Call for Submissions
for the 6^th Edition of the SophI.A Summit,
the Annual Event for Academic and Business Research on Artificial Intelligence

This annual event for academic and business research on artificial intelligence will be held in Sophia Antipolis (France) at Mouratoglou hotel & resort from 22 to 24 November 2023.

National and international researchers and R&D leaders are invited to submit their work for presentation as a conference, a poster or a demonstration.

The most promising communications will be awarded special prizes which include grants of several thousand euros.

Organised by the Université Côte d’Azur, the Communauté d’Agglomération de Sophia Antipolis and Sophia Club Entreprises with the support of the Alpes Maritimes département, the SophI.A Summit returns for a 6th edition from 22 to 24 November 2023 in Sophia Antipolis. This key event in artificial intelligence research, which gets bigger year on year, will unveil the latest worldwide advances in the field of artificial intelligence and its applications.

As each year since 2018,, the event will be attended by leading names in Artificial Intelligence from the academic, institutional and private spheres in Europe and worldwide. Authors have until 31 May 2023 to submit their contribution and have  their work displayed as a poster, demonstrated in a presentation or presented at a conference at the SophI.A Summit 2023. The best projects will be awarded a financial prize.

A comprehensive programme with 6 themes

Researchers from universities, institutes and private companies across the world will once again be able to benefit from many opportunities to meet bothin person in Sophia Antipolis and online to discuss the six following themes:

• “AI Fundamentals”:
• “AI & Health”:
• “AI & Biology”:
• “AI & Smart Territories”:
• "Sustainable AI”:
• “AI & management”:

Created six years ago, the SophI.A Summit has quickly established itself as a key event in international artificial intelligence research. Last year the summit was attended by 424 participants form 17 countries and received over 50 applications following the call for submissions.

World-renowned speakers

This growing rate of participation is supported by the high number of world-renowned speakers at previous editions, such as: Lucilla SIOLLI (“AI et Digital Industry” Director, European Commission), Francesca ROSSI (AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM), Matthias NIESSNER (Technical University of Munich), Laurent DAUDET (Université Paris Diderot and former member of the Institut universitaire de France), Joshua GANS (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto), Barry O’SULLIVAN (European Commission High-Level Expert Group on AI), Michael BRONSTEIN (Imperial College London), Vince MADAI (Charity Hospital Berlin), Mike BRADY (Oxford University), Olivier CLATZ (Commissariat Général Investissement), Stefano ERMON (Stanford University), Jean-Marie BONNIN (IMT Atlantique), Christoph MEINEL (Hasso Plattner Institut), Stéphane CANU (Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, France), Leopold PARTS (Sanger Institute Cambridge), Carolina WAHLBY (Uppsala University, Sweden), Philippe BEAUDOIN (Element AI), Lorenzo ROSASCO (Geneva University - Switzerland), Daniel RUECKERT (Imperial College London - UK), Emmanuel GOUBERT (Ecole Polytechnique, France), Ioannis BRILAKIS, (Cambridge University, UK), Philippe DESPRES (Université de Laval, Québec).

Many leading experts are expected to attend again this year.

How to participate in the call for submissions

Applications must be submitted in English and can include work in progress, journals or even contributions that have already been presented/published at other conferences. Each application must include up to 6 keywords, which will be used for classification purposes. All of the selected exposés will be presented in the conference venue, or online by video conference.

• Conference submissions must be an abstract of maximum 4,000 characters (including spaces), accompanied by 3 to 5 bibliographic references. An annex in PDF format (for example, to provide a figure or image) may be added to the submission.
• Poster submissions must be an abstract of maximum 2,500 characters (including spaces), accompanied by 3 to 5 bibliographic references. An annex in PDF format (for example, to provide a figure or image) may be added to the submission. If the poster is selected for presentation, a 180-second video will be requested at a later stage.
• Demonstration submissions must be an abstract of maximum 2,500 characters (including spaces). This must justify how the demonstrated AI tools apply to use cases that raise public policy issues. If the poster is selected for presentation, a 180-second video will be requested at a later stage. Demonstrations of solutions of a commercial nature will be automatically refused.

The most promising presentations will be awarded a grant of several thousand euros.

Submissions must be filed by 31 May 2023.
Visitor registration for this 6th edition is already open.
Find out more about the SophI.A Summit

About SophI.A Summit
SophI.A Summit is a key event for A.I. experts, international experts from the academic world and from leading companies. Every year, they attend the 3-day event to present their research and share their thoughts on Artificial Intelligence, its development and its impacts on several current and future fields.