WIF 2008 - webdesign international festival - France

Limousin Expansion

Regional Agency of Development, Limousin Expansion wishes more than ever to give a support, an advice, an expertise to the companies creators and to the carriers of innovative projects. With a role of facilitator, of guide and of expert, Limousin Expansion teams are present at your side and bring you: the support of your project and the opening to the new markets, the technological expertise and economical intelligence, and the setting in network.

La région Limousin

Among the French landscapes, the Limousin characterizes itself as the green country of the tree and water that always deserves this judgment formulated by Arthur Young: "For general beauty, I prefer the Limousin to the other provinces. The hills, the valleys, wood, the enclosures, the rivers, the lakes, the scattered farms form thousand delicious pictures". Limousin is a welcoming region, its migratory balance remains positive and it became the 9th French region as regards attractiveness. International leaders are installed there: Legrand, Norisko-Dekkra, Madrange, Blédina, International Paper, Valéo… Limousin is always today an region of tradition but also of innovation with 1 650 researchers and 6 Centers of competitiveness present on the territory, subjects of formation on the e-design and Design, a university with 22 000 students and 3 schools of engineers. Limousin is also the only French region which have installed a optical fibre network on all its territory allowing the access to the high-speed broad band one and your installation very close to a special living environment.

Limoges Metropolis

The essentials of research and development in the Limousin Region are concentrated within the area of the Limoges agglomeration. The ESTER Technopole, the centre of technology of Limoges and of Limousin, the centres of competitiveness (Elopsys and Céramique), Biocritt, water treatment, and so on, illustrate perfectly our territory’s ability for developing networks of excellence. ESTER, the bridgehead of this system, offers indispensable tools for the creation of innovative young businesses, with the technological incubator, the ‘nursery’ and the capital-risk company, and also by establishing a mindset encouraging exchanges between the University and research world and the business world.

Europe

Adobe

Adobe stirs up ideas and information exchanges. For the last 25 years, its renowned technologies and software have redefined companies, markets and leisure communication. They have established new standards of production and diffusion of great impact contents– whenever and wherever.

Apple

Apple, the official WIF 2008 partner. Apple’s experts will attend the 2008 edition to give a testimony on the big evolutions in information creation, diffusion and consumption. Mac is definitely the first-rate hardware platform for Print, Video and Web creators; besides, new generation mobile devices – such as IPhone or Ipod touch, are getting more and more essential and they radically offer a new way to surf on the web. Apple will give a general survey of new trends and opportunities that these mobile devices offer for webdesign. The 2008 Apple WIF conference will update your vision.

InnoCentre

We aim to build InnoCentre a creative working space for clustering people and ideas so as to encourage the exchange of ideas and the development of cross-discipline business partnerships. In InnoCentre, we nurture future generations of design-focused companies via supplement of a range of events that sharpen the skills and broaden the network of the design professional.

Axione Limousin

Axione puts the Limousin in the heart of European high-speed Internet access. In charge of high speed Internet access regional public services and set-up by DORSAL mixed union, Axione Limousin is working hand in hand with local authorities so as to enable every company, citizen and administration to have access to any kind of network provider (best services at best price) just like in any big European city! Axione Limousin acts as a local authority proxy. An Axione subsidiary, Axione Limousin’s shareholders are the Deposit and Consignment office and Axione.

International airport of Limoges

The International airport of Limoges welcomes each year 400 000 passengers, serves 11 regular destinations and 13 destinations holidays. In addition the new terminal offers a modern and high-quality architectural framework. Your company and your customers will have pleasure to meet there and to take advantage of provided services such as meetings rooms , restaurant as well as lounges VIP.

Air France

Air France : wif's official carrier. A major company of the world air transport. AIR FRANCE is the one of the two subsidiary airline companies of AIR FRANCE KLM, 1st world-wide group of air transport for the turnover, 225 destinations and 109 countries are served by AIR France KLM. Air France represents in the group 71 600 colleagues, 389 airplanes in operation on June 30th, 2007, 1800 daily flights, 188 destinations in 82 countries, Founder Member of the alliance SkyTeam.

Toyota

For more than 30 years, CARNOT AUTOMOBILE, distributor and approved repairer, has been the Limoges’s flagship of TOYOTA, the worldwide car manufacturer leader. TOYOTA team, whose main concern is to give satisfaction to its customers, will be pleased to welcome you in its brand new car dealer office. An innovative and friendly concept, totally dedicated to TOYOTA universe, this office will be open from April 2008.

LaFraise.com

laFraise: Europe's largest design competition. Everyday, hundreds of talented designers submit their creations while thousands of members rate, praise or flame them. After a week-long struggle, only a few designers survive and get printed in a high-quality, 500 t-shirt limited edition.

Eyrolles

Gifted with a unique skillful French writers network and proud of an editorial line much concerned with readers’ needs, Editions Eyrolles play a privileged part in the fields of web development and graphic creation. More than 100 new books published each year on these themes put the emphasis on know-how and learn & practice. The demanding editorial line enables the promotion and transmission of professionals’ experience to the great majority.