Silicon Valley Technopole delegation to Lille, France
February 22, 2010 6:42 PM
LILLE METROPOLE EUROPE: Amplify your European Network
Tech Tour March 15-19-2010
Just a quick note for Silicon Valley tech companies interested in establishing relationships with some of the big European Tech Stars or developing activates in Lille, France.
Euratechnologies and the Stanford Center for Professional Development are now accepting applications for the 2010 French Tech Tour- March 15-19, 2010.
Located at the heart of a triangle in between Brussels, London and Paris and Europe’s 15th metropolis, Lille is the 2nd French region for US Foreign Direct Investments. Over the past years, Lille’s strong economy has been able to attract Fortune 500 US companies such as Microsoft, FedEx, Ingram Micro, Smithfield …
Discover how this dynamic hub can boost your network in the European marketplace!
Please join us for Nord IT days a world class event that will gather investors, and global IT companies looking for the most competitive place to operate in Europe.
Sponsored by Euratechnologies-the largest IT Accelerator in Lille (and number 2 in all of France), and Stanford Center for Professional Development will bring together worldwide and well know multinationals that have selected Lille.
The entire Lille/Nord business and government environment will have a large presence during this event and the Silicon Valley delegation is invited to request 1-1 meetings during the week.
This event provides firms with a window into Europe with a minimal commitment of time and money. Providing them with the opportunity to create important strategic alliances immediately, and finally could provide the foundation for a strategy to make the move to Europe sooner rather than later.
Success Stories:
Hear from Motorola, Cap Gemini, Google and many others that have chosen Lille as a base of European operations.
B2B Meetings
Meet with all of the Country’s and region stakeholders in just one place..and establish, immediately commercial and institutional partnerships that will support your European operations
Walk Through the Country
Don’t have time to visit all of the companies, channel partners, governmental officials at their offices, no problem you can meet with them at the exhibit areas
Conferences
Come and learn about the latest topics in our world class conferences regarding: market trends, research and development, supply chain innovation, region success stories.
Business Sectors
Join us and find out why IT companies and Investors have choose Lille and what the region has to offer Silicon Valley companies in the areas of:
Software & Services, Virtualization & Cloud Computing, Telco & Wireless, e-Commerce
Why Lille
100M customers
- Youngest French region.
- 4 million inhabitants (nearly 7% of the French total)
- 150,000 students
- France’s no. 2 center for higher education
- 10 % of all French engineers trained in Northern France
- 85 private industrial research centers.
- 34 higher education institutions.
- 6,500 researchers and teacher/researchers.
- Over 300 public and Para-public laboratories.
- Government Friendly to IT Sectors
Space is Limited-so sign up now!
We only have room for 8 IT companies for the Silicon Valley Delegation. It this has some interest for you and your portfolio companies then we will arrange a call with you this week to discuss this in more detail. Remember we guarantee between 8-9 qualified 1-1 meetings with Sr. Executives from top IT, Government Officials, or Universities in the region. We would of course need to talk though specific area of interest with each of the companies in advance of this visit.
