A total of 97 speakers led 60 sessions featuring experience-sharing discussions and masterclasses, with participants from 32 countries. Predictive maintenance, robotics, language models, more energy-efficient AI… The discussions highlighted the wide range of artificial intelligence applications and the opportunities they offer for VINCI’s business activities. Watch the highlights of the AI Tech Days and discover the discussions and initiatives driving the development of artificial intelligence across VINCI.
AI: A driver of transformation across VINCI’s business activities
Across VINCI’s business activities, artificial intelligence is already being used in a wide range of fields, including robotics, mobility, predictive maintenance, geotechnical data analysis and the energy efficiency of buildings.
Today, more than 300 AI-related projects have been identified across VINCI. In addition, a catalogue of over 100 use cases deployed on a larger scale demonstrates the Group’s ability to turn experiments into practical solutions across its various business lines.
If there is one key takeaway from the AI Tech Days, it is that technological performance is never an end in itself. Artificial intelligence creates value when it addresses real-world operational needs. The challenge is to develop useful solutions tailored to the constraints and operational realities of each business.
A wide range of applications, from predictive maintenance to energy-efficient AI
The AI Tech Days provided an opportunity to explore various fields of artificial intelligence and showcase the progress made by the Group’s teams.
Key topics included:
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Predictive maintenance, to anticipate failures and optimise the monitoring of equipment and infrastructure.
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Robotics, to develop new intervention and automation capabilities.
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Language models, to facilitate the use of data and technical information.
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Frugal and responsible AI, to balance solution performance with the need to control energy consumption.
These different AI technologies also raise new challenges, particularly in terms of tool reliability, data availability and resource management.
Sharing expertise and exchanging experiences
Beyond technological advances, the development of artificial intelligence depends on the ability of the Group’s various entities to share knowledge and pool their experience.
The AI Tech Days provided an opportunity for VINCI’s data and AI community to come together. Presentations by Group employees, contributions from researchers and discussions between business lines made it possible to compare approaches and identify new opportunities for collaboration.
This initiative focused on three key objectives:
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Developing skills
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Connecting expertise
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Sharing experiences
This approach enables teams to draw inspiration from solutions already tested in other business areas and helps promote their wider deployment across the Group.
Developing skills to drive transformation
Developing skills is one of the key drivers for turning these exchanges and experiments into practical solutions for VINCI’s business activities. With this in mind, Leonard designed the AI Programme, a training pathway that helps VINCI employees develop their artificial intelligence skills and work on projects addressing real-world challenges within their respective entities.
Since this year, the programme has been supported by a partnership with Télécom Paris Executive Education and now leads to a recognised certification. On 14 October 2026, during the AI Tech Days, participants from the seventh cohort received their AI Engineer certification, recognising the skills they had acquired throughout the program and their ability to develop AI solutions addressing concrete business challenges.
But this skills development initiative is also built on a key belief: the most relevant solutions emerge when technological expertise meets in-depth knowledge of the business.
What if you put your AI skills to work on real-world challenges too? Data scientists, AI engineers, machine learning engineers, AI project managers… A wide range of opportunities awaits you at VINCI to help develop practical, real-world solutions.
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