AI Cluster 3IA Côte d’Azur Days 2026

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▸ Event specifically designed for the scientific community of the AI Cluster 3IA Côte d'Azur and the Université Côte d'Azur site
▸ September 24–25, 2026
▸ Alpha | Sophia Antipolis - Auditorium
▸ Free but mandatory registration by September 9, 2026

Program

• 10am - 10:15 Welcome and presentation of IA Cluster
• 10:15am - 11:15am Presentation of main scientific results achieved by the chairs :
  • Axis 1 — Core AI (Paolo Papotti -- Axis 1 coordinator)
  • Axis 2 — AI for Health (Hervé Delingette -- Axis 2 coordinator)
  • Axis 3 — AI for Secure and Intelligent Spaces (Cedric Richard -- Axis 3 coordinator)
• 11:15am - 11:30am Coffee break
• 11:30am - 12:30am Keynote presentation of Kenza Bouzid --- Senior Applied Researcher at Microsoft Research
  • Title: “Advances in AI for health: from clinical applications to biomarkers discovery”
• 12:30am - 2:30pm Lunch break with poster session with posters from 3IA PhD students and postdocs at the Maison de l’Intelligence Artificielle (MIA)
• 2:30pm - 3:15pm Keynote presentation of Artur d’Avila Garcez — Professor at City University London
  • Title: “Neurosymbolic Integration and Scaling”
• 3:15pm - 4:15pm Keynote presentation of Peter Melchior — Professor at Princeton University
  • Title : “AI for Hidden Worlds”
• 4:15pm - 4:45pm Coffee break
• 4:45pm - 5:45pm Round table “The AI Dilemma: Economic Model, Security, and What's at Stake” — Confirmed speaker : Joelle Toledano (Université Paris-Dauphine), Jean-Michel Loubes (Director of INESIA), Kenza Bouzid (Microsoft Research), Peter Melchior (Princeton University).
• 6pm - 8pm Cocktail - 4th floor, Marie Curie Terrace

September 25, 2026 | 9:30 am - 4:00 pm

• 9:30am - 10:30am Short presentations from new chairs of the Institute
  • Mathieu Carrière (Axis 1 -- Core AI)
  • Antitza Dantcheva (Axis 1 -- Core AI)
  • Marc-Olivier Gauci (Axis 2 -- AI for Health)
  • Ezio Malis (Axis 3 - AI for Secure and Intelligent Spaces)
• 10:30am-11:00am Coffee break
• 11:00am – 11:45am Short presentations from new chairs of the Institute
  • Quentin Bletery (Axis 3 -- AI for Secure and Intelligent Spaces)
  • Frédéric Giroire (Axis 3 -- AI for Secure and Intelligent Spaces)
  • Christophe Eloy (Axis 3 -- AI for Secure and Intelligent Spaces)
• 11:45am - 12:30am Presentation of industrial success stories
  • Chair: Benoit MIRAMOND
    eBRAIN – Embedded Bio-inspired Artificial Intelligence and Neuromorphic Architectures
    Company: Durance.AI
  • Chair: Ezio MALIS
    Autonomous Robotic Systems in Dynamic and Complex Environments, Including Collaboration Between Robots and Interaction with Humans
    Companies: Coralie Doucet-Jung, Scientific Director at MILLA Group / ISFM
• 12:30 am - 2:30pm Lunch break with poster session with posters from 3IA PhD students and postdocs at the Maison de l'intelligence artificielle (MIA)

• 2:30pm - 3:30pm Round table on “AI Ethics and Regulation” — Speakers : Juliette Senechal (Law Professor at Lille University), Claude Kirchner (Director of Comité consultatif national d’éthique du numérique), Alexei Grinbaum (Research Director at CEA), Fabien Tarissan (CNRS Research Director, Associate Professor at ENS Paris-Saclay).
• 3:30pm - 4am Presentation of the 3IA TechPool and demos
• 4pm Closing remarks