Stéphane Gagnon is Associate Professor in Business Technology Management in the Administrative Sciences Department of the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). In 2001, he obtained his PhD in Business Administration from the Université du Québec à Montréal, specializing in Technology Management and Strategy. His research is focused on analytics and intelligent systems applied to cybersecurity and the fight against disinformation and corruption.

Rosecape cofounder, Nicholas is a software developer and architect of intelligent solutions that transform the way SMEs use and organize their data. He designs and develops platforms that combine cloud infrastructure, automation and artificial intelligence, with a focus on performance, security and scalability. At Rosecape, he’s in charge of creating systems that help businesses modernize their technological architecture and fully utilize their data. Artificial intelligence being at the heart of the next software revolution, he designs systems built for tomorrow’s challenges.

Hamed Motaghi is Associate Professor in Business Technology Management at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). Before that, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Marketing of the Desaultels Faculty of Management at McGill University. He holds a PhD with distinction on the relationship between creativity and information technologies from a joint doctoral program in administration, in Montréal. He was also a lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montréal, notably on technological innovation, adjunct lecturer at HEC Montréal in the Department of Management, and adjunct professor at Lawrence Technological University, in Michigan, USA. His research interests include information systems management, innovation and creativity, creative and cultural industries, IT-driven transformations, disruptive technologies, and the internationalization processes of businesses.

Cofounder of Rosecape, Sébastien helps businesses extract concrete and actionable insights from their data systems. As an expert in data science, he specializes in data modelling, business intelligence and artificial intelligence to help organizations structure, analyze and value their data on a large scale. He builds custom solutions that position data and business intelligence at the core of strategic planning.

Active in the field of intellectual property for more than 12 years, André Merizzi has been specializing himself in the development of patent portfolios related to high technology innovations, such as computer technologies, optics and telecommunication systems, but also patent portfolios pertaining to construction products and industrial processes. As a Physicist, André always aims to understand the fundamental principles underlying the inventions he aims to protect, in order to fully understand the various technical and technological features leading to the unique commercial advantages offered by these inventions. Through strategic international claims and repositories, André first seeks to optimize the legal positioning of his clients so as to maximize the added value of their patent portfolio, by bearing in mind the budget available for the development of their portfolio.