Published on September 17, 2025–Updated on September 17, 2025
Dates
from September 16, 2025 to November 22, 2025
sophia summit
The SophI.A summit returns for its 8th edition from November 19 to 21, 2025 in Sophia Antipolis. The program has already been published, and registrations to attend the event are now open.
Organized by Université Côte d'Azur, the Communauté d'Agglomération de Sophia Antipolis and Sophia Club Entreprises, with the support of the Alpes Maritimes department, the SophI.A Summit returns for its 8th edition from November 19 to 21, 2025 at Sophia Antipolis. This benchmark event in artificial intelligence research, which is gaining momentum year on year, will unveil the latest global advances in artificial intelligence and its applications.
For three days, world-class researchers, engineers, economists, public decision-makers, deeptech startups, private laboratories, ETIs and major technology companies will be combining their expertise in a high-level program.
A world figure in AI will open the event: Michael I. Jordan
Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Michael I. Jordan is one of the world's most influential computer scientists. A precursor of machine learning, he helped lay the foundations of Bayesian networks, variational inference and modern statistical approaches to AI. Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, awarded the WLA 2022 prize, he has inspired a whole generation of researchers and engineers in tech.He will be speaking at the SophI.A Summit on the theme of "Artificial intelligence in the age of distributed systems: towards AI that is understandable, robust and integrated into our societies".
A program focused on the major levers of AI
The 2025 edition continues this momentum, with a program structured around the following six pillars: