Paris-Saclay Spring 2025 - The major innovation event returns on 20 May

The DataIA Institute
The Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI) research at Université Paris-Saclay brings together over 800 researchers from 47 different laboratories to promote interdisciplinary research in AI and data science. The winner of the "AI Cluster" call for projects in 2024, DataIA will be presenting its AI research projects and its major role in innovation.

The Design Spot
Unique in France, the Université Paris-Saclay design centre is a meeting place for research, innovation and design. It supports students, researchers and entrepreneurs with their projects. Through the three projects on show, Widy (technology for measuring temperatures using thermal noise), SOUND (acoustic technology that diffuses sound through vibrations) and Pyrat (software for verifying AI performance), the Design Spot shows how design helps to transform scientific innovation into practical, accessible solutions.

ENS Paris-Saclay
As a member school of Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay will be present at the stand to showcase its research and innovation projects, in fields ranging from basic science to societal issues. 

EUGLOH
The European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH), coordinated by Université Paris-Saclay, brings together nine leading European universities. They pool their expertise to tackle current societal challenges and provide academic programmes of excellence combining high-quality teaching, research and cutting-edge facilities. The alliance will present its international objectives in these areas.

The Université Paris-Saclay Foundation
The Université Paris-Saclay Foundation promotes and supports the missions of Université Paris-Saclay through patronage and philanthropy, in terms of teaching, research, innovation and outreach.

INRAE
INRAE, a national research organisation and partner of Université Paris-Saclay, will be presenting The French Gut, which focuses on agriculture, food and the environment. This ambitious project aims to explore the role of the gut microbiota in human health, particularly in chronic disease. The project, led by INRAE's MetaGenoPolis centre, aims to raise public awareness about this issue and develop its socio-economic collaborations.

Maison du doctorat
The Université Paris-Saclay Maison du doctorat supports the University's 4,500 PhD candidates in all disciplines. It will be presenting its support services with a focus on the deeptech entrepreneurship course, launched as part of the Université Paris-Saclay Innovation Alliance cluster (PUI - pôle universitaire d'innovation), supported by Université Paris-Saclay.

UVSQ
As an associate member of Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ will be presenting its nanosatellite space programme, led by the Atmospheric Space Observations Laboratory (LATMOS - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/Sorbonne Univ./UVSQ). This international satellite programme for research and education (INSPIRE) aims to study the Earth's radiation balance. Three satellites have already been launched, the latest in March 2025.
 

This year, a brand-new Corner Lab area will be set up at the salon, highlighting innovative projects from research laboratories involved in the region's two university innovation clusters (PUI), including the Université Paris-Saclay Innovation Alliance. The four PUI projects supported by Université Paris-Saclay will be present in this space:

Arrow, the result of collaboration between the Laboratoire Informatique, Bio-informatique, Systèmes Complexes (IBISC - Univ. Paris-Saclay/Univ. d'Évry) and the Ellen Poidatz Foundation, has developed the first active augmented reality walking rehabilitation video game. It is designed to improve the walking ability of children with neurological motor disabilities.

Cocapec, from the Institute of Physical Chemistry (ICP – Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS), is developing the stationary radiolytic synthesis of copper- and silver-based nanoparticles for applications in printed electronics.

Cyclope, from the Institut of Chemistry of Natural Substances (ICSN - Univ.Paris-Saclay/CNRS) and the Infectious Processes in Tropical Island Environments unit (PIMIT - CNRS/Inserm/Institut de recherche pour le développement/Université de la Réunion), is developing a video-endoscopic capsule which is unique in that it must be swallowed. The camera then films its progress through the digestive tract. These elements are crucial for the early detection of colorectal cancer.

Probalidy, a project from the Inflammation, Microbiome and Immunosurveillance Laboratory (MI2 - Univ. Paris-Saclay, Inserm), and whose "Microbiome in liver diseases: from susceptibility to treatment" team has identified several bacteria in the gut microbiota that help to improve NASH-Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and alcoholic liver disease (ALD). These two diseases are the two largest malnutrition-related liver diseases in the world, for which there is no treatment.
 

ArcSpace SAS: Co-founded by Adam Abdin, a CentraleSupélec alumnus who was awarded a PhD from Université Paris-Saclay in 2019, ArcSpace is developing a welding process for in-orbit use, for satellite assembly, repair and end-of-life management. The new in-orbit capabilities of ArcSpace tools, included in the in-orbit service missions of major space prime contractors, provide Europe's space industry with enhanced performance, sovereignty and competitiveness.

Ethylowheel: Co-founded by UVSQ alumna Julie Bruguière and Jaime Alonso, an alumnus of the Institut d'Optique Graduate School's programme for innovation and entrepreneurs (FIE), and supported by the Institut d'Optique Graduate School's 503 and IncubAlliance, Ethylowheel innovates in skin-contact alcohol detection for the automotive market.

