Technion France Annual Gala: Tuesday December 6, 2016, Maison de la Chimie, 75007 Paris, “Gershwin in Paris”
In less than ten years, the world as we know it today has completely been transformed. It entered a new cycle of its economic history as decisive as the first industrial revolution. This phenomenon is rising, everyday, and now, it is the whole world which is connected within a network without limits where converge social networks, mobile devices and the cloud. It will not be less than 50 billion devices connected in 2020. The biggest companies have understood these issues. They also participate in the digitalization of their activities and their data.
The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, which has become a world benchmark in the areas of science and technology, has enabled the realization of many successes in all areas of excellence related to smart technologies. A research consortium headed by Professor Hossam Haick of the Technion is developing a new product called Sniffphone that, when coupled with a smartphone, will be able to screen the user’s breath for an early non invasive detection of life-threatening diseases.
Technion France has fully understood the “Connected” Issues representing our community in all social, religious, intellectual, artistic, scientific and technical fields.
The next Technion France Annual Event will be the 14th Annual Scientific Symposium, #TechnionConnectedWorld, Towards Connected Intelligence. It will be held on December 5, 2016 in the Maison de la Chimie and will bring together, as usual, a prestigious delegation composed of researchers from the Technion in Haifa, big French companies CEOs, company founders, researchers and opinion leaders. With the audience, they will share their experience and vision in this theme which has become a real challenge for today and tomorrow society. The symposium will take place around three round tables which are Healthcare, Smart City and Renewable Energy, Security and Artificial Intelligence.
After a short introduction by Thierry Mandon, Secretary of State for higher education and research to mark the beginning of this day at 8.45 AM. At 9 AM the first session will start chaired by Jacques Marceau President of Aromates. It will demonstrate the topic of Connected Health and Beauty with the aim to present the latest innovations in medical devices, products and services dedicated to the health and well-being to simplify the course and support for patient and optimize the effectiveness of health professionals.
Following of the COP 21 which took place in Paris at the end of 2015, the second session at 11 am chaired by Jean-luc Beylat President of Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent France will expose the future of Renewable Energy, a field where the Technion is also working on, and Smart Cities, which now allow any individual to have access to all data anywhere in the world through an Internet connection.
After the lunch break an intervention of Professor Peretz Lavie, President of Technion-Israël Institute of Technology followed at 2:15 pm of Pierre Gattaz’s intervention, President of the MEDEF.
To conclude, the third session at 2.30 pm chaired by Jean-Edouard André Professor at Sciences Po. This last session will explain all the facets of the Connected Man present in sectors as Security, Artificial Intelligence, Biometrics and Robotics with the measures that a connected way of life is a new ways of functioning for companies and people. After a conclusion by Axelle Lemaire, Secretary of State in charge of the Digital technology with Minister of finance with the Industry and with the Digital technology, a Big Connected Lab Innovation. It will gather T-Factor accelerators,SME, major groups and competitiveness center will came as a conclusion to this scientific day.
Following the third session, a big Smart & Connected Innovation Lab gathering the Technion T-Factor Accelerator, as well as Start-Up, Accelerators, SME, leading companies and French clusters of excellence and innovation will finalize this Scientific Day.
The Symposium will be ended the 6th of December in the Maison de la Chimie by the Paris Sciences & Lettres (PSL) Symphonic Orchestra and Choir, Academic Partner of the Technion. A cocktail reception will follow the Show in the Hall of Honour
About Technion
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, of which Albert Einstein is one of the founding fathers, was established in 1912. Located on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel, it is the country’s oldest university. Since its foundation, Technion’s mission has been to train the men and women who will build the new State. This remit is accountable for its worldwide success, and enables it to form academic partnerships with the best universities throughout the globe (Jacobs Technion – Cornell Institute, NYC; Technion Guangdong Technology Institute, China). Technion is ranked 18th among the best computer schools and 43rd among engineering schools by the prestigious Shanghai ratings institute, as well as 6th worldwide in entrepreneurship and innovation, according to an MIT survey. Technion: 18 academic departments, 14,000 students, 60 research centers and 3 Nobel Prize winners. Technion graduates are at the head of companies accounting for 51% of Israel’s industrial exports, and 41 alumnae are listed among Dun & Bradstreet‘s List of the Top 125 Business leaders.
About Technion France (ATF)
Technion France purpose is to valorize the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in French scientific, industrial and economic fields by highlighting achievements and projects in technology and scientific research area. The ATF also materializes strategic bilateral cooperations between French scientifics and industrials and the Technion in fields of common interests like Total, Veolia, Sanofi, Servier Laboratories, or Havas Media Group. It organizes scientific symposiums in Paris and in French-speaking countries of the European Union, inviting expert researchers and professors from the Technion and France. Technion France allows also to French students to access an exchange program like a semester, a year, a PhD or an internship in Technion and developed academic agreements with Engineering Schools well known like Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Mines Télécom, Paris Sciences & Lettres Research University and many others.
