Le Groupe La Poste, the French postal operator and bank, has one of the most important fleet of motor vehicles in Europe with 68 000 cars, trucks, utility vehicles or scooters. This is also the most important fleet of electric vehicles in the world : 5 000 cars, 18 000 bikes, 1000 quad bikes and 100 tricycles. Le Groupe La Poste rents some of these vehicules to the employees (car-sharing) and is experiencing internal carpooling.

François Gueno, Innovation and new business manager, Digital Innovation Unit, Digital Business Unit Specialized in digital marketing, François Guéno spots digital trends for each department of the French postal operator and bank. He is also in charge of the relationships between Groupe La Poste and the startup scene (incubators, accelerators, investors). Before La Poste, he created the E-commerce Lab of vente-privee.com.

Pierre-Yves HADENGUE is Head of market at LEROY MERLIN. He is in charge of strategies for electricity market and Head of Connected Home project.

Previously, he was the Head of innovation and product development for LEROY MERLIN. Before joining LEROY MERLIN, Pierre-yves occupied various positions in different companies : Head of market in a mobile phone company, Director of GO SPORT store and SALOMON skis concept manager.

Since one year and a half, I have been leading a R&D team of 18 people, including 11 research scientists that develop innovative solutions to measure, control and in fine improve Saint-Gobain’s products and processes. In this frame, we are strongly involved in sensors applications and new uses of them. For instance, we are currently imagining and prototyping new applications of these sensors for the internet of things and the smart home. Before being a R&D group leader, I was project leader in Saint-Gobain Research for the development of high-performance substrates for OLED. I hold a PhD degree in physics from the Université de Paris Sud (2007) and an engineering degree in Optics from the Institut d’Optique Graduate School (2003).

Saint-Gobain, the world leader in the habitat and construction markets, designs and manufactures building materials. We provide innovative solutions addressing the challenges of energy efficiency, environmental protection and comfort. As such, we are interested in the emergence of the smart home and the internet of things. It will help us to make our materials smarter, to imagine new uses of the habitat and to improve the comforts and the efficiency of the inhabitants in the tasks they are pursuing.

A graduate of the Institute of Political Studies in Grenoble and Paris, as well as the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Marianne de Battisti gained operational experience at Icade where she successively held the position of Development Director in Lyon, Branch Director in Grenoble and Rouen, and Institutional Director for northern France and the Paris Region. At the same time, she had management responsibilities in several real estate semi-public companies. In 2001, she took the position of Managing Director of Icade Cités. In 2004, de Battisti became a member of the Executive Committee, in charge of Icade’s marketing and communication. In 2005, in addition to her previous positions, she was appointed International Director of Icade. She has been in charge of Key Accounts, Institutional Relations and Communications on Icade’s Executive Committee since 2011.
In 2014, Icade implemented an innovation policy with the creation of the Icade Hub, as both a physical Hub – a space for co-working and exchange – and a digital Hub – a content and dialogue platform for the Icade innovation community – open to the outside world.Icade also initiated the identification of real-estate start-ups likely to contribute to the Hub through their experiments and the conclusion of industrial and technological partnerships with corporates. Marianne de Battisti is in charge of that process.
Marianne de Battisti is director of “Entreprises & Médias”. She is an ASC-certified corporate executive (IFA 2012) and director of SCET. She is a member of FRICS (Fellows Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), a member of the orientation committee of the real estate research institute, EIF. She is also a member of the Real Estate Womens’ Circle, the Association of Real Estate Directors and Vice-President of Alter Egales (the network of women in managerial positions in the Caisse des dépôts Group).

Marc Jossermoz is both expert in Consumer Marketing and in Business Development. He started his career in 1996 as a Marketer within Procter&Gamble France and then within SFR where he ran the mass market segment. He was responsible for tariff, devices and innovative projects, such as 3G launch and mobile services. In 2005, he then moved into transforming new market opportunities into businesses (mobile content and services, audience monetization and e-commerce). He is now fully dedicated to open-innovation. Together with start-ups, major groups and SFR Teams, he and his team are working on incubating new projects in smart home, e-health, new content areas. The spirit is still to transform innovation and build new businesses.

ENGAGEMENT DE SFR DANS SMART HOME

In France, Numericable SFR is the first very high speed broadband network and a leading Mobile network. With more than 23 million mobile customers and 6.6 million households, the Group priority is to bring an optimal service quality on the fixed line and the mobile. Numericable SFR has been the first network to implement a smart home offer into the mass market. With Home by SFR, we bring innovation inside the living rooms of our customers with an affordable and easy to use connected experience. Home enables to secure your house and also run some automations such as stores and lights. Together with other captors Home can optimize you electricity consumption according to your presence and the weather for example. We are currently investigating what contributions Numericable SFR can bring to the smart home given the assets of very high speed broadband network, our customer base, and our teams mixed with those of other partners and start-ups.;

Pierre Bonnard has over 20 years of research and technical developments in the field of software, telecommunication and information processing. He worked at Matra, Alcatel-Lucent as wireless product line manager, ideXlab as CTO and founder and now TCL/Alcatel ONETOUCH where he leads the 5G research and Innovation programs.

The TCL GROUP is a global smart products & internet service provider, founded in 1981 and having 75000 employees all over the world. The group ranks #4 worldwide in the mobile phones and TV markets. TCL Smart Home Technology Co. Ltd was incorporated in Nov. 2014 with a mission to leverage TCL global assets in the Smart Home business segment.
Based on Cloud and IoT technology, TCL Smart Home Technology provides a turnkey solution for smart device management, IoT modules as well as services for 3rd-party products, to bring a rich user experience for smart home users. We are considering partnerships with companies having products or solutions in the domain of Remote Control/Environment Optimization; Contents/Education; Energy Saving/Data; Health Care/Community Services; Monitor/Warning; Videos/Games/Multi-screen Share.

By buying SmartThings in 2014 and Samsung's CEO BK Yoon announcing at CES 2015 that all Samsung appliances will be connected to the internet by 2020, Samsung is making giant steps towards making Smart Homes real. We have been developing for the past 2 years an open platform for developers to connect all kinds of devices and create applications and services using these diverse sources of data. Now devices interoperability and simple orchestration are possible thanks to the SmartThings OpenCloud

Dr. Luc JULIA, Vice President Innovation at the Samsung Strategy Innovation Center, is responsible for defining the vision and strategy for the Internet of Everything by creating an open ecosystem for connected objects. JULIA previously directed Siri, Apple’s personal voice assistant, and was Chief Technologist at Hewlett-Packard, leading a global team of architects and developers. He also co-founded several companies, including ORB Networks, inventing “Place Shifting”, the remote, ubiquitous, streaming of multimedia assets. He started his career at SRI International, created the Computer Human Interaction Center which was involved in the development of the first smart refrigerator and car as well as the creation of Nuance Communications, now the World leader in Speech Recognition. JULIA holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Paris, BS and MS degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University Pierre & Marie Curie.  To meet with Samsung please contact Hélène de Tinti.