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Patrick Cocquet is Cap Digital’s competition hub Managing Director responsible for content and digital services.

Previously President and co-founder of the innovative small business 6WIND, Patrick Cocquet has contributed to promoting Internet technologies throughout the world.

Before creating 6WIND, Patrick Cocquet worked in Thales’ (formerly Thomson-CSF) Technical Directorate.

Patrick Cocquet was named to the CIP Strategic Advisory Board by the European Commission in November 2007.

Over many years, Marie Garnier has developed collaboration with small and medium sized businesses. She wants to make the most of their specific, quality know-how by associating them with other economic activity sectors, stimulating an innovative process and creating new production typologies. She was awarded an honorable mention for Innovation in Ile de France for a prospective design packaging project.

Marie Garnier was trained at the Rueil-Malmaison École d'Art (art school) and the Geneva University of Art and Design. She has a Master 2 in Plastic Arts option Design.

Career: Renault / Dupont de Nemours / Éditions E.N.O. / Glass Works + Design / PA-Design / DMA / Ardi / Béton et Objets as artistic coordinator.

Exhibitions: Biennale Design Saint-Étienne / Galerie Rosana Orlandi Milan / Mudac Lausanne / Rendez-Vous Toyota Paris / Eindhoven Academy The Netherlands / Galerie Haute Définition Paris / Pierre Bergé associés Brussels / Parcours International Observeur du Design APCI / Corian® 40/40 New York / VIA Paris / Design Week Tokyo.

42 years old, married and father to three children, Quentin Hirsinger has had an atypical career.

After general economics studies (Master Eco & Finance at Paris Assas), he decided to resolutely focus his professional career on a sphere where he has always had an interest: design and contemporary creation.

In January 1995 he seized the opportunity to work with Jean-Michel Wilmotte, an internationally renowned designer and architect, where, for six years, his main missions were to develop and enrich a documentary database regarding various public works service providers, carry out a technology watch in architecture and design, and provide the agency’s creators with a multi-sector “matériauthèque” (a resource center for materials, processes, and treatments).

On the strength of this experience, conscious of the requirements and needs of the creative world, continuously confronted with the difficulties of researching diverse information, and also astonished to see the “inspirational” capacity in materials, Quentin Hirsinger took advantage of a meeting, in 2001, with a patron of the arts (Yvon Poullain) to set up matériO, the first European center monitoring innovation in materials and technologies.

Pascal Lacharme is in charge of a small business in the Paris region, ESP, that manufactures lighting systems and products for sign-makers.

He is also in charge of another Paris region company, New Light images, specialized in communications and lighted POS advertising.

These two companies call upon designers to design some of their products.

In his previous positions, he developed dual operational skills as an engineer and a marketing and sales expert.

With a doctorate in economic sciences and a graduate of the Institut des Sciences Politiques (political studies institute), Gilles Muller, after directing several professional associations, heads up the Public Relations office for Recherche Active pour la Communication (RAC).

This agency works alongside several industrial and institutional leaders including the R3iLab (industrial innovation network).

Gilles Muller is also General Coordinator for Paris’ international campaign, Capitale de la Création (Capital of Creation), uniting all fashion and household salons.

A graduate of the Camondo school in interior architecture, Clément Rousseau’s professional career was initially centered on industrial design and later below-the-line communications in all its applications.

In 1975, Clément Rousseau was Engineering Director at Raymond Loewy International, where he headed up major projects in urban transportation for the SNCF (French national railway company) and RATP (Paris transportation authority).

In 1985, he founded Plan Créatif, originally a global design agency, which progressively became a communications group with more than 100 employees.

Still independent, this group has integrated new technology core competences creating Bees’net, in 1997, a multimedia subsidiary directed by Fabienne Cammas.

Currently, Plan Créatif is a global communications Group including 4 subsidiaries: corporate communications, interactive communications, product innovation and design, advertising.

A mechanical engineer with a doctorate in management science, Alain Cadix has been, since May 2007, director of the ENSCI-Les Ateliers (national industrial creation graduate school).

He has been professor at the ESCP-EAP (now ESCP Europe), professor and program manager at the CRC (Center for Managerial Research Studies) in Jouy-en-Josas, human resources director and later communications director at Dassault Aviation, director at the ESIEE (the Paris CCI’s electronics and computer science engineering school), then Deputy Director of that chamber of commerce.

He has chaired the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (an association of major French engineering, management, and graduate schools) and has been a member of the CSRT (high council for research and technology).

Founder and manager of NoDesign.net, the premier digital design agency specialized in creation, innovation, and strategic reflection centered on information and communications technologies (ICT) practices and uses.

We work on industrial, cultural, and exploratory projects.

A recognized pioneer in digital design, NoDesign also advises firms regarding new issues: new products and services, innovation by design, non-technological innovation, innovation strategy, and user expertise.

A designer’s designer, Jean Louis Frechin has been a teacher and researcher for more than 15 years.

He is now a professor and researcher at the ENSCI - Les Ateliers (national industrial creation graduate school), where he founded and developed the concept of digital design.

The workshop is working to extend design’s role in responding to new issues in contemporary society.

Jean Louis Frechin has been involved in research and development projects at the ENSCI; creating the Research Masters degree; Directing a laboratory at the ENSCI... Jean Louis Frechin was awarded the Carte Blanche at the Via 2008.

Pierre-Damien Huyghe is a full professor at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne where he directs, within the “Arts and Artistic Sciences” UFR (teaching and research unit), the “Design and Environments” Research Master 2 and, in the “Theoretical and Applied Esthetics Laboratory,” a research team centered on esthetics and design issues.

His work is in philosophy of arts and techniques.

He is the author of a dozen works including one on the Bauhaus (Art et industrie, Circé, 1998).

