Jean-Luc Dormoy

Jean-Luc Dormoy has devoted his professional life to research and innovation, and has worked in research institutions, large companies and innovative companies (startups).

He is a co-founder of Kalray, a startup created in 2008, which produces ‘super-computing’ on a chip. Kalray’s chip delivers high-performance, low-power, real-time processorsand contributes to the next decade in computing performance and low energy consumption. Dormoy is also a co-founder of VESTA-SYSTEM, a software company for energy efficiency in buildings, and was director for “Smart Electric Systems” for the commercial branch of EDF Group in Europe. With Yello Strom, a former German subsidiary of EDF, he sold the first smart meter designed primarily towards delivering services to customers.

Former to this, he worked at CEA Tech from 2003 to 2008, and was in charge of software programmes. In 2007 he participated in the launch of ARTEMIS, the Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) of the European Commission for Embedded Systems , and formed part of its evaluation panel in 2013 for the EU Commissioner. He was also involved in the main national initiatives for research and innovation in France. For 17 years he worked at EDF in R&D on Artificial Intelligence applied, in particular, to nuclear plant control, on software automatic synthesis, and on numerical simulation. He also spent three years part time at the CSLI at Stanford University in 1999-2002 and worked on a joint France-China programme on processors in 2005-2006.

Today he advises companies on how to face disruptive competition, in particular from Silicon Valley players, by preparing them to integrate the design and marketing methods of innovative products and services.