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Sciencepreneurs & Start-ups Digital | In Person English Livestream Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs

Thu | Nov 09, 2023 | 12.15 PM - 12.30 PM Berlin Time

Benoit Schillings: Breaking the Wall to Invention Machines

Falling Walls Foundation | Benoit Schillings

How Inverse Design Is Unlocking a New Era of Discovery

Generative artificial intelligence models are beginning to play a crucial role in automating creative tasks, enhancing simulations, improving content creation, enabling personalised user experiences, and revolutionising various industries. However, these advancements also bring ethical concerns, such as the potential misuse of AI-generated content for misinformation or malicious purposes, highlighting the importance of responsible development and use of this technology.

Benoit Schillings, serving as Chief Technology Officer at X, the moonshot factory, guides teams dedicated to transforming imaginative concepts into tangible prototypes, steering X’s ambitious initiatives in computing, biochemistry, generative design, and sustainable energy solutions.

At Falling Walls, Schillings will share his vision of a world where artificial intelligence is used to inspire, collaborate, and enrich our lives in a way that was never before possible.

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Benoit Schillings

X - The Moonshot Factory

Benoit, X’s Chief Technology Officer, oversees a portfolio of early-stage project teams that dream up, prototype and derisk X’s next generation of moonshots. The scientists, technologists and self described general weirdos in Benoit’s team take out-there ideas for positive world changing technologies from “what if?” to early prototype. Some of the team’s current areas of exploration include investigating the next frontiers in computing, biochemistry, inverse design and clean energy sources. Originally from Belgium, Benoit has worked in Silicon Valley for over 30 years holding senior technical roles at Yahoo, Nokia, Be.Inc and holds more than 40 U.S. and international patents related to his work in hardware and software technology. Benoit is the father of two wonderful daughters and when he’s not working on moonshots he can be found on his roof, gazing at the beauty of the night sky through his homemade telescopes.