1. The Paris Region is the place to be
for API’s economy
APIdays 2012, December 3rd and 4th

2. What is Paris Region Economic Development
Agency?
• Your bridgehead to Europe
• Supporting foreign companies to expand and grow
in the Paris Region
• Non-Profit organisation
– 2001
– 12 M€
– +60 employees
– Paris, Tel-Aviv, Shanghai, San Francisco, Boston

3. Paris Region, the Place to Be
Market
Innovation
Skills
Vision

4. The API-ification
From Consumer Web services
To Infrastructure and Business processes

5. API related innovators
• Vibrant Open source environnement
• Innovative French entrepreneurs
PARIS REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY – Paris region Introduction Overview and Services - Cécile Tevet – January 2012

6. The Paris Region has the 3rd highest
concentration of Fortune 500 companies
1st rank in Europe!
Company Global 500 rank Revenues ($ millions)
Total 11 186,055
AXA 14 162,236
BNP Paribas 26 128,726
Carrefour 32 120,297
GDF Suez 38 111,888
Crédit Agricole 43 105,003
EDF 68 86,309
Société Générale 72 84,350
Peugeot 90 74,251
Groupe BPCE 97 69,297
France Télécom 121 61,965
CNP Assurances 130 59,320
Saint-Gobain 155 53,136
Renault 163 51,616
Veolia Env. 175 47,170
Sanofi-Aventis 187 45,056
Vinci 192 44,205
Bouygues 205 41,547
SNCF 208 40,575
Foncière Euris 216 39,449
Vivendi 224 38,248
La Poste 305 31,378
Air France-KLM 307 31,200
Christian Dior 343 27,977
Alstom 347 27,635
Schneider Electric 373 25,933
L'Oréal 377 25,821
Groupama 419 23,144
PPR 420 23,101
Danone 432 22,529
Lafarge 454 21,415
Alcatel-Lucent 460 21,186
Sodexo 469 20,794

7. API users
System
Integrators
Telecoms
Cloud
providers
Média
Video Games/
Animation
E-commerce
PARIS REGION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY – Paris region Introduction Overview and Services - Cécile Tevet – January 2012

8. Paris Region Development Agency at your
service
 Finding office space  Getting into the market
 Recruiting Our answers  Setting up
to your
business location
needs:
 Taking care of the  Investing in R&D
environment

9. Cécile Tevet, Business Software
Director
ctevet@paris-region.com
@Ceecylee
@ParisRegion