BroadBandThursdays

Please take note of the date of the next Broadband Thursday:

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:50:00 +0100

Let's meet together on Thursday, November 13th 7pm at La Cantine 151 rue Montmartre - Passage des Panoramas - 75002 Paris for a event dedicated to Home Automation

Home Automation, connected home, smart or intelligent home... is this becoming a reality today?

Many key success factors tell us that we can now envision it : millions of Internet broadband connected households, players that share a common approach, "Apple app. store" business models that emerged and a whole picture that is built around an open household ecosystem.

Let's meet together to discover, share and constribute to this ecosystem that is starting today and where all actors have a role to play and a value to bring in areas and services like security, comfort, energy management, communication and entertainment.

Seventh broadband thursday

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:40:00 +0100

September 18th at La Cantine

For this seventh edition's menu, we received :

Yoono : découvrir, communiquer et partager le meilleur du web, Pascal Josselin - fondateur & CEO, nous a présenté ce nouveau service qui concentre en un même endroit toute la vie social en ligne de l'utilisateur et permet d'interagir directement et simplement avec sa communauté.

Eyeka : les contenus UGC (user generated content) sont de plus en plus prisés et utilisés par les marques pour communiquer efficacement et en totale affinité avec leur cible. Gilles Babinet - Président et co-fondateur, nous a présenté sa vision de ce nouveau mode de communication via un dispositif d'appels à création développé par Eyeka qui permet à ses clients d'obtenir des contenus contributifs de qualité et réussir leurs opérations de marketing participatif en s'appuyant sur une communauté d'auteurs photo/vidéo qualifiée.

Encre : 80% des échanges de données disparaissent... Clément Alteresco de faberNovel et Jean-Philippe Deslys du CEA, nous ont présentés le projet ENCRE, solution pour l'enregistrement et la conservation des données dans un contexte de travail collaboratif, universel et ouvert.

GIMV : société pan-européenne de capital investissement, Geoffroy Dubus - Directeur de GIMV ICT France, nous a présenté ses activités et a illustré au travers de deux success story sa démarche d'investissement et d'accompagnement

The evening has been hosted by Rodrigo Sepulveda, co-funder & CEO of Vpod.tv

Sixth broadband thursday

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 11:00:00 +0200

July 3rd at La Cantine

For this sixth edition's menu, we received :

Violet : Rafi Haladjian co-founder presented his vision of whats next after the Rabbit

Orange Vallée :: which mission is to identify, develop and market within short lead time innovative products and services in Internet, mobile and convergence markets, with Jean-Louis Constanza - Director

Movea : specialist in motion capture, which has presented its wireless human motion capture solutions and its applications in health and consumer markets (multimedia, mobile), with Marc Attia - co-founder et VP marketing & sales

I-Source Gestion : "early stage" venture capital firm focusing on ICT, Nicolas Landrin - Partner and board member, has presented its investment approach toward early stage companies (just created or up to 3 years of existence)

The evening has been hosted by Jean-Michel Planche, President and co-founder of Witbe.

Fifth broadband thursday

Wed, 28 May 2008 12:20:00 +0200

May 15th at Bastille Design Center

For this fifth edition's menu, we received :

Goojet : Guillaume Decugis - CEO - has presented goojet.com which easily allows to unify its digital life on its computer and mobile phone, with the possibility to choose and personalize its services, to create new ones and to share them

Thomson :: for his vision of the connected domestic devices ecosystem around products like the Musicbox, the Portable Info Center and the Symbio, with Cédric Hutchings, Marketing Director at Thomson Premises Systems

Radionomy : Gilles Bindels - CEO - has presented radionomy.com that allows to easily create free Webradio with musics and contents, by choosing from Radionomy's libraries and by adding its own creations

Innovacom : Denis Champenois - CEO illustrated the accompaniment brought by an "early stage" investor through one of their success story (Atrica with François Tournesac)

The evening has been hosted by Patrick Amiel, Marketing director of Wengo.

