THE ONLYLYON’S MAKERS MAGAZINE: BUSINESS & GOOD NEWS #02 by ONLYLYON SERENDIPITY 08 POLLUTEC 18 POSITIVE ENERGY 36 METROPOLIS 46 CHEMICAL VALLEY 50 GASTRONOMY 70 ALL ADDICTED 90 .. SECOND HALF 2014 EDITORIAL DO YOU KNOW WHAT LYON STANDS FOR ABROAD? IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHOM YOU ASK, THE WORLD IS BIG... FOR A DANCER, LYON EQUALS BIENNALE, FOR A FOOD LOVER IT'S SIRHA, FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERT POLLUTEC, AND FOR A FAN OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC THE NUITS SONORES, FOR SOMEONE WORKING IN ROBOTICS, IT'S A HOT SPOT. LYON IS A FAIR AND CULTIVATES ITS REPUTATION OF A PLACE OF EXCHANGES, HOSPITALITY AND EXCELLENCE. AND THE WORD GETS OUT. AND WHAT DOES LYON MEAN TO A CHINESE PERSON? LYON IS A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, A "GUANXI" AS THE CHINESE WOULD SAY. IT IS SILK, PRINTING, AND THE SCHOOL OF WESTERN KNOWLEDGE. FOR CNN*, LYON STANDS FOR WINE, THE FOURVIÈRE BASILICA, THE NUITS DE FOURVIÈRE FESTIVAL, CINEMA, GASTRONOMY, PARKS, ROMAN HISTORY AND ITS RIVERS, AND ALL THAT MAKES IT BETTER THAN PARIS. TO US, LYON IS A STATE OF MIND: FINDING SOMETHING THAT AT FIRST YOU WEREN'T NECESSARILY LOOKING FOR, ACCEPTING THE UNEXPECTED AND TURNING EVERY MOMENT INTO AN OPPORTUNITY. ITS NEW STATUS OF METROPOLIS PROMISES EVEN MORE PROXIMITY IN PUBLIC EFFICIENCY AND IN THE SYNERGY OF TALENTS. LYON IS INNOVATING AND INVITES CHANCE BY OFFERING ITS RESIDENTS AND ITS VISITORS THE PLEASURE OF THE UNEXPECTED. PEOPLE COME HERE FOR A COURTESY VISIT, A TRADE SHOW OR A BREAK IN A JOURNEY AND FIND LOVE OR FRIENDSHIP. AND THEN THEY COME BACK, THEY MOVE HERE AND INVENT A DAILY ROUTINE THAT NURTURES THEIR DESIRES AND TURNS TOMORROW INTO A DAY FULL OF CONFIDENCE WHERE EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY? * Chris Leadbeater for CNN ©Item Corporate. J’ articule / Saentys for Greater Lyon Greater for / Saentys J’ articule Corporate. ©Item SECOND HALF 2014 07 . 33 . 65 . PERFORMANCES TERRITORIES AFFINITIES CONVERSATIONS 08-13 PROJECTIONS 34-35 SATISFACTION 66-69 ADDICTIONS 90-97 SERENDIPITY 08-13 CARRÉ DE SOIE 34-35 ALEXANDRE ASTIER 66-69 JEAN-MICHEL AULAS (CEGID) 90-91 CÉLINE PARAVY-ATLAN POSITIONS 14-15 ACHIEVEMENTS 36-39 VIBRATIONS 70-81 AND DOMINIQUE DAMOY (MAPIECE) 92-93 PORTE DES ALPES 36-37 SIRHA 70-71 EXPANSIONS 16-25 VINCENT LOTTEAU (ENYO PHARMA) 94-95 BLEND 16-17 INCITY TOUR BBC 38-39 GRAND HÔTEL DIEU 72-73 LEONARD SLATKIN (ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON) 96-97 FRANCO-CHINESE INSTITUTE 74-77 POLLUTEC 18-23 DIRECTIONS 40-49 SMART CITY 24-25 ECONOMIC FIGURES 40-45 ROBOTICS 78-80 ILLUSTRATIONS 98-99 METROPOLIS 46-49 INCUBATIONS 26-31 PERCEPTIONS 82-85 SALON DES ENTREPRENEURS 82-83 FRENCH TECH AND HALL GIRARD 26-27 AMBITION S 50-55 TILKEE AND AXELEO 28-29 CHEMICAL VALLEY 50-51 MAJOR EVENTS IN PICTURES 84-85 LIMA AND MONPOTAGER.COM 30-31 CLEANTECH 52-53 INITIATIONS 86-89 L'APPEL DES 30 54-55 DESTINATIONS 86-87 MAMA SHELTER 88-89 VISIONS 56-63 NUITS SONORES 56-63 PERFORMANCES 07 PER FOR MAN CES CONVERSATIONS 0813 POSITIONS 1415 EXPANSIONS 1625 INCUBATIONS 2631 PERFORMANCES 09 08 CONVERSATIONS Chce i echti eeti hat is serendipity? Fatiha Hajjat: How do you put three people with backgrounds as diverse as It is the art of finding they are impressive in a close working situation and expect them to speak about serendipity? About what? Well then, let's something when you talk about it. Fatiha Hajjat, Flore Vasseur and Cédric Villani W were in fact searching collectively wind the thread of the conversation, weaving for something else. It is a chance the fabric of "how anything is possible if we allow ourselves encounter that calls upon wisdom. to want and believe it"... In Lyon as anywhere else, seek and you will find. Probably. Cédric Villani: It is the art of finding within an encounter or a source that we pull from, the solution for a problem other than the one we were seeking. Afterwards, we can speak of it as you just did. Flore Vasseur: For me it is about being sensitive to the thousands of gifts that life sends us. It is an attitude, a predisposed mindset that allows one to be guided by their intuition. There are so many encounters, words, sentences, and glances that we let pass by unnoticed. And then, at a particular moment, we catch one. It is a little bit like chasing butterflies; it is the angel's share, something connected to our core desire in life. Fatiha: I would also say that it is the capacity to notice tiny signals, to be in a state of observation that