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Join us in person to explore how three cities are reshaping democracy in the age of AI.

AI Democracy Forum | Paris Session
A Tale of Three Cities and Democracy in the Age of AI

From Athens to Westminster to the Sorbonne, we gather around one defining question: can democracy endure, and can it govern intelligence itself, in the age of artificial intelligence? The democratic question of AI is no longer theoretical. It is becoming constitutional and civilizational.

Date: Saturday 14 November 2026
Time: 12 midday – 4pm
Venue: Amphi Descartes, Sorbonne Université, 17 Rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris, France

Programme

Opening Keynotes

• Professor Bernard Franco, Professor of General and Comparative Literature at Sorbonne University; Former President, European Society of Comparative Literature
• Louis Loizou, Co-Founder & CEO, IVORI Lab; Co-chair, AI Democracy Forum

Speakers

• Dr Stellina Kavvada, Lawyer, specialised in International, European & Comparative Law; LLB Université Paris 2, LLM Université Paris 1, PhD Sorbonne Université; Fulbright Scholar, Columbia University; Professor; CEO, Kavvadas Academy
• Dr Argyro Kavvada, Chief Scientist, Program Manager, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• Dr Eva Kouvella, International Lawyer; Founder and President, Hellenic-French Academy of Cultural Diplomacy

Student Symposium
Moderated by Dr Stellina Kavvada and Marina Antoniou, Executive Board Member and Co-founder, Hellenic Tech Network

• Leandros-Ioannis Kouros, École de Droit, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Président, Association de la Jeunesse Hellénique de Paris
• Athanasios Gatsis, École de Droit, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Membre du Conseil d’Administration, Association de la Jeunesse Hellénique de Paris
• Markella Fountouli, École de Droit, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Eleni Kardamyla, Master of Science; PhD Candidate in Speech Language Pathology, Université Européenne de Chypre et Académie de Paris
• Maria Moniodi, PhD Candidate in Architecture and Cultural Management, Académie de Paris

Closing Remarks

• Louis Loizou and Doros Partasides, Co-chairs, AI Democracy Forum

Event co-ordinators: Marilena Michael and Vera Kyriakou, students at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and members of the Zorbas in Paris Greek-Cypriot Association.

More speakers to be announced.

The Data Center Expansion

In the context of the rapid expansion of data centers in France and across Europe, the Observatory on the Environmental Footprint of AI is bringing together researchers, experts, and policymakers to discuss the environmental challenges associated with the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

MORNING: GENERAL PUBLIC

9h30 – 9h50: Coffee

09h50 – 10h00: Welcome remarks

École normale supérieure

AI and Society Institute

Observatory on the Environmental Footprint of AI

10h00 – 10h40: Keynote (40 min)

(forthcoming)

Cecilia Rikap: author of The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud

10h40 – 11h20: Are all AI use cases worth it?

15 min - Tristan Coignon: The usage and environmental impacts of AI video

generation

Abstract: In the past years, AI video generation has gone from a technology barely able to produce anything meaningful to a fully-fledged tool used by millions across the world. However, generating AI video comes at a steep resource cost and the broader environmental impacts of AI video generation as a technology, and their evolution over time, are still understudied. As such, in this presentation, we aim to model and estimate the conservative worldwide impacts of AI video generation over the years.

15 min - Antonia Marcheva: Costs and Benefits of Generative AI in the Global

Economy

Abstract: The discussion of the impact of generative AI is divided into groups who believe it will primarily improve lives, and those who believe the environmental and social consequences will overwhelm any positive impact. We use a state-of-the-art model of the global economy to explore the tension between the environmental costs, the increase in useful economic goods (e.g. healthcare and education), and the change in the structure of the economy (e.g. jobs). For environmental costs, we focus on the increase in emissions from the electricity sector, both from direct electricity use and the failure to phase out the most polluting electricity generation due to increased demand. We also pay particular attention to which countries receive the benefits of generative AI and which ones bear the costs.

10 min: Q&A

11h20 – 11h40: Break

11h40 – 12h15: Panel TBD - Anticipating token consumption

Retrieval pipelines, reasoning models and agentic workflows multiply the number of tokens behind a single user request. Organisations deploying generative AI can thus underestimate how many tokens (and energy) they will actually consume. This panel brings together organisations that have had to put their token consumption under management: how they forecast it, where the overruns came from, and what they changed in response.

12h15 – 12h55: Challenges of the data center expansion

15 min – Loup Cellard: The many barriers to waste heat reuse from data centres.

Abstract**: In order to improve the urban development of data centres, operators are** trying to give something back to local municipalities. Data centres can then supply heat to a closed local loop or an urban heating network. How can we explain the difficulty in matching the heat supply from data centres with the demand for decarbonised energy in local areas? The talk will present the results of an empirical study conducted in France since January 2026.

15 min – Clément Gasull: Grid connection regimes for data centers in France

10 min - Q&A

12h55 – 13h: Closing remarks

La FnTC imagine le futur de la confiance numérique pour célébrer ses 25 ans.

Le 17 novembre 2026, la Fédération des Tiers de Confiance du numérique (FnTC) fête ses 25 ans et vous donne rendez-vous au Studio Gabriel, à Paris, pour une édition exceptionnelle de ses Assises de la Confiance numérique. Un quart de siècle après sa création, la Fédération a choisi d'interroger l'avenir plutôt que de simplement célébrer son parcours : quelles seront les formes de la confiance numérique dans un monde bouleversé par l'intelligence artificielle, l'informatique quantique et les tensions géopolitiques autour de la souveraineté ? C'est cette question, ambitieuse et résolument tournée vers demain, qui structurera l'ensemble de l'après-midi.

Au programme, quatre ateliers pensés comme autant d'explorations prospectives : la cybersécurité de demain et les nouveaux visages de la menace, la souveraineté numérique française et européenne à l'épreuve des faits, la résistance de la confiance numérique face au choc de l'informatique quantique, et la question, aussi vertigineuse qu'inévitable, de la confiance que l'on peut accorder à une machine qui pense. Ces échanges réuniront des intervenants de premier plan — experts techniques, régulateurs, parlementaires et dirigeants — pour confronter les points de vue et éclairer les décisions à venir.

L'événement sera aussi celui de la reconnaissance : les Trophées de la Confiance numérique viendront saluer les organisations dont les initiatives incarnent le mieux l'excellence et l'innovation en matière de confiance numérique. Un moment fort, à la fois festif et symbolique, pour clore ces Assises sur une note tournée vers les acteurs qui construisent, chaque jour, cette confiance.

Que vous soyez éditeur de logiciels, prestataire de services, professionnel réglementé, start-up, expert-comptable, greffier, commissaire de justice, parlementaire ou responsable institutionnel, ces Assises sont pensées pour vous : elles rassemblent l'ensemble des acteurs de référence de la confiance numérique autour d'un même objectif — comprendre, anticiper et façonner ensemble le monde numérique de demain.

Le programme:

• 14h00 – 14h10 : Discours d'introduction du Président

• 14h10 – 14h55 : La cybersécurité de demain : quels nouveaux risques et quelles nouvelles menaces ?

• 14h55 – 15h40 : Souveraineté numérique française et européenne : à l'épreuve des faits

• 15h40 – 15h55 : Pause

• 15h55 – 16h40 : Confiance numérique : survivra-t-elle au choc quantique ?

• 16h40 – 17h25 : IA de confiance : comment faire confiance à une machine qui pense ?

• 17h25 – 18h00 : Remise des Trophées de la Confiance numérique

Réservez dès maintenant votre place pour cette édition anniversaire, le 17 novembre 2026 à 14h00, au Studio Gabriel.