Operation CIEDS 2025: a day at the heart of defence and security issues
Operation CIEDS, organised annually by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security Studies, is shaping up to be a not-to-be-missed event!
This day is a unique opportunity for industrialists, researchers and defence operators to meet on an excellent academic campus, to :
- learn about defence, security and sovereignty issues
- find out about projects carried out at IP Paris in collaboration with the French Ministry of Defence and industrial partners
- unlock the opportunities of tomorrow
The successes of Operation CIEDS 2024
- A keynote on defence innovation
- Round tables on dual themes linked to societal issues
- The totems of the new CIEDS projects
- Poster prize competition with public vote
The new features of Operation CIEDS 2025
This year's forum will host:
- Start-ups from the IP Paris incubator ecosystem. They must have developed a product or service for a civil sector use case. Their objective will be to test the interest of their solution on a defence use case in front of the personnel of the Ministry of the Armed Forces and industrialists present.
- CIEDS industrial partners who will be presenting their R&D programmes and achievements in order to share their technological challenges.
The programme highlights
The CIEDS 2025 programme is in line with the priorities of the French Ministry of Defence: artificial intelligence, quantum and space.
8am - 9am: Welcome badge and coffee
9 a.m. - 12.15 p.m.: Plenary session
- Opening speeches
- Keynote 1 – Michaël Krajecki, AMIAD: Artificial intelligence to meet major defence challenges
- Keynote 2 – Nathanaël Gibert, Safran Electronics & Defense: NewSpace and defence, opportunities and risks
- Round table: The second quantum revolution, impacts on defence
12.15pm - 2.45pm: Discussion forum
- Posters
- Stands: start-ups, industrial, institutional partners
- New projects
2.45pm - 5.15pm: Thematic seminars
- Major maritime challenges: exploration, control and strategic autonomy
- Space and defence
- Defence systems
- Health, biology, CBRN
5.15pm - 6pm: Awards ceremony and closing ceremony
- Closing keynote
- Poster prizes awarded by public vote
- Cocktail
Operation CIEDS 2023, 2024 and 2025, defence innovation meetings in the main hall of the École polytechnique: the closing of a triptych not-to-be-missed before the complete renovation of this emblematic space and several years of unavailability!
This event is organised with the support of the French Ministry of Defence and the French Defence Innovation Agency.