Kat Borlongan

Kat currently leads the French Tech Mission, a government-led taskforce built to bolster the La French Tech, France’s startup ecosystem. She is the co-founder of boutique innovation agency Five by Five, that builds innovation teams inside organizations of all stripes, ranging from the World Bank to Google. Prior to this, she was the Techstars Entrepreneur-in-residence, Director of the Open Data Institute Paris, a Google product strategy expert, communication strategist at the United Nations and member of the French government’s first Open Data Expert Committee.