Samir RINAZ — Biography

Samir RINAZ is a French educator, technology leader and adviser to business leaders. He heads ETNA, a French computing school offering work-study programmes, having previously led its academic provision for many years. For nearly twenty years, he has worked at the intersection of technology education, business and innovation, guided by a constant conviction: technologies prove their worth when they transform human and collective capabilities.

Behind the leader, educator and adviser remains a curious technologist: someone who often prefers opening the machine to settling for its instruction manual. His years in technology have left Samir RINAZ with a practical relationship to systems: testing, prototyping, understanding why things work, where they break and what they really change for the people who use them. This culture of making runs through his approach to innovation: the point is never merely to comment on technology, but to test it against reality.

A graduate of Epitech, where he obtained a Master “Expert en Technologies de l’Information” qualification and an Executive MBA in IT management and entrepreneurship, he has devoted much of his career to developing people who can understand systems, build, learn quickly and find their place in the digital economy. His involvement in the start-up ecosystem, notably as a mentor at CTO Partners, extends this focus on real uses, entrepreneurial journeys and the practical conditions for scaling.

Alongside his academic responsibilities, Samir RINAZ advises executive committees, C-level leaders and founding teams in both large groups and start-ups. An expert affiliated with think tanks and consulting firms, he works on technological transformation, organisational models and the practical conditions for adopting artificial intelligence. This proximity to decision-makers informs an understanding of current changes that is both strategic and operational.

With *The Agentic Enterprise*, Samir RINAZ gives shape to reflections born of this dual experience: education and organisations facing profound technological disruption. He approaches artificial intelligence neither as a trend nor as a mere productivity tool, but as a transformation of coordination, memory, management and responsibility.

His writing seeks less to predict the future than to give leaders, managers and organisational designers the concepts they need to avoid being at its mercy.