The AFIA, Bordeaux INP, the University of Bordeaux and INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest are joining forces to organize the fourteenth Artificial Intelligence Platform (PFIA 2021) from June 28 to July 02, 2021. The previous editions were held in Palaiseau (1999), Grenoble (2001), Laval (2003), Nice (2005), Grenoble (2007), Hammamet (2009), Chambéry (2011), Lille(2013), Rennes(2015), Caen(2017), Nancy(2018), Toulouse(2019) and Angers(2020).

The AI Platform is a unique meeting point for the AI community, bringing together the various disciplines that make it up and building bridges between them. To this end, the AI Platform is aimed at the entire French-speaking AI community to address common issues.

For its 2021 edition, the AI Platform hosts, the following conferences and days:

• APIA 7th National Conference on Practical Applications of AI
• CNIA 24th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence including France @ International which consists of the presentation of French papers accepted at AAAI, IJCAI, PRICAI 2021
• IC 32nd French-speaking Days of Knowledge Engineering
• JFPDA 16th French-speaking Days on Planning, Decision and Learning
• JFSMA 29th Francophone Conference on Multi-Agent Systems
• JIAF 15th Journées d’Intelligence Artificielle Fondamentale
• RJCIA 19th Meeting of Young Researchers in Artificial Intelligence
• Defence and AI 1st Internet of Things and AI Day, in partnership with ONERA
• Gaming and AI 3rd Interactive Games and AI Day, in partnership with the GdR IA of CNRS
• Health and AI 5th Medical Informatics and AI Day, in partnership with the AIM

As well as six tutorials on the following topics: causal machine learning, declarative data mining, algorithmic information, multi-agent planning, multi-agent programming, reservoir computing.

Eight renowned colleagues have also been invited for lectures at the beginning of each half-day:

• Justine Cassell, from INRIA Paris (France)
• Erwan Lecarpentier, from ISAE-SUPAERO Toulouse (France)
• Paulo Leitao, Instituto Politécnico de Bragança (Portugal)
• Ann Nowe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
• Stuart Russell, University of California at Berkeley (USA)
• Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University (UK)
• Elena Simperl, King’s College London (UK)
• Manuela Veloso, JP Morgan AI Research in New York (USA)

Registration to all or part of the events hosted at PFIA 2021 is free but mandatory, to be done here.

AFIA would like to thank the program committee chairs of the hosted conferences and days, the members of their program committees, the speakers, the members of the programming and organization committees, its institutional and industrial partners, as well as all the participants, for their valuable contributions to the success of this platform.

All the information on these events is available on the IA 2021 Platform website, whose content will be maintained until the summer of 2025.

Translated from PFIA 2021 : Annonce de la quatorzième édition de la plate-forme intelligence artificielle