allows us to see pathways that we would not normally see. It helps us to allow ourselves to take these paths. Cédric: I would like to say that in speaking of events, it is the capacity to attract fortunate coincidences. To learn to be the friend of chance. It is a formula that we find in a Danielle Messia song. Fatiha: The etymology of the word comes from an Arabic word, azhar, which speaks of an accidental occurrence. So coincidence is intimately linked to chance. PERFORMANCES 11 10 CONVERSATIONS Why were you asked to speak about The idea of a game is recurrent, again, to let go and let events take damental sign that I needed to understand: serendipity? do you agree? their course in order to be available... I could not remain a witness to these condi- tions, to this situation, without doing Cédric: Because part of my profession Cédric: Yes, we agreed on the idea of Flore: Of course. But first, you have to something with what I had seen and expe- as researcher is knowing how to put the game, because the scientist is still constantly ask yourself, "How does it rienced. The conditions of serendipity may it to use. Because I like to talk about a bit of an explorer, and the explorer work?" "What is happening?" Scientific be heavy, very deep, very intimate, and being this type of thing and how the status is primarily motivated by the game, doubt is a permanent state of questio- overcome by them is the key to breaking free. quo is to present a reasoning that putting hope into the little spark of ning, is it not? Nothing I ever planned And it is a good thing. made you sweat blood and tears as emotion that precedes the arrival happened to me; of everything that something clear and evident. I like to of new elements. Serendipity is also has happened to me, I planned Fatiha: I think that there is at the same time show that, on the other hand, we are the act of trying to find amongst all nothing. an enormous amount of lightness in serendipity. often in the dark and vulnerable when of the available elements and I understand that it can be derived from a life Cédric: Serendipity shows us that the doing research. signals, the one that will permit event. But I would add that the fundamental universe is far more imaginative than moving forward. question is in the encounter with the answer. Flore: I could say the exact same we are. Bartabas has a beautiful for- thing. My job is to be a storyteller. Fatiha: I agree that an attitude of mula about doubt, in our interview Cédric: If we try to classify it, there are two That is what fiction is about. All of humility is necessary in order to be in booklet "How to Connect Passion and qualifying factors. The first one is really finding a sudden, an idea comes, and you the moment and notice what is hap- Creation": he says that doubt and through chance circumstances the answer to believe in it more than another, and pening around us. In this idea of a energy are two things that must be a question that we have been asking ourselves. from that moment onwards, every- game is our ability to become children transferred to the next generation. It is The second is a solution to a problem that we thing else will serve as inspiration. a beautiful lesson for a thesis director: weren’t even aware of. In both cases, serendi- It is an adventure, an exploration, a in its innate nature the subject given pity shows us that the universe is much more game that forces you to accept to contains a response that is yet to be imaginative than we are. be humble. You have to accept to discovered, and that is difficult for us be vulnerable in order for the idea to '' It is so important to grasp. It is so important to trans- take its course... to transmit curiosity, mit curiosity, the motivation to move Perhaps that is why Shakespeare said forward, and trust in doubt. Because Fatiha: Because my life experience is "All things be ready, if our mind be so." we do not know if it is true or if it is are brilliant and idiotic ways of being but let us serendipity and it is a key element in the motivation to There is a point that you haven't brought untrue. not forget that there are also correct and false my business practice. move forward, and up, a close friend to research and maybe to finding the answer as well... error. ways of reasoning. And when the reasoning is Fatiha: The common ground shared wrong, there is no way to make up for that. trust in doubt. '' by the people that we will have for the Cédric: Error is an integral part to the research upcoming TEDx Lyon on serendipity, is process.