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My 
Work 

He has done nothing, who has not sought to accomplish something greater than oneself.

 — Jean Arnaud 

As a consultant 

As an AI advisor and innovation strategist, I have worked across multiple roles through Digital Nexus Consultancy, supporting organisations in responsible AI, ecosystem building, and cross-sector innovation. This includes my work as co-founder of Æthos, a hub for responsible AI connected to the Cambridge/MIT ecosystem and later expanded to Berlin, as well as my role as Director of Innovation at the Cambridge Innovation Center, where I supported international growth and program development. In this capacity, I built bridges between academia, industry, and government, collaborated with key ecosystem partners, and shaped multidisciplinary initiatives, advisory programs, and strategic collaborations across Europe and the United States.

I have organised conferences on AI and ethics, AI and education, AI and the arts, AI sovereignty, and AI and democracy, in collaboration with representatives from Fraunhofer, MIT, Bitkom, SAP, Meta, and Google. I have spoken at international events such as the AI World Summit in Amsterdam and the Investment Summit in Tirana, and I have coordinated global hackathons in more than ten cities with partners including UNESCO, Lovable, n8n, the MIT Sundial Club, and AI Tinkerers.

Jean Arnaud AI_Berlin Hub Launch CIC Senator Giffey Berlin Partner Æthos Nova Digital Nexus Consultancy AI KI Berlin

With Berlin Partner, for 

AI_Berlin Launch 

@CIC

Jean Arnaud Akshi Tirana Albania AI

With AKSHI, investment summit, under the high patronage of the prime minister and Ursula Von Der Layen

@Palace of congress

Jean Arnaud AI Paradise Think Tank Media Lab Digital Renaissance Worldwide Music And AI AFEM

Future of Music Think Tank with Paradise Worldwide, AFEM and AIxchange, SeeqNC

@CIC Berlin

Haikathon 

With Sundai Club MIT

@Schoolab Paris + 10 cities.

Panel AI and Sovereignty with Fraunhofer, SAP, Bitkom

@CIC

Transatlantic dinner

With Tim Rowe, Rainer Seider and many more

@CIC

Having visionary ideas is never enough. Only when they are executed with precision and embodied in reality can they alter what we once believed unchangeable.

                                                                        — Jean Arnaud 

As a Tech-entrepreneur

I am a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of Nova, a company that aims to accelerate academic and corporate research with the assistance of artificial intelligence (AI). I live between Sophia Antipolis (France), Berlin (Germany), and San Francisco. I have had the chance to speak at different venues and institutions, such as SXSW,  Harvard, and MIT about the future of AI-empowered research and the future of higher education and K-12 schools. I I also developed an AI-Tutor for an educational group called Open Mind and its educational laboratory, aiming to transform education. I believe that technology should have a significant impact, and because education is the very foundation of the ideal society we want to achieve, I strive to make education more efficient through knowledge application and personalized to help each student realize their true potential through technology.

Nova

The future of Research empowered by AI

Jean Arnaud AI Yann Lecun

With Yann Lecun 

@Northeastern University

Jean Arnaud Harvard XR AI NOVA GMonk

G-Monk

@Harvard XRxAI

Jean Arnaud AI Nova Boston French Tech Boston

With my co-panelists 

@Akeneo, Boston. 

Jean Arnaud Quantum Alice And Bob MIT Nova CIC Cambridge Boston Aethos Quantum technology

@CIC, Cambridge.

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With Yvonne Hao

@Imagination in action, MIT

With my co-panelists

@SXSW

Jean Arnaud MIT Technology Review Nova AI education Ed Tech research IA AI

@MIT Technology Review

Jean Arnaud SXSW Edu Austin Nova AI Metaverse

@SXSWedu, Austin. 

Jean Arnaud Nova AI Jason Palmer President

With Jason Palmer

@GSV+ASU Summit, San diego

Jean Arnaud and Manolis Kellis MIT

With Prof. Manolis Kellis

@MIT

Jean Arnaud AI Faccne Boston

With Team France

@FACCNE Awards

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Panel Discussion AI and Education

@MIT

Education is about helping individuals reach their true potential and guiding them to collectively contribute to something greater: humanity.

 — Jean Arnaud

As a professor

and an educator

As a professor and educator, I have continued my exploration of AI and the impact of new technologies like the metaverse by leading various projects in digital, immersive, and interactive environments. These initiatives include teaching Latin, history, and philosophy in ancient Rome, making the experience more engaging and dynamic by enabling dialogues with AI-embodied smart avatars of figures such as Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Marcus Aurelius.

I have also spearheaded hands-on projects for active learning and participated in the creation of innovative, interdisciplinary modules that emphasize philosophy to develop critical thinking and art to foster creativity. My projects have included the development of video games, digital songs, movies, 3D interactive sculptures in the metaverse, and painting in VR. Additionally, I developed an entrepreneurship program where students prepared and pitched their entrepreneurial projects during a Shark Tank-style event, with eminent experts serving as the jury.

