Econnomical mission with the AWEX to promote Wallonia,from an ICT perspective, to Chinese Companies (from Shenzhen High Tech park)

1. Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications (AWT) Agence Wallonne à l’Exportation (AWEX) Shenzhen High Tech Technology Park ICT activities in Wallonia, BelgiumShenZhen, China, 11-2009 eng Carmelo Zaccone Telecom & Network expert cz@awt.be Tel: 0032 81 778076 Mob: 0032 475 586782

2. ICT: a lever for the Wallooneconomy Since 1999, « WalloonTelecommunicationsAgency » ischarged by the WalloonParliament to promote universal access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and encourage their widespread use The missions of the AWT are threefold: technologywatch advice and reference promotion http://AWT.be gives access to all informations and services provided by the agency. 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 2

3. AWT support to ICT marketgrowth&evolution Technology Watch: investigations and studypushed to SME face to face meeting with entrepreneurs conferences to put leadership in front of the scene Advice & promotion: (‘real life’) Intermediation interface between the SME and the public gov. bodies 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 3

4. Knowledge of in various areas technological economical legislation Support couldbe findingpartners/suppliers/collaborators or customers find out the right area to settle a corporatebranch support foreign entrepreneurs in theirdecision to create business in Wallonia AWT isa mesh in the chain between Wallon ICT public/private actors worldwide technology market « WalloniaForeign Trade and InvestmentAgency » AWEX, http://www.awex.be 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 4 AWT support marketgrowth & evolution

6. Field of support includes Innovation, Technologicaldevelopment, Research, Investment, …

7. Base research

8. Person in charge of Technological Innovation

9. Partnership (up to 60% cost of setting up international project)

10. Feasibilitystudy

11. Entreprise subsidy (givenfund)

12. FIRST Entreprise Doctor (up to 50% salary support to hire a PhD)

13. Appliedresearch

14. Recoverableadvance (lendfund)

15. FIRST entreprise SPIN OUT (hire entrepreneur to create innovation)

16. FIRST Entreprise Doctor (up to 50% salary support to hire a PhD)Total funds of €310m for 2009

17. Intermediationexample: Earlytracks High End ICT disruptive technology web 3.0 = Semantic Web worldwide standard (W3C) actor R&D project privateinvestors Foreign (UK) entrepreneurs knowledge of the Walloonopen mind to innovation unawareness of the gov. support (funds & more) to SME questioning on ‘whereis the best place to settle the startup company ?’ Results: Establishment to the company in Wallonia, Belgium Regrouping of the international staff to the Belgian HQ (Wavre) R&D funding & employment support requests to DGO6 (with support of the AWT staff) investementrequest as foreigners to joinWallonia area (with support of the AWEX staff) 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 6

18. The ‘Plan Marshall’: the 5 competitiveness clusters Sectors where Wallonia “could excel on a European or world scale” V1-2005: strengthen regional competitiveness in sectors with existing potential (€1.4billion of funds) V2-2008: add a focus on green technologies winden the concept of innovation stimulate research 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 7 http://planmarshall.wallonie.be ICT ispresent in everysectorthrought a transversal approach

19. Facts & figures about Walloon ICT market AWT Walloonsurveypublished in 01-2009 indicates 1 out of 4 in the 32k Belgian ICT actorsis a Walloon majority are located in Liège, Hainaut & Brabant Wallon provinces areas ICT employmentrepresent 2.9% of the privatesector Wallon ICT represent an overall business of €3b out of the €37b of Belgium Software Development & IT services represent 60% of this ICT Business Most ICT offeringis in health, medical and pharmaceutical finance, bank, insurance public body, construction and distribution 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 8

20. Wallonia, technological excellence High technology Aeronoutical and aerospace >200 companies specialised in part construction, constituting a network of specialised sub-contractors. Skywin : « aeronautics-aerospace economic centre » unite the “Walloon Region Aeronautics Companies” & “WallonieEspace” clusters > 7,000 jobs and a turnover of around € 1.25 billionhttp://www.sectors.wallonia-export.be/en/about.asp?sector_id=7&pole_id=2 Life Sciences Biotech: >20 multinational, SMEs, Universities, BioWin Cluster, ARESA (clinicalresearch) association Health: GIGA « Groupement Interfacultaire de Génomique Appliquée », « Interfaculty Grouping of Applied Genomics » http://www.sectors.wallonia-export.be/en/about.asp?pole_id=2&sector_id=185 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 9

