2024 MIT x OPmobility Symposium

Félicie Burelle graduated from the ESCE Business School and holds a graduate degree in business and finance from London South Bank University, as well as an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid.

After beginning her career at the Plastic Omnium group in 2001 as accounting manager at a subsidiary of the Auto Exterior division in Madrid (Spain), Félicie Burelle moved to the Mergers & Acquisitions department of Ernst & Young Transaction Services in 2005.
In 2010, she returned to Compagnie Plastic Omnium and took over the Strategic Planning and Commercial Coordination department of the Auto Exterior division, also joining its Executive Committee.

Félicie Burelle has been a member of Burelle SA board of directors since 2013.
In 2015, she became Strategy and Development Director of Compagnie Plastic Omnium and has since been a member of its Executive Committee.
Félicie Burelle was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Compagnie Plastic Omnium on 1 January 2018 and then named Managing Director effective 1 January 2020.

Blade is an innovation and user-experience expert, Sr. Lecturer at MIT on Design-Thinking and Innovation, and provides consulting service in Design-Thinking,  Blade’s consulting services helps top brands to innovate radically on their product and services, and teaches corporate teams how to create solutions that customers love. 

Prior to that, Blade led the Advanced Concept Lab at Sonos where he defined the future experience that will fill your home with music. Prior to joining Sonos, Blade was the VP Design & Consumer Experience at Jibo, Inc. where he was in charge of the industrial-design, human-factors, user-interface, brand, packaging, web experience supporting Jibo, the world’s first social robot for the home. Blade has also designed a variety of technologies including ones at Rapid7, an enterprise security-software company,  StorytellingMachines, a software firm enabling anyone to make high-impact movies, Endeca Technologies, a search and information access software technology company, Edify and SpeechWorks, companies that provided speech-recognition solutions to the Fortune 1000.

Blade wrote the book on speech-recognition interface design (Addison Wesley, 2003), The Art and Business of Speech Recognition: Creating the Noble Voice and his work and thoughts have been featured in publications including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and on media including TechTV, NPR, and the BBC.

Since 2003, Blade has taught courses on design-thinking. He's a frequent guest lecturer at Stanford University and Harvard University, and holds a Bachelors of Science in Human-Factors Engineering from Tufts University and a Master of Science in Engineering and Management from MIT.

Bryan Reimer, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist in the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and MIT AgeLab. Bryan’s research seeks to develop theoretical and applied insight into driver behavior. His work aims to find solutions to the next generation of human factors challenges associated with driver attention management, distraction, automation and the use of advanced driver assistance systems to maximize mobility and safety. His work leverages laboratory experimentation, driving simulation, field testing, and naturalistic driving studies to develop a comprehensive understanding of visual, physiological, behavioral, and overall performance characteristics associated with how drivers respond to the increasing complexity of the modern operating environment. His research is multidisciplinary, drawing together traditional psychological methods with big data analytics in computer vision, deep learning, and predictive modeling. He is an author on over 250 technical contributions informing technology development, business strategy, and public policy.

He founded and leads three academic partnerships with industry. The Advanced Human Factors Evaluator for Attentional Demand (AHEAD) consortium, aims to develop the next generation of driver attention measurement tools. The Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) consortium, seeks to understand how drivers use emerging, commercially available vehicle technologies including advanced driver assistance systems and automated driving systems. Finally, the Clear Information Presentation (Clear-IP) consortium explores the impact of typography and other design features on usability in glance-based environments such as during driving or while using smartphones.

Recent work includes proposing deep generative models to synthesize novel high-performance designs, creating the first provably optimal algorithm for the diverse matching problem, and building computationally efficient ways for combining physics with human expert knowledge to design new products.

As Chief Technology and Cybersecurity Officer, Philippe Limantour's main mission is to lead Microsoft's strategy in France in terms of innovative technologies and cybersecurity. By virtue of his role, he is a member of the Microsoft France management committee.

In close liaison with the management committee and the various entities concerned, he represents Microsoft France on the technological level with the main government officials and major government agencies, IT departments, standardization or normalization committees as well as with the world of education and research. He is also in close liaison with Microsoft Corporation , with  Microsoft Research  and the various product groups.

Félicie Burelle graduated from the ESCE Business School and holds a graduate degree in business and finance from London South Bank University, as well as an MBA from the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid.

After beginning her career at the Plastic Omnium group in 2001 as accounting manager at a subsidiary of the Auto Exterior division in Madrid (Spain), Félicie Burelle moved to the Mergers & Acquisitions department of Ernst & Young Transaction Services in 2005.
In 2010, she returned to Compagnie Plastic Omnium and took over the Strategic Planning and Commercial Coordination department of the Auto Exterior division, also joining its Executive Committee.

Félicie Burelle has been a member of Burelle SA board of directors since 2013.
In 2015, she became Strategy and Development Director of Compagnie Plastic Omnium and has since been a member of its Executive Committee.
Félicie Burelle was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Compagnie Plastic Omnium on 1 January 2018 and then named Managing Director effective 1 January 2020.