Cyberh@lles in Rennes, France

November, 21st-22nd, 2000

Cyberh@lles is an annual "Rendezvous" for Internet, Intranet and e-commerce.

More specifically this meeting is organised around companies concerned by:

  1. Consulting, teaching : computing, new technologies in communication, marketing, legal, ...
  2. Development, animation of sites: portal, merchant; BtoB site, BtoC site, Internet and Intranet sites; tools HTML, VRML, XML ... JAVA applications, ..., Linux, ... webmastering, ...),
  3. Internet Access, operators in telecommunications: ADSL, ...
  4. Solutions for payments and security: platform of secured payment, VPN or virtual private network, PKI or public key Infrastructure, smart card, ...,
  5. Multimedia, design and technologies: CD ROM, terminals, DVD, numerical imagery, 3D, Internet - television convergence, ...
  6. Business applications: client relationship (CRM, click and talk, marketing one to one); purchase (E-procurement); provisioning (SCM); Software package of management (ERP); System for Data bases management; electronic catalogues; email; EDI/EFI, ...
  7. New technologies and mobile terminals: Wap, UMTS, ...
  8. Data-processing equipment: PC, Mac, servers, peripherals, ...
  9. Network: installation, interconnection and security (firewall, proxy, hub, ...),
This meeting is 3 years old. In Britany this meeting is really a success: 1500 attendees for the first one, 2500 next year. INTELLECT's consortium partners met managers of Cyberh@lles 2000 in June, 2000 during firsts Project Board Meeting (PMB) in Rennes to define a co-operation between INTELLECT and Cyberh@lles 2000. Both organisation were interesting for such co-operation; Cyberh@lles 2000, because the European opportunity, INTELLECT for of this event.

Cyberh@lles 2000 consisted in conferences and show rooms. Program for the conferences was:

  1. Electronic Trade: a market in growth. Can one remain today with the variation of the Electronic Trade, which are the stakes, the challenges to take up?
  2. Create your site of Electronic Trade: keys of the success
  3. Identify the impact of Internet on the organization of your com-pany
  4. Optimize your site of Electronic Trade: development and management tools
  5. The loan with the use of the electronic trade. To conceive and in-tegrate an electronic system of trade containing software components on racks (European Project Intellect)
  6. To dope your trade with Internet
  7. Towards a " E-company ". Review of the applications to come

More than 5000 attendees assisted to Cyberh@lles 2000, more than 80 exhibitors was present on this meeting. The INTELLECT project has been presented on an exhibition area and inside the conference. On exhibition area first development of INTELLECT was demonstrated; especially the "Virtual Reality module" from Atlantide and a description of the architecture. A brochure (for French public) was published especially for this event.

A further workshop event will take place next year in Austria or Germany. This decision will fall if the next periode of the project begins.