9h40-10h // Spotlight 👀

Artificial Intelligence ecosystems: an update from the DATAIA Paris-Saclay Institute

The AI era is full of promise, but also of challenges, both in the design of AI and in its application. Who are the industrial, academic and scientific players taking up these challenges? How is the Université Paris-Saclay, Europe's leading AI cluster, positioned?

10h-10h20 // Keynote

GenAI & LLM: concepts, current situation and state of the art

Talking about GenAI means first and foremost talking about the advent of Large Language Models : a look back at the key concepts and the major technological milestones that were successively crossed to arrive at the current state of the art and its immense potential in terms of use cases.

10h20-10h55 // Round Table #1

Use cases and COMEX involvement in corporate GenAI strategy

Discover a first series of use cases through testimonials from leading industrial and customer relations players. Viewpoints on the role of COMEX in the technical and strategic choices of the AI and GenAI roadmaps, and the challenges of integrating large-scale projects.

10h55-11h // Spotlight 👀

Latitudes: a community of players committed to responsible tech

"Together let's reinvent tech!" For 7 years, Latitudes has been designing, with dynamism and creativity, numerous programs as playful as they are educational for students and companies. Discover La Bataille de l'AI, La Bataille de la Tech, Open Data University...

11:15-11:40 // Experience feedback

Alstom: from strategic roadmap to first large-scale GenAI deployments

Getting to grips with the state of the art, identifying use cases, making the right technical and strategic choices, developing the first MVPs, deploying on a large scale... what a lot of steps! A captivating testimonial from an industry leader, illustrated by several concrete cases of Generative AI applications.

11:40-12:15 // Round table #2

Use cases and issues of sovereignty, sobriety and data management 

Discover a second series of use cases through the testimonials of renowned players in the energy and HR sectors. We take a closer look at the precautions to be taken when using LLMs, and the importance of choosing the right models for each project-company-company context.

12:15-12:30 // Case studies in images

From promise to reality: demo of a selection of high value-added use cases

14h-14h20 // Introduction

Staying abreast of the state of the art in AI: the strategic nature of monitoring

Like these AI Workshops, sharing knowledge between partners seems a wise resolution when you consider the speed at which technologies are evolving. With the LEARN program, ILLUIN Technology offers you privileged access to its scientific intelligence (4800+ JH of R&D in 2023).

14h20-14h40 // Spotlight 👀

Dive into the world of Large Language Models (LLM) research with the MICS Laboratory

In the cradle of the Université Paris-Saclay and CentraleSupélec, the MICS Laboratory brings together leading experts and conducts a cutting-edge research program around LLMs. It's the perfect opportunity to find out more about the scientific and technical side of GenAI!

2:40pm-3pm // Keynote

Designing an LLM from scratch: the practical case of CroissantLLM (1.3B) 

Enter the arcane world of CroissantLLM design and pre-training: the fruit of close collaboration between academia and industry, this very compact model (1.3B) runs on CPU and telephone, and has been designed with sovereignty, ethics, responsibility and frugality in mind.

15h-15h25 // Keynote

Natural language search: use cases and focus on RAG

Focus on RAG pipelines (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for natural language document retrieval applications: issues, challenges, key success factors, implementation choices and technological components.

15h25-15h50 // Keynote

Industrializing GenAI projects with nAIxt: ILLUIN Technology's low-code multimodal orchestration platform

We take a look back at the "why" and "how" of orchestration platforms in the age of LLMs, and explore, in the company of their designers, the nAIxt features that make it easier to scale your use cases.

4:05pm-4:20pm // Spotlight 👀 

Discover CentraleSupélec's Paris Digital Lab: testing new uses and technologies through rapid prototyping

Mobilize students from the best training courses to create an MVP in 7 weeks? That's the idea behind this successful scheme (180+ companies involved, 390+ MVPs created), operated by ILLUIN Technology, which today enables companies to test their GenAI approach effectively!

16h20-16h45 // Keynote

State of the art & LLM evaluation: how to choose your GenAI approach?

Which model(s) should be chosen for each project-enterprise-company context? In this keynote, we'll look at the keys to answering this thorny question: state-of-the-art LLMs, AI tasks of interest to companies, and criteria for choosing an LLM.

16h45-17h // Keynote

Hybrid AI: mastering the risks of Generative AI for brand image

As a recent technology, LLMs (still) present risks for the company: for example, the risk of error or image risk linked to hallucinations. Hybrid AI makes up for this by combining the power and adaptability of GenAI with the reliability and explicability of guided AI approaches.