/!\ EVENT IN PERSON ONLY /!\

In honor of the 20th anniversary of the MIT-France Seed Fund Program, the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States, with the support of the Consulate General of France in Boston, MIT and INRIA, is organizing a conference on AI in Paris on July 12 and 13, 2022.

The conference will proceed as follows:

Tuesday 12 July 2022

Welcome coffee

Introductory talks:

Rafael REIF, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bruno SPORTISSE, CEO of Inria
Antoine PETIT, CEO of CNRS
François JACQ, CEO of CEA

International cooperations:

Renaud VEDEL, Ministerial Coordinator for Artificial Intelligence of France
Daniela Rus, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Cyrille Pierre, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Affairs, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
Xavier Bressaud, Attaché for Science & Technology, Embassy of France in the US

Keynote Address by Michèle SEBAG, CNRS Research Director, Head of Equipe A-O, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (CNRS-Université Paris Saclay), Co-head of Inria Project-team TAU

Followed by:

Session 1 - AI and Health
Session 2 - AI, Environment and Climate Change
Session 3 - AI and Data Privacy

Wednesday 13 July 2022

Keynote Address by Antonio TORRALBA, Head of the Faculty of AI and Decision-making, MIT EECS, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Followed by:

Session 4 - AI and the Future of Work
Session 5 - AI, Governance and Ethics

Closing remarks by Suzanne BERGER, John M. Deutch Institute Professor, Department of Political Science, MIT and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Director of Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES).

Program chairs

Patrick Jaillet, Director of the MIT-France Board
Isabelle Herlin, Coordinator, National AI Research Programme, Inria and Director of GPAI Paris Centre of Expertise

/!\ Limited seats /!\

Symposium on AI - 20th anniversary of the MIT-France Seed Fund Program