Antoine Rostand is a leading energy and climate entrepreneur and most recently President and Co-Founder of Kayrros, the world leader in actionable earth observation applications for businesses and policymakers, serving more than 100 Fortune 500 and large governmental institutions globally.

Kayrros leverage AI to process and analyze tens of terabytes of satellite imagery daily and monitor physical risks such as wildfire and flooding risks, energy supply chains, biomass and biodiversity, industrial activity and greenhouse-gas emissions –all in near-realtime. Kayrros produces both standardized data of proven accuracy that are widely used for trading and risk management purposes as well as bespoke, proprietary measurements tailored to the special needs of large industrial, financial and government actors.

Kayrros data solutions have been adopted by many of the world's largest financial institutions, insurers and governments to foster their resilience and adaptation to climate change, facilitate renewable integration into the grid, promote energy efficiency and security, and understand and reduce their climate footprint.

Antoine was nominated by Business Insider among the Top 5 people in artificial-intelligence sustainability and by illuminem among the Top 10 Most-Read Thought Leaders of 2024 in climate change.

Since its founding in Paris in 2016, Kayrros has been honoured with a number of awards. Kayrros was recently named among SpaceX, Microsoft and Google DeepMind as one of the world’s Top 100 Most Influential Companies by TIME magazine.

Prior to Kayrros, Antoine was the founding president of the Schlumberger Energy Institute, a non-profit now known as Energy Transition Institute | Kearney, as well as Schlumberger Business Consulting, which he built into one of the leading international energy-sector management consultancy firms. Antoine is a graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and has served in Commando Hubert, the French Navy Seals unit.