21. Wallonia, ICT excellence Broadband: on of the mostcabled countries in the world, xDSLpioneer, wirelesscoverage (3G, WiFi) throughdifferent mobile operators , Fiber Optic To The Building” (FTTB) is a reality for > 1,500 SMEs, 44 fully connected business parks Audiovisual and Multimediasector: TWIST Cluster (technology companies, service providers, training centers, universities, research centers, distributors, producers, professional associations, etc.) represent 4,000 direct jobs and 10,000 indirect jobs Micro-Technologies, Nanotech, Mecatronic: MITECH (Micro-Technologies for Intelligent Manufacturing & Products) cluster 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 10

22. Wallonia, ICT excellence ICT sector: Infopole ICT Cluster http://www.infopole.be (126 companies) AWT the Agency dedicated exclusively to ICT, the online ‘ICT observatory’ (db >1000 companies, under the umbrella of the AWT http://vigie.awt.be ) Centers of competence: technical platforms endowed with modern facilities made available to training agencies and companies such as Technifutur, Technocité , Technofutur3, Techno.bel, Forem Formation E-learning: part of the dynamic of the Lisbon Summit (2000) and is under the umbrella of the AWT’s body http://www.sectors.wallonia-export.be/en/about.asp?pole_id=2&sector_id=27 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 11

23. Software Engineeging 1 out of 4 Wallon ICT companydevelops software Enterprise Ressource Planning, Customer Relation Management, Document Management Multimedia & web tools Industrial or scientific applications Office suites, workflow Networking, security, system Educational software, e-learningtools Supply Chain Management Business Intelligence 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 12

24. E-Health Medicalimagery Biotech Medical IT Telemedicine Microsoft Innovation Center focus on e-health: startups pond 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 13

25. Radio transmissions Near Field Communication Radio Frequency ID Bluethooth Casting Magnetic Identification 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 14

26. Bio Technologies Genomic, Proteomic, Metabolomic Oligonucleotides design Database Design Clinical research 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 15 « Biotechnologicalvalley »BioVallée http://www.biovallee.be/ 67 companies Biology Clinicalstudy Genomic Clinicalstudy Biology Original cell Biology Biology

27. IP telephony Voice Over IP Unified Communication Open Source (asterisk, SER, OPENsips, kamailio) Computer TelephonyIntegration (CTI) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) IPpbx, Softswitch Unified Messaging Fixe Mobile Convergence (FMC) 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 16

28. Mobile application Operating System development Customer Relation Management Workforces Advertisement Machine-To-Machine Location Based Services 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 17 Interactivity/Advertisement VideoConf Smartphone/PDA OS Track & Trace Workforces/CRM Workforces/CRM Social Networking

30. facilitate partnerships

31. amplify technological development and innovation49 companies Video Games 3D /animation Broadcast 3D Video OCR Cinema 4D/Vitual World VideoConf Broadcast Vitual World JPEG2000 Voice Cinema http://www.twist-cluster.com

33. 550m2dedicated to MIC

35. few thousand servers

36. €250m with 12.5m gov. fundingRfid/audio-visual Telecom

37. IP Trade Networks www.iptrade-networks.com IP telephony Touch screen IP Trading Turrets Secure communication CRM, Video Integration Activity Trading Rooms Call Centers Command & Control Attendant Console Executive Assistants 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 20

39. Biotechnology

40. clonage,

41. protein engineering,

42. site directed mutagenesis

43. MolecularBiology

44. genomics,

45. proteomics,

47. RFIDEA www.rfidea.com Wireless, Near Field Communication Radio FrequencyIDentification (RFID) ZIGBEE MagneticIDentification (MID) Sensors (temperature, pression, GPS, humidity) Software (ERP, Logistic) ISO9000 & ISO13485(health) EPC Global Electronic Product Code(EPC) Sectors: Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology Logistic & Industry Ticketing &Event 18/11/09 Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications 23

49. JPEG2000

50. Security

51. 4K imaging : super HDTV/D-Cinema

52. Encoder/decoder chipset/FPGA

53. IP Network