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**Benoît Wintrebert — Director of Strategic Foresight, Defence & Digital Security, Inria**
Benoît Wintrebert is Director of Strategic Foresight for Defence and Digital Security at Inria, the French national research institute for digital science and technology.
He previously spent 15 years at the French Ministry of Armed Forces, where he founded and led research and innovation initiatives in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, telecommunications and emerging technologies.
Today, he focuses on strengthening Europe's technological sovereignty by connecting scientific excellence, defence requirements and industrial innovation. He actively develops European partnerships and collaborative projects, particularly through the European Defence Fund, with a focus on AI, autonomous systems and next-generation digital defence capabilities.
He combines technological expertise with strategic foresight, innovation management and European defence cooperation.
