Speakers

Augustin Ranger

Strategic Partnership Manager, CEA Tech Office in Japan

Sébastien Dauvé

Chief Executive Officer, CEA-Leti

Bio:

Sébastien Dauvé was named CEO of CEA-Leti effective on July 1, 2021, after more than twenty years of experience in microelectronics technologies and their applications, including clean mobility, medicine of the future, cybersecurity, and power electronics.

Sébastien Dauvé started his career at the French Armament Electronics Center, where he worked on developing synthetic-aperture radar. In 2003, he joined CEA-Leti as an industrial transfer manager and supervised several joint research laboratories, in particular with the multinational Michelin.

In 2007, Sébastien Dauvé became a laboratory manager, then head of an R&D department in the area of sensors applied to the Internet of things and electric mobility. During this time, he supported the dissemination of new technologies in industry, including the automotive industry (Renault), aeronautics, national defense (SAFRAN), and microchips with the industry leader Intel. He played an active role in the creation of start-ups in application fields ranging from health to infrastructure security, leading to dozens of new jobs. In 2016, he became Director of the CEA-Leti Systems Division.

From sensors to wireless communication, Sébastien Dauvé has played an active role in the digital transformation, focused on coupling energy frugality and performance. He has made cross-disciplinary approaches central to innovation by harnessing the expertise of talented teams with diverse backgrounds. Their goal is to provide technological tools for meeting the major societal challenges of the future.

Sébastien Dauvé is a graduate of the French Ecole Polytechnique and the National Higher French Institute of Aeronautics and Space (ISAE-SUPAERO).

Sylvie Menezo

Founder and CTO, SCINTIL Photonics

Sylvie Menezo

Founder and CTO, SCINTIL Photonics

Bio:

Sylvie Menezo is a deep‑tech entrepreneur and photonics expert, currently the founder and CTO of SCINTIL Photonics, a company she launched in 2018 to industrialize breakthrough silicon photonics technology originating from CEA‑Leti. As CEO until 2024, she has built the company from the ground up - assembling teams, developing supply chains and prototypes, with Global Leading Edge early customers, and raising more than €25 million from major international investors.

This entrepreneurial success builds directly on her leadership at CEA‑Leti, where she joined in 2011. She notably led the Silicon Photonics Laboratory, doubling both its size and revenues, and later drove business development activities, establishing strategic partnerships with major industrial players and securing multi‑million‑euro collaborative R&D programs at European levels.

Earlier in her career, Menezo accumulated strong industrial experience in global technology environments. At Sercel (CGG Group), she built and led optical technology activities in France and USA for large-scale sensing applications. Before that, she contributed to the improvement of semiconductor laser processes- yield at Alcatel optronics.

She holds an engineering degree from INSA Lyon and a PhD from the Centre National d’Études des Télécommunications (CNET, 1999), where her research on dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) laser arrays led to award‑winning scientific contributions, and where she worked on a modulator research project at NZAT (USA). She also holds an Executive MBA from Audencia School of Management.

She is the author of numerous publications, holds more than 50 patents, and actively contributes to the global photonics ecosystem through board and advisory roles at ePIXfab and photonixFAB, and through frequent OFC and ECOC technical chair.