I have been awarded several times for the quality of my teaching and my innovation by France, Uk and USA.

Open Mind International Academy

The Future of Education: AI mentors (powered by Nova) and Immersive-Interactive Environments in VR.

Open Mind International Academy

The Future of Education: AI Smart Iconic Mentor Avatars like Julius Caesar for History, Marcus Aurelius for Philosophy, or Einstein for Physics.

Jean Arnaud Education professor AI book Award

Write a book with AI

@ISB

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The Future will be built at Yale.

@ISB

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Shark Tank 10-11th grade

Jean Arnaud HArvard

 With Steve Owens

@Harvard

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Apple vision pro

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@ the center of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute

Boston

Art is what gives the world its soul.

 — Jean Arnaud

As a writer and artist

As a writer and artist, I investigate the inner forces that shape the creative act and the ontological metamorphosis awakened through the demiurgic gesture. My work explores how emerging technologies deepen the artistic experience, not only for the creator but also for the spectator, who increasingly becomes a collaborator contributing to the intensification of aesthetic meaning.

Recognized as one of the leading voices of the digital renaissance, I design symphonic and palimpsestic experiences in which multiple layers of significance unfold within the unity of a single work. I have articulated this vision in conferences devoted to Trophies, Soliloquies, and my multilayered 3D metaverse sculpture Prometheus the Dawnbringer, alongside dynamic explorations that exist in physical form, digital form, or through AI-assisted co-creation. I have exhibited my work across international platforms and leading innovation arenas, including CIC, Gitex, IFA, AI for Good, NFT NYC, the NFT Factory in Paris, as well as in traditional galleries throughout Berlin. Alongside these exhibitions, I have delivered numerous talks and creative workshops on AI and the arts, and I have contributed articles to specialized publications such as AI Magazine, where I explore the philosophical and aesthetic implications of emerging technologies.

I hold that no critics are more insightful than artists themselves. Only they can speak from the inner frontiers of creation, drawing upon the invisible intuitions, fragile whispers, and tectonic shifts encountered along their path. From this lived experience emerges a philosophical depth that cannot be simulated.

The future of art will be dynamic, multisensorial, polyphonic, immersive, interactive, and collaborative. It will unfold as an ever-evolving field mirroring the world’s profound becoming. Art will no longer be merely seen — it will be experienced, inhabited, and co-shaped, a living threshold between sensibility, technology, and the multiplicity of being.

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Avec Gaëtan Bruel

@Villa Albertine, NYC

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@SXSW, Austin

Jean Arnaud NFT New York City Panel Ai and Art

With my co-panelists

@NFT NYC

Jean Arnaud art exhibition Berlin art gallery

Art exhibition 

@Berlin 

Jean Arnaud AI for good summit AI and Art

Art exhibition 

@AI for Good summit

Jean arnaud And Jerry Saltze Art and AI
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Avec Jerry Saltz, Artnews

@NYC

@NFT NYC

Jean Arnaud NFT NYC Art and AI

@NFT NYC

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Art exhibition The digital Renaissance

@CIC

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Art exhibition 

@IFA Berlin

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@ATTN Live,  NYC

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@French Library, Boston.

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@Artech, Miami

Jean Arnaud AI Art performance Gitex Berlin

Art Performance

@Gitex

Jean Arnaud French Tech Berlin

Round table AI and Creativity

@French Embassy Berlin

Art exhibition

@AI for Good summit

Art exhibition: Future of Art: The digital renaissance

@IFA

Roundtable AI and Creativity

@French Embassy Berlin 

True innovation arises when a full ecosystem unites in collaborative intelligence around a common purpose.

 — Jean Arnaud

Community

Development

As a committed member of the local community, I have embraced multiple roles aimed at fostering innovation and supporting future generations. As a board member of French Tech Boston, I organize events, cultivate strategic partnerships, and help energize the regional tech ecosystem. My engagement extends to the Cambridge Rotary Club, where I support students in securing tuition assistance and gaining access to some of the world’s leading universities.

I also serve on the board of Blockchain Innov, where I contribute to shaping high-level technology events, including programs at the WAICF in Cannes. As a founding team member of Æthos, the AI hub located at the heart of global innovation within CIC-MIT, I work to advance responsible AI development, build a vibrant ecosystem of collaboration, and cultivate a community that brings together researchers in responsible AI, founders, investors, industry leaders, and forward-thinking voices shaping the future of the field.

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With my co-founders Sam Rowe and Andrea. 

@CIC, Cambridge

Yi-An Jean Arnaud Rotary Harvard Cambridge

With Yi-An

@Harvard

Jean Arnaud French Tech Boston Board Member AI Nova MIT

With French Tech Boston

@CIC, Cambridge

Siemens Metaverse

@MIT Media Lab

With Lori Glover, Warren Wilson, Brian Potts

@MIT CSAIL

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@Maison de France, Cambridge

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