Publication forthcoming, by Éditions Mix, of an essay regarding sustainable development formulas and the principles of caution, entitled Faire place.

A graduate of the École Polytechnique (Institute of technology) in 1977 and holding a DEA (diploma of advanced studies) in biochemistry and a doctorate in natural sciences from the University of Paris XI, Pierre Tapie began his career with Sanofi Group.

From 1980 to 1989, he was successively research engineer at the nuclear studies center in Saclay, director of strategy and the plant biotechnologies laboratory at the Solar Bio-Energy Research Association and coordinator for the merger of two laboratories.

In 1990, he received an MBA from INSEAD and continued his theological studies at the Paris Catholic Institute. From 1990 to 2001, he directed the ESAP (graduate school of agriculture in Purpan) and was simultaneously General Manager at Intellagri, a venture capital firm in Toulouse.

Since 2001, he has been General Manager for ESSEC Group. In 2002, he became chairman of the FESIC (federation of engineering and business management graduate schools). In June 2009, he was elected president of the CGE (conference of major academic institutions).

Honors: Knight in the Legion of Honor.

Entering “Bonne Graine” in 1984, Mr. Porte became part of the governing board in 1991 and then general manager in 1996.

This establishment provides training in 13 professions, including twelve in the art of interior decorating, with acknowledged rare specialties such as: leaf gilding, fine-drawing, rug and tapestry restoration training, art framing, professional packing, marquetry, wood sculpture, wood turning, and more popular professions such as cabinet-making, decorative tapestries, with an insertion rate in professional life over 80%.

The center currently hosts more than 400 youth in level V (CAP (CPC-Certificate of Professional Competence)) and level VI (BP (vocational studies certificate) and BMA (professional artistic studies certificate) training programs.

In 2001, he came to the Tourism Space at the Louvre Carrousel, initially as Deputy Director, becoming Director in January 2003.

General Manager of the Paris Ile-de-France CRT (regional tourism board) since March 2005, since November 2007 he has also been the Regional Welcome Centers’ General Manager.

The Social and Economic Unit grouping these two structures has a global budget of €29 million and 140 employees.

Lyne Cohen-Solal is Deputy Mayor responsible for Trade, Artisans, Independent Professions, and Craftwork for the City of Paris.

Her missions are to disseminate a culture of design within the city’s departments and to steer the Design Committee setup to exchange good practices within the city administration.

She also has the task of helping many innovative firms in the capital by developing tools for assisting with creation (Creation Grand Prize, apprentice scholarships, corporate incubators and breeding grounds).

She is also in charge of establishing bridges between design professionals and craft-workers and highlighting the places where these activity sectors disseminate their know-how.

Xavier Franceschi is the manager of Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau.

From 1991 to 2002 he directed the Contemporary Art Center in Brétigny-sur-Orge where he organized a set of exhibitions revealing artists who have since been acknowledged on the international artistic scene (Michel Blazy, Maurizio Cattelan, Richard Fauguet, Carsten Höller, Franck Scurti...). He has also conducted a significant editorial program.

From 2002 to 2006, he joined the artistic creation inspectorate in the Ministry of Culture’s Plastic Arts Delegation in charge of public commissions.

Since 2006, he has been the head of Frac Ile-de-France conducting an artistic and cultural project integrating both Le Plateau’s activities - an exhibition site in Paris’ 19^th district - and enriching and disseminating the institution's collection regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Denis Tersen assumed the functions of General Manger for the Ile-de-France ADR (regional development agency) on February 2nd, 2009. He is also a member of the Agency’s governing board.

Denis Tersen was previously Deputy General Manager in charge of the development unit in the Ile-de-France Regional Council. He also previously exercised the functions of Ile-de-France Regional Director for Foreign Trade.

He spent a long time in the DREE (foreign economic relations department), as Economic Service Head in Washington, “Near and Middle East” Bureau Chief, Regular Trade and International Investment Promotion Bureau Chief, Deputy Director for Trade Policy, Counselor for Economic and Trade Affairs in Tokyo.

From June 1997 to August 1999, he assisted Dominique Strauss-Kahn who was Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industry, as International Affairs and Foreign Trade Advisor.

A connoisseur of Asian culture, author of a large number of economic publications, three major headings describe the professional career of this 50 year old ENA (national administration school) graduate (class of 1984): public action, international, business.

Since 2000, Jean-Pierre Cardon has been in charge of the Ile-de-France INPI (national intellectual property institute) accompanying innovators in their property protection procedures.

In collaboration with regional innovation partners, the INPI delegation heads up a regional industrial property policy through its actions: assisting small businesses and creators by providing them with local offices and custom evaluation tools, such as the “industrial property pre-diagnostic;” awareness-raising, training, and accompanying firms in their innovation schemes and implementing industrial property; training in schools, universities, laboratories and research centers.

Trained as an engineer, a graduate of the CEIPI (international intellectual property studies center), Jean-Pierre Cardon joined the INPI in 1973 in the patents department, then implemented an awareness-raising policy regarding firms and major engineering and business schools.

Trained as an engineer, a graduate of the INPG (Grenoble institute of technology), Sabine Enjalbert began her career in 1993 in the economic intelligence sector in Japan then joined France Telecom Japan in 1998 as a Business Manager.

In 2000, she became Associate Director of Interactive Business then Director of Business Development and member of the board of directors of Mappy where she remained until 2008.

At that time, she became Major Accounts Director at LowendalMasaï, an operational cost optimization consultancy firm.

Since 2009, she has been General Manger for the Centre Francilien de l'Innovation (Paris Regional Innovation Center).

The goals of this center are to incite, promote, develop, and support technological innovation projects by small businesses, research laboratories, and project managers in the Paris region. It is co-financed by the Ile-de-France Region, the state, and Oséo.