Program 2026
Tuesday, November 17, 2026
Session 1 - AI for the Navy
9h00 – 9h20
Keynote
CA DU GARDIN Vincent, General Officer for Digital Transformation and Data, French Navy
9h20 – 10h00
Round table : AI for the Navy
10h00 – 10h15
Learning how to use a Decision Support
System: a simulation of Human-AI interaction frames
Corentin BOIDOT, IRENav – Ecole Navale
10h15 – 10h30
An operational approach to large-scale labeling of acoustic data for AI
Julien MULLER, EZAKO
10h30 – 11h00
Coffee Break
11h00 – 11h15
Spatio-categorical cross calibration of confidence for the detection of long-range objects in a maritime environment
Adrien GOLEBIEWSKI, STIM – Mines Paris – PSL, LERITY
11h15 – 11h30
Impact du leurrage biomimétique en reconnaissance acoustique sous-marine
Paul JEZEQUEL, Ecole Navale
11h30 – 11h45
MARINER: Combining Generative AI and Bayesian Networks for Reliable and Auditable Nuclear Risk Analysis
Paul MUNTEANU, BAYESIA
11h45 – 12h00
Designing AI explanations that can be appropriated by operators : A prospective approach applied to Maritime Patrol
Luca MOURGAUD, CNAM, Thales DMS, Ecole Navale
12h00 – 13h30
Lunch Break
Session 2 - AI for Cyber Operations
13h30 – 13h50
Keynote
GBR MORCEL Valérie, Deputy General Officer Commanding Cyber Defense
13h50 – 14h30
Round table : AI for Cyber Operations
14h30 – 14h45
Transferring a multi-BERT red team agent to real networks
Christophe GENEVEY-METAT, Neverhack
Olivier GESNY, Neverhack
14h45 – 15h00
Intent-Based Security: Bridging Natural Language SecurityPolicies and Automated Network Defense
Pierre ALAIN, IRISA
15h00 – 15h15
Beyond Fake News: Defending Against AI-Driven Influence Operations
Marc-Oliver Pahl, IMT Atlantique – Chaire Cyber CNI
15h15 – 15h30
Certifying AI Agents: Proving What They Do, Not What They Say
Khaled BEN DRISS, Preemptics
15h30 – 16h00
Coffee Break
Session 3 – AI for Land Operations
16h00 – 16h20
Keynote
GBR ESPITALIER Marc, General Officer for Digital and Cyber Defense of the French Army
16h20 – 17h00
Round table : AI for Land Operations
17h00 – 17h15
Towards Agentic AI architecture for Scene Perception and Understanding applied to Collaborative Combat
StéphaneZIEBA, Thales cortAI
Solène BLASCO LOPEZ, Thales cortAIx
17h15 – 17h30
Une IA locale et auditable pour la navigation autonome en terrain non structuré
Adrien VIGNÉ, Terräng – MP SEC France
17h30 – 17h45
From mission intent to executable COAs: A hybrid-AI architecture for heterogeneous UxV
Hong-Lan BOTTERMAN, Capgemini Invent
17h45 – 18h00
Reconnaissance et manœuvre : un référentiel spatial 3D air-sol sans GNSS pour la navigation de véhicules terrestres en terrain contesté
Guillaume CORTES, Tyndall FX
Wednesday, November 18, 2026
Session 4 - AI for Air and Space Operations
9h00 – 9h20
Keynote
GBA GAVIARD Arnaud, General Officer for Digital Affairs of the Air and Space Force
9h20 – 10h00
Round table : AI for Air and Space Operations
10h00 – 10h15
Assessing the Performance of Embedded AI with Parachutes Guided by Reinforcement Learning: The COLIBOT Project
Florian REGNAULT, SCALIAN
10h15 – 10h30
Class-Incremental Object Detection For Aerial Surveillance Systems
Aleksandr SETKOV, CEA
Hélion DU MAS DES BOURBOUX, Thales LAS
10h30 – 11h00
Coffee Break
11h00 – 11h15
AGENA : Artificial Intelligence for Fighter Pilot Training
Kévin CARTEAU, Armée de l’air et de l’espace
11h15 – 11h30
CHESS : Air Threat Scenario Generator Calibrated On Real Data, with Adaptive Onboard AI, for Air Defense C2 Evaluation and Training
Guillaume Minard, OPUS Aerospace
Abdeldjalil Dekkiche, OPUS Aerospace
11h30 – 11h45
Surrogate Physics-Informed Neural Network for Satellite Position and Uncertainty Prediction
Stefan BAUDIER, Thales LAS
11h45 – 12h00
Frugal Physics-Informed AI for Adaptive Radar Detection in Challenging Electromagnetic Environments
Tom PORTAFAIX, Thales LAS
12h00 – 13h30
Lunch Break
Session 5 - AI for C2
13h30 – 13h50
Keynote
CA VINCENT Sébastien, General Officer for Digital and Cyber Defense of the French Army
13h50 – 14h30
Round table : AI for C2
14h45 – 15h00
Agentic AI-Driven Interoperability for Safe and Secure Multi-Domain Operations
Bruno CARRON, Airbus Defence and Space
Anil Ranjitbhai PATEL, Airbus Defence and Space
15h00 – 15h15
Générer les règles : distillation symbolique d’un LLM pour une extraction d’information frugale au service du renseignement
Louis JOURDAIN, ChapsVision
15h15 – 15h30
EGIDE: A virtual headquarter to automatically compare courses of action
Yann PRUDENT, MASA Group
15h30 – 16h00
Coffee Break
Session 5 - AI & Risks Management
16h00 – 16h30
Présentation du processus d’assurance de développement de l’IA mis au point au Ministère des Armées
AMIAD
16h30 – 16h45
SEPIA WG: Robustness and security of systems including AI
Sammy HADDAD, SEPIA
16h45 – 17h00
Breaking the Weakest Link to Evade Vision–Language Models
Boussad ADDAD, Thales CortAIx
17h00 – 17h15
Une approche agentique des tests fondés sur des modèles pour une génération de tests auditable
Frédéric TAMAGNAN, Smartesting
17h15 – 17h30
Construction of adversarial examples from partially reconstructed compiled neural networks
GUYOMARD Victor, SKYLD
17h30 – 17h45
Physical AI Digital Test Bed Concept – Train and Validate AI-Based Systems Using Agentic Workflows
Emmanuel FOLLIN, Ansys part of Synopsys
17h45 – 18h00
Left of Bang in Cyberspace: Red Teaming via Digital Twins for Critical Infrastructure Defense
David GIRARD, TrendAI