As we now know, a use case is not answered by a single magical artificial intelligence model that can do everything, but by multiple specialized models, throughout a process that addresses the initial problem.

Moreover, there are more and more so-called multimodal use cases, i.e. involving several types of data within the same process, thus multiplying the complexity of data processing (tabular data and images, language and sound, etc.).

But this multimodality can sometimes be provoked, because it is useful to treat very complex cases, even though we are only working with one type of data at the beginning!
For instance, when we deliberately choose to transform tabular data into images, in order to benefit from the power of image analysis models at some point in the process.
Come and discover in this session, the testimony on two real cases from industry, where we switched the datascience project to a computer vision project in order to find a solution to a problem that would prove difficult to solve without this transformation!

Any decarbonization project must be thought out and structured upstream. The first step is to establish an energy audit so that you can define the objectives of your transition to decarbonized energy. This session discusses the key processes, tools and solutions available for you to succeed in each phase of your decarbonization, energy efficiency and ecological transition.

An industrial system integrates equipment and software designed to monitor and control the operations of machines, equipment and their associated production lines. The decompartmentalization of the industrial system and the corporate network is becoming widespread. Connected objects are now an integral part of the company’s global information system (IS), increasing its attack surface. The necessary consideration of IoT security, the convergence between IT and OT, are part of an overall reflection on the entire scope of the company. The company can then implement targeted technical and organizational cybersecurity rules, which are applied according to the identified vulnerabilities.

A roundtable organized in cooperation with Captronic.

The impressive growth of biopharmaceutical innovation has brought new treatment opportunities for patients, but also manufacturing challenges. Indeed, bioprocesses are highly complex and highly constrained. minimal deviations in process parameters can significantly affect critical product quality attributes. Hence, Biomanufacturing requires specific systems with a high degree of sophistication to ensure high yields and consistent product quality. Industry players are under market pressure to improve efficiency and costs. Automation and digital technologies, modeling and simulation, can meet this challenge and accelerate the efficiency of Biomanufacturing. So, let’s welcome you to the 4.0 era of Biomanufacturing.

A roundtable organized in cooperation with EIT Health & Digital Pharma Lab.

Plastronics is a convergence and combination of the electronics and plastics industries that has been taking place since the advent of the connected world.
However, the definition of this discipline is still vague for a large number of manufacturers. Still very few companies have taken the initiative to integrate plastronics into their industrialization process, whereas it is from the upstream phase of the project that these 2 components must be taken into account to achieve optimal results. This conference will be an opportunity to clarify the topic through feedback from companies that have already integrated this discipline internally.

A roundtable organized in partnership with Captronic

Navigating in an uncharted world is now an integral part of strategic scenarios, with greater attention paid to our interdependencies, vulnerabilities and a proactive approach to risk management. If technology has long been considered a vector of growth through innovation, it is now entering the field of corporate and business resilience. Resilience is not resistance, nor is it a headlong rush forward; it is the capacity of a company to face shocks with determination and to integrate them as experiences and opportunities to transform itself and bounce to a new equilibrium. Three key transitions, strongly linked to science, technology and innovation, contribute to the resilience of the company and its ecosystem: the digital transformation to ensure a sustainable and inclusive digital environment, the energy transition to reduce the company’s ecological footprint throughout its value chain, and the transformation of production, in terms of both processes and products & services. This is a true organizational mutation, where situational intelligence goes hand in hand with the employees’ empowerment, where managerial care takes precedence over direction and control, and where decisions shall be driven by the company’s Raison d’être.

EIT Manufacturing translates scientific advances into marketable innovations and connects fragmented networks into a thriving ecosystem. Three successful projects will be presented and discussed:
– FIVES will present Akamai, an innovative intralogistics warehouse system using autonomous mobile robots;
– ISYBOT will present FlexiNDT, a flexible Non-Destructing-Testing (NDT) process addressing fast changing products and small manufacturing batches with robotic accuracy;
– ADAXIS will present how it turns robotic arms into large-scale 3D Printers and make it possible to address supply chain challenges and improve environmental sustainability of manufacturing.
Established in 2019, EIT Manufacturing is the largest innovation and knowledge community within the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union.

