Videos of the talks are available on the EDT program’s Canal-U channel: Kick-off meeting on Canal-U.

As part of its mission as a Programs Agency for Digital Technology, Algorithms, Software and Uses, Inria launched the EDT research program - Engineering Digital Twins.

The program aims to bring together scientific, institutional and industrial partners around emblematic use cases, in order to ground scientific work in real-world conditions and to foster the adoption of the software tools proposed by researchers.

The Engineering Digital Twins (EDT) program, funded by the French National Research Agency under France 2030 (ANR-25-APJN-0001) and operated by the Inria Digital Agency, held its official kick-off meeting.

This day brought together all the institutional, scientific and industrial partners of the program around presentations of its objectives and research areas, and was a first key opportunity for exchanges between the teams involved in this national initiative.

Program

1:30 PM – 2:00 PM · Seminar opening Welcome address and introductory speeches: Pascale Vicat-Blanc and Benoit Combemale (Inria), Florent Kirchner (SGPI), Ouiddad Labbani-I. (SSRI/DGRI), Sophie Proust (Inria).

2:00 PM – 2:30 PM · Presentation of the EDT program Vision, program overview, main objectives, expected outcomes, roadmap and key milestones (Benoit Combemale & Pascale Vicat-Blanc).

2:30 PM – 3:20 PM · Focused scientific projects

• PC1 — Catalyst — Julien Déantoni
• PC2 — DT Compose — Jean-Marc Jezequel and Jannik Laval
• PC3 — TwinOps — Jean-Michel Bruel and Antoine Beugnard
• PC4 — Synchronic — Hind Bril el-Haouzi
• PC5 — Genuine — Thierry Duval and Arnaud Blouin

3:20 PM – 3:50 PM · Cross-cutting actions — Main objectives, planned activities and expected outcomes (Guy De Spiegeleer).

• AT1 — Animation
• AT2 — Use cases and demonstrators
• AT5 — Dissemination and exploitation

3:50 PM – 4:00 PM · Industrial partners’ address

• Comité technique Jumeau Numérique Industriel (EDT - France Industrie) - Olivier Scart (3DS)
• Thing’in Digital Twin Platform & EDT - Thierry Coupaye (Orange)
• Projet GI-JOE - Mohamed Bennabach (CETIM - Instituts Carnot)

4:00 PM – 4:25 PM · Administrative information — Axelle Croise (ANR).

4:25 PM – 4:30 PM · Closing remarks