Batimation 2019

At the end of March, Batimation, the French Association chaired by Jean Luc Hennes, Sales Director at Nexans Telecom Infrastructure, organized a seminar dedicated to cabling infrastructures for company networks.

Created in 1988 by Cabeltel, a subsidiary of Alcatel Cable, the association brings together main French actors on Telecom & Data market. It aims to promote and enhance the business communication networks deployed in smart buildings and data centers.

Following a seminar dedicated to Smart Cities in 2016, the 2019 Edition ambitioned to shed light on the impacts of 5G, connected objects ('IoT') as well as mobility on buildings cabling infrastructures.

Over 170 delegates participated in the event, including end customers, installers, consultants, specialist distributors such as Alliance Com and suppliers such as Nexans, Schneider-Electric, Mitel and Plantronics. For three days, the market stakeholders were able to exchange during the various conferences, round tables, and keynotes and to anticipate future market evolutions and new practices, as well as its impacts on their businesses.

The Nexans Telecom & Data Business Group, the historical cornerstone of the Batimation association, led a conference on "smart choices for sustainable IT solutions within businesses" followed by a round table meeting on "the intelligent building as a front-runner for 5G, IoT and Artificial Intelligence".