Digital Education Trade Mission
The French educational technology sector is a growing industry developing at a rapid pace (over 25% in 2011) with great potential and innovative SME’s and dynamic technology clusters (Cap Digital in Paris). Growth forecast: according to IDATE ( Digiworld Institute), by 2015, serious games sector will represent 84 million euros (around 116 million US$). By the end of 2015, this sector will represent 5% of the French GDP, up from 3% in 2009. French Education Technology is currently a priority, and the sector is undergoing rapid changes fostered by an ambitious government plan to transform Education for the future.
On October 20-21, a trade delegation of French companies specialized in the digital and educational technology sector will showcase their products and meet with US counterparts during the workshop, “Digitial Learning in 21st Century Universities”.
This trade mission, organized by UbiFrance, the French Trade Commission based in Atlanta, will offer any prospective US partners the unique possibility to connect with these innovative French companies, at no cost, in order to discuss all possible business connections.
For more information, please contact Sandrine Sauvage-Mack, Senior Trade Advisor, UbiFrance at sandrine.sauvage-mack@ubifrance.fr.
When: October 20-21, 2014 Where: Georgia Institute of Technology