October 5 and 6,2010
Conferences on innovation & sustainable growth
A top flight panel of leading experts, from leading international companies.
Today’s biggest challenge is to ensure that competitiveness, economic prosperity and social, human and sustainable growth co-exist.
Technological change and innovation are considered to be part of the answer to this challenge.
Featuring an international panel of experts and analysts, top managers of leading companies …, the GIF10 conference programme will present a number of keynote talks on:
- How does industry shape a new relationship between Innovation, profit, people and planet?
- How to answer in practice to the demand for products with longer lifecycles and to the faster-paced innovation challenges?
- How can environmental policies and policy instruments support sustainable innovation?
SPEAKERS
Michel KTITAREFF
, Author of "The Green Revolution: How the Silicon Valley Makes "
Biography
Based in the Silicon Valley since 1992, Michel Ktitareff is the US technology correspondent for Les Echos, the French leading business newspaper.
For the past 18 years, he has written almost 2,000 stories for Les Echos, mostly about new technologies and innovative business models but also on how Silicon Valley managed to stay the best tech cluster in the world since the mid-50s. He has also traveled a lot to compare Silicon Valley to other US-based, Indian or European clusters.
From the Silicon Valley, he has also published trade newsletters for 14 years, for IT senior executives based in Europe.
Before working from Silicon Valley, Michel was a tech editor in France at various publications (he was also editor-in-chief at Informatique Magazine, a monthly trade magazine).
Early in 2000, Michel launched a technology oriented website, 101 TEK, published in 4 languages, written by other foreign correspondents also based in the Silicon Valley. He also serves as an advisor to European tech start-ups willing to launch operations from Silicon Valley, and has developed a business intelligence activity to help French companies to get better connected to Silicon Valley key actors in order to better innovate.
In October 2009, he published a book entitled The Green Revolution: How the Silicon Valley Makes It (Dunod, 2009, prefaced by Nathalie Kociusko-Morizet). This is about how Silicon Valley uses its cluster experience and knowledge to become the place to be when you want to innovate and successfully launch a new green technology or business.
A frequent keynote speaker in France, he is in charge of developing the WDHB "Green Business", which means offering clients Learning and Strategic Expeditions related to Sustainable Development and "Clean Technologies".
These expeditions take place not only in California but also across the US, Europe or Asia.
The main purposes of these trips are to help clients to design or improve their own sustainable development strategies and speed up the process of adopting key technologies and processes related to those strategies.
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
Claude RICAUD, Senior Vice President, Power Innovation
Biography
Claude Ricaud, 55, joined Schneider Electric in 1998. He is Senior Vice President, Power Innovation since 2007.
He began his career at France Télécom, in Long lines department. In 1986, he joined Matra (now EADS), where he held several positions in Systems groups, space operations and advanced technologies and Internet Software activities. He joins Schneider Electric as Science & Technology Senior Vice President.
He is member of the board of the Supelec Foundation and Supelec’s Scientific Council. He is also co-founder and member of the EV Plug Alliance for Schneider Electric and Chairman of the Orgalime Task Force on Electric Vehicle.
Claude is an agrégé in Mathematics, a degree he obtained while studying at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1974). He also holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Nationale des Télécommunications.
About Schneider Electric
As a global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centres/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, and efficient, the company's 114,000 employees achieved sales of more than 18.3 billion euros in 2008, through an active commitment to help individuals and organisations “Make the most of their energy™”.
www.schneider-electric.com
STMicroelectronics
Loïc LIETAR, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer
Biography
Loïc Liétar is an Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of STMicroelectronics, and has held this position since January 2008. He is responsible for the Company’s Strategic Planning, Corporate Business Development, and Corporate Communication (since February 2010). Liétar is a member of ST’s Corporate Strategic Committee and also sits on the Board of Directors of ST-Ericsson.
In April 2010, he was elected President of the Minalogic micro-nanotechnology cluster in Grenoble, France.
Loïc Liétar joined Thomson Semiconducteurs, a predecessor company to STMicroelectronics, in
1985. After working in R&D Management and Marketing, he was appointed Director of the
Company’s Advanced Systems Technology labs in the US in 1999. Four years later, Liétar
became General Manager of ST’s Cellular Terminals Division, and later moved to head the
Application Processor Division. Appointed Group Vice President, Strategies in 2006, he
contributed to deconsolidating ST’s Flash memory business, as well as establishing the R&D partnership with IBM and creating ST-Ericsson, the wireless joint venture with Ericsson.
Liétar sits on the Board of Directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance.
Loïc Liétar was born in Paris, France, in 1962. He graduated with degrees in Engineering and Microelectronics from the École Polytechnique and Orsay University in Paris, respectively, and holds an MBA from Columbia University, New York.
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