
Confiance.ai launches a Call for Expression of Interest for innovative start-ups and SMEs #2
This Call for Expression of Interest (CEI) is for innovative startups and SMEs wishing to contribute to the Confiance.ai programme through technologies that could help to overcome the programme’s obstacles and implement the trustworthy AI engineering environment for critical systems.
Calendar of the Call for Expression of Interest
- February 24th, 2023: launch of the Call;
- March 7th, 2023, from 10 am to 12 pm: online information meeting for all interested contributors
- March 31st, 2023, 6 pm: deadline for submitting responses;
- April and May 2023: interviews;
- June 2023: announcement of selected startups;
- September 2023: start of work;
- Data:
- Methods for defining the volume and annotation criteria of data necessary for learning;
- Identification and qualification of biases in data/knowledge;
- More generally:
- Access rights and data security, federated learning, and GDPR compliance;
- Connection between system requirements and the performance specifications to be met by components;
- Link between the definition of the ODD (Operational Design Domain) and the characterisation of the learning, validation and test databases;
- Hybrid methods for improving trust (robustness, explainability, monitoring, etc.) and for NLP or planning use cases.
- Presentation of the lab, the team and the researchers involved;
- Motives for contributing to the “Confiance.ai” programme;
- Methods and tools available, proposed approach;
- Estimate of the budget and time necessary for the project (estimate to be fine-turned later);
- Bibliographic references;
- A response template is provided;