The digital and ecological transitions are driven by strategic issues and are based on technological innovations. They open the field to new business models, new management practices and profound changes in organizations and in our uses. They are also powerful horizontal movements that are transforming all industries and services. The rapid and widespread deployment of the IoT and AI is an integral part of the acceleration of digital transformation. What impact on the ecological transition? This session will address the ecological transition of IoT as well as the contributions of IoT and AI to concretize and accelerate the digital and ecological transformation of business & organizations.

The cyber-threat landscape is rapidly changing and evolving towards more sophisticated and personalized attacks. With the overnight massive deployment of remote work, malware attacks targeting IoT have surged by 30% during the pandemic. Connected objects are present in increasingly sensitive areas, it be energy distribution, healthcare or transportation. They are regularly used as a gateway to major cyber-attacks, especially by DDoS. Many companies offer preventive solutions such as security by design, Data Protection and Endpoint security. Others focus on vulnerabilities’ audit and management systems to secure operational activities. No system is 100% safe. Hence it is important to know how to detect the presence of attacks, which sometimes takes several months. A cyber-attack is a crisis management issue. Discover what to do when facing an attack. What are the immediate measures to take? How to manage the crisis and get out of it?

In France as in the rest of the world, the situation regarding the mental health of the population is alarming. Nr 1 health insurance expense, ahead of cancer and cardiovascular disease, one person in five is affected each year by a neurodevelopmental disorder. Digital and artificial intelligence technologies are powerful tools for the prevention, detection, support and monitoring of people suffering from cognitive and socio-affective disorders. They are a driving force for innovation in the fields of diagnosis, access to care, invention of new therapies and follow-up care. The emergence of innovative devices to improve the management of patients’ progress and their everyday life is leading to profound changes in the practices of healthcare professionals and more broadly within the healthcare networks. From digitracking to cognitive design, through behavioral data analysis and machine learning, discover the technological solutions serving our mental health. 
A conference organized in partnership with Lyon Biopôle.

5G provides a leap in technological performance, in terms of throughput, speed and extreme reliability of connectivity. It brings disruptive innovations to many sectors, including industry 4.0, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, smart cities and autonomous vehicles. It enables real-time isochronous motion control between machines (robots, drones, etc.), people and sensors, including when mobile. So many new capabilities for critical process monitoring, high-precision manufacturing, large-scale IoT deployment, real-time tele-operation, immersive AR/VR experiences, etc. Join the 5G innovation leap and discover its multiple new market opportunities.

Big data is necessary for those who want to know more about usage and users, those who want to understand complex systems, identify trends and anticipate needs. However, at the SME level, when it comes to transforming processes and businesses, does the massive nature of big data make sense? If Big Data is based on the volume of data, Smart Data is based on its quality. At the crossroads of IoT and Edge AI, the Smart Data approach requires upstream thinking about the business and operational needs and the contextual data that must be analyzed in real time.
A workshop to understand and implement this very different approach, focused on useful data, data that has been identified upstream and thought through as providing real added value for the company.

A roundtable organized in cooperation with Captronic

As we face major environmental, health and social challenges, the disruptive solutions of technology start-ups are a valuable source of transformation for many sectors. The disruptive innovations proposed by industrial startups, whether technological, in terms of use, process or product, are part of an approach to sovereignty, resilience and environmental and social impact across territories.
“Greentech” or “CleanTech” for innovations in favor of the environment, “Civictech” to improve citizen participation in the democratic process, etc. These many names give an idea of the diversity and dynamics of the initiatives. Industrial start-ups occupy a unique place in this ecosystem. While they are an invaluable source of ideas for the reindustrialization of our country, the resources needed to scale up are greater and their time to market often longer than that of digital start-ups. The production in France of their first industrial series is the key to their success.
This session is designed for mature industrial companies, SMIs, ETIs and large industrial groups, to discover these impacting innovations and the ways in which they can cooperate, so that they can accelerate your transformation and open up new business opportunities.

