International AI Day – April 9, 2026

The Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics is hosting International AI Day on Thursday, April 9. This year’s theme is “Generative AI in Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities” and the event will feature presentations and discussions with academic and industry experts on the topic.

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Program

  • 08h30-09h00 – Welcome of participants and breakfast
  • 09h00-09h10 – Welcome to the International AI Day at TBS Education: by Dieudonné Tchuente (Head of the Center of Excellence in AI and Business Analytics) with Samuel Fosso Wamba (Associate Dean of Research), and Mélanie Ouvry (Dean of the Faculty)
  • 09h10 – 09h50 – From Models to Agents: The Promises and Tensions of AI in Higher Education by Leid Zejnilovic, Associate Dean for AI and Digital Transformation at Nova School of Business and Economics (Lisbon, Portugal)
  • 09h55 – 10h25 – Measuring the Data-to-AI Journey: A Diagnostic Framework for Assessing Digital, Analytics, and AI Readiness in Organizations by Kevin Carillo, Associate Professor, Head of the APEM Chair at TBS Education (Toulouse, France)
  • 10h25 – 10h45 – Coffee Break and Group Photo
  • 10h45 – 11h15 – Scaling Generative AI in Banking: Lessons Learned, Frameworks, and Tools for Enterprise-Wide Transformation by Donatien Chedom, Director of AI – Financial Services at EPAM Systems (London, UK)
  • 11h20 – 11h50 – Inside the Manufacturing AI Revolution: How APEM Is Embedding Generative AI in an Industrial Innovation Environnement by Thomas Henin, Group Marketing Director at APEM (France)
  • 11h55 – 12h25 – From Hype to Hard Value: Building Responsible Generative AI That Scales, by Silvia Gil Casals, Data Scientist at Microsoft (Toulouse, France)
  • 12h25 – 14h10 – Lunch Break
  • 14h15 – 14h45 – Presentation of a Generative AI platform for Higher Education, by Frederic Porta, Head of Data and AI, TNP Consultants (Paris, France)
  • 14h50 – 15h20 – Agentic AI in Academic Research: From Execution to Epistemic Stewardship and Social Impact, by Diego Ravenda, Associate Professor at TBS Education (Barcelona, Spain)
  • 15h25 – 15h45 – No Way Around It: Ideator’s Bias and Generative AI-Augmented Ideation Structure, by Quentin Plantec (Associate Professor) and Shirah Foy (Assistant Professor) at TBS Education (Toulouse, France)
  • 15h45 – 16h00 – Coffee Break
  • 16h05 – 16h35 – Experimenting with Generative AI, what it can bring to Automated Decision-Making, by Guilhem Molines, Chief Architect at IBM (France)
  • 16h40 – 17h10 – From Months to Minutes: How AI-Powered Scientific Intelligence is Accelerating Corporate R&D, by Assia Asrir, Director Life Sciences at Opscedia (Toulouse, France)
  • 17h15 – 17h30 – Wrap-up and conclusions of the International AI Day