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Patrick Cocquet, CEO, CAP DIGITAL & Founder, 6WIND


Patrick Cocquet is CEO for CAP DIGITAL, a French competitive cluster for the Paris region on "Image, Multimedia and Digital Life". He is Founder of 6WIND and a member of the company board.

Former Chairman of 6WIND, Patrick Cocquet has largely been instrumental in shaping the company's vision and direction in advanced IP technology, particularly in the deployment of the New Generation Internet (IPv6). As a result, he has become an Internet visionary, highly respected in the industry and the scientist community for his insightful ideas on the Internet, its evolution and impact on the economy as well as the society at large.

Patrick drived multi-level lobbying activities in promoting the benefits of the New Generation Internet among governments, state agencies, industrial players, international organizations and forums. He is Vice-President of the IPv6 Forum he founded in July 1999 with Latif Ladid and President of the French IPv6 Task Force he founded in September 2002. He was also appointed, in April 2003, to be Vice-Chairman of the China IPv6 Council. In addition, Patrick sits on the steering committees of both European IPv6 Task Force and China 6TNet. In 2004, he was appointed to France's Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies (CSTI) by the French Government.

Before founding 6WIND, Patrick was Head of the Networks R&D at Thales (previously Thomson-CSF), leading all strategic research and development projects on IP networking architectures and technologies. He actively participated as an expert in many international scientific organisations and was particularly involved in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) efforts for IP standardization. He started his career with Dassault Electronique where he managed critical large-scale projects on designing protocols and communication architectures for advanced professional and military systems.

Patrick earned a Master of Science degree from Ecole Centrale in Lille (French Electrical Engineering University).

 


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