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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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