Confiance.ai Day 2024

The Confiance.ai program looks forward to seeing you on March 7, 2024 for the new edition of Confiance.ai Day, the meeting place for trusted AI :

• Discover the methods and tools proposed by Confiance.ai*.
• Exchange with the French and international engineering and scientific communities involved in trusted AI.

*This program is supported by the national AI strategy and funded by France 2030.

Registration

Registration for the event is now open! Click here (places are limited).

Program

8:00am – 9:00am      | Welcome coffee & demo tour

9:00am – 9:20am       | Official opening

9:20am – 9:40am       | Trustworthiness as a pillar of AI adoption in industry
The floor is given to the program partners: what value does the adoption of AI bring to the industry? What challenges do they still need to address? What impact does the program have on their businesses?
• Bernhard Quendt, Chief Technical Officer, Thales
• Mohammed Sijelmassi, Chief Technical Officer, Sopra Steria
• Baladji Soussilane, Vice President, Digital and IT Group, Air Liquide

9:40am – 10:00am    | Industrial AI toward 2030: trustworthiness beyond Confiance.ai
Confiance.ai will come to an end in 2024. Take a closer look at the program’s outcomes and follow-ups.

10:00am – 10:30am  | Keynote speech : Responsible AI, a key lever to bring confidence in AI,
Anne Bouverot, Co-Chair of the French Government’s IA Commission – Chair of the board of École Normale Supérieure (ENS) – Co-founder, Fondation Abeona – Board Director at a number of technology and media companies

10:30am – 11:10am  | Break & demo tour

11:10am – 12:00am  | International collaborations on trustworthy AI
Australia, United Kingdom, Quebec, Germany: overview of the international ecosystem of trustworthy AI.
• Responsible AI Engineering in the ERA of Generative AI, Qinghua Lu, Team Leader/ Responsible AI Science Team, CSIRO’s Data61, CSIRO
• Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Maximilian Poretschkin, Director of the AI Certification Project
• Safe.trAIn- Safe AI for driverless regional trains, Thomas Waschulzik, R&D Manager Siemens Mobility GmbH, Siemens
• Confiance IA: Trustworthy Ai in Quebec, Marie-Pierre Habas-Gérard, Chief Executive Officer, Confiance IA

12:00am – 1:00pm    | Deep dive on technologies and methods
15 minutes talks on key technologies, methods and results developed by Confiance.ai over the past four years.
• End-to-end engineering approach
• Applyied to an industrial use case
• End-to-end results
• How Confiance.ai is adressing Aeronautics Regulation Framework?

1:00pm – 2:30pm      | Lunch break & demo tour

2:30pm – 3:30pm      | Deep dive on technologies and methods
• Combining robustness, monitoring, and uncertainty quantification
• Towards a methodology for synthetic data generation, domain gap characterization and mitigation, Amélie Bosca, Data Scientist, Sopra Steria
• Benchmark of use case explainability through the Kaa component, Philippe Dejean, “Characterization and qualification of trustworthy AI” project co-leader, Research engineer, Confiance.ai, IRT Saint Exupéry
• Metamorphic testing on industrial applications with AIMOS

3:30pm – 4:00pm      | Keynote speech: Safe AI at CARIAD
Peter Schlicht, head of “Safe AI and AI Innovations”, CARIAD (Volkswagen)

4:00pm – 4:30pm      | International collaborations on trustworthy AI
• RAI UK: Creating an International Ecosystem for Responsible AI Research and Innovation, Shoaib Ehsan, Co-Investigator / Associate Professor of Computer Science, RAI UK / University of Southampton
• CERTAIN: The European Center for Trusted AI, Dr. André Meyer-Vitali, Senior Researcher, DFKI

4:30pm – 5:10pm      | Break & demo tour

5:10pm – 5:40pm     | Norms and standards: current status and future challenges
Norms and standards: where are we now? What are the next challenges? What are the contributions of Confiance.ai regarding this matter?
• Lauriane Aufrant, Applied NLP Researcher, Inria
• Antoine Alexandre André, Policy and legal officer, European Commission, DG CNECT (A.2), Commission européenne
• Tom Lebrun, Ph. D., Standards Council of Canada Lead on AI and Data Standardization

5:40pm – 6:25pm      | The future challenges of trustworthy AI
Hybrid AI, safety, cybersecurity, or ethics: spotlight on some of the upcoming challenges to address in developing trustworthy AI in industry.

• Challenge of understanding operational context of AI for trustworthiness, Weiss Gereon, head of department Automation Systems, Faunhofer IKS
• Industrial AI deployment challenges
• AI Engineering Challenges, Dr. André Meyer-Vitali, senior researcher, DFKI
• Embedded AI, Pierre Gaillard, Embedded AI project manager, CEA-List
• AI’s carbon footprint is bigger than you think, Brigitte Jaumard, scientific director, Confiance IA
• The Critical Role of AI Ethics in Building Trust and Enhancing Innovation, Enrico Panai, AI Ethicists, Association of AI Ethicists & CEN CENELEC JTC21
• Hybrid AI, Bertrand Braunschweig, scientific coordinator, Confiance.ai

6:25pm – 6:45pm      | Closing speech

6:45pm – 8:00pm     | Closing cocktail