Virginie Galindo

Biography

Virginie Galindo is in charge of promoting innovation at Thales, in the field of identity and security. With a PhD in physics, she has been working in the security field for 20 years. Her various positions have led her to explore many aspects of security, from hardware to software, always with an innovative angle. Her current favorite topics are machine learning, the cloud, new forms of identity, and innovations to protect data, software and systems. Virginie is also a speaker, teacher and blogger.

Conference: Is digital technology orchestrating our lives?

All you have to do is log on, and the information is there, available at the click of a button. We consume it, produce it, falsify it, voluntarily or not, and exponentially increase its volume on the web. This canvas seemed fine and fluid when it was first conceived, but we are gradually losing its contours, thickness and real consistency. Artificial intelligence seizes on data and wields it with ever greater dexterity, ostensibly to simplify our lives. But is it really? Have we adapted to this frenzy, this quest for absolute responsiveness, this instantaneous exchange? Is our thirst to learn, progress and win satisfied or saturated? Are we reduced to digital signatures, combinations of data made available to authorized users? Do we need a digital ruler to orchestrate our daily lives, to manage our planet’s resources, and even those of other celestial bodies?