Digital Jersey promotes Jersey Sandbox in France

Thursday 07 June 2018

Digital Jersey has been promoting the island as a testbed for technology development - a 'sandbox' - at the IN Normandy Tech Conference in Deauville.

More initiatives will follow later this year including a visit from a French digital business delegation, represented by the Manche Fab Lab, during Coding Week in September.

The “IN Normany Tech Conference” is the most important event for French businesses and communities regarding innovation and the digital sector, with more than 250 companies participating in workshops and conferences organised over two days.

Tony Moretta, CEO of Digital Jersey said: “This was a good opportunity to start a conversation with some of France’s key digital start-ups and established companies. There are many benefits to considering Jersey as a place to develop a tech business, or to partner with some of our first-class local firms; all of which contributes to jobs and growth in our digital sector.”

Our newest team member Audrey attended @NormandyFT yesterday to meet with leading #digitalhealth and #IoT professionals on the coming innovations at the #InNormandy exhibition pic.twitter.com/1j2y6D5Plt

— Digital Jersey (@DigitalJersey) June 1, 2018

Discussions also took place with the promotional body Normandy French Tech, about developing closer links with the region’s fintech, smart city and digital health businesses.

Audrey Lescot, Digital Jersey’s Policy Officer said: “I really enjoyed meeting such enthusiastic and innovative entrepreneurs. I hope we can build stronger relationships with French Tech companies as I’m sure we can both learn from one another."