De Vinci Festival | Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship for a Shared Future
De Vinci Festival 2026 – Discover the programme for March 26 & 27
On March 26 and 27, De Vinci Festival 2026 will bring our community together around a shared theme: Common Futures.
👉 Register now: https://shorturl.at/Throe
Designed as a unifying event, it will highlight the transversal nature of our expertise by bringing together students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners around three key pillars:
• Designing reality • Enhancing action through digital technologies • Supporting transitions
Thursday, March 26 will focus on projects, demonstrators and round tables. Friday, March 27 will feature the Embodied Futures symposium, in dialogue with international researchers.
This flagship event helps strengthen the coherence of our ecosystem and enhances the visibility of our positioning among partners.
Thursday, March 26 – Projects, discussions and demonstrators
🕙 10:00 – 10:15: Official opening 🕥 10:30 – 11:30: Round table 1 – Designing & producing reality From prototype to real-world deployment: why does it fail when facing reality?
🕦 11:45 – 12:45: Pitch Challenge – De Vinci Startup
🕑 14:00 – 15:00: Round table 2 – Enhancing action through digital From technology to adoption and collective performance
🕒 15:15 – 15:45: Quickstarter launch – Createch
🕓 16:00 – 17:00: Round table 3 – Supporting transitions Trust, governance, sustainability: making transformations last
🕠 17:30 – 18:00: Immersive Lab Award Ceremony
🕖 19:00 – 20:30: Cocktail & artistic performance
Throughout the day: project speed coaching, funding consultations, prompt party, talent corner / matchmaking.
Friday, March 27 – Embodied Futures Symposium
🕙 10:00 – 10:10: Opening remarks Xiao Xiao, Director, Institute for Future Technologies
🕙 10:10 – 10:40: Percussion circles – embodied participatory performance Salomé Bazin
🕥 10:40 – 11:25: Keynote “Designing technologies for dance: methods, creations and critical reflections” Dr. Sarah Fdili Alaoui – University of the Arts London / Université Paris-Saclay
🕚 11:25 – 12:10: Keynote “AI & Me: inventing, exploring and inspiring AI for human flourishing” Prof. Pat Pataranutaporn – MIT Media Lab
🕛 12:10 – 13:00: Round table moderated by Xiao Xiao With Prof. Pat Pataranutaporn, Dr. Sarah Fdili Alaoui and Salomé Bazin
A featured guest for this edition
We are honored to welcome Prof. Pat Pataranutaporn (MIT Media Lab), a leading researcher in human-AI interaction and augmented cognition.
His participation in the symposium “Embodied Futures: Re-Cognizing Intelligence Through Art and AI” will bring a strong international dimension to this edition, at the intersection of research, art and artificial intelligence.
Staff
