Conferences / World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF)
World AI Cannes Festival 2025
Feb 13–15, 2025 · Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France
- Conference
- World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Feb 13, 2025 – Feb 15, 2025
- Venue
- Palais des Festivals et des Congrès
- Place
- Cannes, France
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —No official post-event figure found. RX pre-event press release (Jan 6, 2025): 'More than 12,000 visitors are expected over the three days', 320+ speakers.
- Website
- worldaicannes.com
- Recorded
- 14 sponsors · 10 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Fourth edition, organized by RX France; labelled by the French government as part of the AI Action Summit week. Sponsors from the archived sponsor page (logo file names used where alt text was wrong; country pavilions omitted). 'Diamond' mapped to title. Speakers: featured speakers from RX's 'Top Speakers' press release only (320+ total). Prices excl. VAT: Full Pass EUR 763 (Nov-Dec 2024 snapshots, presumably early rate) and EUR 1,090 (Jan 2025); Discovery Pass free. Exhibitor list (JS) not recorded.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Pass (expo) | €0 | — | web.archive.org | |
| Full Pass | €763 | — | excl. VAT; price shown Nov-Dec 2024 | web.archive.org |
| Full Pass | €1,090 | — | excl. VAT; price shown Jan 2025 | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 14
Title / headline 4
- AlterMAInd · Diamond
- Amazon Web Services · Diamond
- IBM · Diamond
- SAP · Diamond
Platinum 1
- DXC Technology · Strategic
Bronze 1
Other 3
- Accenture · Track Sponsors
- Allianz · Investors Summit Sponsor
- Département des Alpes-Maritimes · Main Event Partner
Speakers and talks 10
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilles Roth | Ministry of Finance of Luxembourg | Keynote | Keynote Opening Speech | — |
| Aaron Kalvani | United Nations | Featured | How is AI contributing to positively and concretely improve social impact? | — |
| David Grout | Featured | AI & Cybersecurity : eternal flame, frozen heart | — | |
| Donation Chedom Fotso | Deutsche Bank | Featured | The Rise of AI Agents and Agentic Systems: How their evolving landscape is shaping the future? | — |
| Elham Tabassi | National Institute of Standards and Technology | Featured | How Should organizations address ethical concerns and avoid a lack of trust? | — |
| Jerry Sheehan | OECD | Featured | How to Reduce the environmental cost/impact of AI while maintaining innovation? | — |
| Lobna Karoui | Stellantis | Featured | How to implement a data & AI-driven culture in your organization? | — |
| Pascale Fung | Meta | Featured | What lies beyond LLM? | — |
| Ricardo Gaminha Pacheco | Insilico | Featured | Revolutionizing drug discovery: the journey of the first AI-designed drug to enter human clinical trials | — |
| Senthil Padmanabhan | eBay | Featured | How do applied AI and Gen AI have enhanced AI’s potential? | — |
Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250218131044/https://www.worldaicannes.com/en-gb/exhibition/sponsors.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250215035857/https://www.worldaicannes.com/content/dam/sitebuilder/rm/waicf/pdf/2025/PR_WAICF2025_Top%20Speakers_(English).pdf.coredownload.385769237.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20241130141227/https://www.worldaicannes.com/en-gb/book-your-pass.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250116043405/https://www.worldaicannes.com/en-gb/book-your-pass.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250209184447/https://www.worldaicannes.com/content/dam/sitebuilder/rm/waicf/pdf/2025/PR_WAICF2025_Annoncement_Final%20%28English%29.pdf.coredownload.385769233.pdf