International Society for Artificial Intelligence powered Invention and Innovation (ISAIII)
European TRIZ Association (ETRIA)
International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
INSA Graduate School of Engineering of Strasbourg
TRAI2025
Where TRIZ + AI & beyond leading edge
research happens
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Keynote 1 Oliver Gerundt (Bosch)
Keynote 2 Richard Platt (Ex-Intel)
Keynote 3 Etienne Mineur (CEO Volumique)
Keynote 4 Bruno Betoni Parodi (BASF)
Keynote 5: Jim Belfiore (Corning Incorporated, USA)
TRAI2025 TRIZ + Artificial Intelligence conference
Senior Manager Engineering, TRIZ Expert, Futurist — Robert Bosch GmbH
Oliver is an experienced coach and trainer in systematic ideation and innovation. He specializes in creativity methods, product engineering, TRIZ, decision making, and innovation management. At Bosch Management Consulting since 2016, he supports projects and workshops with a structured approach to problem-solving, while training teams in TRIZ and ideation methods. He is also active in the German Innovation Network and previously spent 16 years in Gasoline Systems and CR focusing on concept development and innovation management.
Keynote: His keynote explores the adaptation of TRIZ for foresight and future thinking, particularly in strategy development. It delves into the methodology of the nine boxes, where TRIZ’ "Trends of Engineering System Evolution" can be combined with broader trends to anticipate future developments. Additionally, the keynote highlights the significant role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing the future thinking process, enabling more accurate predictions and innovative strategies.
Strategy & Innovation Group — former Intel Corporate Intrapreneur
Richard is a System’s Engineer from the semiconductor industry working as a Research & Technology Development “Pathfinder”, a former Intel Corporate Intrapreneur, an internationally recognized TRIZ expert and Intel’s last “Innovation Master” — will share his journey of uncovering the fundamental system level architectural limitations of Artificial Intelligence LLMs and LRMs, culminating in a new architectural framework for AI developers and users of AI, to improve performance outcomes in their use and application of AI technology for competitive advantage and profitability. Drawing on his experience training Intel engineers how to more effectively do “advanced complex problem solving”, “problem shaping”, and “problem finding” where he embedding Systematic Innovation (TRIZ) methods into a F-100 Corporate enterprise’s complex problem-solving practices. Explaining the “why” and “how” structured and systematic innovation is indispensable and requisite for AI’s successful acceptance and adoption and further evolvement in enabling profitability and competitiveness in the companies it is used in. He will show how innovation theory and behavioral economics translate into concrete industrial results and outcomes.
Keynote: His keynote will guide us through the evidence that revealed AI’s blind spots, the insights he derived from them, and the solutions he now proposes for reshaping the future of R&D as well as the future success of AI as tool for complex problem solving, as it is currently being applied across the globe today.
CEO and Creative Director @ LES EDITIONS VOLUMIQUES
renowned designer, educator, and pioneer at the crossroads of design and artificial intelligence—will bring a distinctive creative lens to the conference with his keynote “Designing with AI: from digital hallucinations to creative dialogue.” Founder of Éditions Volumique and long-time explorer of interactive design, he now investigates AI as a collaborator rather than a tool, treating prompts as incantations that summon unexpected visual and conceptual material.
Keynote: He will argue that AI’s imperfections—its biases and distortions—are fertile ground for creativity, provided that designers guide them with culture, intent, and critique. Drawing on his teaching experience at ENSCI, HEAD, and Camondo, Étienne will show how a new generation of designers negotiates these tools while forging innovative visual languages.
Senior Research Management and Consulting, MBB, TRIZ Practitioner — BASF
Bruno has been involved for more than 20 years with industrial research for large corporations in the areas of automation, control, robotics, and AI. Since 2018 with BASF, Bruno has been tackling the challenges of digitalization in the chemical industry, for both research and production. In 2019, Bruno was appointed as Scientific Director for BASLEARN Joint Lab with TU Berlin — the first of its kind for BASF, exclusively focused on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He is also a trainer and was the Quality Leader for GE at the first Research Facility opened in the Southern Hemisphere, having helped build this facility from scratch and trained more than 100 researchers in Six Sigma and TRIZ.
Keynote: His keynote will delve into the journey of pattern recognition (and repetition) that led to TRIZ, but also other similar methods from other areas of creative work. He will discuss the caveats of applying these techniques in very specific domains, and the contradictions that might hinder innovation.
