🚀 [Volunteering Story] Mentoring the Next Generation in IIoT & Industry 4.0 ... in Martinique!

I was honored to be invited by LPO Lycée Joseph Zobel, Martinique for a special community operation focused on digital transformation in Industry 4.0 and Unified Namespace (UNS).

Over 9 days, I volunteered my time to mentor students, teachers, and professionals, covering hands-on concepts like IIoT, MQTT, Sparkplug, Cloud, and AI, aligned with real-world industrial needs.

💡 My contribution included:

• Delivering 2 days of official seminars to introduce Industry 4.0 concepts (I created 3 different talks on Maintenance 4.0)

• Hosting technical workshops and Q&A sessions, sometimes into the evenings, with local drinks of course

• Supporting French Tech Martinique projects through 1:1 deep dives and group mentoring

• Sharing open knowledge and personal insights, sometimes even in-flight in the dark, continuing the mentoring conversations across time zones and terminals!

This experience embodies what I value most : sharing, giving back, making technology accessible, and supporting local ecosystems in building sustainable, inclusive innovation.

    Students 

    Teacher and professionals : IIoT mqtt sparkplug standard 

    Mentoring for hours on a French Tech Martinique project : UNS, IIoT, Cloud, IA 

🤖 It was heartwarming to see a TSX17 PLC in their lab, the very model that inspired me to become an engineer!

Back in 1998, for my Master theses, during a one-year project, I invented my first-Digital Twin, by recreating it digitally in Visual C++, with Ladder programming, and Drag & Drop of Inputs/Outputs, etc... 

    At the airport, in the flight at night in the dark !!!

 

    Of course, without forgetting the nice eat-out food and drinks, that was lovely !

TechPulse event

 

https://www.tech-pulse.fr/

Sensibilisation des industriels à l'industrie 4.0

Optimiser sa maintenance industrielle par la digitalisation ; les facteurs clés de succès !

La conférence d'ouverture – 9h00/10h00

« Optimiser sa maintenance industrielle par la digitalisation ; les facteurs clés de succès ! »

Proxinnov : 15 rue Jean Esswein, 85000 La Roche sur Yon

https://www.proxinnov.com/evenement/rdv-tech-une-industrie-performante-grace-a-la-maintenance-innovante 

Avis objectif sur la digitalisation de la maintenance industrielle au travers de retours d’expériences et cas d’usages réels.

Vincent Thavonekham, véritable icône de la Transformation Digitale des usines connectées modernes, sera l’intervenant principal lors de la Keynote d’ouverture d’une journée dédiée à la maintenance prédictive. Avec plus de 24 ans d’expérience, il est à la tête de FactoVia, expert en #UnifiedNamespace (#UNS) et industrie 4.0.

Vincent est un pionnier reconnu, ayant conduit des projets IIoT de grande envergure. Innovateur et inventeur, il digitalise les processus industriels depuis des décennies. Certifié Agile, Scrum, PRINCE2, ITIL v3, et détenteur notamment d’un Honors Degree en Génie Mécanique et d’un Master IT en IA avec distinction, il a été honoré à plusieurs reprises pour ses travaux dans les domaines du cloud et de l’IoT Edge.
Aujourd’hui, il continue d’aider concrètement les industriels à surmonter les obstacles qui bloquent la transformation digitale, un défi qui touche encore près de 90 % des entreprises en Europe.

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Speaker at Sido Lyon 2024

First Unified Namespace (UNS) talk on a large IoT event in Europe SIDO LYON 2024 : Hands-On demo 

September 18, 2024  04:30 pm - 05:15 pm

• Anthony Olazabal 

  - Solution Engineer - HiveMQ

• Vincent Thavonekham 

  - CEO - FactoVia, Senior architect UNS, Microsoft MVP IoT 

Unified Namespace, a response to the strategic challenges of industrial data? The example of the agro-industry.

Want to understand how an agribusiness electrical equipment supplier enables its customers to optimize organic bread production by monitoring grain silos and mills with 4.0 systems managing up to 150,000 parameters in real time? Find out how this company is pushing the boundaries of IIoT in compliance with UNS standards. Vincent Thavonekham, CEO of Factovia, and Anthony Olazabal, Solution Engineer at HiveMQ, will explain how to distinguish modern 4.0 systems, crucial for radically transforming industrial operations, and how UNS streamlines data management, making these advances accessible without requiring disproportionate R&D budgets. You’ll discover how this company uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to proactively monitor weather data, breeding cycles, and even insect egg-laying, while ensuring enhanced plant cybersecurity. You’ll get practical advice on how to avoid common pitfalls in adopting modern architectures, essential for maintaining competitiveness in a fast-changing industrial environment.

https://www.sido-lyon.com/en/blog/event

Speaker at Sido Lyon 2023

 

SIDO Lyon with HiveMQ

 

Industry 4.0 : How to overcome the obstacles ?

 

Talk VIVA ECHNOLOGIES on BPI France Booth