I'm your host Philip English and we're here today with the President and CEO of InnoEco Catherine Simons. She's the founder of Europeans' only international event 100% dedicated to robotics and disruptive innovation, Innorobo.
Created in 2011, InnoEco is an impact consulting firm focus on business development through innovation and expertise in world wide robotics market. InnoEco drives a community of over 3500 robotic companies world wide of nearly 10,000 leaders and decision makers who receive robotics technology, products and services and opportunities for technology field growth. Innorobo is Europes' only summit dedicated to innovations in robotics a unique forum where decision makers and international experts discuss their visions. Its' mission is to present the world of robotics through an exhibition that provides a vast array of robotic technologies compassess with renowned specialist and a host of workshops in all to encourage innovation and open up new opportunities for growth and development, diversifications in nearly all sectors. We're speaking to Catherine today about Innorobo, the event that attracks exhibitors and visitors from around the world from forty plus country. As well as how she set it all up and the plans
Innorobo Interview with Catherine Simons
Philip: Right, welcome Catherine and many thanks for joining us on the show today, it's very appreciated and so what we'll do is start with some of the basic questions to start with. So could you quickly introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what you do.
Catherine: Alright, so I'm a consultant in an organization and strategy I'm a trained consultant, as well. I'm a coach and I've been looking into disruptive technology and how it can change our world and society at large in the past 8 years namely on robotics side. So I put up together a show called Innorobo and I intend to accelerate the global robotic ecosystem to absorb great technology to help us build sustainable humanity or in the future.
Philip: Brilliant, thanks for the introduction, so you're saying Innorobo's been running for 8 years now, is that right?
Catherine: No, I've been interested in robotics for 8 years but Innorobo will be 6 edition in Paris in May and we are already at past 5 edition and growing.
Philip: Ok. Yeah brilliant, so I've been to one in Lyon so it's the first one I've been over there in Paris. So does it change location every year?
Catherine: No, so the first 5 years we're in Lyon and then we felt that we have to move to, you know, gain this sort of stability of being the national first reference in robotics and then the International reference in robotics and France is so really is a little bit centralize in Paris and Paris is very attractive city in May so we thought we had to
Philip: Perfect, so is it gonna stay in Paris now or is it still gonna...
Catherine: We're trying to figure out actually how to make a world tour of Europe with Innorobo, because we think we have to be near to the local and national ecosystem of Europe to really become the reference in Europe it's not that easy. I'm a very small firm we're only 4 person and so we're trying to figure it out maybe like every 5 years we change location or I don't know yet I'm trying to figure it out.
Philip: Yeah, I'm gonna say you run like a brilliant show for such a small team. So yeah, that's quiet impressive actually, so I supposed the idea of like, maybe some more country like do you reckon like UK will be in there, maybe like eventually or is it