A roundtable organized in partnership with the “Collectif Startups Industrielles France”

Rethinking the way you approach security across an organization, taking into account every device, application and user connected to it, can seem daunting. The Zero-Trust model can radically improve your organization’s security posture while minimizing operational costs. Instead of following traditional methods, Zero Trust establishes a certain level of trust at each access point – effectively securing users, assets and resources. The Zero Trust model is not limited to IT and extends to OT (operations technologies), ICS (Industrial Control System) and to IoT. Much more than a framework, Zero-Trust is a shift in approach that pushes organizations to rethink how key data is protected, what is monitored, triaged and remediated.

Digital dental twin, virtual reality therapeutic experiences and devices with augmented reality features. Three solutions at the cutting edge of technology, to be discovered and to inspire you in the development of disruptive applications at the service of human life.
A conference organized in partnership with Lyon Biopôle.

A workshop organized by Microsoft. Details coming soon.

The cobot market has gone from emergence to maturity in just a few years. It is growing at a rate of 20 to 30% per year. Cobots meet the agility and flexibility needs of manufacturers in their automation processes. Moreover, what distinguishes cobots from “classic” industrial robots is that, in addition to manufacturing, they are also penetrating many service sectors thanks to innovations in human-robot collaboration. A technological update on the new capabilities of cobots, their applications and the prospects for innovation in collaborative robotics.

A workshop offered by Kineis, Satellite Operator and global connectivity provider, created in 2019 by CNES and CLS. Heir to the ARGOS System, Kineis combines the best of NewSpace and IoT.

With the exponential deployment of sensors and connected objects, we are collecting a mass of real-world data, which enriches the models of complex systems and the performance of artificial intelligence algorithms. These algorithms, notably Deep Learning and Machine Learning, and their applications are knowledge and decision support tools, and even automatic decision-making tools. They raise questions for humans, with increasing acuity, both about the explicability of results and about the moral values and ethics of our practices integrating these technologies. How can we ensure the relevance of the results to the point of trusting them? For which uses do we retain the advantage over our algorithms? Doesn’t artificial intelligence impose a simplifying point of view of the human being and his environment by reducing them to signals and calculating modes? What is the change in the world necessary for their deployment, and do we have the means to do so? Will the prospects and promises of quantum technology, both in terms of sensors and data analytics, change the game?

AI experts will present the results of their research on these topics and provide an answer to the question: Can the real world be computed?

The use of digital twins is expanding rapidly in industry and beyond. The digital twin is an exact 3D software reproduction of an object, process or system. The accuracy of this model allows to collect the same information as a real situation, to contextualize, spatialize… Throughout the life cycle, from engineering to operation, find out how to use and the benefits of this innovative tool in problem detection, training, process optimization and upstream validation of your 4.0 investments.

One of the major problems of IoT is the limited energy of the devices when they are supposed to operate consistently for a long period of time without battery replacement. In addition, the number of IoT devices has exploded, resulting in a significant increase in the environmental footprint of IOT networks. From energy harvesting and intelligent energy management systems to smart design, responsible manufacturing, repairability and reuse, explore concrete solutions that make IoT part of your sustainable approach.

Smart cities implement high quality urban services based on the analysis of massive amounts of data generated by large quantities of connected devices. As cities expand their sensor networks and smart grids, they become more vulnerable to cyber attacks and associated physical threats. Thus, they must now ensure both the cyber- and physical security of residents, visitors and businesses. Video data analytics and processing technologies, supervision and surveillance platforms, real-time information sharing, artificial intelligence algorithms and models, etc., digital technologies enable better detection of threats, faster and more targeted interventions, and a better guarantee of continuity for public and private services. Urban security is a global concept that covers different types of threats, such as digital, industrial and natural disasters, but also crime, social unrest and terrorist attacks. Discover how to address these systemic security challenges, for smart cities that make citizens’ lives safer.

A rundtable organized in cooperation with Wavestone.

At the invitation of the maxon Group, three specialists in human motion explore the contributions and complementarity of human mouvements and mechatronic technologies. Improving people’s lives could be their leitmotiv: modeling human behavior, biomechatronic prostheses, AI or how to reproduce and improve the human gesture. Entrepreneurs and researchers share their points of view and their experiences to address together the perspectives of biomechatronics.

