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📢 Call for Papers – Workshop on Sovereign AI and Foundation Models
We invite researchers, engineers, practitioners, and R&D leaders from academia and industry to submit their work to the workshop “Sovereign AI and Foundation Models”, dedicated to advancing the development of AI systems that are locally governed, trustworthy, and aligned with regional values, regulations, and strategic priorities.
This workshop focuses on the technologies, infrastructures, and methodologies required to design, train, evaluate, and deploy foundation models within sovereign ecosystems. It aims to foster discussion and collaboration around AI systems built on national or regional data, operated on controllable and secure infrastructures, and applied to critical and strategic domains such as defense and security, cultural heritage and digital patrimony preservation, agriculture, environment, healthcare, finance, education, and public services.
A particular emphasis will be placed on technological sovereignty, data protection, security, and ethical alignment, highlighting how sovereign foundation models can contribute to safeguarding sensitive information, national assets, and cultural identity while enabling innovation and sustainable digital transformation.
Topics of Interest (including but not limited to)
🧠 Foundation Model Architectures
Large-scale and domain-specific foundation models, multimodal and specialized architectures.
⚙️ Efficient Training & Inference
Distributed and federated training, optimization, compression, distillation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
📊 Data Governance & Engineering
Data spaces, data curation, synthetic data, privacy-preserving and secure learning, synthetic data.
☁️ Sovereign AI Infrastructure
Secure, scalable, and energy-efficient compute, cloud, edge, and hybrid platforms, green AI.
📐 Evaluation & Benchmarking
Local languages, cultural and regulatory alignment, safety, robustness, and fairness.
🔍 Trustworthy & Explainable AI
Transparency, explainability, accountability, robustness, and security of foundation models.
🏭 Deployment & Applications
Industrial and governmental use cases in health, agriculture, finance, environment, and public services.
🏛️ Policy & Digital Sovereignty
AI governance, regulation, technological sovereignty, and strategic autonomy.
Types of Submissions:
We welcome:
Original research papers
System and industrial case studies
Position and vision papers discussing challenges, strategies, and future directions
All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere.
Review Process:
Review Process:
All papers will undergo a peer-review process by experts from both academia and industry, based on:
Technical quality and originality
Relevance to sovereign AI and foundation models
Clarity of presentation
Practical and societal impact
Accepted Papers:
Accepted contributions will:
Be presented at the workshop
Be considered for inclusion in:
Post-workshop proceedings
A white paper or technical roadmap on Sovereign Foundation Models
Workshop Goals
Workshop Goals
This workshop aims to:
Build a shared vision of Sovereign AI
Strengthen collaboration between academia, startups, and industry
Promote technological independence and trustworthy AI systems
Shape future research agendas and strategic roadmaps for foundation models in sovereign contexts
Join us in shaping the future of Sovereign AI and Foundation Models, AI that is powerful, responsible, and rooted in local sovereignty.
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