OSINT CoE Holds Annual Roundtable on the Use of AI in OSINT

OSINT CoE successfully organised its annual international roundtable in Zagreb,
focusing on current scientific trends in the use of AI in OSINT.

On Thursday, 13 November 2025, the international OSINT Centre of Excellence (OSINT CoE) held its 2nd Annual Roundtable in Zagreb, dedicated to the latest scientific trends in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the collection, processing, and interpretation of open-source data.

In addition to numerous representatives from the Centre's member states, the event was attended by four renowned European scientists specialising in AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity research, as well as three key figures from the European Union's security and intelligence apparatus.

In the first, scientific panel, Prof. Stjepan Picek from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, Prof. Maximilian Moll from the Bundeswehr University in Munich, Dr Leyla Ciragan from the University of Zurich, and Dr Benoît Wintrebert, Director of Strategic Research at the French National Institute for Scientific Research and Digital Technologies (INRIA), fiercely debated their expert views on the present and future application of rapidly evolving AI in security and intelligence work.

In the second panel, insightful perspectives on the strategic role of AI in preserving European security, and the threats it simultaneously presents, were shared by Mr Illka Salmi, Deputy Director-General of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Security, Mr Daniel Markić, Director of the EU Intelligence and Analysis Centre (EU INTCEN), and Brigadier General Danail Baev, Director of the Intelligence Directorate of the European Union Military Staff (EUMS).

Mr Zvonimir Frka-Petešić, Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia, also addressed the participants during the day. On this occasion, he expressed great satisfaction with the Centre's results to date and emphasised that the Croatian Government will continue to provide unwavering support to the institution's further development.

Dr Tomislav Dokman, Director of the Centre, stressed in his address to the participants: "The challenges that AI poses to us today are too great for any single institution or nation to effectively confront alone. Our combined expertise, distilled under the principles of 'trusted' AI and digital sovereignty, is our greatest strategic asset."

The unequivocal concluding message from this year’s roundtable is that the European intelligence community must be agile, proactive, and highly integrated. Its constituent parts must not only actively utilise AI but also effectively counter AI-generated content and disinformation, whilst firmly defending fundamental European democratic values.

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