Data only creates value if your organisation is able to collect, process, qualify and deliver it in clear and actionable insights. Data analytics and data visualization therefore play a major role for companies that want to transform their data into a powerful performance lever. They provide new information that is readable and understandable to all users, whether experts or not.
A session to discover Data visualization & Advanced analytics tools and how they boost your operational and strategic performance.

With the participation of La Ruche Industrielle

The digital transformation of businesses is changing the way we think about digital technologies. More and more, the demand to interact and exchange information with the physical environment is important. Many sectors are concerned, the autonomous vehicle, the connected aircraft, industry 4.0, smart grids, the connected home, etc. All these sectors have a common challenge, the control of connected systems.
It is this notion of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) that we propose to address during this conference, organized in partnership with Captronic

Air quality, water quality, soil quality, … a wide variety of technologies are now available to measure pressure, humidity, temperature and noise, but also concentrations of metals, gases, organic compounds and pathogens. By integrating such devices into intelligent systems, which communicate data in real time, companies can accurately monitor their ecological footprint and act to reduce their impact on the environment.

For many organizations today, the question is no longer whether it makes sense to migrate certain applications to the cloud and to the edge, but rather how they can host data and operate critical applications in the cloud while ensuring customer security and continued compliance with EU data privacy regulations. Confidential Computing offers an innovative model for security in cloud environments. By directing the data used to a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), Confidential Computing enables organizations to process sensitive data in a hybrid cloud and collaborate efficiently and securely with their partners in the Cloud.

Far beyond videoconferencing consultations or smart pill dispensers, the next generation of telehealth technological solutions integrates AI, robotics, XR and deploys IoT. Whether it’s for advanced, real-time analysis of patient data, as a continuous monitoring or clinical decision support tool, or remote expert intervention and care delivery in inaccessible areas, these digital health technology tools and services
are strengthening our healthcare systems at a time of increasing staff shortages, aging populations and rising rates of chronic disease. Patients are becoming actors in their own healthcare ecosystem, from home. Care is more personalized, thanks to continuous data sharing. These technologies are affecting the traditional doctor-patient relationship and changing the way care is delivered. Two points of vigilance must be carefully observed: the cybersecurity of health data and the balance between remote and face-to-face care, to ensure acceptance of these new modalities by both the patient and the health practitioner.

A roundtable organized in cooperation with ICare Lab and Digital Pharma Lab

A workshop organized by Microsoft. Details coming soon.

The arrow of time, this straight line oriented towards the promise of a future of progress, today takes the form of a line broken by multiple ruptures. Technological innovations are accelerating and disrupting the pace of time. To stay in the race, we calculate performance in seconds and make decisions based on data, in real time. On a geological scale, the time of evolution, which spanned several millennia, is reduced to the time of human life. The Anthropocene marks the end of the infinite time of a perennial world. Time becomes a constraint. The time has come to learn to combine multiple times, the instant concrete of the present, the experience inherited from the past and the thoughts of future sustainable times.

The environmental and energetic performances are of upmost importance in the agri-food sector, if only for reasons of compliances with the norms and standards. For organic waste in particular, there are several ways of recovering bio-waste, the best known of which are animal feed, composting and methanization. If technologies improve operational efficiency and reduce waste at the source, they do not eliminate it. It is therefore necessary to identify waste, analyze it, and organize its collection and sorting in order to treat and recycle it. IoT, artificial intelligence and robots offer relevant solutions, to be discovered and deployed, in a territorial circular economy dynamic.

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The worldwide shortage of a large number of active and passive electronic components particularly affects French SMEs and SMIs.
There are no “miracle” solutions, but what are the strategies and best practices to anticipate and manage this situation, and more broadly to control the level of risk and dependence on suppliers and subcontractors?

A roundtable organized in partnership with Captronic.

A workshop proposed by Fortil Group, an engineering and technology consulting group, committed to sustainable performance.

