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Le French Tech Tour attire toujours plus de partenaires américains. Ils seront 15 cette année :

Adobe, Apple, AT&T, Cisco, eBay, Fujitsu, Google, Intel Capital, Microsoft, Nokia, Qualcomm, Sony, Sprint, Symantec, Verizon

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Le dossier d’inscription est disponible sur le lien suivant : Dossier FrenchTechTour ‘10. Vous y trouverez la plaquette, le bulletin d’inscription, ainsi que les modèles d’Executive Summary et de Meeting Request à compléter et à nous renvoyer (au format .doc pour les deux modèles) avant le lundi 1er mars, date de clôture des inscriptions.

Comme l’an passé, seuls les 15 meilleurs (déterminés par la sélection de nos partenaires américains) auront la chance de faire le voyage dans la Silicon Valley.

Tous les détails du programme sont disponibles sur les différentes pages du site et sur la plaquette.

Pour toute question : gaetan.gachet@ubifrance.fr

BONNE CHANCE A TOUS !

Cliquez ici pour voir l’article

La sélection Ile de France, cliquez ICI

La sélection Ouest, cliquez ICI

La sélection Nord et Est, cliquez ICI

3DTV Solutions s’est également fait remarquer récemment dans un article qui lui était consacré dans LaTribune.fr – Cliquez ici pour voir l’article.

Rappelons enfin l’article de CNET qui mentionnait en juin dernier les technologies d’A-Volute et de 3DTV Solutions, qui avaient rencontré Rafe Needleman pendant le Tour.

Tuyên Pham, CEO A-Volute

« High quality meetings and a good exposure to the Valley ecosystem. »

Frédéric Levaux – CEO Codasystem

« Ce French Tech Tour permet une compréhension accélérée du marché américain – Précieux ! »

Richard Tourer – CEO Binarysec

« Le French Tech Tour nous a permis de contacter des partenaires clé pour notre développement aux Etats-Unis. Nous avons de bonnes perspectives de pouvoir conclure des partenariats stratégiques dans la vallée. »

Frédéric Coste – VP Business Development Smart Quantum

« Cette manifestation offre une opportunité unique pour rencontrer des entreprises de la vallée au plus haut niveau. »

Raoul Parienti – CEO Vision SAS

« Le French Tech Tour est une bonne entrée en matière pour comprendre le marché américain. Vous devez aussi être très préparé. »

Micha Bénoliel – CEO Digitrad

« Le French Tech Tour est une EXCELLENTE initiative »

Luc Devaux – CEO Orcanthus

« Le travail de l’équipe de la Mission économique apporte une valeur ajoutée remarquable. Etre reçu par des Business Developers des majors dans des conditions positives »

Jean-Marc Levy Dreyfus – CEO Paytap

« La partie formation est très utile pour atteindre un discours plus percutant et direct comme l’attendent les acteurs de la Silicon Valley. L’organisation des rendez-vous avec des acteurs majeurs, certainement complexe à mettre en place, est efficace. Enfin, ceci fournit l’opportunité d’organiser ses propres rendez-vous sur place en complément. »

Michel Delaux – COO TazTag

« Bonne raison d’aller dans la Valley. N’oubliez pas de diversifier les rencontres ! »

Alexandre Mermod – CEO Calinda Software

« Bon exercice – bons contacts »

Stéphane Herry – CEO Gigatribe

-12 partenaires américains

-28 entreprises candidates

-15 sélectionnées

-30 heures de coaching

-Une semaine dans la Silicon Valley

-80 rendez-vous organisés sur place pendant 3 jours

-3 événements de Networking dans la Valley

Malgré la morosité de cette année de crise, le cru 2009 du French Tech Tour a été un vrai succès. Merci aux 15 entreprises participantes qui ont joué le jeu ainsi qu’à l’ensemble des intervenants qui ont permis à cet événement de prendre cette année une envergure sans précédent.

Bravo également aux trois gagnants, A-Volute (1^er), Codasystem (2^ème) et 3D-TV Solution (3^ème), qui ont choisis par un jury d’experts de la Silicon Valley.

