Yann Chevalier

Intersec has developed a technology platform that crunches terabits of location and transactional data every second in order to enable its customers to seize every opportunity of developing their business. Our platform derives insights in real time and runs advanced algorithms on the fly, enabling to trigger business processes upon the arrival of a container close to a warehouse or the fraudulent use of the identify of a mobile subscribers by a theft. Marketers use Intersec's platform to revamp the journey of consumers by using our easy click-and-engage scenario editor to put themselves in the shoes of their customers and offer them a rewarding experience that always anticipates their needs and problems. Data scientists use the platform to improve the location of points of sales in order to increase footfall. IoT vendors use our technology to provider their clients with advanced services such as geofencing, powerful APIs to export their data and trigger business processes, asset tracking (beyond the simple connectivity layer now widespread on the market). Advertisers benefit from location and profile data certification, location-based engagement and billboard audience measurement. Smart Cities love the insights we produce around our citizens use the local infrastructure and the city in general. They develop new urban development strategies and improve the day to day life of millions. Most of our customers get returns of dozens up to a few hundreds of m$ in the 3 years after fueling our technology with their data.

Polytechnique.org is an association whose goal is to put digital era communication tools to work both in promoting Ecole Polytechnique's international exchange programs and in stengthening the ever-present bond between its students and alumni community. The team's members reflects this bond as they are themselves part of the 'Communaute polytechnicienne', that is they are either alumni or current students at the Ecole Polytechnique. Polytechnique.org has truly become a focal point of the 'Communaute polytechnicienne' and its widespread use by young generations just goes to prove that students and alumni of Ecole polytechnique have never been closer ! I was in charge of managing relations between Polytechnique.org and its partners as well as with the community.

AFNIC is the registry of the database of .fr (France) and .re (Reunion Island) Internet domain names. AFNIC is a non-profit organization. It was created jointly in December 1997 by the INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) and the French Government, represented by the Ministries of Telecommunications, Industry and Research. AFNIC includes public and private Internet players: users (legal entities and individuals), domain name registrars (Internet services providers), international entities and public authoritative representatives. I was responsible for domain registration webservices interface, and partly in charge of networks and servers security.

Polytechnique.org is an association whose goal is to put digital era communication tools to work both in promoting Ecole Polytechnique's international exchange programs and in stengthening the ever-present bond between its students and alumni community. The team's members reflects this bond as they are themselves part of the 'Communaute polytechnicienne', that is they are either alumni or current students at the Ecole Polytechnique. Polytechnique.org has truly become a focal point of the 'Communaute polytechnicienne' and its widespread use by young generations just goes to prove that students and alumni of Ecole polytechnique have never been closer ! After being an active member of the association for many months, I was appointed to the position of Chairman of the board.

"NUMEROBIS" was a multi-partner project that aims to set up a national ENUM trial. In May 2002, it was selected by the RNRT (Réseau National de la Recherche et de la Technologie) as a pre-competitive project. NUMEROBIS implemented an ENUM experimental platform in France to test and validate technical and operational aspects of the architecture in a multi-player environment.