Rachel Vanier
Axelle Lemaire: “France has everything to be a leader in IoT”
The deputy Minister for Digital Economy Axelle Lemaire announced today at the Connected Conference in Paris the launch of a “Plan Industriel” dedicated to the Internet of Things. 21 des 34 plans de la Nouvelle France industrielle en ordre de marche http://t.co/NMIYUlxeuK — Axelle Lemaire (@axellelemaire) June 19, 2014 The “Plan Industriel” is one amongst […]
French Cloud Company eNovance acquired by Red Hat for €70M
Red Hat, the leader in Open Source solutions providers, announced the acquisition of eNovance, the french company Founded in 2008 by Raphaël Ferreira, Nicolas Marchal and Pierre Molin. eNovance helps service providers and large-scale private enterprises build and deploy cloud infrastructures quickly and cost effectively. Both companies were already collaborating since 2013. The acquisition, according […]
How IoT can save us from world challenges
[LIVEBLOG] The Connected Conference, the first international conference dedicated to the Internet of Things, welcome this morning in Paris Gary Atkinson, Director of Emerging Technologies at ARM to discuss how IoT can help out the big challenges humanity faces. Gary Atkinson identifies four main challenges that the planet is heading towards, and that IoT can […]
Launched at Paris Founders Event, Front App got into YC
Co-founded by Mathilde Collin (CEO) and Laurent Perrin (CTO), Front, a collaborative email client, got selected to do a launch-demo, on stage, at last edition of the Paris Founders Event – the event where FrenchTech startups launch. Three months later, we’re very glad to announce the startup got into the most prestigious incubator in the […]
FNAC study reveals customers do not perceive connected objects as gadgets
[LIVEBLOG] The Connected Conference, the first international conference dedicated to the Internet of Things, welcomed Katia Hersard, Chief E-commerce and Marketing Director at FNAC to present the results of a large-scale survey on connected objects conducted among its customers. 2000 respondents participated in the survey conducted by FNAC to figure out how connected objects […]
How to fund a hardware startup? Crowdfunding vs VC explained
[LIVEBLOG] The Connected Conference, the first international conference dedicated to the Internet of Things, hosted this afternoon in Paris a panel dedicated to hardware funding. The panel included Barbara Belvisi, former VC who now accompanies hardware startups in their crowd funding strategies at Elephant&VEntures, Severin Marcombes, CEO of Lima, Fred Potter, CEO of Netatmo and Pierre-Eric Leibovici, co-founder […]
Luc Julia introduces SAMI, the architecture that lets you play with existing and future data.
[LIVEBLOG] The Connected Conference, the first international conference dedicated to the Internet of Things, welcomes Luc Julia – VP of Innovation at the Samsung Innovation Center – today in Paris to talk about the launch of SAMI – Samsug Architecture Multimodal Interactions. After his work on Siri, M. Julia has now been implementing Samsung […]
Ultimates Ears bring professional-grade audio to wireless speakers
One of the many ways connectivity has changed our daily life is how listening to music becomes easier and more mobile. Ultimate Ears wireless speakers make the most of the opportunities offered by connectivity with their product UE Boom and UE Mini-boom. Ultimate Ears make listening to music cooler in 3 ways: Long-lasting battery Battery […]
Grenoble’s nanotechnology & M2M lab, 50 years in the making
In case you needed proof that the heart of IoT isn’t 100% located in Paris, take a look at CEA-Leti, an ecosystem of R&D infrastructures and startups dedicated to nano-tech based in Grenoble. Innovation supporting both industrial actors and startups A subsidiary of the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) – France’s Nuclear and […]
How Greenwich is building the future of urban connected life
The Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG), located in greater London, is one of a few smart cities pilots in the world that truly paves the way for the future of connected cities. The ambitious regeneration programme overseen by Greenwich Council, including the €6,25 billion development of the Greenwich Peninsula – a whole new district being […]