IT50+ LET’S CHANGE REALITY NOW

Engage 50%+ of your IT budget through European innovators

They are devoted to diversity in IT procurement

We propose a simple commitment: “in order to enable European technological innovation and to develop true digital diversity both in terms of infrastructure and software platforms, I commit, as an organization or manager, to invest more than 50% of any new IT budget (software, service, cloud and telecom perimeter) for investment or operation with French and European players, at the end of current commitments and within 3 years at the latest”.

THEY ARE COMMITTED

ANDREA VAUGAN

Co-Founder and CEO of the European Champions Alliance. Co-founder at Wyngs.co

PHILIPPE PINAULT

CEO at Talkspirit & Holaspirit

OLIVIER SICHEL

Deputy Managing Director at Caisse des Dépôts Group

VIVANE CHAINE-RIBEIRO

President of the Talentia-Software's CS, Co President of the Europe and International Commission of Medef, President of FTPE France

GILLES BABINET

Entrepreneur, Associate Professor at Science Po, Digital Expert at Institut Montaigne

SUSANNE AEBISCHER

Founder of TRNST

TOM VAN DER LUBBE

Co-Founder Viisi, Founder & CEO of Swiss Independence AG

PIERRE-ALAIN RAPHAN

Member of Parliament for Essonne and CEO at Accia Consulting

THIBAULT BECHETOILLE

President of CroissancePlus & Chief Executive at OZON.IO

LUC BRETONES

CEO at Purpose For Good, President of Institut G9+

MICHEL PAULIN

CEO at OVHcloud

ISABELLE DELAGE

Lawyer-DPO and founder of Phygitalaw

EVELYNE PLATNIC COHEN

CEO Booster Academy & The Artist Academy

ALAIN GARNIER

CEO at Jamespot, PlayFrance.Digital representative

ANA SAMEDO

CEO at ILExpansions

PASCAL VOYAT

Co-Founder at Mailo

LUC D'URSO

CEO ATEMPO WOOXO Group

PHILIPPE LENOIR

Co-founder at Mailo

EMMANUELLE LAROQUE

Founder & CEO at Social Builder, WomenInTech

PASCAL GAYAT

Producer at Les Cas d’OR du Digital

DAVID FAYON

Chief Digital Officer (CDO)

FRANS IMBERT-VIE

CEO UBCOM

NICOLAS D'HUEPPE

CEO & Founder of Alchimie, Steering Committee member at CroissancePlus

GAËLLE LABORIE

Responsible for developing the concierge services at AssoTvLocale for the Smartrezo Marketplace

JEAN-FRANÇOIS VERMONT

CEO PFLS, VP Institut G9+

CORINNE MEYNIER

CEO at KABIA

HERVÉ PILLAUD

Member of the French digital council at Conseil National du Numérique (CNNum)

DOMINIQUE TESSIER

In charge of the Cybersecurity Group of the European Champions Alliance

ARNO PONS

Director of THINK & DO TANK Digital New Deal Foundation / Consultant / GAFA Expert - Digital Sovereignty / Professor at SciencesPo

ERIC NIZARD

CEO LIC

EDMONDE CHIESA

Business Manager at Squadata

AURELIEN BLAHA

CMO at Digimind

AMAURY DELLOYE

Country Manager at Nano Interactive

THIERRY BAYON

Coach/Trainer in Social Selling and Smarketing / Tech & Innovation Influencer

FRANÇOIS DELTOUR

Founder of the Effinity Groupe

Observation

Kat Borlongan (director of the French Tech Mission) recently declared: “70% of scaleups in France are B2B. However, only 0.01% of the purchasing budget of large groups goes to start-ups… If we can get this number to change, then we will be able to grow our own gems. The president is vowing 25 unicorns in 2025. This shift of budgets towards startups will give agility to the major groups, an increase in transactions for startups and better chances of exit/takeover, which today are exceptional figures”.

Europe is the only continent not to have ranked an IT company in the FT500 (top 500 companies worldwide in value or revenue) in the last 20 years. The only European software “giant” was and remains SAP followed by Dassault System. The latter not being classified in the FT500.

Twenty years ago, Europe was ahead of 3G and had several leading hardware manufacturers, this is no longer the case (we are lagging behind on 5G, research in Lannion is a shadow of its former self and our manufacturers have all but one disappeared, in a pitiful state).

More than 80% of German companies as well as public institutions run their strategic systems on Google-Microsoft-Amazon-Oracle technologies (the recent example of Deutsche Bank is edifying in this respect);

Para-public bodies in the EU member states are poorly coordinated on the digital issue. BPI France and its European counterparts, for example.

Believing that by choosing the US (or Chinese) IT, one is often making the choice of the lowest bidder is often wrong. Calculations of this kind do not take into account hidden or future costs: cost of dependency, impossibility to oppose future increases in maintenance costs that US suppliers are used to, cost of geopolitical risk, etc..

The supply of European data to extra-continental third parties weakens the continent’s economic and political resilience. To protect them, the GDPR must be respected and enforced and US extra-territorial laws must no longer be imposed on French and European judicial authorities.

GAFAs spent $55 million on lobbying in 2018, doubling their combined spending of $27.4 million in 2016. 238 people were mobilized to lobby for the four companies in the first three months of 2019. 75% of these people have already served in government or U.S. political campaigns.

China and The US have helped platforms expand exponentially through the award of public contracts. Europe must be proactive in this matter

The world’s most powerful companies form an oligopoly, the club of nearly $1 trillion in capitalization between the American GAFAM and Chinese BAHTX

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IT50+ LET’S CHANGE REALITY NOW

Engage 50%+ of your IT budget through European innovators

They are devoted to diversity in IT procurement

THEY ARE COMMITTED

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