AI Factory France makes its beginning at VivaTech 2026

For the first time, AI2F is attending VivaTech, Europe’s leading tech event, alongside the French National Quantum Strategy and Inria

Booth 2H66, Pavillon 7

One-Stop Shop to support AI research through tailored services & computing resources

Selected in March 2025, as part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking’s call for proposals to deploy 19 European AI Factories, AI Factory France is a national and European platform supported by a broad coalition of partners from the French AI ecosystem: GENCI, Inria, CNRS, CEA, CINES, AMIAD, Hub France IA, and ten French universities representing the national AI Clusters.

The project’s ambition is to create a one-stop shop that consolidates the resources of the French ecosystem to facilitate access for researchers from the public and private sectors to computing power (Jean Zay at IDRIS, Adastra at CINES, Joliot-Curie at TGCC), digital resources (data, models, software) and usersupport services (training, technical assistance) to accelerate their research in AI and applied AI.

The project’s service portal, now accessible at https://aifactory-france.eu, allows any public or private actor to explore the ecosystem, access available resources, and submit a user support request.

Key Highlights

Wednesday, June 17

• Institutional panel introducing the AI Factory France project and its national and European context.
• Meeting between NVIDIA and GENCI, in the presence of state representatives, to discuss the operational launch of the collaboration between NVIDIA and AI Factory France, announced in November 2025, dedicated to deeptech startups acceleration.

Thursday, June 18

• One year after its signing, the tripartite collaboration between Scaleway, GENCI, and CNRS -announced at VivaTech 2025- aimed at developing thepublic-private continuum, is bringing its first results: a dozen projects have been supported, and a first successful industrial demonstration with RATP and Pleias has proven the operational interoperability between public and private infrastructures.
• AI Factory France will join the panel “AI Finance Lab for European AI Startups”, co-organized by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank, on Thursday, June 18, from 12:30 to 14:30, to introduce its service offerings targeting startups and SMEs.

Four Days of Innovation at the Heart of the Ecosystem

From June 17 to 20, booth 2H66 will host a packed program featuring institutional speeches, thematic panels, and keynotes.

Wednesday, June 17

• National institutional sequence (presentation of the AI2F project).
• Panel on “AI for Health”, bringing together startups and academic researchers.

Thursday, June 18 (Franco – German Day)

This day—where Germany is the guest of honor at VivaTech—will gather AI Factory France teams with their counterparts from Spanish (BSC), Finnish (CSC), Irish (ICHEC), and German (JAIF) AI Factories for a session dedicated to European cooperation. The agenda includes:

• A keynote on AI implications for the aerospace sector,
• A panel on robotics and “physical AI”
• A panel on collaborations among AI Factories.

Friday, June 19

• Pleias will introduce a healthcare use case with strong data privacy challenges.
• Panel on French public and private computing infrastructures.
• “Datalab” session on data-related issues, with participation from European partners (CSC & EOSC).

Saturday, June 20

• Presentation by Olivier Cappe (CNRS & ENS) of his book “(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence“.
• Panel on AI model safety in finance.
• Session on talent management and inclusivity, highlighting key national initiatives such as TechPourToutes (represented by Inria) and Women and Science (represented by Paris-Saclay University).

These events bring together academic actors (CNRS, Inria, CEA, French universities), private actors (Scaleway), startups and SMEs (Pleias, DragonLLM, Raidium, Whitelab Genomics, etc.), and European research and computing centers (BSC, CSC, ICHEC, etc.).