Organized by the Université Côte d’Azur, the Sophia Antipolis Agglomeration Community and the Sophia Club Entreprises with the support of the Alpes Maritimes Department, the 5th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit will be held from November 23 to 25, 2022 in Sophia Antipolis.
The full program of this major annual international meeting in artificial intelligence research is now available. Institutions, experts and researchers from all over Europe will be present to discuss the challenges of AI around the six main themes of the event: Health, Biology, Territories, Sustainability, Management and Fundamentals. The event will conclude with a presentation by the European Commission on the EU’s strategy for artificial intelligence.
An intensive program supported by high-level speakers
Opening session of the Soph.I.A Summit (November 23, 2022)
Charles BOUVEYRON, Director of the 3IA(Interdisciplinary Institute for Artificial Iintelligence) Côte d’Azur and Chair for the Soph.I.A Summit, will introduce this 5th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit with an opening conference recalling the stakes and the interest of such an event.
He will be followed by Charles-Ange GINESY, President of the Alpes-Maritimes Department and President of the Alpes d’Azur Community of Communes, and Jean LEONETTI, Mayor of Antibes since 1995 and President of the Sophia Antipolis Community of Communes, who will jointly remind us of the dynamism and importance of the role of the Sophia Antipolis region in artificial intelligence research at both national and international levels
Lorenzo ROSASCO, Associate Professor at the University of Genoa, researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and collaborator at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) will give a conference onmachine learning.
Finally, participants will be offered a round table on Ulysseus, an alliance of European universities at the service of research. Moderated by Camille CORDONNIER, journalist for AEF Education & Research, this round table will include representatives from the Universities of Seville, Helsinki, Genoa and Université Côte d’Azur.
AI & Health (November 23, 2022)
Artificial intelligence in the service of medical research will take center stage on November 23 with no less than 9 sessions. This theme has two Chairpersons: Marco LORENZI, Researcher at Inria and Olivier HUMBERT, Doctor and Professor at Université Côte d’Azur in Nuclear Medicine & Biophysics, who holds a chair in research and teaching at 3IA Côte d’Azur.
Marco LORENZI will be in charge of the morning session and will lead 4 sessions: a conference by Daniel RUECKERT from Imperial College London, on the evolution of radiology thanks to artificial intelligence as well as the presentation of three contributions the work of Gaëtan DESRUES, Researcher at INRIA, on 3D electromechanical modeling for the planning of cardiac resynchronization therapy; those of Justine LABORY, Université Côte d’Azur – MSI(Maison de la Modélisation, de la Simulation et des Interactions) on her project ABEILLE: a new method for identifying aberrant expressions; and finally, those of Sofia PATSALI, CNRS – GREDEG, on artificial intelligence in the service of innovation for hospital equipment manufacturers.
On the afternoon of November 23, Olivier HUMBERT will present 5 sessions. After a first lecture by Wiro NIESSEN, from the Erasmus Medical Center (University Medical Center of Rotterdam), three researchers will propose their contributions. First, Maria ROMERO-TERNERO, from the University of Seville, on her methodology for data collection, thanks to artificial intelligence, in the health field; then Zakaria BABUTSIDZE, from the Observatoire Français des Conjonctures Economiques and SKEMA Business School, on the prospects for acceptance of medical treatments augmented by artificial intelligence; and Benjamin MOLINET, from the Centre INRIA d’Université Côte d’Azur, on the models for explaining correct or incorrect diagnoses A final intervention will close this AI & Health session, that of Maxime SERMESANT, from the Centre INRIA d’Université Côte d’Azur, on artificial intelligence to develop error correction models.
AI & Biology (November 23, 2022)
The second theme of the first day of the 5th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit will be artificial intelligence for biology. Ellen VAN OBBERGHEN SCHILLING, Inserm Research Director, will be the Chair and will be in charge of 4 sessions.
The first one will be a round table on AI, RGPD, ethics and data security in which Olivier HUMBERT(previously mentioned) will participate. Then, Aurore LOISY, from the IRPHE multidisciplinary institute and the University of Marseille, will present her work on how to learn to act in situations of uncertainty, from the application to bioinspired olfactory research. Djampa KOZLOWSKI, from the Université Côte d’Azur – MSI, will unveil NERD, her tool for predicting the proteins involved in plant parasitism by nematodes. To conclude this theme and this day, Matej HLADIS, Université Côte d’Azur, will address the prediction of odorant receptor activation using protein language and graphical neural networks.
AI & Smart Territories, Security & Safety (November 24, 2022)
The second day of the Soph.I.A Summit will focus on artificial intelligence applied to smart territories and will be chaired by Pierre ALLIEZ, Director of Research at the INRIA Center of the Université Côte d’Azur.
