The Smart Expedition

👋 Hello everyone and welcome to our LinkedIn page! This is Corentin and Nicolas, EDHEC Business School graduates, longstanding friends, and passionate about new technologies. At the end of 2018, we decided to create The Smart Expedition and spend 6 months visiting the most dynamic tech ecosystems in the world. We had 3 main objectives: - 🤝 Meet companies and institutions (large manufacturers, innovative start-ups, academics, regulators...) shaping the industry of the future around the world. - 🥇 Based on testimonies collected from the field, get Industry 4.0 use cases, best practices, success stories, as well as promising innovations, opinions, and visions of the future. - 💡Understand the uniqueness of each innovation hub we visited, and share our findings in articles and infographics. And here is what we did: - 🌍 12+ innovation hubs visited in Europe, Israel, the USA, China and India - 👨🚀 40+ meetings with forward-thinking individuals - 📆 +5 major innovation summits In addition to the work done for our sponsors @Wavestone and @Edify Investment Partner, we want to share with you some of our findings during this Learning Expedition. We, therefore, invite you to check our website and access: - 📝 our Articles, sharing our learnings, thoughts, and opinions - 📊 our Infographics, providing you with elements of context of the hubs we visited - 📢 our Interview reports - and more! (Analyses, Pictures, Fun facts…) The Smart Expedition has been for us an incredible human and professional experience. From having this crazy idea to start our Learning Expedition, to finding financial partners to make it real, planning our journey, meeting all these great people all around the world, organizing our findings into articles, infographics and reports and finally delivering the final presentations to our sponsors in their offices in Paris and Lyon, we are proud of what we have accomplished.