Jerome Pesenti

Jerome Pesenti was most recently VP of Artificial Intelligence at Meta/Facebook, heading up the company’s AI research and applied AI teams. Jerome has been working in AI for the past 25 years, including as CEO of BenevolentTech, the technology division of BenevolentAI, a British technology company using AI to accelerate scientific discovery. Before that role, Jerome was VP at IBM Watson, where he led the creation and development of the IBM Watson Platform. Jerome joined IBM after it acquired Vivisimo, a tech firm specializing in text mining and enterprise search engines, which he co-founded in 2000.