Mines-ParisTech

Claude Laurgeau

Professor

Professor of exceptional rank at Mines-ParisTech, a prestigious Grande Ecole.

Founder of Robotics Centre at Mines-ParisTech in 1988 and Director until 2009.

Professor Claude LAURGEAU is one of the pioneers in Robotics in France.

During many years he has played an active role at a national level, developed the research activities in new technologies of information, communications and robotics and contributed to the equipment of laboratories in the country.

Claude Laurgeau has been very active in dissemination of robotics know-how. He has organized many seminars, courses at the national and international level (Canada, Korea, Thailand, Europe, Tunisia, Morocco...).

He has founded and edited a collection of books on subjects related to robotics (called NOVOTICS Collection) and he has established an active international collaboration with his students, all over the world.

With his PHD students he has founded several start-ups particularly in the domain of ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems).

One of them, INTEMPORA has industrialized and commercialized RTMAPS which is a software platform to develop real time embedded complex systems. This software is now widely disseminated in national and international companies or universities.

http://www.intempora.com/

Since his retirement, Claude Laurgeau chairs the company.

Recent Awards

• Engelberger Award 2004: The Engelberger Price is the highest international distinction in Robotics. It was created by Jo Engelberger, the father of modern robotics and is awarded by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR). Only two French men had obtained this world distinction before.

• Leonardo Trophy: The Grand Prix of Innovation was awarded in 2004 at the workshop RT MAPS software designed by Robotics Centre.

• « Commandeur des palmes académiques » is the highest academic recognition in France in the field of education.

• «Officier de l’ordre national du mérite »

Claude Laurgeau has written 6 books as principal author. These books were often the first to deal with the subject.

• Programmable controllers (inventor of the name. this book has been translated in English, in Russian, in Portuguese and in Tai)

• Machine vision: the first book on the subject in French

• Robot programming languages, translated in English

• Industrial automation.

• Understanding robotics.

He has also contributed to several collective books.

His last book “The century of intelligent vehicle” published in 2009, concerns ADAS and Automated car. Claude Laurgeau chairs the Scientific and Strategic Committee of Institut VEDECOM.

- NVIDIA -

Alain Tiquet

Group Director, Business Development

The Visual Computing Company

For two decades, NVIDIA has pioneered visual computing, the art and science of computer graphics.

With our invention of the GPU — the engine of modern visual computing — the field has expanded to encompass video games, movie production, product design, medical diagnosis and scientific research.

Today, visual computing is becoming increasingly central to how people interact with technology.

Powering a world of devices

Visual computing is more important than ever, with consumer expectation for rich graphics rising amid a massive proliferation of mobile devices. The world's leading OEMs, from Apple to Audi, will build computing devices that incorporate more than 2 billion GPU cores in 2014. NVIDIA creates the world's best GPUs to address this opportunity, either through processors or licensing our IP. Our Tegra® SOCs serve the smart device markets where visual computing matters — from superphones and tablets to auto infotainment and driver assistance systems, to gaming devices. Our latest processor, Tegra® K1, brings the heart of GeForce and the soul of Tesla to mobile. With 192 fully programmable cores, Tegra K1 enables developers to build next-gen games and apps that will run on any device. The automotive-grade Tegra K1 visual computing module will even help self-driving cars advance from the realm of research into the mass market and bring photo-realistic digital cockpits to life.

- VALEO -

Guillaume Devauchelle

Innovation & Scientific Development Vice-President

Guillaume Devauchelle is Innovation & Scientific Development Vice-President of the Valeo Group, an independent industrial Group fully focused on the design, production and sale of components, integrated systems and modules for the automotive industry, mainly for CO2 emissions reduction and intuitive driving. Valeo ranks among the world's top automotive suppliers. The Group has 124 plants, 16 Research centers, 35 Development centers and 12 distribution platforms, and employs 74,800 people in 29 countries worldwide. In 2013, Valeo generated revenue of €12.1 billion and invested €1 billion in research and development.

Prior to this he was Group R&D director.

He joined the Valeo Group in 2000 after the acquisition of the company Sylea where he occupied the function of Research and Development Director and Deputy General Manager.

Guillaume Devauchelle made his entire career in the Automotive and Aeronautics Industry and has a Master’s degree from "Ecole Centrale de Paris" (1981).

He is also President of IRSEEM (ESIGELEC Institute of Research), President of VeDeCoM (Institut de la Transition Energétique), Vice-President of the « Pôle de Compétitivité » Mov’eo, Vice-President of the "Société des Ingénieurs de l'Automobile" and Member of the Board of CETIM.

