Julien Launay
CEO and co-founder
Adaptive ML
Panel Title:
Dual-Use AI:
Building for Commercial and National Security Impact
Panel Summary:
Commercial AI breakthroughs increasingly define the technology available to national security operators.
This panel examines how startups like AdaptiveML and Enigma navigate the dual-use landscape, balancing commercial traction with mission alignment, and what that means for the future of AI adoption in defense and intelligence.
About | Julien Launay
Julien Launay is the CEO and Co-founder of Adaptive ML, a startup enabling AI models to learn from experience. With dual headquarters in New York City and Paris, Adaptive ML powers Fortune 500 enterprises—including AT&T—by developing unique AI agents that seamlessly interface with enterprise systems and learn from production data.
Previously, Julien led extreme-scale research teams at HuggingFace and LightOn, where he pioneered advances in data scalability & quality, large-scale training pipelines, and principled model architectures. He is also the organizer of the Efficient Systems for Foundation Models workshop at ICML, a leading forum for discussions on scalable AI systems.