ia3.alsace/The project
The projectThe project
Why ia3.alsace exists, how the site works, and who is behind it.
ia3.alsace/The project
The projectWhy ia3.alsace exists, how the site works, and who is behind it.
Artificial intelligence is entering the region's businesses, administrations, schools and healthcare institutions. Each usually discovers it on its own, with its own questions. A few kilometres away, others have already tried, succeeded, adjusted. ia3.alsace connects these experiences and the people behind them.
One question runs through this entire site: how do we remain who we are in the age of AI? It arises for the winegrower looking along the rows, for the theatre nurse preparing an operation, for the official drafting a letter, for the executive deciding on an investment. It also arises for a territory.
The answer involves a choice. Understanding an organisation deeply enough to help it choose what it can become, starting from its people, its capabilities and the value it brings. That is the work I do. ia3.alsace applies it at the scale of Alsace and its neighbours.
In direct contact with Germany and Switzerland, Alsace offers concrete ground for learning between neighbours. Its universities work with those of Freiburg, Basel and Karlsruhe within Eucor. Its companies sell, recruit and cooperate on both sides of the Rhine. Major transformations have long circulated here: Gutenberg carried out part of his research on printing in Strasbourg, and it was in Strasbourg that the European regulation on AI was voted.
The 3 has two readings. First, it stands for the three countries of the Upper Rhine, which meet in Basel at the point where three borders join: France, Germany and Switzerland, three languages along one river. Turned on its side, it also draws a heart. This site grew out of an attachment to this region and to the people who move it forward.
Each topic follows the same movement. A publication presents a person, a place and an experience. It explains what was undertaken and what came of it. It concludes with Christophe Picou's perspective and a possible next step: a meeting, a question to readers, an introduction.
A press release, an announcement, a supplier's figure: always attributed to their author.
A council resolution, a study, a report: their exact scope, without extrapolation.
Interviews, visits, user feedback: what the ground shows once on site.
Christophe Picou supports companies in their choices relating to AI, from understanding the issues to setting priorities. Before VEIA.AI, at the Groupe hospitalier de la région de Mulhouse et Sud-Alsace, he led the selection of a laboratory information system, bringing doctors, biologists, managers and IT specialists together around a shared decision.
He is responsible for the editorial direction of ia3.alsace and leads its events. ia3.alsace is an independent publication, open to contributions from the region: each text is signed by its author.
Discover VEIA.AI →“I created ia3.alsace to make the artificial intelligence experiences of our region visible. In direct contact with Germany and Switzerland, Alsace offers concrete ground for learning between neighbours. I meet those who are experimenting, I explain what they do and I bring together those who can move forward together.”
ia3.alsace is an independent publication on artificial intelligence in Alsace and the Upper Rhine. It makes the region's AI experiences visible, explains them and brings together those who can move forward together, in Alsace, Baden and the Basel region.
The 3 has two readings. It stands for the three countries of the Upper Rhine, France, Germany and Switzerland, which meet in Basel where three borders join: three languages, one river. Turned on its side, it also draws a heart, a sign of attachment to the region. The site is published in French, German and English.
ia3.alsace is an initiative of Christophe Picou, founder of VEIA.AI, an artificial intelligence consultancy based in Colmar. He is responsible for its editorial direction and leads its events.
VEIA.AI is Christophe Picou's consultancy. It supports companies in their choices relating to AI, from understanding the issues to scoping projects. ia3.alsace applies the same approach at the scale of a territory: understand before deciding.
It is VEIA.AI's guiding line. Before choosing an AI tool, an organisation chooses what it entrusts to the machine, what it keeps for itself and what it decides itself. The grid on the Between neighbours page applies these three questions to the public frameworks of Strasbourg, Basel, Karlsruhe and Freiburg.
Each item in The Wire is classified on four steps: announced, framed, tested, in use. The classification is based on what the source establishes. It makes it possible to distinguish an announcement from a use that is genuinely in place.
Organisations in the Upper Rhine can describe an experience, add an event to the calendar or ask a question from the ground via the Contribute section, at the bottom of every page.
Publisher: VEIA.AI, Colmar (Haut-Rhin, France). Publication director: Christophe Picou. Contact: {mail()}
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Your organisation has tried something with AI. Tell us what you decided and what you take away from it.
02A visit, a workshop, an event: add it to the shared calendar.
03A concrete need can become the subject of a future publication or event.
Christophe Picou supports businesses in their choices concerning artificial intelligence. He founded VEIA.AI, an AI advisory firm based in Colmar. With ia3.alsace, he puts this perspective at the service of the region.