Dominique Sciamma

Holder of a Bachelor with honours in Mathematics and a Master's Degree in Theoretical Computer Science and after an eclectic career within international companies, Dominique is the founder of the first ever design school in a university (CY Cergy Paris University) which welcomed its 130 first students in September 2021. He previously lead and directed Strate School of design for 7 years until September 2020, transforming it into the 1^st French private design school. Before leading Strate, he successively created and led its "Intelligent Systems and Objects" department and its research activity. He is now involved in an ambitious program called "Design in U" aiming creating a new network of french public design schools in universities. Always surfing on new technologies, he successively worked as an AI researcher, software developer, marketing director, head of an AI business unit in Singapore, strategist (for Bull), head of a complex problem solving team, multimedia marketing (for EDS), electronic editor (for La Tribune economic newspaper), multimedia author, CMS author (as an independent digital consultant), before passionately investing on Design pedagogy. A prominent figure in the design ecosystem in France, Dominique is a determined promoter of transformative design, through his actions, words and writings. As the former president of APCI, the main French design promotion association, he played a very active role in the Design National Conference (2019) for the implementation of a national design policy. He was a board member of the French National Design Council from 2021 to 2023.