Fourth Broadband Thursday

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:20:00 +0200

March 13th at Bastille Design Center

For this fourth edition's menu, we received :

Wavestorm : for its view of the Internet of the Objects where equipments will become more usual, communicative, pervasive and integrated into the digital life of their owners, with Alexandre Casassovici CEO

Vpod.tv :: which presented an innovative video on demand service allowing companies to easily create their own television channels for the Internet and mobile, with Rodrigo Sepulveda Co-Founder and CEO

Musana : for its service that allows access to all your music no matter where you got it from, by storing it in a safe and secure place, additionally recommends other songs according to your tastes and allows you to share your experience with others

Partech : who presented his vision of the ICT market evolution in line with broadband and the impact on creation / development of business opportunities

The evening has been hosted by Thierry Bezier, co-founder of Intruders TV.

Find here below some of the video interviews made by Thierry Bezier during the networking part: Wavestorm, Musana, VPOD.TV (at the web3)

Third Broadband Thursday

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:30:00 +0100

January 17th at Telecom ParisTech

For this third edition, Broadband Thursday moved to a place well known for its potential in talent and creativity: the site of Telecom ParisTech in the 13th Arrondissement (neighbourhood) of Paris.

It was also an opportunity to meet the incubator Telecom ParisTech, managed by Mr Hugues Billaudot, which has spawned a number of well known companies.

We also had the honour of having the event covered by webTV of Orange innovation.

On the program for this 3rd edition we had:

Robopolis with its Chairman Bruno Bonnell: new growth area with 3 figure value, robots for the family will, in the coming years, open very important opportunities for many players. We will perhaps one day see in France a goal similar to that officially set by the Korean government of a robot per household in 2010.

Enchanted Objects: wifi widgets for each room in the house, David Rose founder of Enchanted Objects and ex-founder of Ambient Devices, has presented his vision of screens dedicated to a sole purpose of just the information that we hold at heart where it is most needed on a daily basis: weather forecasts, news, sports scores, statistics Facebook and more.

Sofinnova Partners: services and robotics are the most promising areas, according to Alain Rodermann partner at Sofinnova, who just had gotten back from the latest CES in Las Vegas. We must now start soon in this new wave of innovation.

Price Minister with CEO Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, with significant growth potential of high-speed Internet access (46% of households connected to the Internet at present), France has many advantages for the development of e-commerce. Technological innovations, such as video, aided by the high-speed, are gradually appearing and allowing players in e-commerce to expand their service offerings and change the purchasing and selling behaviour of their clients.

The evening has been hosted by Dominique Roux, chairman of Bolloré Telecom.

Find the topics covered by each presenter in the Broadband Thursday newsletter.

Second Broadband Thursday

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:10:00 +0100

November 22nd at the Bastille Design Center, 74 Bd Richard Lenoir 75011 Paris

The second Broadband Thursday was held on November 22nd in a quite relaxed atmosphere. Daniel Lechanteux, former CEO of AT & T France, interviewed the following 4 players who presented their experience or their respective project:

Sensitive Object, transforms any object into an interface demonstrating this on a table at the Design Center Bastille presented by Marc Vasseur - VP Marketing and Business Development

Eneo Labs, offers today to developers and tomorrow to broadband clients, a complete and scalable solution of home services presented by Javier Zamora - CEO
A presentation and other information is available here.

Vocabelum, introduced its game LETTRIQ currently available on the Nintendo DS platform and on the Internet

Xange, A leading European venture capital and private equity firm revealed its investment strategy with Nicolas Rose - Associate Director

First Broadband Thursday

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:50:00 +0200

September 6th at the Bastille Design Center, 74 Bd Richard Lenoir 75011

The first Broadband Thursday had a huge success in bringing together 150 leaders from the 4 areas that comprise the broadband universe: industrial, VCs, start-ups and major groups which all have expressed to be very satisfied with the format, the participants, the venue and the quality of the ideas. Nevertheless, several improvements are under consideration for the event on October 18th.

Bruno Bonnell was the master of ceremonies of the 1st Broadband Thursday and he interviewed the following 4 players who have each presented in 15 minutes their past experience or future projects:

Alberto Lopez, CEO of Opera Wireless

Michael Carucci, CEO of EPS

Pascal Monpouet, CEO of Numicom

Frederic Le Brun, Partner at Seventure

A cocktail was proposed at the end of the presentations, allowing each to meet potential partners.