We are in the era of Cloud Computing maturity within companies, with adoption further accentuated by the pandemic and the need to accelerate the digital transformation of processes. We have barely reached this level of maturity, and a new revolution is taking place with Edge Computing, which is presented as the alternative to Cloud Computing to reduce the latency of information processing and promote real-time analysis. We are thus moving from the era of Big Data to Data Mesh, from digital service to ambient service, from cold data processing to hot data, from centralized architecture to distributed architecture, from virtual to physical… If technically Cloud and Edge seem to be in opposition, the new uses supported by their implementation are moving towards a convergence at the service of the user.

The last 20 years have seen the development of new managerial and work practices to promote innovation and performance through collective action – collaborative projects, communities of practice, open innovation, etc. The purpose is to mobilize a group’s ability to deal with a complex issue, enriching it with the multiple viewpoints of individuals so that together they create a unique representation of the problem and seek answers. Collective intelligence is a process that requires the pooling of knowledge and experience to create a shared reference system and memory, a common language, an understanding of interdependencies and a commitment to work together. This process is an iterative and learning process, which results in the development of a collective competence, beyond the sum of individual intelligences. A session to share challenges and best practices in developing a collective competence, an imperative for those who want to innovate in today’s world.

Digital and robotic technologies are profoundly transforming jobs. The novel experiences of work during the pandemic have brought to the forefront the concepts of hybrid work and flex-office. Competition for talent rages in tech and industry, while younger generations value personal development and corporate commitment to meaningful purpose. The transformation of work is disorienting for many and cannot be understood without its technological, social, economic and cultural context. This conference explores the tools, organizational modes and human relations to meet the challenges of employee’s engagement in remote collaboration and collective innovation.

A conference moderated by Samuel Gaulay, IT Social.

In the food industry, the prerequisite for an optimized use of digital technology is the collection, prioritization and valorization of megadata (or big data). Data exploitation through machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence is a key issue for food industrials. It enables them to characterize the composition and nutritional quality of products, but also to design predictive models for optimizing products and production lines. From design to relations with the stakeholders in the food value chain and, in particular, with consumers (in search for transparency and traceability), this digital and systemic approach is a necessity for competitiveness, compliance with standards and to meet the environmental imperatives. It also bears a great ambition to innovate through new practices and services to meet the demands of consumers who are more and more concerned about what they eat.

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No supply chain professional can escape the subject of automation, which is being deployed in warehouses at a frantic pace as a solution to the explosion of e-commerce, the shortage of manpower and the arduous nature of logistics work. Consumers are now accustomed to delivery in less than 48 hours, regardless of the origin of the product purchased, with just one click. To automate all or part of the warehouse activities, it is necessary to know how to choose the appropriate technologies between solutions that require in-depth changes to the infrastructure and the associated information system, or those that are more flexible and modular, using autonomous mobile robotic machines (AGV, AMR). The robotic solution must be evaluated and sized in terms of productivity, ROI and ecological and social impact, as well as in light of the company’s strategy and business prospects.

The new builders – promoters, constructors, and actors in the field of real estate development and, more generally, housing – are major consumers of space and resources (45% of energy consumption in France), and proven emitters of greenhouse gases (25%). They are compelled to evolve to reduce their ecological impact. Through standards and regulations, this is not enough. Housing can no longer be considered from the sole point of view of energy performance. It must integrate considerations of its ecosystem, the habits and constraints of the city’s actors, and in particular the inhabitants, users of the premises. It is about making good use of digital technologies, IoT and AI to reconcile the objectives of performance, the fight against environmental degradation, the desire for inclusion and the consideration of users’ aspirations. Welcome to the era of Building 4.0.

Share your data? Yes, but why, what and with whom?

Our entry into the digital age and Industry 4.0 has multiplied data generation, providing a wealth of valuable information for your factory and processes. How is your operation doing? Is it performing optimally? What are its malfunctions and how can you detect, anticipate and solve them? The questions are numerous and the stakes are high.

The processing and analysis of this data by a qualified professional leads to the drafting of expert reports, allowing a complete monitoring of your installation.

