Cedric Auliac, Program Manager of AI Factory France attended NVIDIA GTC 2026

Europe’s AI Momentum Takes Center Stage at NVIDIA GTC

At NVIDIA GTC, Europe’s ambition to scale a sovereign AI ecosystem was front and center during the panel “Europe’s AI Launchpad: Unlock Startup Growth Through Sovereign AI Infrastructure.”

A key highlight of the session was the participation of Cedric Auliac, , who brought a strong perspective on how European startups can leverage cutting-edge infrastructure to accelerate growth.

Unlocking Growth Through Infrastructure

Alongside other leading voices such as Sadaf Alam and Yann Lechelle, Cédric emphasized the importance of:

• Combining public supercomputing with private AI infrastructure
• Ensuring secure, sovereign access to compute
• Enabling startups to scale without relying on non-European ecosystems

For European startups, this means new opportunities to build, scale, and compete globally, powered by a growing network of sovereign AI infrastructure.