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Did Gael Bernard co-found ODAIA?
Yes. ODAIA's own About page, checked 2026-10-16, lists "Gael Bernard, PhD" as Co-Founder under its Academic Founders, alongside Helen Kontozopoulos and Periklis Andritsos, with Philip Poulidis as Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder. BetaKit (2019-09-23) reported that ODAIA, founded in 2018, was spun out of the University of Toronto by professor Periklis Andritsos, adjunct professor Helen Kontozopoulos, University of Lausanne PhD student Gael Bernard and CEO Philip Poulidis. BetaKit's Series B report (2023-05-01) names the same four.
What did Gael Bernard do before ODAIA?
He was a PhD student at the University of Lausanne doing research with Periklis Andritsos. BetaKit (2019-09-23) says the idea for ODAIA came out of years-long work done at the university level by Andritsos and Bernard. Andritsos's University of Toronto page (last updated 2021-11-14) lists two best paper awards for joint work with Gael Bernard: one at ADBIS 2019 for path prediction using process mining, and one at ICPM 2021 for VisuELs, a tool for visualizing event logs.
Has Gael Bernard spoken at TechTO?
No. Co-founder Helen Kontozopoulos did, at TechTO on 2019-07-11, with a talk titled "Building AI Products for Humans."
Where is Gael Bernard based, and what is he doing now?
No fetched page states his current role or city. ODAIA's About page, checked 2026-10-16, still lists him as a co-founder under Academic Founders, but gives no operating title. The company itself has kept growing: BetaKit (2023-05-01) reported a $34 million CAD Series B co-led by Threshold Ventures and Monograph Capital, bringing total funding to about $55 million CAD.