
Joël Bacquet is a Senior Official of DG CONNECT of the European Commission, taking care of the
research and innovation policy for the Internet of Things. Before working in
this field, he was programme officer in "Future Internet Experimental
Platforms", head of the sector "Virtual Physiological Human" in
the ICT for health domain. From 1999 to 2003, he was head of the sector
“networked organisations” in the eBusiness unit. He started working with the
European Commission in 1993, in the Software Engineering Unit of the ESPRIT
Programme.
He started his
carrier as visiting scientist for Quantel a LASER company in San José,
California in 1981. From 1983 to 1987, he was with Thomson CSF (Thales) as
software development engineer for a Radar System. From 1987 to 1991, he worked
with the European Space Agency as software engineer on the European Space
shuttle and international Space platform programmes(ISS). From 1991 to 1993 he
was with Eurocontrol where he was Quality manager of an Air Traffic Control
system.
He is an
engineer in computer science from Institut Supérieur d'Electronique du Nord
(ISEN) and he has a MBA from Webster University, Missouri.
Sessions in which Joël Bacquet participates
terça-feira 5 junho, 2018
quarta-feira 6 junho, 2018
quarta-feira 1 setembro, 2021
The farming industry is facing pressing challenges, as food security or getting water and energy management right. The arrival of IoT technology is completely redefining everything, from food production to the relationship between producers and consumers. On this ssession, we will learn how IoT is making the industry smarter, safer, more sustainable and more competitive through the power of data collection and analysis. Get inspired from vision talks by key stakeholders on the future of the E...