Green Fusyon: Coordinated by AgroParisTech alumnus Jacques de Montigny, this start-up is from Paris-Saclay Food and Bioproduct Engineering (SayFood - Univ. Paris-Saclay/AgroParisTech/INRAE) and the Process and Materials Engineering Laboratory (LGPM - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CentraleSupélec). Green Fusyon it produces chlorella, a microalga rich in protein and omega-3 for the food industry. Its innovative process recovers nitrogenous water and CO₂ emissions from biogas, reducing its carbon footprint. By replacing conventional sources with sustainable ingredients, it improves the nutrition of products while reducing their environmental impact, meeting climate requirements and the Nutri-Score.

Hope Valley AI: Co-founded in April 2024 by Hakima Berdouz, a research engineer at the CEA, and stemming from research conducted at the Institute for Applied Sciences and Simulation for Low-Carbon Energies (ISAS - Univ. Paris-Saclay, CEA), Hope Valley AI is reinventing the future of non-ionising breast imaging by making it smarter, more effective, more accessible, more equitable and more user-friendly. The company is developing MAMMOPE, a modular, intelligent medical device for multimodal breast imaging, with the ambition of becoming the new gold standard for AI-assisted breast cancer screening by 2030.

Mycelium Technologies: Co-founded by two Université Paris-Saclay alumni, Laetitia Pierazzi and Jaafar Kilani. Mycelium Technologies is a French deeptech start-up specialising in the development of gourmet, nutritious foods based on mycelium - the hyphae or roots of mushrooms - providing a natural, sustainable alternative to meat. By using agricultural by-products to cultivate its mycelium, the company creates exceptionally nutritious foods, while respecting ecosystems thanks to its expertise, unique know-how and technological innovation.

NeoSense: Co-founded by CentraleSupélec alumni Florent Loete and Pierrick Legrand, NeoSense provides high-precision, non-contact, non-destructive sensors for measuring the quality of semiconductor materials and thin films.

Opack: Co-founded by CentraleSupélec alumnus William Peltier, Opack provides packages that can be reused 100 times, thanks to a patented inflatable cushioning system. Assembled in France, these packages reduce waste and optimise re-use logistics.

Revolty: Co-founded by UVSQ alumna Mathilde Janicot and CentraleSupélec alumnus Julen Urchoegia, Revolty creates affordable, environmentally-friendly residential solar storage solutions by reconditioning lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles and backup power systems. It helps individuals reduce their electricity bills and become more energy self-sufficient.

SAFENAI: Founded by Julien Chiaroni, the former programme manager at the Systems and Technologies Integration Laboratory (List - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CEA), and Fabien Tschirhart, an alumnus of Université Évry Paris-Saclay, SAFENAI is tackling a major obstacle in the large-scale adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in numerous sectors (industry, transport, etc.): the trust that users, whether citizens or companies, place in AI. With Klarity, the AI-dedicated governance and observability solution provided by the start-up, customers benefit from total visibility over the quality and risks of their AI, instantly detect problems in production and deploy them with confidence.

Scalnyx: Co-founded by Université Paris-Saclay alumnus and former CentraleSupélec lecturer Charly Bechara, SCALNYX is a French deeptech company specialszing in software development. It provides a No Code AI platform for the predictive analysis of financial data, based on causal artificial intelligence. The PROJECTOR platform enables the creation of business AI agents and learning on a wide range of user data to identify explicit causal links and hidden signals that can be used by experts for more informed and traceable decisions.

UNVEIL: Led by Jean-Jacques Greffet, professor at the Charles Fabry Laboratory (LCF - Univ. Paris-Saclay/CNRS/Optical Institute Graduate School), and supported by Optical Institute Graduate School 503, IncubAlliance and CNRS Innovation, UNVEIL is developing a technology based on an exalted resonant cavity microscopy technique that detects individual nanoparticles without labelling. This will make it possible to measure their mass and concentration, detect aggregates and measure affinities.

V4CURE: In March 2023, Nicolas Gilles, a researcher at the CEA, and Sonia Escaich, the future CEO, set up the company V4Cure, a spin-off from the Experimental and Molecular Pharmacology Laboratory (LPEM) and the Molecular Engineering Department for Health (SIMOS), within the Medicines and Technologies for Health unit (MTS - Université Paris-Saclay, CEA, INRAE). The start-up's goal is to develop a drug candidate called V4C-232. This is a derivative of a toxin contained in the venom of the mamba, a sub-Saharan African snake whose bite is fatal to humans. This molecule could be used to treat two diseases - hyponatremia and polycystic kidney disease - which affect ten million people in the West.

Vikit: Co-founded by CentraleSupélec alumnus Jean-François Macresy, Vikit has created a Software Development Kit (SDK) that makes it quick and easy to create video generation agents using generative artificial intelligence. These agents use public and proprietary generative AI models in Vikit, while solving the problems of quality, reliability and relevance of the content generated - problems that today prevent the full use of video generative AI by businesses.

Volpil: Co-founded by CentraleSupélec alumni Thomas Houdbert and Rémi Fourault, Volpil is developing a fun, gamified mobile application that enables users to understand, optimise and add value to their electricity consumption. Volpil helps people take control of their consumption and become eco-responsible consumers who are paid by the electricity grid.