Around Klewel

Les petits déjeuners des PME et start-up sont organisés par le Service de l’économie, du logement et du tourisme (SELT) en collaboration avec les partenaires de la promotion économique du canton de Vaud. Ils ont en principe lieu une fois par mois dans différents locaux mis à disposition par les partenaires.
Les petits déjeuners des PME & start-up ont pour objectifs de :
* Présenter des thématiques concernant directement les PME & la création d’entreprises (formation, apport de contenu et de conseils)
* Apporter des témoignages d’entreprises concernées et ayant vécu la thématique concernée
* Offrir aux PME & créateurs d’entreprises la possibilité de poser des questions à des spécialistes en la matière
* Favoriser le networking et les échanges

Ce matin, un Petit-Déjeuner PME Start-up a été organisé au Parc Scientifique de l’EPFL.

Nous proposons de mettre l’éclairage sur deux présentations particulièrement intéressantes:

• Switcher et leur outil web de traçabilité hyper transparent de fabrication de T-shirt, bleuffant!

voir la vidéo

(revoir également la vidéo au venture-ideas où le CEO de Switcher était intervenu).

• l’imprimerie “3.0″ et socialement responsable Gasser:

voir la vidéo

On Monday December 20, there was a demo event marking the release of Pocket Campus 1.0 at EPFL. Pocket Campus is a project involving the development of a smartphone application built by undergraduate students taking the Software Development Project course (http://sweng.epfl.ch/) – a course that is recorded autonomously by Prof. George Candea’s staff, using the Klewel capture station. The webcasts of the course are available at http://sweng.epfl.ch/schedule, by clicking on the [video] links.

Pocket Campus is an app developed to help students, faculty, alumni, and visitors to get around the EPFL campus.

The event was open to all members of I&C. There was a panel of invited guests, including Klewel team member, to offer feedback to the students and course staff on the application, as well as on the course:

• Manuel Acevedo (CEO of MadeInLocal, VP of EPFL A3 Alumni Association)
• Mehdi Aminian (CEO of Jilion, Licensing Officer @ EPFL)
• Alexandre Bisenz (Head of communication @ EPFL A3 Alumni Association)
• Kevin Blackman (Co-Founder of DealOnTheWay)
• Didier Bonvin (Editor @ EPFL MediaCom)
• Dr. Richard Ekwall (Software engineer @ Google)
• Claude Florin (President of A3 Angels Club)
• Prof. Jean-Pierre Hubaux (Director of LCA1)
• David Lazar (Software engineer @ Google)
• Dr. Ingrid Le Duc (Scientist @ Center for Pedagogical Research and Support)
• Dr. Maxime Monod (Software Architect @ Klewel)
• Prof. Bernard Moret (Chef de section Computer Science, Director of LCBB)
• Prof. Emre Telatar (Chef de section Communication Science, Director of LTHI)

You can get more information about the project by visiting its website: http://pocketcampus.org/

The webcast of the event is available here:

Congratulations first! …

Dr. Maxime Monod successfully defended his PhD Thesis from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Lausanne) in front of the jury on the 30th of June 2010 and at his public defense on July 30th, that is last friday. His thesis director was Prof. Rachid Guerraoui at EPFL. His thesis is entitled “Live [video] Streaming with Gossip” where the gossip paradigm is “a type of data dissemination that relies on random communication between participants in a Peer-to-peer (P2P) system”.

… and a very warm welcome!

Starting today, we are delighted to welcome Maxime. He will work as “Software Architect” closely with Vincent Bozzo as part of the Klewel Research and Development team. Maxime will be responsible, in a first phase, of the upcoming Klewel portal’s back-end server architecture. During his PhD, he was in the Distributed Programming Laboratory – LPD, School of Computer & Communication Sciences – I&C – of EPFL. Maxime is the laureate of the Best Paper Award at the 13th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS’09). He wrote more than 10 journal articles and conference papers in the best conferences of this field. During his M.Sc. from EPFL, he did a six-month project at the McGill University, Canada. Once again, welcome!

VentureIdeas @ EPFL – 4 novembre 2009: with Yahoo and Doodle

• Rich Riley, Senior Vice President, Yahoo! Europe
• Paul E. Sevinç, CTO & Co-Founder, Doodle AG, Doodle: 3 million users and counting

On VentureLab VentureTV.

Last Tuesday, a workshop was organized by EPFL Tech Transfer Office to bring around the table digital archiving experts and institutions with real needs in terms of media archiving.

The workshop took place at the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne. Two professors from EPFL Multimedia processing lab were there in addition to responsibles of the Swiss Cinematheque.

Klewel was present with Cinetis in order to introduce our competencies in terms of digitalization and indexing.

An article about Klewel is visible in page 14 of the mensual magazine Reflex published by EPFL.

This article is made in the framework of a communication of venturelab in the pages “Entrepreneurs de l’innovation”. Special thanks to Jordi Montserrat from VentureLab.

More links: http://www.reflexmagazine.ch | http://www.largeur.com

Also appearing in these two pages dedicated to yound entrepreneurs, Vincent Schickel – founder of Prediggo – and David Weill – cofounder of Primequal – both ventureleaders 2008.