Between operational continuity and performance, discover how data shared with specialists can lead to improved productivity.

The conference will present HSS methodologies on the acceptability and appropriation of robotic technologies by users, as implemented, from design to maintenance, in large-scale industrial projects. It will discuss the deployment of these methods in other fields of robotics.

AG-Tech is no longer just for big agribusiness. There are several technologies available to small farmers that can make a huge difference, from sales management to soil health analysis. Drones, IoT and other remote sensing platforms can capture various agronomic parameters and produce images. Artificial intelligence can then process this information in real time, informing farmers about crop progress, soil conditions, pest and disease outbreaks or risks, and the spread of weeds. Agricultural robots can perform tedious tasks while facilitating environmentally friendly practices through localized weed control, precise nutrient management, and targeted pest, disease and weed control. Digital technology opens up new opportunities to participate in commercial markets…
Key challenges to adoption include the availability of appropriate infrastructure to communicate about these technologies and train stakeholders in their use, the economic viability of business models for small-scale farmers, ownership of data for sharing and use, and finally, farmers adapting their farming practices to these new equipments.
Small-scale farming in diverse environments are an asset to the sustainability of the global food system and to climate resilience and data-driven agriculture using robotic solutions incorporating artificial intelligence techniques is the basis for sustainable intensification farming practices for the future.

The supply chain became a top priority for industry leaders during the pandemic. The company reorganized itself according to the supplies, to meet the challenges of persistent flows, improve the speed of reaction and the agility of the processes and thus meet the needs of the customers as accurately as possible. The principles and tools of Lean Logistics place the Supply Chain in a very concrete process of continuous learning and improvement, which implies the sharing of data in real time and transparent collaboration between all stakeholders. Lean is strongly contributing to the resilience of your company.

BIM (building model infrastructure) has accelerated the digital transition of the construction, building and architecture industries. If the ability to manipulate a 3D rendering of a model is now an industry standard, how can the latest state of the art in AI further address the need to digitize digital rendering practices and digitize infrastructure plans?
This activity is, as it stands, still largely carried out in an artisanal way by an operator in charge of entering the different values of the 2D plan into a dedicated 3D generation software. The idea of automating the process was born from its long and repetitive aspects, as well as the lack of fast operational digitizing tools on the market. This led to the 2D to IFC work.
It is thus in a perspective of optimization of the time spent on the activity that the AI team of Inetum proposes you to discover the main techniques and benefits of machine learning to accelerate the performance of the construction trades.

Green by Design”, the counterpart of “Secure by Design” in terms of reducing the environmental impact of systems, focuses on everything that goes into the design of products.
Quite naturally, we suspect that a system designed taking into account the future recycling of its components will have a lesser impact on the environment than another product. So we think more about the mechanical and electronic dimension, but what about its firmware ? What importance can the embedded software take in the “Green by Design” methodology? Does the programming language have any influence? Can the way of coding help to achieve energy frugality?
Wouldn’t a good control of the technical debt be, in the long run, a good way?
Open Source can also be a favorable factor: yes, but in what proportions?

To meet the commitments made in terms of reducing GHG emissions, “each part” has a role to play. “Each part” designates an entity within a whole. And depending on the whole that we take into account, the “each part” becomes different.
Thus on a planetary scale, the “each part” can designate each of the states. The bias of this intervention is to consider that each profession / trade has, at its level, a role to play. These are the few themes that will be explored during this presentation. A workshop proposed by SMILE, European leader in integration and outsourcing of open source solutions.

In 2019, the volume of greenhouse gases emitted by the digital sector in France represented 15 million tons in equivalent carbon, according to the Senate report on the REEN law. The health crisis has accelerated our digital transition, and if we’re not careful, that number could double by 2025. The lifespan of our digital devices, the exponential use of the internet and the storage of our data are at play. Renovation of our data centers, reconditioning and reuse of equipment, frugality of stored data, eco-design of IT architectures and code, but also, implementation of digital technologies for inclusion, health or humanitarian causes, … the approaches of ICT sustainability are manifold. One thing is certain: we must involve employees, suppliers and partners to increase awareness and drive a continuous improvement in our practices to drastically reduce the ecological, economic and social footprint of digital technology.

