Innovation

During the CTS - California Tech Showcase, we also welcomed on 6 June, some start-ups involved in clean and green tech.
Regenatec is one of them. This company designs, manufactures and installs the world’s most advanced pure plant oil (PPO) biofuel conversion systems for commercial diesel engines.

Here is the link to Damien’s blog about cleantech (the latest blog of Western France) that shows a video about Regenatec, a UK exhibitor of the TGP (Transatlantic Green Platform) at La Baule WIC on June 6 and 7, 2008.

MHS Industries was one of the European start-ups at CTS - the California Tech Showcase in La Baule last June 6.

MHS Industries is a French High Technology group that deals in electronic components and systems as well as equipment for the High Reliability markets such as Space, Avionics and Bionics…
The headquarters of MHS Electronics are based in Atlanpole in Nantes.
MHS Industries via its subsidiary MHS Equipment, designs and manufactures UHV thin layer deposition systems. It has finalized a process/equipment combination for producing PEM Fuel Cells Membrane Electrode Assemblies using plasma deposition techniques. This led to the creation of MHS Energies.   

Jean-Louis Kindler, President of MHS Equipment and Director of New Activities at MHS Industries tells us more about his new technology shown at the CTS 2008 : an innovative process to manufacture the core part of fuel cells.

During the 6th June pm and evening, Invest in Western France and Nantes Metropole welcomed some exhibitors and experts of the CTS - California Tech Showcase in Nantes to show them some places of this city.

We went on having talks with them during a relaxed programme in Nantes.
It had been a pleasant time and made Californian people as well as European ones discover Nantes after La Baule where they stayed during the World Investment Conference.

Below some pictures of the relaxed programme which was : private cruise discovery on the Erdre, guided tour of the Machines de l’Ile (many thanks to Pierre Orefice for his explanations) - the elephant and the machines fascinated our guests ! Last but not least : an evening “cheese and wine” and … dried sausage with a course of wine tasting.

Some days ago, a Barcamp has been held in Nantes. Things happen also in Nantes where people (not only geeks) want to gather and talk about web technologies.

This BarCamp has been organized by the following partners located in Nantes : Do YouBuzz, Generation Internet, HeapSys, iKM, Mon Nuage and Atlantic 2.0.

BarCamps are organized and evangelized largely through the web, harnessing what might be called a Web 2.0 communications toolkit.

A BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. (Wikipedia source).

When is the next one ?

Dr. Vilayat William, Director Business Development  of TBlox, talks about his company that was one of the European exhibitors at the CTS - California Tech Showcase - during the WIC in La Baule last June 6, 2008.

Tblox is a Dutch company that provides on-demand business software to manage the entire business (SAAS). It offers over 30 online own software modules that allows any organization to create a Best-of-Breed ERP system. It also provides an eDesktop for personalized information (business and private use).

Decizium was one of the European exhibitors at CTS, California Tech Showcase during La Baule WIC last 6 June.

Thierry Bosser, Managing Director, talks about Decizium, a Walloon spin-off of the Mons University.

YourTour is a product of Decizium that enables customers to automatically generate complete travel itineraries in accordance with their individual preferences and limitations, and then customize their itineraries as they see it.