On November 27, 2025, IRT Saint Exupéry and the CNRS GdR SoC2 co-organized a scientific day dedicated to new technologies and hardware architectures for deploying embedded artificial intelligence algorithms. The event took place at the IRT in Toulouse and brought together a large community of academic and industrial experts.

At the heart of the discussions were neural networks—the driving force behind today’s AI revolution—whose deployment on embedded systems remains constrained by computing power, execution speed, and energy efficiency. How can performance, power consumption, and cost be balanced? Which technological breakthroughs now make it possible to integrate AI closer to sensors while keeping its energy footprint under control?

Throughout the day, a series of high-level presentations offered valuable insights. Participants were able to explore major advances in several key areas:

• neuromorphic architectures, inspired by the functioning of the human brain;
• in-memory computing, designed to reduce data transfers;
• photonic processors, capable of delivering unprecedented performance;
• acceleration and optimization techniques for deploying neural networks on FPGAs and low-power microcontrollers.

These contributions highlighted the richness and complementarity of the approaches currently being explored to make embedded AI faster, more efficient, and more sustainable.

Find all the presentations from the event.

We extend our congratulations to all speakers for the outstanding quality of their contributions.

We look forward to the next meetings!