The Jury

A 2015 graduate of Strasbourg’s Centre Universitaire d’Enseignement du Journalisme (CUEJ), Célia Garcia-Montero began her career in Alsace. She specialized in economic and digital news, before joining the editorial staff of the Journal du Net at the end of 2018 to take charge of the IoT section.

A graduate of ESCP Business School and Tongji University in Shanghai, Etienne Robert began his career at Orange in 2009 and in 2011 in its B2B division Orange Business. After serving as Chief of Staff to the CEO of Orange Business and Director of the Rhône Méditerranée Enterprise Agency, in 2022 he took over the IoT and Interactive Solutions Division, which offers a range of expertise in connected IoT and multimedia solutions, notably based on intelligent video and virtual and augmented reality. Since January 2023, he has also been Director of the Smart Mobilty Services France Business Line, which, in addition to IoT, encompasses all mobile sales activities for businesses (mobile fleets, MPNs, network coverage extension, Private Mobile Radio, etc.) and Océan, a provider of telematics and vehicle fleet management solutions..

Stéphane Simon is a visual artist and designer. From 2008 to 2017, he was Managing Director of Le Lieu du Design in Paris, which was designed to bring together manufacturers in the Ile-de-France region and design agencies, and also to democratize the dissemination of all forms of design as a factor of added value and differentiation for companies, thanks to an exhibition space. Since 2017, he has devoted himself full-time to the realization of the major Humanist, Sporting, Inclusive, Artistic, Cultural and Educational project “In Memory of Us, la beauté du geste” created for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, labeled the Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad. An expert in the latest generation of digital technologies, he is also coordinator of the “Art, Technology and Management” department at the ICN Business School on its Nancy, Paris and Berlin campuses, with almost 4,000 students.

Sylvain Chevallier is a partner in the consulting firm BearingPoint, in charge of the Telecom and Media sector. For over 20 years, he has been assisting major telecom operators in their transformation, particularly in the areas of fixed and mobile broadband, convergence and IoT.

He has developed a particular expertise in strategy, marketing, business planning, customer relationship management, performance management, organization and IT transformation (CRM and Billing).

He founded the IoT Business Hub, the French think tank of reference on IoT.

Ouassim Driouchi is a partner at the consulting firm BearingPoint, in charge of the Telecom and IoT activities.

A graduate of Télécom Paris, he has been helping telecom operators with their transformation for over 15 years, particularly in the areas of strategic marketing, product marketing, customer experience and operational excellence. Since 2018, Ouassim has also been supporting public and private organizations in Europe and Africa to help them leverage the transformational opportunities offered by IoT. He founded and pilots the IoT Business Hub, a leading think tank on IoT, composed of 800+ IoT professionals representing 15+ industries.

Ouassim teaches at Télécom Paris, ESCP and Neoma Business School.