The 17th edition of the "GIFEC Meetings" were held on 22 May in Marseille at the Palais du Pharo. The Gifec thus reaffirmed its commitment to remain a necessary and privileged place of exchange for the profession.
This event brought together in this prestigious setting, fully privatized by the Gifec, all the distributors of products and industrial solutions as well as all the manufacturers members of GIFEC.
Well-known speakers led the evening on the following theme:
“What will be the impact of AI in our companies and on the future of our organizations?”
simultaneous translation (French to English) was provided by an interpreter throughout the event.
The evening ended with a convivial and gourmet cocktail dinner.
The ESILV’s fourth-year engineering students presented their projects as part of the "I.A. in industry" challenge.
You will find bellow a wrap-up video with some highlights.
Thank you to all participants and see you soon for new “Meetings”.
PhD in Political Science, Associate Researcher at the EHESS/CNRS Laboratory of Political Anthropology, and professor of Politics at SciencesPo, Polytechnique, Columbia GC.
She also advises governments and institutions in their technology public policy. In 2024, she published Technopolitique at Editions du Seuil
also director of the Institut François-Mitterrand. Her latest essay, “Living Without”, uses “without” (lack) as an instrument of dissection, applied to the origins and contours of our world of fullness.
Coached for 6 months by industrial members of the Gifec, the 3 teams of 4th grade engineering students from ESILV will present their algorithm projects to the audience who will be led to vote for the project "l’I.A. dans l'industrie" Winner
Presentation of the GIFEC’s developments: new website, new communication, new business report enriched with distribution indicators, project to involve distributors in Gifec' work
Patrick Martin will share the MEDEF work around AI (remotely)
Political scientist and essayist, expert on the political and geopolitical issues of Tech and AI. Asma Mahla is PhD in Political Science, Associate Researcher at the EHESS/CNRS Laboratory of Political Anthropology, and professor of Politics at SciencesPo, Polytechnique, Columbia GC.
She also advises governments and institutions in their technology public policy. In 2024, she published Technopolitique at Editions du Seuil
6:45 pm: Introduction of the final of the ESILV Students' Challenge by the members of the Gifec at the initiative of the project and the sponsor (personality of the industrial sector expert user in AI to be confirmed).
Presentation of the 3 finalists project by students ... vote of each participant ...
7:10 pm : Aperitif break ...
19:50 pm : Resumption of the sittings, announcement of the order of the podium by the sponsor and then Presentation of the awards on stage ...
speach on I.A. by the sponsor
In her latest book "Living Without" Mazarine Mitterrand Pingeot distinguishes between lack of being and lack of having. No assets will be able to fill this gap. Artificial intelligence, this extraordinary prosthesis that opens us to unlimited knowledge, will not fill the gap, but it compels us to redefine the specificity of man with respect to the machine, in its capacity to question himself, to introduce doubt, vacuum...
Cocktail dinner from 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm
