What do a studio partnered with a French banking group, a consultant from a major British auditing firm and a Quebec AI conglomerate all have in common? In order to help you keep up with the latest in chatbots and artificial intelligence, here are 10 influencers--both French- and English-speaking--that you should definitely be following! An expert in new technologies, digital tools, and Information and Communication Sciences, Maria Johnsen offers you numerous tips to improve your business through innovations in AI and chatbots. A Business Development Leader & Management Consultant in the auditing division of PricewaterhouseCoopers, he posts tweets chock-full of figures, infographics and charts on all topics related to artificial intelligence. Her expertise in Customer Relations and Big Data is well-established: Tamara has been named one of the Top 25 Influencers in the fields of AI and machine learning.

When Michael Litt and Devon Galloway launched Vidyard, they knew the market in which they wanted to compete--but, as often happens with start-ups, they didn't yet know the best way to do it. Back in 2009, Litt was interning at Cypress Semiconductor in California while pursuing an engineering degree at the University of Waterloo. It was his job to find production studios that could create customer-service videos for Cypress's website, but he found that the studios charged exorbitant prices for low-quality product. Litt's idea was simple: make better and cheaper videos for corporate clients. To continue reading this article, you must be a Globe Unlimited subscriber. Click here to get full access to Globe Unlimited.