- VISTEON ELECTRONICS -

Patrick Nebout

Director, Advanced Innovation

As director, advanced and innovation, for Visteon Electronics’ technology office, Patrick Nebout is responsible for leading the introduction of new technologies and driving innovation for the company.

Patrick Nebout has 15 years’ experience in the automotive industry, plus four years in the aerospace field, beginning in 1995 when he was industrial manager and marketing advisor for Aerospatiale in Canada.

Prior to joining Visteon, Patrick Nebout served as global director of Johnson Controls’ driver information product business unit. This included being global leader of driver information product lines and, since 2013, electronics leader of advanced product development, which concerned industrial design and intellectual property management. Patrick Nebout has also held various sales roles and was program manager at Johnson Controls electronics from 2005-2008.

He gained a master of sciences in physics in 1994 from École Centrale Marseille and graduated as a master in business a year later from HEC Paris. He has full working proficiency in French, English and German.

Paris Region Entreprises

Sabine Enjalbert

CEO

Paris Region Entreprises is a public association which supports the development of businesses.

Our Mission:

Attract foreign companies with growth potential into the Paris Region and assist in their set up
Unite players of the Paris Region economic development community and to coordinate their efforts to optimize the overall growth of businesses within the Paris Region
Provide businesses with long-term guidance in their development. Paris Region Entreprises plays a key advisory role for businesses that have specific plans for development.

The Paris Region boasts one of the best transportation infrastructures in the world, and has a long and historic tradition of mobility. So it's only logical that the Paris Region should be home to all the leading players in transportation, and a particularly impressive number of start-ups and SMEs that work interactively as networks within competitiveness clusters dedicated to the development of new mobility solutions: Mov’éo, SystemaTic and Advancity.

- BOSCH -

Dr. Franck CAZENAVE

Automotive Marketing & Business Development Director

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. In 2013, its roughly 281,000 associates generated sales of 46.1 billion Euros. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Automotive Technology, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology.

Franck Cazenave has 15 years of experience in the automotive industry. He currently works at Robert Bosch, as marketing and business development director for French customers around four key automotive innovation pillars: Mass reduction with new material & designs, Powertrain electrification (Stop/start, Mild hybrid, Strong Hybrid & EVs), Advanced Driver Assistance Systems towards autonomous driving (video, radar, US ...) and, finally, Internet connectivity & services for end-user.

He completed master degrees in Purchasing (Bordeaux) and Business Intelligence (Paris), and a Ph.D. in Business Administration, specifically about Toyota inter-firm learning and relationships at Paris University in2009.

He just published a book, in France, at Pearson, whose title is “Stop Google – Meet new challenges from the Web giant”.

- FAURECIA -

Frédéric Charon

Technology Strategy Manager

Faurecia provides innovative solutions to automotive challenges. It works hand in hand with automakers to develop cars that are cleaner, lighter, more comfortable and easier to customize.
Faurecia is a global leader in automotive seating, interior systems, emissions control technologies and automotive exteriors

- RENAULT -

Jérôme PERRIN, PhD

VP Scientific Director

Jérôme Perrin is engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (X74, 1977), and doctor in physics from the University of Paris Denis Diderot (1983). Originally researcher in the CNRS (French Scientific National Research Center) in the fields of plasma physics and chemistry, he joined the Balzers & Leybold group - now Oerlikon – in 1997 as R&D director on plasma reactors for flat panel display and solar panel manufacturing. In 2001 he became R&D program director in Air Liquide, particularly on hydrogen and fuel cells. Then in 2007 he joined Renault as VP director of advanced engineering projects for the reduction of energy consumption and environmental impact of vehicles, towards the future electric mobility. In June 2012 he was appointed director & general manager of the VeDeCoM Institute for the carbon-free electric and communicating vehicle and its mobility. Eventually in July 2014 he went back in Renault as VP Scientific Director.

- ORANGE -

Valère Pelletier

Head of Public Transport Orange Smart Cities

Graduated from École des Ponts, Valère Pelletier joined Orange within the Smart Cities strategic program at its creation in 2011. He previously held several business development positions for major infrastructure projects (motorway, high-speed line, etc.) including at VINCI Concessions, John Laing or Eiffage. The Orange activity in the transport vertical is focused on 2 main topics : the Connected Car and the Public Transport. As the Head of Public Transport at Orange, he is in charge of developing the business made by Orange in the transport arena through innovative services dedicated to public transport (bus, coach, tramway, train, etc.) and more generally urban mobility (shared mobilities, car parks, investment fund EcoMobilité Ventures, etc.).