Watch the Beluga™ AI Challenge Award Ceremony

In the final days of the TUPLES project, our consortium gathered one last time in person for the Final General Assembly, hosted in Toulouse at the Airbus Saint-Martin site — the very place where the iconic Beluga™ aircraft perform their impressive daily loading and unloading operations.

These same operations were at the heart of the Beluga™ AI Challenge, a competition that invited the international planning and scheduling community to address a real-world industrial problem through trustworthy AI.

The Award Ceremony, introduced by Romaric Redon, COO of ANITI Toulouse, and Florent Teichteil-Koenigsbuch, AI Decision-Making Expert @1XRD Airbus, celebrated the outstanding solutions developed by the two winning teams:

• Bernardino Romera Paredes (Hiverge), winner of the Scalability Track
• Daniel Gnad and Elliot Gestrin (Linköping University), winners of the Explainability Track

Before the event, the winners and consortium members had the chance to witness the Beluga™ in action. Seeing the aircraft’s impressive scale and the complexity of its loading operations made it even more compelling to later hear directly from the winners about their innovative approaches to this challenging planning problem.

It was a truly special moment for the TUPLES partners — an inspiring closure to three years of collaboration, research, and innovation towards Trustworthy Planning and Scheduling.

In the coming weeks, we will publish all the final outcomes of the project on our website.
For now, we invite you to watch the recording of the Award Ceremony below.

Watch the full ceremony here