Philippe Masson (PhD in 1986) was appointed Professor at Université Paris-Sud in 1988. His scientific background was Geology, Planetary Geology, and Planetology. He was elected Chairman of the Department of Earth Sciences at Orsay (1991-1995 and 1999-2004). In 1974 (up to 2005) he was Principal Investigator of NASA Planetary Geology Program, and since then he has been involved with several US, Russian, Japanese, and European space projects. During his career, Philippe Masson was the supervisor of 17 PhD students, and authored or co-authored 69 reviewed papers in international journals, delivered 213 presentations at international conferences, and gave 66 public conferences.

In 2005 he was elected in the Dean’s position of the Faculty of Sciences at Orsay (Univ. Paris-Sud), and he retired from University in 2011. Since January 2012, Philippe Masson is the Director of the Association “Ile de Science Paris-Saclay” which main goal is networking universities, high schools, research institutes, with small or large companies located in the area of Plateau de Saclay

Executive Officer at SRM

Audrey Chavas is SRM's executive officer. Convinced of the Humans Factors and non-technical skills impact on team's safety and performance, she is developing the aeronautical approach on others industrial fields at high potential human and economic risks.

Audrey is also in charge of the "French Movement for Quality" in Rhône-Alpes, a network based on exchange and quality management think tank.

Pierre-Antoine Watrelot, the CEO of SRM

Pierre Antoine Watrelot started his career as a commercial pilot in United States of America.

During his initial training he realized how the Humans Factors play a key role in teams resources and safety management.

6 years ago he created SRM, a company aiming to bring an understanding of Humans Factors to corporations copping with dynamic and risky environments across France and Europe.

Judith Nicogossian is anthropobiologist, anthropologist in Health (Faculté de médecine de Grenoble-Alpes), Business Anthropologist (Paris-Saclay), philosopher and chronicler MNH et MGEN). She is researching on the impact of techniques and technologies on the human body in society and is more specifically interested on the human-machine and brain-machine interactions, between the physical body and the digital one, the so-called « phygital » that she puts at stake on the anthropological level, covering the new modes of communication in the light of our digital era – like the artificial intelligence, the virtual reality, or the connected objects. 

Blog : https://corpshybride.net/ 

Julien is the founder and CEO of Innotrope, an innovation consultancy agency based in the Paris Saclay campus. Innotrope is specialised in supporting the development of products and businesses based on research outputs. Julien has a dual scientific (BSc in biology and MSc in food science) and business (Master in Entrepreneurship and Innovation) background. He has worked six years in market research and new product development in the food industry (Nestlé and Kraft Foods) and more than three years as innovation consultant. Julien provides market research services, strategy consulting, and public R&D funding application support to scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs across Europe.

Marco Masia is Board Member of the Marie Curie Alumni Association. With  a PhD in Physics and a Masters of Business Administration, he works as Innovation Consultant and as trainer on Innovation and Entrepreneurship for researchers. He is interested in the societal impacts of researchers and in the policies to foster positive change.

Dr Mariya Savova Evtimova-Gardair is assistant professor in Technical University of Sofia in Faculty of Computer Systems and Control (since 2012). She participates in course for Web searching in Romania in Gheorghe Asachi Technical University 2012. Her major fields of scientific research are: semantic web, search algorithms, agent technologies, programming languages, data base, software engineering, mobile applications. She has scientific contribution in the semantic field, especially for creation of ontology model and algorithm for reasoning. These contributions provide important results, demonstrating her qualifications and potential to go significantly beyond the state of the art. Her doctoral project is in fourth place in YES national competition for young energetic scientists (2016). The results were published in articles in international and national peer- reviewed journals, and papers in international conferences and seminars.

Former CEO of an IoT startup partner of leading companies like SNCF, Enedis, RTE, Sigfox and IBM, Mathieu is now innovation strategy consultant to improve innovation process conversion to business. With a strong passion for innovation, he is also mentoring startups, public speaking and lecturing about innovation, technologies and startups in business and engineering schools. As a computer science engineer with a masters degree in Innovation, Mathieu was a tech startup CTO and hence managed several R&D projects wether publicly funded (Ademe, Feder…) or for R&D and Innovation directions of key accounts.

Dr. Guy Garry is the founder of TE-OX. He was a senior scientist within Thales Research and Technology and a “technical referent” in Thales business units. He retired of this activity in April 2017 to be fully engaged in the development of TEOX. Within Thales his main work focused on thin film materials to be used in electronic and optronic components and integrated in optronic systems and radars. His expertise extends also over the deposition techniques, the growth of superconductors, ferroelectrics and thermochromic materials as well as multilayers of such materials, as well as electronic and optronic devices. He has been an Associated Professor at the Paris-Sud University (IFIPS) during three years. He has co-authored over 70 publications. He has been involved in more than 20 European and National projects and has coordinated several ones starting the first one in 1983.

Goker ARICA, CEO of GeoLook SAS

Inna Dimova, Intellectual Property and Innovation Strategist

Inna Dimova is a lawyer with significant experience in the field of intellectual property law, contractual law, corporate and concurrence law.  She is a holder of a Master’s degree in Law (Sofia University, Bulgaria) and an International Industrial studies Trademarks and Designs diploma (CEIPI, France).

She has extensive knowledge in the field of intellectual property protection - trademarks, industrial designs, patents, copyright, European Union intellectual property and competition rules and policies. She worked as a lawyer for a Notary office and a law firm in Bulgaria and as a lawyer linguist at the Court of Justice of the European Union. 

She was an IP Legal Advisor for the European IPR Helpdesk, where she was providing consultancy on various types of legal issues from different fields of intellectual property law and specific intellectual property rules in the context of EU funded research and development projects. Subsequent to that she was a legal consultant at IPIL – the Luxembourg Government Agency for IP, the country with the largest per-capita filing of IP in the European Union. Whilst there she was the legal counsel of IPIL, handling difficult cases, contentious matters and complex advisory work. 

Currently she is a freelancing consultant providing EU grant application and project management support and training to SMEs, large scale companies and research institutions.  

She has specialist knowledge on Intellectual Property Right, comparative EU legal regimes on taxation of Intangible Assets and IP. She speaks fluently English, French and Bulgarian.

Consultant junior

BEAMAP

Country Advisor for the United Kingdom

Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry, Investment Support and Promotion Agency of Turkey (ISPAT)

Based in London, Mr. Özdemir is serving as the Country Advisor for the United Kingdom at ISPAT, the official organization of the Prime Ministry for promoting Turkey’s investment opportunities to the global business community and providing free-of-charge assistance to international investors before, during and after their entry into Turkey.

Before joining ISPAT in 2011, he worked for private sector companies on large-scale capital projects and management consulting. He received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and Sabanci University, respectively.

Kaan is founding partner and general manager of Hackquarters Startup Accelerator & Corporate Innovation company. After studied Mechatronics engineering with Mathematics he joined several tech companies and international corporate companies. For last four years, he is fully involved in angel investment, growing startups and leveraging innovation for corporates. Currently, Hackquarters and Kaan are shareholder over 15+ startups,  Hackquarters has +40 corporate clients in Forbes 500 and under Hackquarters Startup programs has more than 100 startups under management in different programs. Kaan is also in international advisory board of SXSW Accelerator and Young Transatlantic Innovative Leaders Initiative Fellow at German Marshall Fund. 

Engineer by training
but interest in finance bachelor in Economics/Essec

Co founder of Data company in 1987 ( BtoB / online/ Marketing) Business Angel
AXA Personal insurance agent: for companies and their founders/leaders

Project Manager at FilmPlatform Co.