Cette année, le voyage débute du 3 au 7 Avril à Boston suivi de San Francisco et de la Silicon Valley du 8 au 13 Avril. Le programme détaillé des visites et conférences étant en cours d’élaboration, n’hésitez-pas à revenir sur cette page prochainement ou de suivre notre blog pour être au courant des derniers préparatifs.

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Jour 1, Jeudi 3 Avril

Matin : Boston Millenia Partners (Jean-Yves Lagarde)

Site web officiel : http://www.millenniapartners.com/
Boston Millennia Partners provides private equity financing to high growth companies in the healthcare, life sciences, telecommunications, and information technology industries. Our team brings over one hundred years of combined private equity experience to the investment process. Our broad experience, combined with expertise in finance; operations; engineering; life sciences research and development; partnering with pharmaceutical companies; business development; executive recruiting; and law provides significant value to the companies in which we invest. The growth and success of our portfolio companies have, in turn, allowed us to grow and expand our capital base to over $700 million.

Après-midi : MIT Media Lab (Joost Bonsen)

Site web officiel : http://www.media.mit.edu/
At the Media Lab, the future is lived, not imagined. In a world where radical technology advances are taken for granted, we design technology for people to create a better future.

The Lab comprises rigorous research and graduate degree programs, where traditional disciplines get checked at the door. Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent–and reinvent–how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology.

Jour 2, Vendredi 4 Avril

Matin : Nokia Reasearch Center (Damien Balsan)

Site web officiel : http://research.nokia.com/locations/cambridge/
NRCC (Nokia Research Center Cambridge) is a cross-disciplinary research organization whose charter is to bring new ideas into Nokia products. NRCC consists of approximately 20 Nokia researchers, investigating all aspects of mobile phones, from computer and network architecture to user interfaces. The team is led by Jamey Hicks, NRCC’s Director.

The primary activity of Nokia Research Center Cambridge is the Nokia-MIT Collaboration. The Nokia-MIT Collaboration builds on past cooperation with MIT, including W3C, Project Oxygen, Things That Think, and the Communications Futures Program. One of the goals of the collaboration is to increase the level of interaction between Nokia and MIT researchers compared to previous initiatives. For this reason, NRCC has been situated close to MIT CSAIL with spare offices for external researchers.

Après-midi : Nuance

Site web officiel : http://www.nuance.com/
Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Our technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses, experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, getting account information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is all about.

Jour 3, Lundi 7 Avril

Matin : Eurovia (Groupe Vinci) (Damien Liot)

Site web officiel : http://www.eurovia.com/
Implantée majoritairement en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, Eurovia, filiale du groupe VINCI, est un des leaders mondiaux de la construction et de l’entretien des infrastructures de transport.

Héritière d’un siècle de tradition routière, valorisant les savoir-faire spécialisés et stimulant l’innovation, Eurovia est forte de ses 38 500 salariés opérant au sein de près de 1000 entités industrielles et commerciales réparties dans 16 pays.
L’activité d’Eurovia est structurée selon quatre métiers complémentaires : la réalisation des travaux routiers, la production de matériaux, l’aménagement du cadre de vie et l’offre de services liés aux infrastructures. Ainsi, dépassant le rôle traditionnel d’exécution de travaux, Eurovia a développé une nouvelle approche de son activité, intégrant plus de valeur ajoutée et de technique, afin de répondre aux besoins émergents exprimés par ses clients et par les usagers de la route.

Après-midi : Gartner Group, HP, Nokia, Saint-Gobain

Interventions de divers étudiants en MBA au MIT Sloan Business School.

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Jour 4, Mercredi 9 Avril

Matin : Seesmic (Loic Le Meur)

Site web officiel : http://www.seesmic.com/
Seesmic is a video micro blogging web application in pre-alpha stage being developed by French entrepreneur Loic Le Meur to make video uploading easier for those using webcams. Seesmic made its debut at the Demo tech conference where it was called the “Twitter of video”, however conversations will not take place in real time. The service has 20,000 users to date, with 70,000 viewers per month and is taking a large step in removing the anonymity traditionally associated with blogs. Source: Wikipedia

Après-midi : Axciom (Phillipe Suchet)

Site web officiel : http://www.acxiom.com/
As the global leader in data management, Acxiom makes information intelligent. Tailored for a wide range of industries and business needs, our products, services and solutions help the world’s leading companies strengthen their relationships with existing customers and initiate relationships with the right new customers. We help companies increase revenue, reduce costs, lower risk and improve profits.

Après-midi : Sofinnova Ventures (Alain Azan)

Site web officiel : http://www.sofinnova.com/
Sofinnova Ventures combines extensive venture capital experience with deep technical, startup and operational management. We are experienced entrepreneurs, having founded, operated, acquired, sold, and taken public companies in our operational careers. We run Sofinnova Ventures itself in an aggressive, smart, entrepreneurial fashion.

Jour 5, Jeudi 10 Avril

Matin : Scout Labs (Jennifer Zeszut)

Site web officiel : http://www.scoutlabs.com/
Scout Labs is the first Web-based, scalable software solution that distills the online cacophony of consumer-generated media into high-quality insight for marketers. We help you to
- Tune-in: We scour over 12 million blogs, image and video sharing sites, user communities and user reviews for unbiased consumer-generated content on pretty much anything—your products, campaigns, brand, people, company, important topics and issues.
- Jump in: We help you to engage with the customer, jump into and manage your conversations with them.
- Collaborate: We connect marketers with their audiences—and with each other. Scout Labs is a collaborative application that allows teams to share interesting things they find, assign tasks to each other, jump in to and manage conversations with customers, and collaboratively drive product and marketing innovation.

Jour 6, Vendredi 11 Avril

Matin : Google (Patrick Chanezon)

Site web officiel : http://www.google.com/
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

As a first step to fulfilling that mission, Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed a new approach to online search that took root in a Stanford University dorm room and quickly spread to information seekers around the globe. Google is now widely recognized as the world’s largest search engine — an easy-to-use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second.

Après-midi : Stanford Robotic Lab (Oussanah Khatis)

Site web officiel : http://ai.stanford.edu/
The human sense of touch is an indispensable tool in allowing us to manipulate and interact in our every-day world. This intuitive form of interaction, however, is often absent when working in remote or virtual environments. Haptic systems have demonstrated the capability of re-introducing this lost ability into computer/user interfaces. These force-feedback systems, by simulating the forces caused by the virtual environment, augment the amount of information that can be presented to the user by visual means alone, as well as increase the sense of immersion experienced by the user.
Our research has focused on the development of algorithms and control structures to allow the quick and robust tactile display of virtual environments derived from common graphical descriptions. The development of this technology has the potential for enormous benefits in many areas of human activity including medicine, industrial design, aeronautics, robotics, and education.