Strategic pillars
14 themes to understand, anticipate and confront tomorrow's risks
Wars, conflicts, cyberattacks, natural disasters, health crises, supply disruptions: risks combine, spread and amplify their effects. How can we foresee them, anticipate them, reduce their impact, manage the crisis and speed up the return to normal? METRICS brings together those who analyse the threats, make the decisions and build the solutions to protect organisations, populations and society.
- 01
Wars, conflicts, intelligence and information warfare
Armed conflicts, hybrid warfare, geopolitical tensions, intelligence, influence, disinformation, cognitive and information warfare.
- Disinformation, deepfakes and opinion manipulation
- Cognitive sciences and network sociology
- OSINT, GEOINT, SIGINT and economic intelligence
- Multimodal AI, semantic analysis and knowledge graphs
- Detection of weak signals and identification of coordinated campaigns
- Strategic communication, prebunking and countering hostile narratives
- Protection of scientific, technological and informational heritage
- 02
Foresight and anticipation of risks
Weak signals, prospective scenarios, emerging risks, polycrises, domino effects, mapping and anticipation of threats.
- Identification of weak signals and emerging risks
- Prospective scenarios for 2030, 2040 and 2050
- Modeling of polycrises and domino effects
- Geopolitical, technological, industrial, climatic and health prospective
- Evolution of hybrid, cyber, space and information threats
- Anticipation of resource shortages and strategic dependencies
- Horizon Scanning, red teaming, simulations and exploration of alternative futures
- 03
Insurance, financing and risk modelling
Reinsurance, systemic risks, PML/MFL, modelling, crisis financing, risk transfer, new forms of coverage.
- Insurability of emerging and systemic risks
- Probabilistic modeling, extreme scenarios and stress tests
- Value at Risk, PML, MFL and sensitivity analyses
- Advanced actuarial science, causal AI and climate modeling
- Reinsurance, captives and parametric insurance
- Risk Engineering, Loss Prevention and technological prevention
- Public-private financing of resilience and critical innovations
- DeepTech funds, patient capital and financing of scale-up
- 04
Innovation and disruptive technologies
Artificial intelligence, generative and agentic AI, quantum technologies, deeptech, new uses, disruptive solutions serving anticipation, protection and resilience.
- Artificial intelligence, generative AI, causal AI and autonomous agents
- Quantum computing, quantum sensors and post-quantum cryptography
- Robotics, drones, autonomous swarms and multi-agent systems
- Digital twins, multiphysics simulation and complex systems
- Space, New Space, Earth observation and orbital surveillance
- Biotechnologies, digital health, genomics and augmented humans
- Smart materials, additive manufacturing, new energies and storage
- Convergence between AI, quantum, space, robotics, IoT and life sciences
- 05
Legal, regulation and compliance: Europe's new weapons against threats
Regulatory sovereignty, sanctions, extraterritoriality, Space Act, NIS2, AI Act, CRA, DSA/DMA, data protection, duty of vigilance, control of strategic dependencies.
- AI Act, NIS2, DORA, Cyber Resilience Act, Space Act, GDPR and DSA/DMA
- Civil, criminal and managerial responsibilities
- Intellectual property, patents and trade secrets
- Export control, international sanctions and extraterritoriality
- Duty of vigilance, governance and alert mechanisms
- ISO standards, certifications, audits and insurability
- Protection, valorization and transfer of innovations
- 06
Cybersecurity and critical infrastructure
Cyberattacks, cyberdefence, critical infrastructure, essential networks, SOC/MDR, cyber-resilience, digital continuity, protection of cyber-physical systems.
- Protection of energy, industrial, digital and logistics infrastructures
- Cybersecurity of industrial OT, IoT and cyber-physical systems
- Zero Trust, microsegmentation and anomaly detection
- Cyber resilience, business continuity and systems restoration
- State cyberattacks, cybercrime and hybrid threats
- Security of digital supply chains
- Post-quantum cryptography and protection of critical communications
- 07
Supply chains, resources and continuity
Supply chain, critical dependencies, shortages, logistics, energy, raw materials, business continuity and securing of supplies.
