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| Inria Days | |
|---|---|
| Name | Inria Days |
| Status | Active |
| Genre | Research conference |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Location | France |
| First | 2000s |
| Organizer | Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique |
Inria Days Inria Days is an annual research forum organized by the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique that brings together researchers, engineers, industry partners, and policymakers from across Europe and beyond. The event typically features keynote lectures, thematic workshops, poster sessions, and industry demonstrations that connect advances in computer science with applications in robotics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data science. Attendees often include representatives from major academic institutions, technology companies, and public research organizations.
Inria Days functions as a national and international meeting point linking researchers from French National Centre for Scientific Research, École Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne University, and international partners such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, and Tsinghua University. The conference showcases collaborations with industry actors like Google, Microsoft Research, Amazon Web Services, IBM Research, and Intel as well as startups spun out from Inria research teams. Program components draw on themes explored by institutions such as CNRS, CEA, INSERM, Université Grenoble Alpes, INRIA Rennes, INRIA Saclay, and European initiatives including Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe.
Inria Days evolved from internal research seminars and national workshops that trace roots to the founding of Inria and earlier French computing efforts linked to École Normale Supérieure, Université Paris-Sud, and pioneers associated with INRIA Bordeaux. Early editions were influenced by collaborations with projects funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche and cooperative programs with European Research Council grantees and networks such as EIT Digital and COST. Over time the event expanded to include participants from major research laboratories including Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, SIMULA Research Laboratory, and international centers such as Max Planck Society and Fraunhofer Society.
The event is organized by Inria in coordination with regional centers and institutional partners including Rennes Métropole, Région Île-de-France, and university campuses like Université de Lyon and Aix-Marseille Université. Typical formats include plenary keynotes by figures affiliated with ACM, IEEE, European Commission advisory boards, panel discussions featuring members of CNIL, spin-off showcases with representatives from BPI France, and poster sessions judged by academics from Collège de France and international academies such as Royal Society and Académie des sciences. Format elements emulate practices from conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, SIGGRAPH, CHI, and ECCV with satellite workshops patterned after Dagstuhl Seminars and Abel Symposia.
Recurring themes include research areas represented in Inria teams: artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, computer vision, natural language processing, high performance computing, cybersecurity, privacy engineering, and data science. Specific sessions have referenced applied domains connected to partners such as Airbus, Renault, Thales, Schneider Electric, Siemens, and public projects with European Space Agency and INSEE. Cross-cutting topics address challenges highlighted in European strategies like Digital Single Market and scientific agendas from OECD and UNESCO.
Keynote speakers and participants have included senior academics and industry leaders affiliated with institutions and organizations such as Yann LeCun (New York University, Facebook AI Research), Geoffrey Hinton (University of Toronto, Google), Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley), Tim Berners-Lee (World Wide Web Consortium), and representatives from European Commission directorates. Panels have featured contributors from CNRS, CEA, INSERM, entrepreneurs from Station F, and research directors from NVIDIA, ARM Holdings, and Spotify.
Inria Days has facilitated partnerships that led to joint projects funded by Horizon Europe, ANR, and bilateral agreements with institutions such as MIT, ETH Zurich, and University of Oxford. The event has supported technology transfer resulting in startups incubated at Inria Startup Studio and accelerators like Station F and EuraTechnologies, and licensing agreements with firms including Dassault Systèmes and Atos. Policy briefings and white papers emerging from sessions have informed advisory committees to Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (France), European Research Council, and sectoral regulators like CNIL. Publications and open-source contributions associated with presentations have appeared in venues including Nature, Science, Communications of the ACM, and proceedings of NeurIPS and ICLR.
Inria Days is linked with other meetings and collaborations such as the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, World Summit AI, AI for Good Global Summit, and national workshops like Journées Francophones d'Informatique. It also coordinates with European infrastructures and networks including European Open Science Cloud, Eurêka, Gaia-X, and research projects supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions.