Frédérick Benaben
Professor at the Centre Génie Industriel and head of the POD (Physics Of Decision) project
"Imagine that an organization's performance can be visualized as a ray of light tracing its trajectory towards its target on the horizon. Imagine also that risks, opportunities, decisions and all the events accompanying the organization's existence could be represented as force fields capable of deviating, braking, accelerating or correcting this trajectory. This is the vision offered by POD (Physics Of Decision), a theoretical approach combining artificial intelligence, data science and immersive technologies."
Laval Virtual, Europe's largest XR event
For over 25 years, the Laval Virtual trade show has been committed to promoting the creators of XR solutions worldwide. The 2025 edition will take place from April 9 to 11. The prestigious awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 10, 2025.
In a few figures, Laval Virtual is :
- 165 exhibitors
- 5,500 trade visitors
- 35 nationalities
- 60 speakers
Professionals, start-ups, academics, artists, students and pioneers of the immersive technology industry come together in one place, making the show a multi-disciplinary ecosystem offering exceptional networking opportunities.
This year, the Physics of Decision (POD) project led by a research team from IMT Mines Albi's Industrial Engineering center has been selected as one of the finalists in the Enterprise & Productivity Solution category. This category rewards XR projects that contribute to improving business performance.
POD (Physics Of Decision) is a theoretical approach combining artificial intelligence, data science and immersive technologies to improve organizational performance.
The international expertise of IMT Mines Albi's Industrial Engineering center
The Centre Génie Industriel (CGI) is one of IMT Mines Albi's three training and research centers, headed by Professor Matthieu Lauras. The CGI is unique in that it combines a range of scientific expertise that is rarely found together, at the frontier between Industrial Engineering and Artificial Intelligence:
- data science,
- model engineering,
- knowledge-based engineering,
- operations research
The Centre Génie Industriel (CGI) has already won a Laval Virtual Award in 2022 in the Industry category for its EGCERSIS project, which proposed an immersive virtual reality environment dedicated to corporate training in a crisis management context.
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