A roundtable organized in cooperation with La Ruche Industrielle.

The food industry is one of the sectors under the greatest pressure due to the variability of the markets, with strong regulatory constraints on complete traceability in real time, as well as with the need to adapt to changing consumer trends. This leads to recurrent changes in processes and management. When faced with this growing volume of data and the need to have relevant information at the right time, the contribution of Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more obvious: analysis of all inputs on the line, multiple approaches for planning, help in developing new recipes …. A session to learn about the many uses of AI in an industrial field with strong constraints.

A roundtable organized in partnership with Captronic.

IoT has already changed the world. From adding resilience to complex global supply chains to industrial equipment tracking and environmental monitoring, increasingly sophisticated IoT sensors are already embedded within global infrastructure. But if organisations are to truly harness the power and sophistication of IoT, connectivity has to extend around the globe. It needs to be both affordable and accessible – and easily integrated into existing, proven IoT solutions.
With the addition of low cost, accessible SatIoT technologies, SIs can radically extend and expand the value of IoT.

Smart contracts based on blockchain technology offer new opportunities for the construction industry, where one of the key success factors is the harmonization of different trades and sound contracts. Smart contracts can thus improve cost and schedule control through the clarity and security of transactions that capture the expectations and obligations between different stakeholders. Combined with IoT and sensors, blockchain technology automates the acceptance of work and significantly reduces disputes.

A session to understand why and how to invest now in Blockchain technology to benefit from its inherent properties – traceability, immutability and security – to serve all stakeholders in construction projects through the implementation of smart contracts.

The traditional production line has dominated manufacturing process for decades. The underlying idea behind gigafactories is to achieve economies of scale through the automation of ever larger production facilities. Today, an alternative to this production method is emerging. The term “microfactory” was coined in 1990 by the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Japan. Smaller manufacturing units, using robotic cells, make it possible to produce more innovative and, above all, more personalized products, while reducing investment costs and the time needed to get into the operational phase. The manufacturing assembly is no longer a linear process, the manufactured product moves from one cell to another thanks to mobile robots. The addition of cells for greater customization is possible without stopping or disrupting the rest of the production. Rather than having a central big factory, multiple small factories deployed near markets bring the product closer to the customer. Microfactories focus their processes on flexibility and innovation, without foregoing the productivity gains of automation.

Reindustrializing France: innovation leap, industrial acceleration or a lost battle? ”
“A lost cause? Que nenni! It is true that France, which was at the forefront of the industrial revolutions from the 1780s to the 1980s, is the developed country that deindustrialized the most over the past 20 years. However, our country has major strengths to ensure the success of its reindustrialization: At the heart of Europe, France holds many collective structures to support industrial development projects, and has an outstanding creative potential and dynamic. The testimony of ALTYOR and SHARELOCK demonstrates in an exemplary way that the solutions to (re)develop industry in our territories lie above all in our capacity for innovation, the opportunities linked to the ecological transition and the collective mobilization of our entrepreneurial spirit of conquest.

IO-Link, with the support of 400 manufacturers, offers a bi-directional digital communication from the processors of your sensors or actuators. This allows you to send information (process values, diagnostics, energy monitoring) directly to IIoT channels such as Json, MQTT, or OPC-UA.

This digital channel, in parallel with real-time communication to PLCs, opens a new era in data management such as Artificial Intelligence or predictive maintenance. As a result, sensitive information is sent in real time to the PLC, while the information required for the evolution of the process is recorded directly in data-lakes or the cloud.

How to attract your future employees? In the current context of difficult recruitment and great shortage for many professions, it is more and more difficult to attract new talents, notably tech profiles (engineer, programmer, data scientist…). Candidates’ expectations are constantly changing and new generations are entering the job market, creating new needs and new challenges.
We invite you to discuss these issues, notably by addressing the questions of onboarding new employees, training and employer brand.

While Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) consists of implementing actions to respect the challenges of sustainable development, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria make it possible to assess how well these challenges are taken into account.

