18 months after the Paris Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence, Hauts-de-France is organizing the second French AI highlight. One Grand European Summit on 12 June in Lille, a Festival from 13 to 19 June throughout the region. Ai won't happen without us.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a promise. It is already at work in our companies, our hospitals, our schools, our territories. In our business. In our lives. And yet, the big decisions that shape it are still far from those that it transforms.
It is to change this that the Hauts-de-France Region launches IA with us, an unprecedented event, in two stages, with national and European influence, placed under the high patronage of the President of the Republic.

On 12 June 2026, the Great European Summit

EuraTechnologies, Lille. For the first time on this scale, the world’s leading figures in AI – international leaders, researchers, policy makers – will be in direct dialog with those it transforms: Employees, caregivers, teachers, entrepreneurs, parents. To exchange, debate, and build together a useful, controlled and responsible AI.
The Summit is held three days before the G7 in Evian (15-17 June 2026). It is part of the continuity of the Paris Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence in February 2025 — and marks a new stage: After ambitions and investments, comes the time for concrete applications, real uses, European sovereignty.
The question is no longer: What can AI do?
But: What is it already doing — and what do we want to do with it?

From June 13 to 19, the IA Festival with us

The Festival is this same ambition brought closer to the field — everywhere in the Hauts-de-France, for seven days. Conferences, open doors in companies where AI is already working, demonstrations, consumer workshops, site visits, live experiments. A week open to all, led by the economic, academic and territorial actors of the region.
The labeling is open to any project leader wishing to be part of this dynamic. No imposed format: Each initiative can join the Festival in its own way.
How do I participate?
Project leaders, local actors, companies, educational institutions, associations: Go to ia-avecnous.fr To propose your initiative and join the IA Festival with us.
Ai won't happen without us.