Hugues Vinet is Director of Innovation and Research Means of IRCAM. He has managed all research, development and innovation activities at IRCAM since 1994. He co-founded and ran for several terms the STMS (Science and Technology of Music and Sound) joint lab with French Ministry of Culture, CNRS and Sorbonne Université. He previously worked at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales of National Institute of Audiovisual in Paris where he managed the research and designed the first versions of the award winning real-time audio processing GRM Tools product. He has coordinated many collaborative R&D projects including recently H2020 VERTIGO in charge of the STARTS Residencies program managing 45 residencies of artists with technological research projects throughout Europe. He is currenty IRCAM's PI for EU MediaFutures project (artistic residencies for innovation in media) and DAFNE+ project dedicated to creatives' communities based on blockchain/NFT/DAO. He also curates the Vertigo Forum art-science yearly symposium at Centre Pompidou. He participates in various bodies of experts in the fields of audio, music, multimedia, information technology and innovation.