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Christian Roy

President, Brix Labs

Christian Roy is the project coordinator and main researcher for Projet TAMIS. He has worked on many projects combining cultural content metadata, algorithms and technology. He is also the founder and CEO of Hercules.report, a market intelligence tool for book professionals. He was previously VP of technologies at De Marque, a leading Canadian vendor of ebook distribution solutions.

Christian's Sessions

Using AI to Address the Discoverability Challenge

MaRS Discovery District
How do we discover books? Sometimes we ask people (bookstore and library staff, journalists, friends, family), but more often than not, we ask search engines (“thriller Brazil,” “kids’ books dragons”) But these tools rely on the way books are described. Is the book actually labelled as a thriller? Do we know that the plot takes […]
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