New technologies are considerably changing organizations, with new business practices, work relationships and reinvented decision-making processes. Thus they are leading to new issues of governance and skills management. At the same time, new materials, sensors, IoT, robotics, software and networks, etc. – are improving health and safety in the workplace, tooling companies for their recruitment and training processes, and enabling more efficient management of raw materials and energy.
It is clear that new technologies are essential to meeting legal ESG obligations.
Conversely, a responsible approach to human capital, the environment and stakeholder relations, is a key lever for innovation in products, services and/or processes to develop a competitive advantage and create value, but also a factor in attracting talent and long-term employee commitment to the company project.
Ready for a strategic, proactive and committed CSR approach ?

A conference organized in cooperation with Wavestone.

The dynamics of the food system are changing, in terms of production, processing, logistics, marketing and consumption. Today’s food packagings are generally lightweight and meet very specific performance needs. However, they are made of different plastics and often include aluminum. They are difficult to recycle and only provide a theoretical use-by date. Yet, consumers are increasingly attentive to the nutritional and health qualities of what they consume, they demand more detailed information about the origin of products, ethical and sustainable processing methods, and want packaging with a reduced environmental impact. Smart technologies (advanced sensors, QR code, dynamic labeling) and new packaging materials (bio-based, anti-microbial, reusable) are able to provide dynamic control and accurate traceability, shelf life and general food safety information based on actual and effective transportation and storage conditions and environments. The food industry is entering a new era of smart, antimicrobial, biobased, compostable or reusable food packaging that supports food quality and durability, food waste reduction and sustainable practices for both retailers and consumers, all in favor of a circular economy approach.

Whatever the nature of your activity, warehouses, sites and industrial buildings are exposed to multiple risks: intrusion, malicious acts, accidents, fire, natural disasters, … Innovations in surveillance sensors and artificial intelligence software allow to detect anomalous activities or situations, according to your own criteria and on multiple dimensions (temperature, humidity, movement, access, light, contact, …). You are alerted in real time and can thus react more rapidly, better manage emergencies and limit damage. It’s about adopting a contemporary vision of safety and security issues, supported by technology to protect you at an optimal level against risks, as close as possible to your business standards and practices and your field constraints.

Energy performance and transition are already priorities and imperatives of transformation at a global level, energy being essential to the sustainability of our systems. However, healthy air and potable water are also vital resources that must be integrated now at the heart of our ecological challenges. A wide variety of technologies are now available to measure pressure, humidity, temperature and noise, but also concentrations of metals, gases, organic compounds and pathogens. Equipped with intelligent devices, buildings can accurately monitor and manage air quality and implement water management systems to significantly improve their “ecological health”.

Data governance is defined as the set of processes and procedures that collect, structure and equip the flow, storage and processing of the company’s data, so that it is used (and deleted) in compliance with legal obligations, in trust and in security. The Data Governance must ensure the availability, accessibility, integrity and security of data, but also the efficiency of the data management system so that the uses of data serve a purpose and create value. Whether your objective is to optimize your customer relations or your operations, to have new decision-making tools, to innovate in terms of products and services, etc., data governance has become an essential component of the company’s global strategy. Advanced technological solutions exist (IoT, AI, Machine learning, Natural Language Processing, Data visualization, …) but data governance cannot be implemented without a strategic purpose and objectives to the approach, nor without a multidisciplinary team of business and technical experts. Bringing together the teams and defining the company’s ambition with regard to data are the two crucial steps in choosing the right organizational approach and tools for your ad hoc data gouvernance.

With the variety of IoT use cases and sectors, many communication protocols and networks exist to interconnect different hardware and software devices. Choosing the right protocol and network for your project requires an analysis of the required power and range, the total cost of ownership- investment and maintenance – over the lifetime, the expected uses and the value created. NB-IoT, LTE-M, 4G, 5G, Bluetooth, Wifi – Cellular, mesh, personal, local or low-power wide area network, whether it is for remote surveillance, drone fleet management, real-time data capture and processing, robotics or autonomous vehicles, it is important to know the benefits and challenges of each solution to make the right choice.