LorenzoColombani I make humans and machines intelligible to each other.

Certified Lawyer (FR) · Mediator, Paris Court of Appeal · Senior Instructor, Getting More · AI Instruments Builder

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Selected work — the screens are on.

Every method I use ships as a working tool — if it can’t be used without me in the room, I haven’t finished it.

01 / Web Film

The Bridge

A cinematic web film about seven disciplines that turned out to be one job. Three.js portals, GLSL, an original score.

  • Three.js
  • GLSL
  • GSAP
  • Original Score
Open
The Bridge — title screen of the film

02 / Title Sequence

TVA Case File — “How I Am Loki”

A case file on its own author, in the language of the Loki title sequence: seven “deviations,” one timeline.

  • Web Film
  • Typography
  • Motion
Open
TVA Case File — the case folder cover

03 / Learning Platform

Data Vault Foundations — Interactive Learning Platform

14 interactive chapters covering Data Vault 2.0, SQL, dbt, EU compliance, and Python. Gamified learning experience with quests, achievements, and hands-on exercises.

  • Data Vault 2.0
  • SQL
  • dbt
  • Python
  • UX/UI
  • Education
Open
Data Vault Foundations — the chapter portal

04 / Curation · Wharton

Wharton AI Studio — Use Case Repository

Interactive showcase of 86 real-world AI use cases from the Wharton Alumni AI Studio community. Features spotlight rotation, fuzzy search, contributor profiles, and animated UI built with Astro, React, and GSAP.

  • Astro
  • React
  • GSAP
  • Wharton
Open
Wharton AI Studio — the use case repository

05 / Audio Story

Interview of Mr. Howard C. on AI

In an old western saloon, a well-learned cowboy challenges our assumptions about whether AI truly "thinks" — a philosophical journey with René Descartes.

  • AI Philosophy
  • Audio
  • Descartes
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Interview of Mr. Howard C. on AI — the SoundCloud release

Everything else

Active Listening AI

Unwind. Too many thoughts on your mind? Talk to our AI. It will actively listen to you and help you work through your thoughts without offering unsolicited advice. No clock. Free. Available 24/7.

  • Mental Health
  • AI
  • Therapy

One Thing Today

Use this tool to increase your feeling of self-reliance. Focus on accomplishing one meaningful thing each day to build momentum and confidence.

  • Productivity
  • Self-Help
  • Gamification

Star Wars Decluttering App

An engaging, interactive Star Wars-themed decluttering app offering actionable advice for physical and digital organization. Integrates strategies from Dana K. White's "Decluttering at the Speed of Life" and Cal Newport's "Digital Minimalism".

  • Gamification
  • Productivity
  • Minimalism

Can You Understand an Email?

Based on groundbreaking scientific research by Kruger, Epley, Parker, and Zhi-Wen Ng, this mini-website turns their world-famous paper on communication illusions into a tangible minigame.

  • Research
  • Communication
  • Game

Privacy Protection (Meta-Data Eraser)

Protect your privacy and personal data by using this meta-data erasing webapp. Remove hidden information from your files before sharing.

  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Data Protection

iOS Assistant for Senior Citizens

A French webapp teaching iOS basics for seniors: swipe gestures, sending emails, messaging apps, intro to phishing and scamming, and basic troubleshooting.

  • Education
  • Accessibility
  • French

Multicultural Job Applicants Guide

Sometimes we lose great talents because of cultural misunderstanding. This tool takes you on a short, impactful journey to discover why — and how to fix it.

  • HR
  • Cross-Cultural
  • Hiring

Text Readability Guide

Write more impactful sentences. A concise one-pager with practical tips for clearer, more effective written communication.

  • Writing
  • Communication
  • Guide

Easy Local LLM Guide

A website explaining what local LLMs are, how they protect your privacy, and easy-to-follow guides for installing the most popular ones on Mac.

  • AI
  • Privacy
  • Tutorial

Gamification Helper Tool

An interactive tool inspired by Yu-Kai Chou's Octalysis framework from "Actionable Gamification". Design engaging experiences using the 8 Core Drives of human motivation.

  • Gamification
  • Octalysis
  • Design

What it Feels Like

It's difficult to understand depression from an outsider's perspective. Play this idle game — for fun, or to broaden your horizons. Desktop version functional.

  • Empathy
  • Education
  • Game

ThinkH+ Think Tank

Founded and led a think tank focused on AI governance and human augmentation regulation. Submitted formal recommendations to France's National Ethics Committee and contributed to the Villani Mission on AI.

  • Ethics
  • Public Policy
  • Regulation

Policy & Regulation Portfolio

Comprehensive collection of policy analysis work on AI governance, technology regulation, and human augmentation frameworks.

  • Policy Analysis
  • Governance
  • Research

Empathic AI for Mental Healthcare

Developing voice and facial-recognition empathic AI through Wharton AI Studio and Hume.ai grant programs.

  • Hume.ai
  • Mental Health
  • AI

OpenAI Forum Paris

Launched and lead the Paris OpenAI Forum community, achieving 90% attendance at the inaugural event with cross-industry participation.

  • Community Building
  • Events
  • AI

What is it Like to be French?

In modern day Paris, Socrates meets Emma and Vincent, who have diverging opinions about what "being French" means. A re-imagined Socratic dialogue.

  • Philosophy
  • Audio
  • Creative

A Demonstration of the 3D Data Vault Mechanism

A rendered 3D demonstration of how Data Vault loads data: tables materialize from motes, records flow through a transformation gate, and reform as an information mart — with an original procedural score.

