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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, CortAIx Labs Chief Programs Officer, Thales Thierry Collette, Chief Program Officer, Thales and and Patrick Fabiani, Scientific Advanced Studies and AI Roadmap, Dassault Aviation

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

Biography: Patrick Fabiani has been an Artificial Intelligence (AI) senior expert at Dassault Aviation since 2020, where he has contributed to upstream scientific studies, to the AI roadmaps, and to AI qualification and compliance. His expertise lies in Artificial Intelligence and its applications across all aerospace industry domains. From 2013 to 2020, he acted as head of the Research Directorate and scientific strategy at ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, after having led the Control of Systems and Flight Dynamics department at ONERA since 2005. In 1997-1998, he was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Robotics Laboratory. His expertise in AI for autonomous aircraft and drones was developed at Stanford, then at ONERA where he established the autonomous drone activities (ReSSAC), and later at ISAE-SUPAERO, before joining Dassault Aviation. He holds an engineering degree from École Polytechnique (X87), a SUPAERO engineering diploma with an AeroAstro MSc (1992), and a PhD in AI from SUPAERO (1996).

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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