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Wednesday October 21 Workshop 06 - 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Defense AI: From Engineering to Mission-Critical Systems
Chaired by Thierry Collette, Chief Program Officer, Thales Thierry Collette, Chief Program Officer, Thales and and Patrick Fabiani, Scientific Advanced Studies and AI Roadmap, Dassault Aviation

Introduction
By Thierry Collette, Chief Program Officer, Thales
and Patrick Fabiani, Scientific Advanced Studies and AI Roadmap, Dassault Aviation

Biography: Patrick Fabiani is in charge of Dassault Aviation’s Artificial Intelligence roadmap and is responsible for Upstream Scientific Studies in Dassault Aviation’s Foresight Department. Previously Director of Research at ISAE-SUPAERO, he was also head of the Systems Control and Flight Dynamics Department at ONERA, where he set up and ran the ReSSAC autonomous systems laboratory leading AI-driven UAV projects. His area of expertise is artificial intelligence and UAV systems. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Robotics Laboratory at Stanford University after completing his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Toulouse. Patrick Fabiani graduated in 1990 from Ecole Polytechnique (X87), is an ISAE-SUPAERO engineer and holds an MSc in Automatic Control.

Biography: Since April 2025, Thierry Collette has been Chief Program Officer of Thales CortAIx Labs, Thales' research laboratory in the fields of critical AI, trusted AI, and embedded and distributed AI. Previously at Thales, he was Director of the Information Science and Technology research group within Thales Research and Technology. Before joining Thales in 2019, Thierry Collette led the technology development division for embedded computing and components at CEA Leti & List for eight years. He contributed to the establishment of the European Processor Initiative (EPI) in cooperation with industrial and academic partners. Prior to that, he was Deputy Director in charge of programs and strategy at CEA List. He holds several patents on multi-core architectures and has contributed to the creation of more than 10 startups, including Kalray and SiPearl. He holds an engineering degree in computer science and electrical engineering and a doctorate in microelectronics.

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