About

The technological revolution represented by AI is bringing profound changes to the Defense sector. The innovations it is likely to bring offer unprecedented opportunities, while at the same time raising legitimate concerns, in particular for the respect of international law and humanitarian law. In this context, the challenges are diverse : fully exploiting the potential of AIIA, while ensuring that its development and use are conceived and pursued in a responsible manner.

This aim of this event is to bring together the Defense AI community (military delegations, manufacturers), diplomats, researchers and academics around a series of conferences and roundtables.

They will be given the floor to discuss the use of AI on the battlefields and the challenges of developing AI models and applications capable of being deployed in environments that are constrained in terms of computing power and energy consumption.

Program

02 :00 – 02 :30 PM :

• Opening Speech

02 :30 – 03 :00 PM :

• AI on the Battlefield Today
  • Intervention of Shashank Joshi, Journalist, The Economist

03 :00 – 03 :50 PM :

• Tomorrow, what uses of Military AI and how to be prepared?
  • Cross-talks with Admiral Pierre VANDIER, SACT and Bertrand RONDEPIERRE, General Manager, French Agency for Artificial Intelligence in Defense

03 :50  – 04 :30 PM : break and industrial exhibition

04 :30 – 05 :20 PM :

• Round Table #1: Evaluation and Qualification of AI Models
  • Fateh Kaakai, THALES
  • Arnault Ioualalen, CEO, NUMALI
  • Loïc Cantat, IRT SYSTEMX 
  • Moderator : Sébastien HENWOOD – AMIAD
• Round Table #2: Issues related to the development of AI in the military field
  • Moderator : Giacomo Persi PAOLI – UNIDIR

 05 :30 – 06 :20 PM :

• Round Table #3 : Frugal AI, Responsibility and Sustainability
  • Henri Seydoux, CEO, PARROT
  • Moderator : Frédéric GRELOT – AMIAD
• Round Table #4: Frontier AI in Defence : Opportunities and Risks 
  • Moderator : Vincent Boulanin, Research director, SIPRI

06 :20 – 07 :00 PM :

• Industrial exhibition