

AI Selection Day
Plug and Play, in collaboration with Paris-Saclay, is hosting the first AI Selection Day in France, bringing together leaders from corporates, academia, and startups to accelerate AI adoption across industries.
The event will feature a selection of the most promising AI startups showcasing solutions to real industrial challenges, alongside open discussions with senior representatives from leading corporations.
The day will conclude with three focused roundtable discussions across Health & Life Sciences, Smart Cities, and Food & AgroTech. Each session brings together corporate leaders and leading AI startups to dive into real industry challenges, identify where AI can meaningfully address them, and map concrete opportunities for adoption, from pilot programs to longer-term partnerships.
Join us to discover, evaluate, and connect with the AI innovators shaping the future of industry.
Event Agenda:
9:30 – 10:00: Welcome & Coffee
10:00 – 10:40: AI Centre of Excellence Initiative
10:40 – 11:40: AI Startup Pitches
12:00 – 13:00: Networking Lunch
13:00 – 14:00: Vertical Roundtables
Health & Life Sciences
Smart Cities
Food & AgroTech
Startups Pitching
Owkin - (Unicorn) Accelerating drug discovery and diagnostics through federated AI trained on real-world patient data.
Archetype AI - is a Physical AI company founded by Google veterans that built Newton, a foundation model fusing real-time multimodal sensor data with natural language so businesses can deploy intelligent agents that perceive, reason about, and act in the physical world.
Genesis AI - Building a universal robotics foundation model powered by a proprietary physics simulation engine, enabling general-purpose robots to automate physical labour at scale.
Endogene Bio - Uses AI-powered multiomics to decode endometriosis biology, enabling precision drug discovery and patient stratification
Delos - AI orchestration layer that unifies enterprise tools into a single intelligent work environment.
Clarifeye - Turns expert reasoning into scalable AI teammates that execute your organisation's standards with full traceability.
Arsenale Bioyards - AI-driven biomanufacturing platform making precision fermentation commercially viable at industrial scale.
Eleven Labs - AI voice platform that generates hyper-realistic speech, dubbing, and audio content in any language.
Spore.Bio - AI-powered microbiology testing platform that detects bacterial contamination directly on the factory floor in minutes, replacing lab tests that take up to 20 days.