Shaping France’s AI Future: CDC’s roadmap to digital autonomy | AI Now Summit 2026

In this fireside chat, the CEO of Caisse des Dépôts discusses the organization's strategic partnership with Mistral AI to advance European digital sovereignty. Strategic European sovereignty. Promoting a sovereign technology stack by leveraging open-source tools and regional champions like Mistral to ensure autonomy from overseas providers. Massive digital investment. Executing the "Digital Horizon 2030" plan, which involves investing over €18 billion in digital infrastructure and AI to modernize public services. Support for local authorities. Deploying an "AI territories" program to provide 100,000 local civil servants with secure, sovereign AI licenses and GPU access. Coordinating complex organizations. Managing AI deployment across 19 diverse subsidiaries by establishing common rules for core LLM and cloud providers while allowing flexible use-case development. Redefining public success. Measuring AI's impact through non-financial KPIs like reduced administrative delays for citizens and increased efficiency in fighting public service fraud. #AI #MistralAI #DigitalSovereignty #PublicService #Europe #Innovation