- Mapping of tier 1 to 4 suppliers
- Modeling of dependencies and cascading effects
- Logistical, commercial, energy and geopolitical disruptions
- Stochastic optimization and predictive AI applied to procurement
- Digital twins of supply chains
- Energy storage, critical raw materials and security of flows
- Business Impact Analysis, continuity plans and reconfiguration of value chains
- 08
Climate, environment and resources
Natural disasters, extreme climate events, environmental risks, water, natural resources, territorial resilience.
- Climate sciences, hydrology and environmental modeling
- Physical risks, transition risks and extreme events
- Adaptation of infrastructures and territories
- Water stress, energy, raw materials and food security
- Earth observation, remote sensing and climate data
- Decarbonization, storage and sobriety technologies
- Climate scenarios for 2030, 2040 and 2050
- 09
Human factors, health and behaviour
Health crises, health, stress, collective behaviour, crisis psychology, decision-making under constraint, training and preparing populations.
- Neuroscience, cognitive psychology and psychotraumatology
- Leadership, cognitive load and decisions under stress
- Mental health, burnout prevention and team resilience
- Human factors in critical systems
- Immersive training, simulations and crisis exercises
- Collaborative robotics, augmented humans and human-machine interfaces
- Social acceptability, trust and responsible use of technologies
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Strategy, governance and leadership
Decision-making in uncertain environments, crisis governance, command, public-private coordination, leaders’ responsibility.
- Decision sciences and arbitration under uncertainty
- Leadership in crisis situations and decision-making under pressure
- Governance of innovation, R&D and critical technologies
- Transformation of organizations and change management
- Role of COMEX, boards of directors and scientific departments
- Skills development, risk culture and collective learning
- Strategy of sovereignty, industrial specialization and technological autonomy
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Industrial resilience and European sovereignty
Strategic autonomy, industrial capabilities, critical technologies, European dependencies, reindustrialisation, economic security, ecosystem resilience.
- Reindustrialization and security of value chains
- Factories of the future, automation and reconfigurable production
- Technological, energy and material dependencies
- Sovereignty of data, cloud, components and infrastructure
- Transition from DeepTech to industrial production
- Cooperation between startups, SMEs, laboratories and major clients
- Financing of strategic technologies and the emergence of European champions
- 12
Applications and technological architectures
Digital twins, data platforms, interoperability, decision-support systems, simulation, space, observation, secure communications, resilient architectures.
- SaaS, sovereign cloud and trusted cloud platforms
- On-premises solutions, edge computing and air-gapped environments
- Simulation platforms, digital twins and Decision Intelligence tools
- SIEM, SOAR, XDR, MDR, cyber ranges and detection systems
- OSINT, GEOINT, SIGINT, knowledge graphs and multimodal analysis tools
- MLOps, LLMOps, model supervision and AI governance
- Risk management platforms, GRC, RegTech and control automation
- Interoperability, reversibility, data security and integration with existing systems
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Robotics, autonomous systems and new human-machine interactions
4th-generation robots, humanoid robots, cobots, drones, autonomous swarms, autonomous ground, maritime and air systems, exoskeletons and human-machine interfaces.
- 4th-generation robots, humanoid robots and industrial cobotics
- Autonomous ground, maritime, air and underwater systems
- Embedded AI, perception, navigation and autonomous decision-making
- Exoskeletons, assistive robotics and augmentation of human capabilities
- Teleoperation, supervision and digital twins of robotic fleets
- New human-machine interactions and human-robot collaboration
- Safety, ethics and trust framework for autonomous systems
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Advice and support for organisations
Risk management, crisis preparedness, continuity plans, organisational transformation, exercises and simulations, strategic support and return to normal.
- Consulting in strategy, foresight, innovation and transformation
- Support for managers and crisis units
- Definition of scientific and technological roadmaps
- Mapping of risks, dependencies, skills and critical assets
- Support for the transition from experimentation to industrialization
- Organization of Open Innovation and scientific cooperation programs
- Measuring performance, resilience and return on investment
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