3 American speakers join the event!

Three experts from Colorado, Alex Sammoury, Sunil Cherian and Kyle Roche have now confirmed their intervention at the Inéov symposium. As heads of companies specialized in sustainable technologies, they will be sharing their expertise, especially in the fields of Smart Grid and Green IT.

Meet our three transatlantic experts

« Alex Sammoury (on the left) is the Executive Director of the Longmont Entrepreneurial Network (LEN) a not-for-profit business incubator dedicated to the development, growth and promotion of new innovative technologies, that provide social, environmental and financial value to Longmont and surrounding communities. Mr. Sammoury has 35 years of business and entrepreneurial experience.»
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Sunil Cherian (in the middle) is the founder and CEO of Spirae, Inc. based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Spirae is specialized in infrastructure solutions for distributed energy and smart grid applications. He is currently involved in a collaborative project with Schneider, Smart Grid City, which aims at developing monitoring of energy consumption in homes and communities, and decentralized production of electricity.
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« Kyle Roche (on the right) is President and CEO of Isidorey, a Denver based company focused on connecting M2M applications to the cloud. Kyle has been involved in some of the largest cloud migrations to date for Google, Salesforce.com and Amazon Web Services. Kyle is the author of Google App Engine for Java, Programming Google Wave and is a regular speaker at cloud computing and open source conferences. »

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GreenUnivers is now a media partner with Inéov

GreenUnivers, the ultimate Green Business website

GreenUnivers was launched in early 2002 and soon became the No. 1 ecomonic and financial media in France in the cleantech sectors.

GreenUnivers closely follows the current economic and financial news about the environmental market (“Green Business”), that is new energies, energetically efficient technologies, smart electric networks, Green IT, water and waste processing, electric cars, carbon market, carbon footprint, etc.

Designed for every actor in the Green Business sector, GreenUnivers daily offers to its readership a flow of articles and analysis on news regarding Green Business in France and in the world. Today, it boasts over 4,000 articles and it is now a historical knowledge basis which is unique in France. This website is easy to browse through thanks to its elaborate multi-criteria search engine.

Recognized as an expert, GreenUnivers is partner with Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouseCoopers – with whom it made a directory of Green Business in France – AFIC Cleantech club (French association of capital investors), BFM Business and la Tribune. GreenUnivers has recently released an overview of Green Business France 2011, which is available on its website.

GreenUnivers is now partner with Inéov

« From smart buildings to electric cars charging management, and from carpool software to energy dashboards in apartments, information technologies are key to a new economy more efficient and less wasteful.

GreenUnivers, the ultimate Green Business website, was therefore eager to partner with Inéov, an event in which the speakers will be having an overview of this 3^rd industrial revolution in its every aspect – sociology, research, economic models, etc. This will be a chance for us to assess IT for Green’s potential, an approach that includes most Green Business sectors. GreenBusiness will be showing a status report on markets and on its main companies, thus illustrating its growing importance.

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Orange Labs towards a smart city

Orange Labs in a nutshell
 

Our mission is to provide innovative products and services to France Telecom, the French telecom operator. We are one of the 15 research centers of the Orange Labs network.

200 researchers and engineers work in the site of Meylan on innovation themes such as:  Home, Machine to Machine (M2M), Cloud computing, terminals and interfaces, customer experience and health.

Orange Labs and Inéov

"We aim at reinforcing our presence in the user-centrered innovations, and in Green IT technologies  in the field of telecommunications. This is a great innovation challenge for Meylan Orange Labs and we wish to present our tools and actions to innovate in Green IT projects, and share our success stories. We also hope to promote Inovallée Green IT in the Rhone Alpes ecosystem".

Orange Labs will present several major collaborative research projects in which its researchers are strongly involved:

• The Senscity project, which aims to create a unique machine-to-machine communication infrastructure that allow communities to offer management solutions, thus enabling them to optimize their services - waste management, public lighting, water distribution networks, etc. Vincent Gimeno, who is a Project Manager at Orange Labs, will show the latest experiments conducted for the purpose of a sustainable city with Gaz Electricité de Grenoble and the Water Board.

• The Reactive Home project which consists in optimizing energy management in homes (Home Automation).
  
  
  Orange Labs researchers will also share their expertise about the technological challenge of distributed intelligence, machine to machine communications or cloud computing. 

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Léo Dayan takes part in Ineov: a new model for sustainable growth

A special guest: Léo Dayan
 

Léo Dayan is a Professor of Economics at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the academic director of the Erasmus Mundus Master in "Sustainable Territorial Development" - Educational Excellence jointly issued by the universities Dom Bosco (MS-Brazil) KULeuwen, Padua and Paris I ( www.em-stede.eu ). He is also the Scientific Director of APREIS (European and International Actors, Practices and Research for Sustainability), a worldwide laboratory of scientific research for sustainable development ( www.apreis . org )

As an internationally recognized expert in the field of sustainability economics, especially for his work and publications on the economics of "eco-links", the tax policies of sustainability, cultural and intercultural dimension of sustainable development and sustainable tourism, he is regularly invited to give courses or lectures on his work in many countries (Algeria, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Cameroon, Italy, Morocco, Niger, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Tunisia).

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Interações, the Brazilian international journal about local development, and of the Scientific Council of the Institute INSPIRE, and chairman of the Scientific and Ethics Council of MADD. He is currently leading the Essas science program (Economia Solidaria sostenible en América del Sur) and two other programs funded by the European Commission: AOMD (XXI Agenda - Objectives of the Millennium Development Goals) and ISDERA (Valuation of the handcrafted waste collection in Cameroon and Burkina Faso.

He was the scientific adviser of the 64 min documentary film "Nothing to Dispose of" which was broadcast on Canal + Planet in December 2010.

Sustainability 3.01: eco-link economy, a new model of sustainable growth 
 

Léo Dayan will be animating the final conference of Inéov, during which he will bring an innovative vision of tomorrow's economy to find the balance between  ecological needs, human development and economic growth. His lecture, entitled "Sustainability 3.0: The economy of links, a new sustainable growth model" will allow the listeners to discover the key concepts of the eco-link economy.

Summary  by Léo Dayan:

"If we start considering the waste from one activity as a resource for another, by only producing goods that be reusable on a local level and bringing supply zones and de-supply zones closer, then the eco-link economy will form eco network territories and territorial eco-networks, set the global economic cycle going, produces goods born out of human intelligence, cooperation and local jobs, and transform  products into local services.

The establishment of these local ecosystems, which separates the increased financial flows from the increased material flow, preemptively protects nature and human health. Since this approach puts emphasis on the information quality and productivity of natural resources rather than work, it requires tax exemption on employment, eco-unsustainable capital tax and taxation of imports of polluting goods. Such taxation increases employment and purchasing power measured in sustainable services, balances the social accounts and ensures an overall price stability. It gives meaning and direction to free trade, that is liberating  entrepreneurial innovative energies, setting the economy free from polluting goods, meeting the needs of economic ecosystems and providing a funding source to global sustainability."