While the IMA (Innovation Makers Alliance) explores the strategic challenges of digital technology in Europe in its new manifesto, the 4th edition of the IMAgine Day IA Gen highlights the latest advances in generative AI. These two initiatives converge towards the same goal: to reinforce technological autonomy by focusing on innovation and excellence in France and Europe.
The new IMA Manifesto
The IMA publishes a new manifesto in March 2025, dedicated to Technological Sovereignty and Strategic Digital Autonomy in France and Europe, with the common thread of making Europe and its champions succeed. The manifesto covers a range of topics, including political and technological sovereignty, generative AI, data and AI strategies, the sovereign cloud, IT and the digital workplace, low-code/no-code, quantum computing and cybersecurity.
In summary, the book summarizes the initiatives and measures suggested by players in the French technology ecosystem to strengthen technological sovereignty and strategic digital autonomy in France and Europe.
Robert Vesoul, CEO and co-founder of ILLUIN Technology, testifies and sheds light in the column. "LLM and Generative AI, jewels of sovereignty" section of this manifesto. section of this manifesto, on the themes of AI orchestration (key to sovereignty), open source and marketing (strategic levers), and the imbalance in contracts between strat-ups and large corporations.
IMAgine Day IA Gen: "The Age of Agents
On April 10, 2025, the Maison de la RATP in Paris hosted the 4th IMAgine Day IA Gen, a flagship event organized by the Innovation Makers Alliance (IMA). This day dedicated to generative AI brought together experts, researchers and decision-makers in the field to explore the latest technological advances and their concrete applications. The 2025 edition ("The Age of Agents") highlighted two major trends that are redefining AI: Agentic AI and Reasoning Language Models (RLMs), paving the way for more autonomous systems capable of advanced reasoning.
🎯 Objectives:
Understand, share and leave with concrete keys for the AI and generative AI projects of the technology players present.
🔎 On the program :
During the day's events, a number of specialist presentations deciphered the current and future challenges of Generative AI, and explored the advanced uses of AI in finance, rail maintenance, data science and internal performance. Discussions addressed strategic themes such as LLM governance (EDF), the emergence of a "white box" open source alternative for more transparent AI, and optimizing data preparation with the Skrub library.
Concrete use cases were presented, notably in the financial field with the use of AI agents in automated decision-making, or at Malt, where these intelligent agents boost internal performance.
For their part, Robert Vesoul (CEO and co-founder of ILLUIN Technology) and Grégoire Perret (CIO at Chronopost) gave a testimonial on Agentique AI at the service of Customer Relations at Chronopost, unveiling a first concrete experiment thanks to the ILLUIN Dialogue 2025 platform.
This low-code agent administration platform enables the design of high-performance callbots and chatbots, specifically designed for high-volume uses and integrated with information systems. With over 200 million conversations a year for the biggest companies in France and Europe, ILLUIN Dialogue is the benchmark platform for large-scale conversational projects.
Alongside the conferences, collaborative workshops and networking events enriched exchanges between participants, encouraging the sharing of experience and the anticipation of future developments in AI. An exciting edition that confirms the importance of collective innovation in shaping the future of Generative AI!
