Welcome to the second French-Swedish Workshop on AI! 

On 20 and 21 April, Inria Paris will host a workshop Paris, bringing together world-leading researchers from France and Sweden, and companies in the field of AI. 

This second edition follows on from the workshop organized in October 2025 in Stockholm by the research center Digital Futures, KTH, and the French Embassy to Sweden.

Scientific committee: Karteek Alahari (PEPR IA, Inria), Elisa Fromont (Université de Rennes), Vincent Barra (Université Clermont Auvergne, MIAI Cluster), Gaël Richard (IPP, Hi! Paris Cluster), Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH)​, Mikael Johansson (KTH​), Alexandre Proutière (KTH​).

Event information

Date and time : April 20, 2026 – April 21, 2026

Location : Centre Inria Paris, 48 Rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France

Registration : By invitation only

Program Day 1

9.00  Opening & welcome speeches

9.30  Session 1 – Physical AI
  Patrick Gallinari, Sorbonne Université
 Speaker from Sweden TBC

11.00 Coffee break

11.15 Session 2 – Generative AI
 Gül Varol, Ecole des PontsParisTech
 Gustav Henter, KTH
Patrick Perez, Kyutai

12.45 Lunch

14.00 Session 3– Trustworthy AI
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS / PEPR IA
Marianne Clausel, Université de Lorraine / PEPR IA
Aristides Gionis, KTH

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Panel discussion – Strategies for deploying AI (public sector)
Karin Ekdahl Wästberg, City of Stockholm
David Zurowski, Université Clermont Auvergne
Other speakers TBC

16.45 Academic keynote

Program Day 2

9.00  Session 4 – AI for scientific discovery
Jérôme Bobin, CEA           
Hossein Azizpour, KTH

10.30  Coffee break

11.00 Session 5 – Infrastructures and AI
Thomas Moreau, Inria
Speaker from Sweden TBC

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Panel discussion – Strategies for deploying AI within a company
Peder Blomgren, AstraZeneca
Sahar Asadi, King
Anastasia Varava, SEBx
Other speakers TBC

14.30 Session 6 – Multimodal models
Kathlén Kohn, KTH
Cordelia Schmid, Inria Paris & Google
Céline Hudelot, CentraleSupélec

16.00 Wrap-up