Discover our AI-focused challenges

Each year, AI@Centech releases open-innovation challenges that aim to solve real-life problems.
The combination of Thales’ market expertise and the start-ups’ technologies create brand new solutions that can be tested within 6 months through the Acceleration program.
Click on each season to discover our past challenges.

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6

The season 1 call for start-ups is finished.

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AI x Marine

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Improving marine in-service support
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AI x Mobility

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Mass customisation in mobility
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AI x Cities

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Making cities resilient by improving threat detection
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AI x UAV

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Impacts of unmanned aerial vehicles in urban airspace
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AI x Localization

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Data fusion for non GNSS localization
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AI x 5G

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
AI for 5G Slicing Security
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AI x IoT

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
IoT Device Profiling
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AI x Dynamic Pricing

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Dynamic balancing and pricing offering for airspace access
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AI x Cybersecurity

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Cloud data breach detection
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AI x Environment

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Detection and prediction of ice formation
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AI x Communications

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Machine-to-Machine interfaces
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AI x Data Processing

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Data Assistance for Call Takers
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AI x Frugal Learning

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Frugal Learning for Railway Asset Failure Predict and Prevent
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AI x Time-Series Analysis

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Event Detection and Forecasting
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AI x Cloud Operations

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Since the majority of operational activities are performed by humans, errors can occur
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AI x Smart Summary

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Conversations and workflow smart summarization for report automatization
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AI x Joker

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
SURPRISE US!
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AI x Space

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
We are looking for all-purpose analytics on satellite general data to optimize data processing and analysis through multiple satellites
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AI x Engineering 4.0

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
AI might help us by improving our testing methods and helping us generate good engineering simulation for equipment
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AI x Transportation system

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
AI might help us by augmenting actual data sets with virtual worlds built out of real field data, or track conditions using machine learning
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AI x Quality control

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Make quality control more reliable by coupling visual inspection and artificial intelligence
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AI x Human Behavior

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Modeling the behavior of an actor in a Computed Generated Forces is a delicate and tedious task that requires a great deal of experience
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AI x Data processing

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
To create new context-relevant metrics that are comprised of several data originating from multiple outputs and methods to compute them
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AI x Augmented Cognition

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
The goal is to help human configure, understand, and develop personalized decision-making processes by making AI learn from the operator
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AI x Speech Recognition

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Chatbot technologies are not able to do Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) with a throat microphone (Laryngophone)
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AI x Joker

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Surprise our team with your own disruptive solution!
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AI x Secure Update

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
AI-enabled systems are always more prevalent to optimize operational performances, and update them while ensuring security is challenging
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AI x Space

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
New technologies have become a key to increase space products production rates against the backdrop of a fast-evolving industry
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AI x Smart Agents

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Smart agents, whether human or AI, should be able to perceive their environment and anticipate its evolution
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AI x Adaptive Training

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
The overall performance of a training scheme for air controllers must improve to achieve far better results
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AI x Cybersecurity

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Whether due to regulation requirements or lack of data, the business federation is a common practice of Thales customers
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AI x Edge Platforms

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
The development of Edge AI in critical systems raises the challenge of mastering the implementation of learning components
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AI x Crisis Management

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Crisis are getting increasingly complex and effective management is becoming prevalent to ensure the utmost resolution performance
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AI x Decision-Making

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Decision-making involves a risk of error whose consequences can be critical, typically with consequences on human life
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AI x Joker S4

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Unique opportunity to let your creativity run wild and propose a solution that will have a positive impact on one of Thales' markets!
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AI x Acoustic Data

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Find new ways to process underwater acoustic data and improve analysis efficiency.
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AI x Knowledge Management

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Implement methods to compute and classify company data and knowledge accurately and add new ones.
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AI x Privacy Management

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Solve data constraints to develop privacy-compliant biometric algorithms.
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AI x Detecting Unusual Behavior

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Develop AI solutions for anomaly detection in medical radiology equipment maintenance.
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AI x Arctic Ocean

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Find new ways to support the surveillance, mapping, and monitoring of Arctic territories to better understand and manage threats.
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AI x Collaborative Combat

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Develop cutting-edge simulation services to enable real-time collaboration for land forces.
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AI x Space

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Revolutionize space production with AI: automating operations, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing anomaly detection.
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AI x Speech Recognition

Discover our challenges involving AI in various aspects of our society.
Build AI-powered speech recognition and biometric identification systems for critical environments.
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The season 6 call for start-ups is finished, you can no longer apply.

AI x Frugal Air Data Collection

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AI to filter and collect frugally the necessary operational data in the aviation sector when the connection is limited or intermittent.
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AI x Automation Assistant

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AI to create a digital assistant to optimize the time of employees in activities of higher value.
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AI x Assisted Personal Development

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Improve individual training outcomes by introducing a self-guided modular learning environment.
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AI x Image Recognition and Classification

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Build a search and indexing tool to train an AI for image recognition and provide the source of those images.
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AI x Mission Planning & Evaluation

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Develop an AI to help achieving missions in various fields, including defense, space exploration, and complex industrial operations.
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AI x Joker

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Unique opportunity to let your creativity run wild and propose a solution that will have a positive impact on one of Thales' markets!
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AI x Synthetic Image Generation

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We are looking for an AI that will help us move towards the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) in satellite image analysis.
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AI x Air Defense System

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We are looking for a human-AI teaming approach for critical command-and-control functions for faster and better decisions.
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