Director, Innovation Insights - Corporate Innovation, S&T, Corning Incorporated (USA)
Jim Belfiore is Director of Innovation Insights at Corning Incorporated, where he develops AI and innovation strategy & analysis across the company’s research and technology organizations. A Certified Innovation Master, he has guided more than 700 innovation and R&D engagements with Fortune 500 firms worldwide, advancing systematic approaches to innovation, problem solving, and knowledge-based creativity. Before joining Corning, Jim served as Senior Vice President for Innovation and Analytics at Clarivate and as Managing Director for Client Innovation Services at IHS Markit (Invention Machine). He is the founder of Sensorinus, an innovation management and content firm focused on removing barriers to innovation. Jim's courses on innovation and strategic problem solving appear in LinkedIn Learning and in corporate & university learning catalogs around the world. He holds a B.Sc. in Astronomy and Physics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Keynote: In his keynote, "Altshuller and AI", Jim examines what might have happened had Genrikh Altshuller — the creator of TRIZ — encountered modern artificial intelligence. Building on historical and newly researched insights from Altshuller’s life and work, Jim explores TRIZ’s alignment with the foundations of cybernetics and early AI research, and how their convergence today is reshaping best practices of innovation and effective use of AI. He argues that TRIZ is not a relic of the 20th century but a missing framework that 21st-century AI needs to become a structured science of creativity. From Altshuller’s fictional “Discovery Machine” to present-day AI-driven labs and innovation systems, Jim reveals how TRIZ principles can guide AI toward purposeful, explainable, and human-centered innovation.
International Conference on AI-Powered Innovation and TRIZ Methodology 2025
“Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing scientific discovery, turning it into an accelerated quest where previously unimaginable hypotheses become possible by connecting dots beyond human cognition.”
— World Economic Forum, Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024, p.9, 2024.
The convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) is redefining the landscape of scientific and technological innovation. Recent advances, such as the use of AI in scientific discovery, enable breakthroughs that were previously unimaginable, accelerating the pace of innovation. This conference aims to serve as a global platform to explore these synergies, foster interdisciplinary collaborations, and address the ethical, societal, and technological challenges associated with these advancements.
We invite researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to submit papers, case studies, and presentations on the topics outlined above. Contributions should be original and add significant value to the field of AI-powered innovation and TRIZ methodology.
Accepted papers like in the previous years will be published in the book series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIPAICT volume) and indexed in recognized academic databases.
The conference will take place from November 5 to November 7, 2025, at the EDF site in Paris-Saclay, a world-class innovation hub offering an inspiring environment for intellectual exchange and strategic collaborations.
TRAI2025 TRIZ + Artificial Intelligence Conference
Download the document for conference location and security informationsThe event takes place at the EDF site in Paris-Saclay, at the core of a leading European innovation hub that brings together research, academia, and industry. The venue offers modern facilities and easy access by public transport.
EDF Lab Paris-Saclay
(Exact building and entrance will be confirmed by email)
Times and routes may vary depending on the day and traffic. Please check real-time itineraries before departure.
Distances and times are indicative. Please check your actual schedule and conditions.
The Gala Dinner of TRAI2025 will be an unforgettable evening aboard the elegant “Le Zouave” — one of the most refined vessels of the Compagnie des Bateaux-Mouches. As the sun sets on the Seine, the boat will glide through the heart of Paris, offering a spectacular view of its illuminated monuments: the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame, the Musée d’Orsay, and the Pont Alexandre III.
Guests will enjoy a refined dinner served onboard during the cruise, in a warm and festive atmosphere — the perfect occasion to network, exchange ideas, and experience the magic of Paris by night.
Participants who wish to join directly at the pier are welcome to meet us at 19:30.
| Name of presenter | Name of Demo object | Short sentence defining it |
|---|---|---|
| Amadou Coulibaly | FINDER | TRIZ project platform for Universities & Corporate usage |
| Iliass Ayaou | PatentSpark | Searching for solutions in a Patent corpus using DL & Q&A |
| Nicolas Douard | FusionMind | Interdisciplinary search for solutions in Scientific Articles database |
| Connor MacLean | HiveScan | Scientific & Technological scouting based on inventiveness of Startup outcome |
| Marek Mysior | API Extractor | An API wrapper offering some basic functionality around Technical Contradiction formulation |
| Mustafa Cakir | Patentiv | AI-powered Patent evaluation, valuation & valorisation tool |
| Marco Tatti | TRIZ Chatbot | A ChatGPT-based tool designed to speak the language of TRIZ practitioners |
| Davide Russo | Omnia | Dynamic RAG for enhanced patent analysis and systematic innovation |
| Denis Cavallucci | TRIZApp | A native PWA Android powered for online collaborative TRIZ projects on smartphones |
| Alena Zhivotova | Erllecta Text2Client | Performs named entity recognition in Russian text to extract names and addresses, then matches them against a relational database for automated client identification and authorization in corporate services |
TRAI2025 TRIZ + Artificial Intelligence Conference
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TRAI2025 TRIZ + Artificial Intelligence Conference
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