Rendez-vous à tous pour la prochaine édition du French Tech Tour, prévue pour le mois de juin 2010

French Tech Tour ’10 … stay tuned

3DTV Solutions, As An Angel, A-Volute, Binarysec, Calinda Software, Codasystem, Digitrad, Gigatribe, OpenSugar, Orcanthus, PayTap, SmartQuantum, TazTag, Vision SAS, Vity Technology.

Also, you will participate in the discussion with guest speakers

Chris Shipley

Executive Producer of DEMO and Co-founder of GuideWire Group

“Venturing to silicon valley and the importance of relationships”

Loic Le Meur

Executive Producer of LeWeb Conference and Founder and CEO of Seesmic

“Two years in silicon valley, the key differences in entrepreneurship here compared to Europe”

Following, we will have the pleasure to present an exceptional panel of Business and Corporate developers from our US partners who selected the companies, including Apple, Cisco, Ebay, Google, HP, Intel Capital, Microsoft, and Sony USA.

You will also enjoy the unique and friendly environment of Quadrus Conference Center (Menlo Park) where we will host a cocktail/dinner.

Event By Invitation Only

For any request, please contact: richard.gomes@ubifrance or gaetan.gachet@ubifrance.fr

Event information:

Monday June 8, 2009 5pm

Quadrus Conference Center – Menlo Park

The French Tech Tour ‘09 is a week-long event during which the best French Tech startups meet with the largest Tech companies in view of partnerships.

The Mission Economique-Ubifrance (Embassy of France Economic Department) helps French companies develop business abroad by advising them on local marketplaces, trends, and key players and helping them meet with partners and customers.

With the perspective of the gigantic 3D market, 3DTVSolutions™ conceives, develops and industrializes tools, cameras and software suites to create real and virtual images in FullDepth™3D to be viewed with or without glasses.

Our technology breakthrough represents a unique expertise in the complete chain of 3D imaging: Production-Transmission and Display, including the FullDepth3D image of a person from waist up, in volume, real size and real time.

With three main offerings:

• “Engineering”: partnering with multinational corporations for targeted co-developments;
• “Hardware”: camera systems dedicated to specific applications;
• “Software”: software suites and high value-added bundled products

3DTVSolutions™ opens up huge market potential for industry, audio-visual production, gaming, simulation and augmented reality.

www.3dtvsolutions.com

As An Angel

AsAnAngel’s mission is to make its dialog technology the standard communicating system worldwide, to be used by most conversational agents, avatars and robots within the 3 next years.

Conversational Agents & Avatars using AsAnAngel technology provide user-friendly navigation through natural language interaction, so that end-users get immediate & customized answers to their requests.

At French Tech Tour ‘09, AsAnAngel presents 3 modules, allowing fast development of self-service agents: 

• Agent quick learning (acquiring knowledge) from text
• Agent extracting knowledge from the web
• Agent analyzing semantics in user’s questions & statements

www.asanangel.com

AB Phone

Abphone is a playable search service, providing mobile users with a fun way to search and discover the web on their mobile phone. Unlike traditional search services, abphone drives users to actionable content (images, video, music, games), not to web sites.

Search results are played without leaving the abphone web site, making abphone a destination site as much as a search service. Abphone currently attracts a substantial worldwide mobile audience, which is monetized through two business models: advertizing and subscription.

m.abphone.com

A-Volute

Because the future of audio is 3D, A-Volute develops the next generation 3D audio standards.

From fighter’s aircraft, to high-end simulators, to USB gaming peripherals or handheld devices, Nahimic technologies is used in all audio applications. Compared to current 3D audio techniques, Nahimic provides a universal 3D sound that works for everyone, gives unmatched spatial sensations even using integrated speakers, offers new algorithms that enable to process ten times more sound sources in real time for more realism, and finally integrates all audio solutions so that our sound engine is a “one stop solution” for all software/hardware products.

www.a-volute.com

Binarysec

BinarySEC SaaS: a revolutionary approach to solve Web applications and websites’ security through Security as a Service -SaaS-. Cyber-criminality costs 100 billion USD (2006). Other malvolent actions include: cyber-defense, terrorism, economic espionage! Web applications are in danger while they are key. In practise, BinarySEC designs, develops and operates its own software and technology via dedicated platforms positioned on the web. 

