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Feb 3, 2027

Faced with energy needs without hunger: where do we really stand?

Speakers:
Bertrand Piccard
Description
Electrification of energy uses is a major driver of decarbonization, but its widespread adoption raises considerable energy, industrial, and economic challenges. Faced with a growing demand for electricity, will decarbonized production capacity, grids, and available resources be able to keep pace? And to what extent will deep tech innovations make it possible to reconcile climate ambition, industrial feasibility, and economic competitiveness?
Feb 3, 2027

Batteries & critical metals: can we still secure the resources of the transition?

Speakers:
Benoit LemaignanPascale Ricard
Description
The energy transition relies on value chains whose dependence on a few critical metals constitutes one of the main points of vulnerability. Faced with a demand expected to grow significantly, can the new generations of batteries (sodium-ion, lithium-sulfur, solid electrolyte) truly reduce this pressure on resources? And to what extent can recycling, substitution, and the circular economy contribute to securing supplies?
Feb 3, 2027

AI, digital twins and IoT: can we manage the energy transition at the territorial level?

Speakers:
Denis Trystram
Description
AI, digital twins, and IoT sensors promise to profoundly transform the management of the energy transition: optimizing networks, anticipating consumption, accelerating climate models, and simulating territorial changes. But do these technologies truly allow us to move from experimentation to precise, large-scale management? And at what cost in terms of resources, given that AI and digital infrastructure themselves have a growing energy and water footprint? This panel will combine industry experience and critical analysis to examine the conditions for digital technology to truly serve the energy transition.
Feb 3, 2027

Quantum technology made in France: an overview of a five-way race

Speakers:
Maud Vinet
Description
Quantum computing represents a major strategic challenge for French technological sovereignty, but scaling up raises considerable scientific, industrial, and financial hurdles. Faced with five competing architectures supported by the state, what investments and advancements will enable France to transform the promises of quantum computing into operational universal computers? And will France be able to achieve the objectives of the PROQCIMA program, with two prototypes of 128 logical qubits targeted for 2032, while simultaneously consolidating its position in international competition?
Feb 3, 2027

Quantum technology has shifted its focus: recruiting industry professionals, not just physicists.

Speakers:
Fanny BoutonLaurent MalierMaud Vinet
Description
By 2026, the real bottleneck in the French quantum sector is no longer physics: it's manufacturing. Recruiting and structuring a team capable of carrying out long-term projects becomes the real challenge for these companies. The three leaders gathered here have each experienced, in their own way, the shift from research to industrialization, and are now recruiting profiles they wouldn't have considered three years ago.
Feb 3, 2027

Semiconductors & Data Centers: From the Cleanroom to the Industrialization of AI

Speakers:
Sébastien Dauvé
Description
CEA-Leti has spawned 76 startups and is investing €500 million in a new generation of clean rooms; Data4 and OVHcloud are simultaneously building tens of billions of euros worth of data centers in France. Two drivers of the same question: is the physical infrastructure for AI being built quickly enough?
Feb 3, 2027

From the laboratory to the factory: the shared lessons of scaling up

Speakers:
Christophe Mille
Description
It offers a cross-disciplinary look at quantum mechanics, robotics, and energy, examining what actually happens between a working prototype in the lab and a production run in the factory: yields, repeatability, supply chain, qualification, recruitment, and financing. Each step hides potential months of delays that few project leaders anticipate.
Feb 3, 2027

Intellectual property: the game that no one explains to researchers

Description
Patents, licensing agreements, and assignment clauses with academic institutions are not simply legal matters; they are strategic tools. Understanding the true rules of this game changes how you build a sustainable barrier to entry and negotiate with industry partners.
Feb 3, 2027

Bridging the Valley of Death: An Overview of Deep Tech Funding

Speakers:
Dominique Carlac'h
Description
Deeptech R&D cycles (7 to 12 years) are poorly suited to traditional venture capital. This overview explores public funding mechanisms, from Bpifrance's Deeptech Seed program to convertible bonds, and includes feedback from founders who have navigated these long cycles.
Feb 3, 2027

China, the United States, Europe: Technological geopolitics as an operational constraint

Description
Sino-American tensions, export controls, and European regulations are not an abstract backdrop: they concretely determine where a deep tech company locates its R&D, with whom it partners, and where it raises funds. The afternoon concluded with a deliberate, accessible coda: why Europe is fighting for its chips and cloud computing, explained through everyday objects (smartphones, cars, hospitals).
Feb 4, 2027

The awakening of Europe: a necessary illusion?

