Peng Xiao

Group Chief Executive Officer

G42

About Me

Peng Xiao is a global technology and business leader with a track record of building breakthrough products, delivering customer successes, and achieving commercial results. As the Group CEO of G42, Peng is responsible for crafting the Group's business, investment and product strategies, and overseeing the operating companies across its numerous industry verticals. Previously, as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Information Officer of MicroStrategy, Peng spent a decade in the enterprise software industry working with leading technology companies. Over the years, Peng has established a global partnership ecosystem to promote joint technology advancement and business development with his counterparts at Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, AMD, Qualcomm, Meta, eBay, Citigroup, PayPal, and other Fortune 500 companies. Peng is a Council Member of the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technology Council (AIATC), a Board Member of the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) and of MGX.

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Reimagining Life in the Age of Intelligence

This isn’t just a conversation about artificial intelligence—it’s a conversation about us. About what it means to be human when intelligence becomes a utility, not a privilege. About shifting from scarcity to sufficiency, from work as survival to work as self-expression, from systems that divide to networks that unite. On VivaTech’s most iconic stage, three distinct voices at the frontier of AI and society—spanning policy, infrastructure, and cultural leadership—explore a shared imperative: to unlearn what no longer serves us and reimagine intelligence as a force for dignity, equity, and progress. In a world where AI is no longer emerging but ambient, the focus isn’t on what AI can do, but on what we must do differently to build, govern, and live with it.