BinarySEC SaaS combines securization -our core business- with acceleration, statistics, high availability and monitoring. We plan to democratize this high-end offer via very affordable monthly subscriptions. Our patented technology is designed to combine accuracy, performance and user friendliness.

http://www.binarysec.com

Calinda Software

Calinda Software provides dynamic e-mail mapping solutions.

Today, corporations are organized in projects with distributed teams, customers and partners. The dominant communication tools remain the e-mail and the telephone. The e-mail allows communicating more and faster, but it creates a significant information overload.

At Calinda Software, we created a technology that dynamically builds maps from e-mails exchanged within a workgroup, regardless of type of e-mail people use, and without installing anything on their computers.

The resulting visual representation simplifies the identification of key information, decision making and capitalization of knowledge. This solves the main productivity challenge in the knowledge economy.

http://www.calindasoftware.com

Codasystem

Put a Lawyer in you Phone !

Codasystem has created Shoot and ProofÔ, Shoot & Proof is a mobile software that captures unmodifiable, localized and legally-valid digital pictures with a simple mobile phone.

Digital pictures are everywhere (UGC, Geotagging..) but they are also very easy to modify and cannot be trusted. And if your pictures have value to you or to others they should be protected.

Photos taken with this system have legal value and can be used as evidence of WHO did WHAT, WHEN and WHERE.

Shoot & Proof is based on a worldwide patent granted in 2005 and available on almost any type of Smartphone and soon on digital cameras.

www.codasystem.com

Digitrad

“ Today, for someone working, traveling and using all convenient communication means (mobile, fixed line, PC, fax) there are so many ways to be reached: VoIP, IM, SMS, voice calls, social networks, email. According to your profile, some of you will be using more voice than text, always calling from their mobile or mixing with Skype or another VoIP solution. Some of you will prefer Facebook to send a message compared to their email. This complex environment makes it also very difficult for a user to correctly synchronize his contacts info between all of these different interfaces.

Digitrad is a Unified Communications platform. We provide users with a single digital ID that bridges all different means of communications. We change your phone number, your email, your pseudo into one single name accessible from any device.

Professionals and individuals can use Digitrad technology platform through intuitive web interfaces or through web services to create their own communication services or to mesh some functionalities with their existing applications or web pages. “

http://digitrad.com/welcome

Gigatribe

GigaTribe is the editor of a community driven application already used by 1 million people to share files privately over the Internet.

Many of us have Gigabytes of photos, videos and documents on their hard drive but sharing those large files with friends and family with little effort is tricky. GigaTribe lets your friends download any file you’ve shared directly from your hard drive: There are no limitations on quantity or file size, photos and videos remain in their original format, it’s secure and private. You let your friends download the files they like but you keep the control.

www.gigatribe.com 

Orcanthus

Orcanthus develops through the mother company id3 and sells products and solutions in the area of authentication, identification and traceability.

The appointed high-tech R&D team (36 people), specialized in ASICs, imaging and communicating sensors, provides a total mastery of developed technologies and solutions. Therefore we guaranty the evolution and the durability of products and provide the efficiency required by our partners and customers.

Orcanthus acts on the identification and authentication markets, with a variety of facilities, “contact”, “contactless” and “biometrics” technology-based, used in the physical and logical access control, data processing, authentication of e-documents …

The company has developed in 1999 the first product that allows fingerprint templates and matching algorithm to be stored in a smart card.

