Jean Arnaud

Jean Arnaud is a serial entrepreneur and visionary leader at the forefront of the digital renaissance.
He co-founded several pioneering initiatives, including  NOVA, a Boston-based startup developing an AI Scientist Agent to accelerate academic and corporate research; Æthos, the largest hub for AI innovators in Cambridge (USA); and OMIA, a modular online school shaping the next generation of leaders through multidisciplinary, project-based tracks led by top university experts and industry pioneers.

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Through Digital Nexus Consultancy, he advises organizations on innovation strategy and accompanies them through to successful execution, with a focus on AI implementation, strategic and safe adoption, and ecosystem development. His work includes organizing curated events such as summits, keynote series, panel discussions, art-tech exhibitions, networking forums, think tanks, consortia, roundtables, and specialized workshops, alongside the design of high-impact innovation programs.

He supports the creation of innovation campuses, accelerators, labs, hubs, and clusters, acting as a neutral orchestrator and strategic companion. He helps companies, NGOs, governments, and academic institutions address specific challenges through targeted partnerships. His approach - grounded in highly tailored matchmaking aligned with organizational needs—leverages venture clienting, venture-studio collaboration, open-innovation workshops, and soft-landing programs, in collaboration with partners such as CIC, Xablu, and other major global firms.

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Recognized internationally as an AI thought leader, tech philosopher, Jean Arnaud has been featured in publications such as Daily Philosophy, interviews, podcasts, and on global stages such as the AI World Summit in Amsterdam, appearing alongside leading experts from Fraunhofer, MIT, Bitkom, Google, SAP, and Meta.

 

As a cyber poet and digital artist, he shapes a contemporary digital renaissance where art is conceived to be lived and experienced rather than merely observed. Through his theory of Symphonism, he traces new routes between computation, aesthetics, and critical art theory. His exhibitions and performances at Gitex, IFA, the Cambridge Innovation Center, and the NFT Factory in Paris, along with his philosophical talks at the French American Library in Boston, French Tech Berlin, and NFT NYC, underline how technology transforms traditional paradigms and opens the way to multisensorial and palimpsestic forms of art. These new modes of creation are deeper, more interactive, more immersive, and more collaborative, allowing the multiplicity of being to unfold within a dynamic, ever-evolving work that blends all artistic fields and carries expanded meaning.  He develops novel conceptual frameworks for responsible innovation, strengthened through collaborations with partners such as Paradise, Riverside, or Aixchange.  In parallel, he creates artistic and philosophical experiments that interrogate the boundaries of authorship, creativity, and augmented cognition in interdisciplinary research environments such as the X-Lab.

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Rewarded for his educational contributions in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, Jean has published thought-provoking articles on leading international platforms such as TeachThought  and has spoken at major institutions, including Harvard, MIT, and the Mission Laïque Française, as well as at global technology festivals such as SXSW.

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Driven by a profound belief that the future must be sculpted with imagination, ethics, and courage, Jean Arnaud is building bridges across disciplines - inspiring a new generation to think beyond boundaries and to create with purpose.

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"Innovation without mind and consciousness is nothing but an illusion of progress."

— Jean Arnaud