use cases, industrializing initial prototypes, and structuring governance (risks, compliance, ethics).

18 years in a regulated banking environment, including the creation of Bpifrance's Ideation Factory and the group-wide management of its Generative AI foundation.

By 2026, 80% of AI initiatives will stagnate at the Proof of Concept stage. Why?

Lack of governance, non-scalable infrastructure, or absence of alignment with business value streams.

For organizations managing multi-million euro budgets, the risk is no longer technical, it's systemic: how to organize multi-agent systems without losing control or exploding costs?

I act as an AI Strategy Consultant / AI Project Director to transform innovation into an industrial asset.

My approach is based on a unique dual culture: cutting-edge agility and institutional rigor.
> Evangelization: AI Diagnosis concerning the technical and organizational maturity of companies to integrate the technology, Awareness on Generative AI for all business units
> AI Strategy & Governance: Technical and ethical framing for deploying secure AI (AI Act Compliance).
> Instruction Process: Proven methodology to move from idea to prototype, then to industrialization
> Large-Scale Leadership: Management of complex programs, ensuring value stream fluidity.

Whatever the size of your company, whether you need shared technical leadership or are structuring your AI factory, I bring a sovereign and results-oriented vision.

Ready to industrialize your AI transformation?

Let's discuss your challenges.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 10km), Bordeaux (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Brayn AI
    Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    September 2025 - Today (11 months)
    Casablanca, Morocco
    Strategic Framing & AI Readiness: Audit of technological maturity and definition of master plans, AI strategy to align AI investments with business ROI objectives.

    AI Governance: Building ethical and secure reference frameworks (Secure by Design) to oversee agent autonomy and ensure data sovereignty.

    AI Industrialization (PoC to Scale): Management of the complete lifecycle of solutions (LLM Ops) and transformation of prototypes into industrial assets.

    Change Management & Adoption Support: Management of organizational transformation, awareness sessions for Executive Committees and business units to help build an AI strategy and AI roadmap, Agentic AI, and ensure optimal adoption rates and measurable productivity gains.

    Tech & AI Due Diligence: Assessment of the technological robustness and defensibility of AI assets for investment funds and strategic departments.
    Generative AI Program Management CTO AI Strategy Change Management & Transformation
  • Tech-in-Landes CAPITAL
    Founder and CEO
    PRIVATE EQUITY
    July 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
    Labouheyre, France
    Investment Strategy: Creation and structuring of a personal Venture Capital fund integrating a Venture Studio model dedicated to the industrialization of sovereign and agentic deep tech solutions.

    Tech & AI Due Diligence: Assessment of the technological robustness and "AI Readiness" of startups to secure investments and strategic directions of holdings.

    Support: Operational coaching of executives on IT architecture, deployment of technological roadmaps, and optimization of Time-to-Market through generative AI, AI agents, or automation.

    Ecosystem Orchestration & Synergies: Building a coherent network of holdings to maximize value creation and the overall ROI of the portfolio.
    Innovation Management Consulting Advisory Start-up Artificial Intelligence
  • Bpifrance
    Creator and Head of the Ideation Factory
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    July 2023 - September 2025 (2 years and 2 months)
    Maisons-Alfort, France
    Creator and Head of the AI Ideation Factory (Bpifrance)

    AI Governance & Industrialization: Design and deployment of a proprietary methodological framework to transform innovation into an industrial asset. Implementation of a delivery pipeline to secure project scaling. Assistance in defining AI strategy based on business units and use cases.

    Incubation Management (PoC to Scale): Strategic support for intrapreneurs, from ideation to functional prototyping and funding. Constant focus on economic viability and technological ROI.

    International & Multi-shore Lab Management: Creation and management of an innovation hub overseeing 3 "Digital Factories" (France, Tunisia, India) to optimize development cycles and production costs (FinOps).

    Track Record & Performance: Review and supervision of approximately 300 experiments, a majority of which are in AI covering all banking business lines (Credit, Insurance, Retail).

    Business Owner Generative AI Foundation & Thought Leadership

    AI Strategy, Product & LLM Ops: Definition of the Generative AI Foundation's service offering. Management of critical business process automation (Credit granting, Document analysis, Compliance/KYC) through the integration of language models (LLM) into production.

    Governance & Risks: Overall framing of ethical, legal, and security impacts (Secure-by-design). Definition of human supervision policies (Human-in-the-loop) for the secure deployment of autonomous AI solutions and agents in a regulated banking environment.

    Thought Leadership & Influence: Bpifrance representative for digital think tanks (CIGREF, Innovation Makers Alliance). Speaker on innovation and Generative AI and agentics at major events (APIDays, Big Bpifrance, CDAO).
    Generative AI Innovation Management AI Governance Agentic AI AI Strategy

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Education

  • Engineer
    École Française d'Électronique et d'Informatique
    2007
    Ingénieur

Certifications

  • TOGAF 9
    The Open Group
    SI Urbanization
  • Project Manager Professional - PMP
    Project Mangement Institute - PMI
    Project Management Project Management

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