Tuesday, January 27, 2026

January 23, 2026: Alain C. Briançon: The Synthetic Data Revolution Will Be Televised

On January 23rd Alain C. Briançon will join us. Alain is a senior executive and technologist specializing in the application of artificial intelligence to market research, data-driven decision systems, and large-scale commercial analytics. He currently serves as Vice President of Research and Data Science at Dynata, where he leads AI and data science across methodology, advertising effectiveness, brand solutions, feasibility modeling, and internal operations.

With more than 25 years of experience across market research, telecommunications, finance, and enterprise technology, Dr. Briançon has repeatedly built and scaled platforms that deliver measurable business impact. Achievements include the design of a global AI-powered pricing system for Profiles by Kantar , real-time churn and routing optimization systems for large consumer panels. He has led and deployed AI systems across finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and public sector domains. His work includes real-time churn reduction models for telecom customers, AI-driven automotive loan adjudication systems, and macroeconomic forecasting models used by the Bank of Canada to inform national interest rate decisions. He is the inventor on 90 issued patents, including 29 in artificial intelligence and machine learning, covering areas such as federated learning, privacy-preserving analytics, time-series modeling, machine learning governance, graph-enabled decision systems, and event-driven business optimization.

Dr. Briançon holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Outside of his professional work, he enjoys opera, travelling (at times to see operas), wine, and swimming.

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