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

Day 1 – 20 April 2026

9.00       Opening & welcome speeches

9.15       Academic keynote
Michael I. Jordan, Inria Paris

10.15     Session 1 – Physical AI
             Patrick Gallinari, Sorbonne Université
              Konrad Tollmar, Electronic Arts
              Speaker TBC

11.15     Coffee break

11.30     Session 2 – Generative AI
              Gül Varol, ENPC-IP Paris
               Gustav Henter, KTH
              Patrick Perez, Kyutai

13.00     Lunch and Poster presentations

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

15.30 Coffee break

15.45 Panel discussion – Strategies for deploying AI in the public sector
Moderator: Annika Szabo Portela, Digital Futures, KTH
Karin Ekdahl Wästberg, City of Stockholm
David Zurowski, Université Clermont Auvergne
Hélène Costa De Beauregard, Ecolab

16.45 Keynote (30 min)
Loïc Cudennec, AMIAD

Day 2 – 21 April 2026

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

10.30  Coffee break

11.00 Session 5 – Infrastructures and AI
Thomas Moreau, Inria
Sonia Horchidan, KTH
Krisztian Benyo, Pasqal

12.30 Lunch and Poster presentations

13.30 Panel discussion – Strategies for deploying AI within private sector
Moderator TBC
Peder Blomgren, AstraZeneca
Anastasia Varava, SEBx
Jörgen Gustafsson, Ericsson

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

16.00 Wrap-up