Presenter

Mr. Sylvain Bruni is Principal Engineer and Deputy Division Director for Performance Augmentation Systems at Aptima, Inc. His technical work focuses on developing and deploying human-AI collaborative systems and technologies in defense and healthcare domains. Mr. Bruni currently supervises a multi-million-dollar portfolio of defense and civilian cognitive assistants called SIDEKICK (Systems for Interactive Discovery and Exploitation of Knowledge and Insights with Contextual Kinetics). At Aptima, he additionally provides expertise and leadership in human factors and cognitive systems engineering, design thinking, rapid prototyping, and agile methodologies (including DevOps and SAFe). Mr. Bruni holds an SM in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (Supélec, France). He is a trained SAFe Advanced Scrum Master and Product Owner, and a certified CMMI v2 Associate. Mr. Bruni is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)‭, ‬the IEEE Systems‭, ‬Man‭, ‬and Cybernetics Society‭ (IEEE-SMC), ‬the Association for Computing Machinery‭ (ACM),‬ the DoD Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group (DODHFETAG), and the G-45 Human Systems Integration (HSI) Standards Committee of SAE.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