Valérie Bécaert

Valérie is the Sr Director of Research at ServiceNow Research. She oversees the AI Research team since 2017, building the team from the initial group of 5 researchers at the Montreal Startup ElementAI to the scientific innovation machine that is now ServiceNow Research. She holds a PhD from Polytechnique Montreal in Chemical Engineering and has broad experience across academic research and tech transfer including previous roles such as:

Executive director of CIRAIG, a research center in Life Cycle Assessment, bringing the latest development in the LCA field to industry.

Director and co-founder of CIRODD, a research center in sustainable development, bridging engineering, design and social science to operationalize sustainability in various industries.

Executive director of IVADO an organization bringing together industry professionals and academic researchers to develop cutting-edge expertise in data science, operational research and artificial intelligence.