3IA Côte d'Azur at the SophI.A Summit 2025


The new edition of the international AI conference, SophI.A Summit, will take place from 19-21 November at Sophia Antipolis Technology Park on the French Riviera, to reveal the latest advances in the field of artificial intelligence and its applications.

This event brings together global AI experts, in biology, health, mobility and smart applications, covering both core technology and its applications who will present their work through meetings, debates, round tables and posters.

The SophI.A Summit gathers the best AI specialists in the world. During 3 days, we want to offer researchers working at the cutting edge of AI the opportunity to consolidate their technical knowledge and meet recognized experts. Together, we need to articulate a vision on how to create sustainable, economically and socially controllable AI.

 

Program

Wednesday November 19

09:00 am - 09:15 am | Introduction

09:15 am | AI, economics, and management (Chairs: Simone Vannuccini & Pierre-Alexandre Mattei)


09:15 am - 10:00 am | "The AI value chain: corporate power, technological dependencies and extractivisms" by Cécilia Rikap

10:00 am - 10:30 am | "Bridging Science, Technology, and Industry in AI: Integration as a Path to Technological Sovereignty in Europe" by Ludovic Dibiaggio

10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break

11:00 am - 11:30 am | "What happens after the AI bubble bursts? Lessons from the economics of technological change" by Simone Vannuccini

11:30 am - 12:15 pm | "Fireside chat on AI and Education" by Ludovic Dibiaggio with Frédérique Vidal & Lucile Sassatelli

12:15 pm - 01:45 pm | Lunchtime

01:45 pm | AI & respiratory health (Chair: Maxime Sermesant)

01:45 pm - 02:30 pm | "Exploration of AI Capacities for Quantitative Emphysema Biomarkers on Lung CT Scans" by Elsa Angelini

02:30 pm - 03:05 pm | "Mechanistic learning to predict response and survival in immuno-oncology" by Sébastien Benzekry

03:05 pm - 03:35 pm | Introducing the IHU RespirERA

03:35 pm - 04:00 pm | Coffee Break

04:00 pm | AI & molecules (Chair: Frédéric Cazals)

04:00 pm - 04:45 pm | "Why are inverse folding models good zero-shot predictors of protein thermodynamic stability?" by Jes Frellsen

04:45 pm - 05:20 pm | "Mapping Context-Specific Axitinib Resistance via Multi-Omics and Explainable AI" by Jaspreet Kaur Dhanjal

05:20 pm - 05:55 pm | "Drug-like Property Prediction for Small Molecules: Comparing the Performance of Physics-based, Data-driven, and Quantum-inspired Machine Learning Models" Arul Murugan

05:55 pm | AI for personalized medicine (Chairs: Fabien Lareyre & Fabien Lastic)

05:55 pm - 06:30 pm | "AI and Simulation for Patient-Specific Vascular Treatment" by Elie Hachem

06:30 pm - 07:05 pm | "Ensemble models for understanding patient heterogeneity in the ICU: Towards Physician-Centric AI" by Mayank Garg

Thursday November 20

09:00 am | Deploying AI systems in the real world (Chair: Pierre-Alexandre Mattei)

09:00 am - 09:35 am | "Building AI to make travel better" by Eoin Thomas

09:35 am - 10:10 am | "AI for Software Vulnerability Management: Use Cases and Challenges" by Merve Sahin

10:10 am - 10:25 am | "The Next Frontier for European AI: Bridging Deep Research with Specialised Skills" by Federico Menna

10:25 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break

10:55 am - 12:10 pm | "Steering Foundation Models: What Works and Why" by Damien Garreau

12:10 pm - 01:45 pm | Lunchtime

01:45 pm | AI for natural language & music (Chairs: Elena Cabrio & Jean-François Trubert)

01:45 pm - 02:30 pm | Claire Gardent 

02:30 pm - 03:00 pm | Coffee Break

03:00 pm - 03:45 pm | François Pachet 

03:45 pm | Computer vision (Chair: Diane Lingrand)

03:45 pm - 04:30 pm | "Understanding and monitoring internal representations of Multimodal-LLMs" by Matthieu Cord

04:30 pm - 05:05 pm | "Generation and detection of deepfakes" by Antitza Dantcheva

05:15 pm - 07:00 pm | Poster session

Friday November 21

09:00 am | Deploying AI systems in the real world (Chair: Pierre-Alexandre Mattei)

09:00 am - 09:35 am | "Kyndryl’s Cloud-Edge Hybrid Environments AI deployment: Optimizing Inventory and Quality Inspection for Cost-Effective, Secure Decisions" by Yves Darnige

09:35 am - 10:20 am | "Embedded Intelligence at the Edge: From MCU Hardware to Use Cases" by Lennart Bamberg

10:20 am - 10:30 am | Launch of the Med'Innov Digital Network by Anthony Schoofs

10:30 am - 10:55 am | Coffee Break

10:55 am | AI for smart territories (Chair: Hongliu Cao)

10:55 am - 12:10 pm | "Leveraging AI and Multi-Source Data to Transform Mobility Studies" by Latifa Oukhellou

12:10 pm - 12:45 pm | Cédric Richard

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Scientific committee

Michele Bezzi
François Bremond
Elena Cabrio
Hongliu Cao
Ludovic Dibiaggio
Diane Lingrand
Pierre-Alexandre Mattei
Laurent Pilati
Remy Pottier
Maxime Sermesant
Simone Vannuccini