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Pierre is leading the Big Data Analytics project of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. He is also responsible for the JRC Big Data Platform (JEODPP), a versatile multi-petabyte scale platform focusing on geospatial data and any data associated with a location. The scope of the platform is to ease the transformation of big data streams into policy relevant information. In this context, AI is playing an increasing role while posing a series of new challenges.