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Ghislain Delabie

AI engineer building data infrastructure for mobility, science, media and energy — 18 years in mobility product, now leading AI Solutions at Alien Intelligence.

Chambéry, France·ghislain@alien.club·GitHub·LinkedIn

Current role

  • Head of AI Solutions

    Building the data infrastructure that connects AI agents to premium knowledge sources. Principal case studies:

    • OpenAIRE MCP — exposing 150M+ scientific publications, datasets and software records to AI agents via the Model Context Protocol.
    • Gallica / BnF — three-year partnership with the Bibliothèque nationale de France to make digitised heritage consumable by AI agents on the library's terms (the "diffuseur" model).
    • LDS / Copyfair — European Data Reservation Layer: contract-first data infrastructure preserving copyright and provenance when AI agents ingest rights-holders' content.
    • Data & AI
    • Digital services

Experience

  • 2025 – ongoing La Fabrique des Mobilités

    Data & AI expert — Mobility & Transportation

    Independent contractor delivering thematic workshops, webinars and technical expertise on mobility data and AI projects. Continuing the 30 LEV / 30 VELI programme (ADEME-backed field trial, 2023–2026) and standards-level work on MaaS and mobility data.

    • Data & AI
    • Mobility
    • Digital services
  • 2024 – ongoing Moovance

    Board Advisor

    Advisor on business development and public-sector product strategy. Leading B2G business development, stakeholder engagement, and Product Ownership of the B2G offering — roadmap, feature prioritisation, pilot supervision.

    • Mobility
    • Digital services
  • 2021 – 2024 La Fabrique des Mobilités

    Project Director — Mobility & Transportation

    Managed open-innovation programmes for sustainable mobility. Mentored a cross-functional team of five project leads and senior experts. Designed and piloted green-mobility projects with government agencies, operators, startups and NGOs — securing stakeholder buy-in, managing implementation, measuring impact.

    • moB — Mon Compte Mobilité (2021–2024): mobility/standards expert, then project director, then product owner. Platform coordinated public/private mobility services and incentives; closed January 2025 after ADEME / DGITM funding ended.
    • MaaS open standards (2021–2025): multi-year programme defining national open standards, data flows and business models for Mobility-as-a-Service in France. Barometers, working groups, roadmaps.
    • Mobility
    • Digital services

Earlier roles

  • 2018 – 2021
    CEO & Cofounder, Manwë — founded and ran a consulting firm on integrated multimodal-mobility services for urban-development projects.
  • 2015 – 2021
    Connector & Project Manager, Ouishare — collaborative projects on digital services and sustainable mobility with cities, corporates, startups and NGOs.
  • 2014 – 2015
    Project Director — Consulting, Techneo — built a new consulting line on low-carbon mobility.
  • 2012 – 2014
    Innovation Director, Deways — innovation projects with PSA, La Poste and Renault.

Skills

AI engineering — Model Context Protocol (MCP) server design and deployment · LLMs, autonomous agents · retrieval and data-contract patterns · prompt engineering with voice/tone preservation · AI code-review + security-review pipelines · Python, Pandas, scikit-learn.

Data infrastructure — open-standards design (MaaS, mobility data) · open-source stack selection and integration · telematics pipelines (MQTT → TimescaleDB → API) · data-viz (Python, notebooks, dashboards).

Product + programme direction — multi-stakeholder coordination (public + private) · governance design (open consortia, EU policy frameworks) · budget and KPI negotiation with public funders (ADEME, DGITM, DGEC).

Policy + standards — France Nation Verte digital / data roadmap · EU Data Reservation Layer consortium · AI copyright infrastructure (Copyfair).

Selected work

  • Case studies — six in-depth pieces on the projects above.
  • Repositories — OpenClassrooms AI Engineering coursework, personal technical projects, AI-enhanced professional repos.
  • Publications — reports, talks, webinars.

Speaking

Public talks and webinars at the intersection of AI, mobility and open science — DSS26 (Madrid), Tech & Fest (Grenoble), GFII and others. See Publications for the catalogue.

Credentials & affiliations

  • AFNOR — contributor to mobility standards working groups.
  • ESTACA — teaching assignments, see Teaching.
  • Challenges Top 100 — industry recognition.
  • GFII — speaking engagements on AI and information-industry topics.

Education

Languages

  • French — native
  • English — fluent (C2)
  • German — intermediate (B2)

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