Several sessions will be proposed in the framework of this theme. The first will be a conference byEmmanuel GOBERT, from the Ecole Polytechnique. Massimiliano PRONESTI, from Amadeus, will then present his research on sentiment analysis based on quantum computing for the travel industry. Then, Ioannis BRILAKIS, from the University of Cambridge, will give a lecture on digital twins. A second contribution will be unveiled, that of Ziming LIU, from the INRIA Center of the Côte d’Azur University, on a new approach to dense hybrid visual odometry with multi-masks. Finally, Pierre ALLIEZ will moderate a round table discussion before the presentation of two other works, including those of Simon NANTY, from Amadeus,
Sustainable AI (November 24, 2022)
Olena KUSHALOVSKA, Representative of ICAIR (Industrial Council for AI Research), will be in charge of the Chair on the challenges of sustainable and ethical artificial intelligence.
After a conference byErnesto DAMIANI, from the University of Milan, two researchers will present their work. First, Amal MTIBAA, from the Institut Mines Paristech, on the detection of refrigerant leaks in industrial refrigeration systems with steam compressors, then Angelo RODIO from the INRIA Center of the Université Côte d’Azur on federated learning from heterogeneous and correlated customer data.
This theme will conclude with a round table discussion moderated by journalist Muriel Valin of the EPSILOON magazine entitled “In AI, we Trust” and will include Olena KUSHAKOVSKA, Tony PINVILLE (HEURITECH), Khawla MALLAT (SAP), Othmane MARFOQ (Accenture) and Leanne KEMP (EVERLEDGER).
AI & Management (November 24, 2022)
At the end of the day, the theme of the relationship between management and artificial intelligence will be addressed and will be chaired by Jonas HOFFMAN and Ludovic DIBAGGIO, respectively Associate Professor in Marketing and Professor of Innovation Management at SKEMA Business School.
Both of them will give the following lectures and research: a lecture by César HIDALGO, from the University of Toulouse, on how humans judge machines; a contribution by Jan BROEKAERT, from SKEMA Business School, on the comparative evaluation of costs of control strategies for coalescing epidemics; a contribution by Mathieu CHEVRIER, researcher at the CNRS, on human decision making in the presence of an advisory algorithm; a contribution byArtyom YEPREMYAN, SKEMA Business School, on the role of human capital in forecasting automation; and a final contribution by Bernard SINCLAIR DESGAGNE, CNRS – GREDEG, on the (non-)trust in algorithms To conclude this day, Ludovic DIBAGGIO will lead a round table on algorithmic governance.
AI & Fundamentals (November 25, 2022)
The third and last day of this 5th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit will be dedicated to the fundamentals of artificial intelligence. Its chair, Serena Villata, is Scientific Director at 3IA Côte d’Azur.
This theme will be addressed in two conferences by Irina GUREVYCH, from the University of Darmstadt (Germany), on how to combat misinformation and by Vincent VANDEWAALE, Université Côte d’Azur on the search for several group structures in heterogeneous data; a round table moderated by Serena VILLATA; but also through the presentation of five works. Among these contributions : Gabriele CIRAVEGNE, from the Centre INRIA d’Université Côte d’Azur, on the dual role of logic constraints in deep learning; Alessandro BETTI, from the Centre INRIA d’Université Côte d’Azur, on foveal neural networks; Othmane MARFOQ (presented previously), on federated learning for data streams; Christèle TARNEC, researcher at Orange Labs, on her development of a methodology based on fairness versus facts; or, Yann FABRONI, from the Centre INRIA d’Université Côte d’Azur, for his general theory for client sampling in federated learning.
Closing session of the event (November 25, 2022)
The 5th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit will close its doors after a closing session led by Stéphane DESCOMBES, Professor at Université Côte d’Azur and Director of the MSI. As Chair, he will animate the different award ceremonies (following the call for papers launched last summer by the Soph.I.A Summit organizers).
During this last session, two conferences will also be proposed to the participants. First, Carlos TORRECILA SALINAS, head of unit at the European Commission, will present the EU strategy on artificial intelligence to the audience. The second conference will be given by Philippe DESPRES from the University of Laval (Quebec).
Finally, Charles BOUVEYRON will close this 5th edition with a few words about the highlights of the event.
To attend the Soph.I.A Summit
The organizers of the Soph.I.A Summit remind that the persons wishing to participate, in person or online, to this 5th edition of the Soph.I.A Summit can register to the event via the following link : https://univ-cotedazur.eu/events/sophia-summit/registrations
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Translated from Évènement : la 5ème édition du Soph.I.A Summit se déroulera du 23 au 25 novembre 2022 à Sophia Antipolis
