IRISA, a leading player in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence research, takes centre stage at European Cyber Week 2026
A key player in the fields of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, IRISA will once again be taking part in European Cyber Week.
Our researchers will be taking part in the academic discussions that will form the backbone of this year’s event, which is being held from 16 to 19 November at the Couvent des Jacobins in Rennes.
At IRISA, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence are major areas of research, covering a wide range of topics: system and network security, data protection, cryptography, digital trust, software security, machine learning and the reliability of artificial intelligence.
The laboratory is part of a particularly dynamic scientific ecosystem, which actively contributes to addressing the major challenges of digital sovereignty, security and innovation. This dynamism is underpinned in particular by close collaborations with our nine trustees, as well as with numerous stakeholders from the socio-economic and industrial sectors.
Our researchers will be at the heart of the scientific programme
Several IRISA members will be speaking at the key events of this year’s conference, addressing key themes for the future of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and digital sovereignty.
Security, artificial intelligence and digital sovereignty
- Conférence CAID (organisée par l’AMIAD, exceptionnellement ouverte à toutes et tous) : Pierre Alain (Université de Rennes, IRISA) présente la sécurité fondée sur les intentions, qui relie politiques de sécurité en langage naturel et défense automatisée des réseaux. Marc-Oliver Pahl (IMT Atlantique, IRISA) aborde la désinformation facilitée par l’IA et la sécurité nationale.
- Cyber Investor Day : Jamal El Hachem (UBS, IRISA) siège dans le jury de ce concours qui permet aux jeunes entreprises de présenter leurs solutions, leurs modèles et leurs trajectoires en quelques minutes.
- CAESAR : Gurvan Le Guernic (DGA et IRISA) est general chair et program chair de la 33e édition de cette conférence consacrée à la sécurité informatique et électronique.
- ESSAI : la deuxième édition du European Symposium on Security and AI, co-organisée par Teddy Furon (Inria, IRISA) chercheur Inria et Benoit Bonnet de l’AMIAD, se penche sur l’IA agentique en cybersécurité, dans ses dimensions offensive et défensive, et sur les vulnérabilités propres à l’IA.
- Résilience des filières bretonnes, EDIH : Lisa Hanselmann (Cluster SequoIA) partagera des retours d’expérience et présentera le rôle de l’EDIH.
- Cyber Founder Tour, Gildas Avoine (INSA Rennes/IRISA) will be meeting project leaders and young cyber start-ups in one-to-one sessions. This is an opportunity for them to test their ideas against Gildas Avoine’s expertise in cryptography.
France-Canada Day: digital sovereignty, a shared challenge
Co-organised by the Pôle d’Excellence Cyber (PEC) and the Franco-Quebec Council for University Cooperation (CFQCU), this event will be dedicated to strengthening collaboration between French and Quebec universities in research, education and innovation in the digital sector. Established in 2008 on the initiative of the French and Quebecois Ministers for Higher Education, the CFQCU supports the development of strategic partnerships between higher education institutions in both regions.
Guillaume Gravier (CNRS, IRISA) will speak at the event to contribute to discussions on these issues relating to international scientific cooperation.
Software Heritage: building trust in the open-source software supply chain
The security of open-source software and the verifiability of its supply chain will also feature on the European Cyber Week programme.
The SWH-Sec session, organised by Olivier Barrais (University of Rennes, Director of IRISA) and Olivier Zendra (Inria, IRISA), will explore the opportunities offered by Software Heritage to strengthen the cybersecurity of open-source software.
Roberto Di Cosmo (founder and director of Software Heritage, Inria, professor at the University of Paris Cité) will deliver a keynote speech on the verifiability of the software supply chain, from source code archiving to the requirements of the Cyber Resilience Act.
A round-table discussion will also bring together Florent Kirchner, Guillaume Gravier, Nicolas Peiffer and Olivier Zendra to discuss security challenges in open-source software supply chains.
Come and see us at European Cyber Week and at the University of Rennes’ two stands
As part of its participation in European Cyber Week, the University of Rennes will have two stands to showcase the expertise and initiatives of its scientific ecosystem:
- Cybersecurity stand: organised by Cyberskills4all and Cyberschool, stand 51.
- Artificial Intelligence stand: organised by TIARe (All Artificial Intelligence in Rennes) and the SequoIA Cluster, stand C15.
These stands will provide an opportunity to discover the research being carried out in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, the possibilities for collaboration with businesses and institutions, as well as the initial and continuing professional development courses offered by the Rennes ecosystem.