May 2009, the NIST released the results of the MINEX II Phase III program. The report clearly demonstrates the ability of id3/Orcanthus algorithm to combine exceptional interoperability, accuracy and speed, and to achieve the minimum error rate specifications of the United States’ Government’s PIV program. id3/Orcanthus algorithm not only exceeds the PIV accuracy specifications, but it is also the fastest implementation to date with 50% of genuine comparisons executed in under 0.28 seconds, and even more impressive asset is its very low resource requirements (3kB code, 1kB data) which make easy the implementation on any smart card.

www.orcanthus.com

PayTap

PAYTAP empowers his clients with their next generation voice and web payment and remittance services delivery platform.

Unlike other Mobile Payment solutions, PAYTAP requires no installation on the SIM card or the cell phone. Paytap combines Web services and Interactive Voice Response technologies in an application server.

PAYTAP manages and secures money transactions, account assessment and topping up in real time.

Paytap serves :

• Person to person payment (face to face and at distance)
• Person to Merchant payment, web store monetization
• Sectoral Currencies (loyalty programs, vouchers, gifts)
• Complementary Currencies ( bancarization for the poorest, foreign remittance)

www.paytap.net  

Smart Quantum

SmartQuantum is a leading high tech start up company in high-speed network security. We harness the astonishing power of Quantum Cryptography combined with digital hardware encryption to protect data in motion and enhance the value of legacy, actual and future IT security services.

Our best-of-class SQDefender solutions create significant competitive advantage and provide added-value services by guaranteeing zero security breach and high quality-of-service during transmissions.

Key benefits of our superior and innovative security solutions are absolute security for voice, data and video transmissions and dramatic cost reduction (no key management system).

www.smartquantum.com

TazTag

Using its expertise in contactless products and solutions (NFC & Zigbee), TazTag developed the TazCard, an electronic wallet, credit card format (0,23″ thick), multi-application and high secure. A lot of technology in a user friendly smart object making daily life easier without giving away data privacy! The NFC totem enhances our solution with a new building block and provides an easy way to create and federate a professional and business community, from partners to end-users and customers.

http://www.taztag.com 

Vision SAS

Top Media is the ultimate convergence between smartphone and personal computer. Computer manufacturers tend to reduce the computer screen size to make them more portable and still user-friendly. Mobile phone and Smartphone manufacturers have increased the screen size to get performances closer to computers. Can we think of a small and light product that provides the combined capabilities of a Smartphone and a home computer with a large screen in a pocket size product weighting only 200g? Top Media is the answer. Top Media will bring a revolution in the field of merging mobile phone and personal computer.

www.visionsas.com 

Vity Technology

VITY company is a French automation system manufacturer focusing on touch panels, controllers and application software used for commercial and residential market .VITY has a 14 years old experience in the control system market; with its own R&D department, VITY provides automation hardware and software solutions based on flexibility and innovative technologies, that can be used for conference room, home automation, energy saving control, medical applications and assistance to people. VITY also has a distribution branch that provides audiovisual interface sand digital signage solution with LCD monitors, which induce the company as a global solution provider for professional integrators and installers.

www.vity.com

Les participants de cette édition 2009 :

• 3DTV Solutions
• AB Phone
• As an Angel
• A-Volute
• Binarysec
• Calinda Software
• Codasystem
• CommonIT
• Digitrad
• Gigatribe
• Orcanthus
• PayTap
• Prim’Vision
• Smart Quantum
• TazTag
• VisionSAS
• VityTechnology

L’intérêt de nos partenaires américains pour les entreprises françaises n’a donc une fois de plus pas été démenti cette année, et ce malgré un context particulièrement difficile pour eux.

Début du French Tech Tour ’09 le 5 juin, soirée officielle de lancement le 8 juin dans la Silicon Valley.

Les dossiers sont en ce moment-même en cours de screening auprès des équipes de nos partenaires américains.

Petit rappel du principe : les 15 entreprises qui auront obtenu le plus de rendez-vous auront la chance de venir sur place du 5 au 12 juin et de participer à une semaine de Training, Networking, Meetings et de complète immersion dans l’écosystème de la Silicon Valley.

Bonne chance à tous !