1. © 2010 IBM Corporation The RFID at the heart of a smarter planet Frederic Allard Directeur, IBM La Gaude-Sophia Antipolis Technical Executive - Southwest Europe

2. © 2010 IBM Corporation IBM a global company firmly established in France  11 000 employees  3 000 commercial partners  an unequalled portfolio of activities in products and services A strong presence in France with 19 sites, of which 15 outside Ile de France Research and development  Software development laboratories  Laboratories part of the Nano2012 initiative Business innovation : Nice La Gaude  Business and Industry solutions center  Global Centers of Excellence for SOA, Nuclear, Telecom, Distribution, Banking, new medias Technology innovation: Montpellier  IT s olutions center and products benchmarking  Leading-edge, global outsourcing data center  Servers manufacturing and support  First Green Datacenter in Europe

3. © 2010 IBM Corporation The world is about to get a whole lot smarter. Today, IBM helps its clients to transform, take advantage of the explosion of new information and use new types of intelligence, in solutions that help build a Smarter Planet… Our world is becoming INSTRUMENTED Our world is becoming INTERCONNECTED Virtually all things, processes and ways of working are becoming INTELLIGENT IBM Sensor Solutions IBM Industry Solutions « Physical Meets Digital »