Published on February 18, 2025–Updated on February 20, 2025
Dates
from February 13, 2025 to February 15, 2025
Location
Palais des festivals et des congrès de Cannes
Les équipes du 3IA Côte d'Azur au WAICF 2025
Last week, 3IA Côte d’Azur researchers and staff had the pleasure to welcome both professional and amateur audiences, at its stand alongside its partners Centrale Méditerranée, CNRS Côte d'Azur, École de l'air et de l'espace, EURECOM, Centre Inria d’Université Côte d’Azur, Inserm, SKEMA Business School, and the 3IAs awarded the IA-cluster label ANITI Toulouse, MIAI Cluster IA, PR[AI]RIE-PSAI.
▸During the event, the teams had the opportunity to present their work to prestigious visitors:
Clara Chappaz, Ministre Déléguée chargée de l’Intelligence Artificielle et du Numérique
Bruno Sportisse, Inria Chairman and CEO
Laurent Counillon, Université Côte d'Azur Vice-President Research and Innovation
Maureen Clerc, Inria Centre of Université Côte d'Azur Director
▸Ambitious start-ups explain their projects:
AICO Technology by Edgar Lemaire, Co-founder & CEO
eyeNAV Robotics by Laurence Cottaz, CNRS Transfer Engineer
Facila by Valeriya Strizhkova, 3IA Côte d’Azur PhD student
FAIR VISION by Jean-Michel Felderhoff, CEO, and Billel Midouni, Computer Vision / Deep Learning Engineer
Inn'Pulse by Rafael Da Silva and Pierre-Henri Cadet
LiteSense by Jonathan Baudot, Project sponsor
OneTreck (ex-Reckonect) by Cyril Wyon-Boyault, CEO, and Mathilde Proponnet-Guerault, COO
Spooqs by Guillaume Toublanc, Co-founder & CEO
▸Innovative research projects were presented:
"EURECOM’s Socratic LLM: Meet 'EULER'" by Giovanni Gatti Pinheiro, research engineer
"Can we trust AI when it comes to healthcare?" by Maria A. Zuluaga, 3IA Côte d'Azur Chairholder, and Vincenzo Marciano, 3IA Côte d'Azur PhD
"Boosting image quality with the best of modern deep learning and optimization approaches" by Nicolas Chahine, AI research scientist
"Comprehensive Emotion Understanding and Applications" by Seongro Yoon, 3IA Côte d'Azur PhD
"Temporally Propagated Masks and Bounding Boxes: Combining the Best of Both Worlds for Multi-Object Tracking" by Tomasz Stanczyk, 3IA Côte d'Azur PhD
"Argument Mining in Political Debates" by Deborah Dore, 3IA Côte d'Azur PhD
"Training all employees in generative AI: a strategic development tool for companies" and "AI compliance Training" by Hélène Tap, Graduate School Director
"Women for AI: an important stake for ANITI" by Marjorie Allain-Moulet, Industrial Copilot / Gender diversity Committee Leader at ANITI & CS GROUP
"NN-PES, a Neural Network Parametric Equations Solver" by Jean-Pierre Merlet, 3IA Côte d'Azur Chairholder
"AI for 3D-2D Registration of CT and Fluoroscopy: A Step Forward in TAVI" by Federica Facente, 3IA Côte d'Azur PhD
"Real-Time Surgical Assistant for Dissection Guidance" by Ezem Ekmekci, 3IA Côte d'Azur PhD
"MRI-Ultrasound Image Registration for Prostate Cancer Care" by Manasi Kattel, 3IA Côte d'Azur PhD
Various demos by 3IA Techpool (Benjamin Navet, Stéphane Petiot and Caroline Stehlé)
▸A major partnership has been signed between Inria, represented by Bruno Sportisse (Chairman and CEO), and Olivier Beaumont (Research director, Inria), and Hievenet, represented by David Gurle (Founder) and Antoine Clerget (CTO).
▸Serena Villata, CNRS Research director, 3IA Côte d'Azur Deputy scientific director and 3IA Côte d'Azur Chairholder took part in a round table entitled "Human-centered tech: fighting bias and amplifying inclusion" (facilitated by Queens of Tech) with Caitling Kraft-Buchman (CEO / Founder WOMEN AT THE TABLE), Imane Dahou (Cybersecurity, Data Protection & Resilience services Manager SIA PARTNERS), Maeva Cecchi (Assistant secretary, WHAT06 + Lead UX and Diversity & Inclusion Ambassador AMADEUS).
We would like to extend our warmest thanks to everyone who came to meet us, and to all those who helped keep the stand alive during the three days of the festival!