  • Three.js
  • Data Vault 2.0
  • Original Score

Process Automation Workflows

Collection of iOS Shortcuts and automation workflows designed to streamline daily tasks and boost productivity.

  • iOS Shortcuts
  • Automation
  • Productivity

Process Optimization at MCR Groupe

Redesigned workflows using Lean principles, achieving a 94.4% reduction in task completion time through algorithmic optimization.

  • Lean
  • Efficiency
  • Automation

Corporate Training Gamification

Designed and delivered negotiation training programs using gamification principles for organizations from startups to CAC 40 companies.

  • Training Design
  • Engagement
  • UX

Written & published

  1. Medium · 2026

    Aristotle Was a Data Engineer

    Aristotle's Categories mapped onto Data Vault 2.0 — substance, relation and accident as Hubs, Links and Satellites. With a companion video and interactive simulation.

  2. ResearchGate · 2025 Revised Edition

    Why is France So Conflictive?

    Independent study on French negotiation culture, supervised by Stuart Diamond at UPenn Law School.

  3. Dalloz, AJ Contrats · 2018

    Le déséquilibre significatif dans les contrats commerciaux

    A new tool against GAFAs: Analysis of significant imbalance in commercial contracts.

  4. Revue Française de Gestion · 2017

    Responsabilité sociale des entreprises

    Global and technological stakes of corporate social responsibility.

  5. Academia.edu · 38,000+ views

    Philosophy Papers on Academia.edu

    Academic work in philosophy of science and technology.

  6. Medium Blog

    Medium Articles

    Covering the intersection of AI, Policy, Law and Philosophy.

  7. Chief Editor · ThinkH+

    Brainstorm Law Review

    Featuring field experts, lawyers and various stakeholders on AI and human augmentation.

The file

2018 – 2019

Master of Laws (LL.M.)

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

  • Fulbright Scholarship recipient
  • Dean's Scholarship
  • Wharton Executive Leadership coursework
  • U.S. Army War College crisis negotiation simulation

2010 – 2016

Master's Degree

Sciences Po Paris

  • Global Governance, Political Science & Business Law
  • Graduated Cum Laude

2010 – 2014

Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)

Université Paris-Sorbonne

  • Philosophy of Science & Technology
  • Magna Cum Laude (Mention Bien)

2012 – 2013

Exchange Program

University of Pittsburgh

  • Philosophy of Science & Technology
  • GPA: 4.0

Licenses, Certifications & Awards

  • Certified Data Vault 2.1 Practitioner (CDVP2.1)Data Vault Alliance · 2026
  • Data Warehouse — The Ultimate GuideUdemy · 2026
  • Complete SQL & Databases BootcampUdemy · 2026
  • License to Practice Law (CAPA)École de Formation du Barreau · 2018
  • Fulbright ScholarshipFranco-American Fulbright Commission · 2019
  • Penn-Wharton Innovation AwardUniversity of Pennsylvania · 2019
  • No-Code Agent BuildingAgentman · 2025
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner IScrum.org · 2023
  • Professional Scrum Master IScrum.org · 2023
  • Psychoanalytic Diagnostics & EI CommunicationInstitute for Modern Psychoanalysis · 2018

Where the work happened

2026

Business Intelligence Consultant (Intern)

Scalefree International GmbH — Hanover

BI consultant-track internship at Europe's leading Data Vault consultancy. Integrated source systems into the enterprise data warehouse on Google BigQuery, performed data modeling with Data Vault 2.0, and contributed technical articles and subject-matter presentations.

2025 — Present

Board Member

Wharton Alumni AI Studio

Spearheaded "AI, Applied." — convened 15 contributors to curate 86 real-world AI use cases referencing 89+ AI tools — and single-handedly built its public showcase site. Founded and lead the "AI – Law and Regulation" think-tank, publishing policy and governance reports.

2025 — 2026

Paris Forum Leader

OpenAI

Launched the OpenAI Forum community in France from zero as solo founder — first event live within two weeks of contact, at 90% attendance — then built and led the five-person team running monthly events, with a knowledge-management system designed for zero coordination overhead.

2024 — Present

Mediator

Paris Court of Appeal

Official mediator for the Paris Court of Appeal, facilitating dispute resolution in complex cases and applying advanced negotiation frameworks to bring parties to consensus.

2022 — 2026

Founder & Principal Consultant

Make Working Fun

Negotiation consulting and training practice built on Getting More, Stuart Diamond's Wharton methodology — recognized Senior Instructor by Getting More Inc. Coached executives on transactions, labor disputes and career transitions; taught at ESCP, GEMA and Groupe IGS; developed a multimodal empathic-AI healthcare tool with Hume.ai and the Wharton AI Studio.

2022 — 2023

Professor

ESCP Business School

Designed and delivered courses on European Institutions, Comparative Political Systems and International Business Law to international cohorts of 30–60 students — interactive materials, gamified assessment, in-person and virtual delivery.

2019 — 2022

Chief Learning Officer

MCR Groupe

Rose from Negotiation Consultant to Chief Learning Officer at a boutique HR consultancy: delivered 300+ training sessions to CAC 40 companies and SMEs, guided a nine-month judiciary-mandated collective-bargaining renegotiation, rebuilt the firm's knowledge base, automated its Qualiopi certification workflow for a 94.4% reduction in task time, and launched its negotiation practice with former RAID chief negotiator Christophe Caupenne.

2015 — 2019

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

ThinkH+

Founded France's first think tank on human augmentation law and AI ethics. Secured a €100,000 L'Oréal mécénat commitment, contributed a legal memorandum cited in Cédric Villani's national AI report, successfully petitioned France's National Ethics Committee, and published the Brainstorm Law Review.

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