About the Authors

       Patrick Duvaut (Book’s initiator and coordinator, Chapter 6)

      Patrick has more than 20 years of international experience (USA, Japan, India, China, and France) as Head of Innovation for large companies, public organizations and start-ups worldwide with core business in telecommunications and digital. Patrick has written four books and more than 200 papers. He owns 70 USPTO patents and three international standards. He is currently involved in frugal, scalable and sustainable blockchain and AI to tackle 21st Century challenges (world health crises such as Covid-19, aging population, social inclusion, people empowerment, resource depletion and climate change). Patrick graduated from École Normale Supérieure, France (MS in Physics and PhD in Statistics) and MIT-USA (Post-Doc in Statistics). He is currently Head of Innovation at IMT France.

       Xavier Dalloz (Chapter 1)

      Xavier has headed the consulting firm Xavier Dalloz Consulting (XDC) since 1993. For more than 30 years, Xavier has performed strategic consulting activities on the use of new technologies in businesses for competitive advantages. Xavier works for some of the largest French companies such as Renault, Air France, Louis Vuitton, L’Oréal, Allianz, La Poste, EDF, ENGIE, BNP Paribas, etc. Since April 1995, Xavier has written a report (40 pages) every month on the same analysis grid. In this report, Xavier analyzes the main issues of “digital” innovations.

David Menga (Chapter 2)

      David is a research engineer at EDF Lab Paris-Saclay. He is interested in the design of services for smart homes and smart buildings. He is an expert in embedded systems, AI and blockchain. He has been participating in the CES for 16 years and is familiar with the world of high tech. David organizes seminars at the École Polytechnique on the impact of technologies in everyday life. With Professor Nobuo Saito of Keio University, he has co-edited a book entitled Ecological Design of Smart Home Networks: Technologies, Social Impact and Sustainability.

       François Koehl (Chapter 3)

      After several years in IT services, François created and developed a strategy and management consulting firm over 17 years before integrating it into one of the large French audit firms, Mazars. After the end of the integration phase, François joined Tasmane in 2019 to focus on “strategies in a digital world”. He gives advice to CEOs and CIOs of middle size companies and large groups on their challenges regarding transformation, digitalization, innovations and change of business models.

       Vidal Chriqui (Chapter 4)

      Passionate about Bitcoin since 2011, Vidal is the inventor of BTU Protocol, the first peer-to-peer booking and transaction protocol. BTU Protocol empowers businesses to engage directly with consumers, thus allowing them to take back control of their physical and digital distribution. Vidal is sharing his passion for decentralization and tokenomics as a regular speaker but also as an academic teacher and startup advisor.

       Joerg Brill (Chapter 5)

      Within his role as Head of Plants and AIT Spacecraft at Airbus Defence and Space, Joerg Brill is responsible for the Pre-FALs, aero- and space structures production and MAIT (Manufacturing, Assembly, Integration, and Test) of space systems. In addition, he is in charge of performance and improvement for the overall production for Airbus Defence and Space, spread over 13 sites in five countries. Joerg holds a Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich.