Dear Partners, Innovation Fans and Players, BT2i team wishes you the best for 2018.

See you soon to accelerate again together.

In the frame of the brand new TWatch Program dedicated to Advanced NDT, BT2i has covered last week the APCNDT in Singapore : from over 100 exhibitors, we met 40 of them who where introducing their innovative products and services.

TWatch members will find all data, business cards and meeting reports through their dedicated Technology Intelligence Platform which will be opened on Dec 4, 2017.

As part of the rapid development of its activities, BT2i is pleased to announce the launch of the TWatch Additive Manufacturing program and the continuation in 2018 of the TWatch Surface Engineering.

So that you can evaluate the opportunity of your participation in these programs, we are pleased to invite you to a Marketing & Sales meeting during which we will present the results of the Surface Engineering current program, which started in January with A dozen of major participants as Total, Solvay, Safran, Naval Group, ArcelorMittal, Carnot MICA, IS2M, IRT M2P, Hutchinson, MBDA, Sofiplast, etc.

A part of this meeting will be devoted to the description of the Technology Watch perimeter in Additive Manufacturing as well as the action plan to be implemented.

Among the presentations , one of the BT2i experts in the field of Plasma will make a short Whaoo report on the most emerging technologies that we identified during the S1 2017.

This meeting will be held in Paris La Défense, Tuesday, September 26, 2017, from 2 to 4 pm.

Number of seats being limited, contact us ASAP via http://bt2i.eu/contact/ or by contacting Marc-Henri MENARD on +33 6 80 23 00 42.

In the Expernova’s newsletter of this month, there is an article about our TWatch – Multi-client Technology Intelligence Programs.

Click below on the link to learn more about that.

http://blog.expernova.com/towards-an-improved-sharing-of-knowledge-costs-and-results/

BT2i is currently at the 31st Edition of the International Conference on Surface Modification Technologies (SMT 31), which is taking place at the University of Mons, Belgium.

BT2i has been taken part in A3TS 2017 Congress at Nice since tuesday.

Here a picture of our Practice Director – Advanced Materials & Processes, Thierry Brolon.

Eco Innovation and Energies BT2i activities are growing rapidly.

In this context, Oksana Shkiray, BT2i correspondent in Kyiv, Ukraine, has covered the Oslo Innovation Week (Oct. 17-21). We met there a dozen of start-ups looking for partners to accelerate their international development.

Marc-Henri MENARD is proud to announce that Jean Félix Biosse Duplan have just joined BT2i as Sr Advisor and Global Marketing, Brand Management and Communications Expert

Jean-Félix has over 35 years of experience, providing innovative marketing strategies, powerful brand management and communications to BtoC companies. He started his career within Villeroy & Boch as sales consultant and joined Advertising agencies for 10 years, working for FMGC, beauty, luxury and corporate companies. He joined Essilor International as Advertising Manager and initiated the globalisation and the construction of worldwide campaigns, promotion and event programs, public relations, corporate identity and lobbying.

As a Brand fan, he has included them as a capital asset, took the leadership of disruptive market research, invented Varilux® new brand content, product innovations and created 3 worldwide brands.

Appointed as VP Marketing in Singapore and then in the European BtoB subsidiary, Jean-Felix has developped a specific product and service know-how targetting independent retailers or key accounts.

Other and recent jobs within Essilor allowed him to lead a technological breakthrough project and a strategic business development in Asia.Board member of several French an European optical Professional Associations, Jean Felix is Vice-President of the French ADETEM.

With Marc-Henri MENARD, Jean-François will develop innovation consultancy activities in BtoC businesses and in Ideation & Innovation Watch, integrating International Mega trends ans new busness models from different regions in the World.