1st Low-Tech Forum at Centrale Nantes: a one-day event to showcase Nantes' low-tech ecosystem

Participants from around the region will attend the event to showcase the Nantes low-tech ecosystem and the projects carried out by the students following the new Low Tech engineering programme specialisation opened in 2022 in partnership with EXPLORE and APALA, the Nantes low-tech incubator.

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From 9 am - Coffee

Conferences

10 am - 12 pm - Lecture theatre A

• Conference with Roland Jourdain, sailor, and innovator with the catamaran We Explore – Founder of the Low-Tech Lab in Concarneau
• Presentation of the Low-Tech engineering project-based specialisation and review of the first year

Stands and demonstrations - throughout the day - Hall A

• Presentations of students' projects and local actors
• Low-tech training: an engineer against the tide?
• Low-tech, heading towards a desirable future
• Demonstrations: wind turbine, raw earth construction, low-tech dome etc

1.30 - 6.00 pm - Round tables

(programme to be confirmed)

From 1.30 pm - The pit Hall A

The Low-Tech approach in companies

• Alan Fustec - Entrepreneur des low-techs - Director of Goodwill management - Founder of Low-tech skol
• Elise Hauters, Director of CPM Industrie and co-founder of La Belle-Tech
• Arnaud Crétot, Engineer and craftsman - NeoLoco
• Anne-Sophie Pierre, Engineer at Décathlon, Low-tech expert, as part of the future call for Low-Tech projects

Round table discussion moderated by Quentin Tizon, ADEME engineer, low-tech expert

Teaching low-tech in higher education

• Guillaume Lefevre, Director of Icam Nantes
• Jean-Marc Benguigui, Course supervisor of the Low Tech specialisation and Engineering for Ecological Transition option.
• Tatiana Reyes, Lecturer and researcher at the University of Technology of Troyes - Expert in society-technology-environment interactions - (t.b.c)
• Jean-Pierre Llored, Researcher and teacher at CentraleSupélec and Casablanca - Expert in engineering ethics (t.b.c)

Round table discussion moderated by Cécile Le Sausse of Explore

How do you determine if a project is low-tech?

• Jonathan Gueguen, Low-Tech project manager at APALA
• Jean-Baptiste Thony, alumni and Low-Tech expert, Bordeaux city councillor in charge of circular economy, zero waste and local currency
• Anne-Charlotte Bonjean, expert engineer in reparability at ADEME
• Didier Ménard, engineer, Atelier Belenos (t.b.c)

Event organised in partnership with APALA and EXPLORE