Description
Faced with China and the United States, must Europe believe in its own awakening for it to happen? One figure defends (or contests) this thesis: necessity, benefits, framework to be set by the EU, posture to adopt (cooperation, collaboration, confrontation) and role of alliances between ecosystems, beyond the States.
Feb 4, 2027

The role of European solutions

Speakers:
Mehdi Houas
Description
The share of industry in the EU's GDP has been eroding for twenty years. Revitalizing industry means gaining resilience, innovation, and skilled jobs. But under what conditions? How can we meet this challenge without abandoning our model, given the labor shortage, the continued challenge of sovereign digital infrastructure, and the persistent risk of a two-speed Europe?
Feb 4, 2027

Research and digitalization to the rescue of traditional businesses

Speakers:
Yassine LakhnechArthur Nègre
Description
Industry 5.0, decarbonization: reindustrialization demands speed. Is public research structured to support SMEs and mid-sized companies? How can traditional mid-sized companies collaborate and reinvent themselves with startups, accelerate their growth, and innovate using digital technologies? This overview will cover existing mechanisms, concrete feedback from guests, and a key question: is collaboration with research labs also a lever for recruiting and retaining talent?
Feb 4, 2027

Cybersecurity: Defense regains the upper hand

Description
After years of attacker advantage, defenses are regaining ground. Defensive AI, detection, post-quantum cryptography, new regulations: what are the latest game-changing advances in cybersecurity? What are their practical applications for businesses and infrastructure? What challenges remain?
Feb 4, 2027

France's industrial future will be decided in 2027.

Description
The urgency of reindustrialization will be determined in the coming months. To provoke change, the new President of the Republic will have to provide assurances to industrialists, entrepreneurs, and European countries during his first 100 days in 2027.
Feb 4, 2027

Living with machines: have we already entered a new era?

Speakers:
Nicolas Krastev-McKinnon
Description
Artificial intelligence, biotechnology, brain-computer interfaces, and assistive technologies are no longer promises but realities. We are witnessing not just a technological revolution, but a profound transformation in how we care for others, work, learn, and collaborate. How can we preserve what makes us unique as humans when machines become capable of assisting, creating probabilistic scenarios, and sometimes even making decisions?
Feb 4, 2027

AI and health: from molecule to patient, how is artificial intelligence reinventing medicine?

Speakers:
Augustin MissoffePhilippe Moingeon
Description
Identifying a therapeutic target, designing a molecule, simulating its effects on a virtual patient, accelerating clinical trials, and personalizing treatments: AI is transforming the entire healthcare value chain. It promises faster-to-develop and more targeted drugs, and personalized medicine. But how can we guarantee the reliability of algorithms, protect data, and preserve trust between doctors and patients? Faced with American and Chinese giants, how can France and Europe leverage AI for health and industrial sovereignty without compromising medical responsibility?
Feb 4, 2027

Health data: can the European model become a strategic advantage?

Speakers:
Hela GharianiLaurie SoffiatiFrédéric Vacher
Description
Health data has become one of the most strategic resources for training artificial intelligence, accelerating research, and developing personalized medicine. Sharing this data opens up unprecedented opportunities, while also raising major issues of confidentiality, trust, and sovereignty. Faced with the American and Chinese models, can Europe build an approach that reconciles innovation, citizen protection, and scientific competitiveness?
Feb 4, 2027

Repair or augment: technologies that push the limits of the human body

Description
Exoskeletons, neuroprostheses, implants, gene therapies, and regenerative medicine: innovations developed to repair the body are gradually paving the way for enhancing certain human capabilities. At the same time, research on longevity is experiencing unprecedented acceleration thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, biomarkers, and preventive medicine. The goal is no longer simply to live longer, but to live longer in good health. Between repair, enhancement, and longevity, to what extent are these advances scientifically realistic, and how will they transform our relationship with the body, with age, and with health?
Feb 4, 2027

Deeptech talent: what skills will make the difference tomorrow?

Speakers:
Florian AndrianiazyEmeline Richard-Millot
Description
AI, biotechnology, quantum computing, and robotics are transforming the working models of researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, doctors, and more. At the same time, professionals with expertise in these technologies are facing unprecedented global competition. Talent has become a strategic resource: training, attracting, and retaining it have become crucial for technological sovereignty as well as a challenge for businesses. Between international competition, scientific entrepreneurship, and technological sovereignty, how can France remain competitive?
Feb 4, 2027

Living alongside machines: what decisions should we never delegate?

Speakers:
Yang-Hui HeNaomi Roth
Description
In hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and laboratories, artificial intelligence systems are increasingly influencing our recommendations, diagnoses, and decision-making. How can we keep humans at the heart of these choices? In which areas can we delegate decision-making to machines… and in which areas should human decision-making absolutely be retained? How can we build a balanced coexistence between human intelligence and artificial intelligence?
Feb 4, 2027

Disruptive technologies, a sustainable future: the Human × Planet × Deeptech pact

Description
Deep tech is only worthwhile if it serves life. How can disruptive scientific advances address major climate and societal challenges without losing sight of those who design, use, and bear the brunt of these technologies? At the end of these two days, we'll review the key lessons learned, the areas requiring attention, and the concrete commitments to be made by researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, and policymakers to transform laboratory innovation into real and shared impact.