Worldwide Information industry : $ 365 billion in 2006, $ 458 billion in 2009 ? French information industry less than $ 2 billion in 2006 !!!

If the Information Industry plays a strategic role worldwide, its importance on the French market is clearly limited. - Financial market information player is a strongly consolidated industry (Thomson Corp takes Reuters over for more than $17 B) !!! - Coface is the only international player. The French giant bought this week Dafaslien, a French database weighting less than 1 M€ of revenues. - Information is key in Competitive Intelligence market, French players provide services and software - Scientific and medical information ??? No French actor among leaders.

Many explanation can be given to this situation. The language barrier is the most obvious : French language information service are rarely used outside France And the limited potential of this market pushes French information industry specialists to launch services in English, as Reportlinker does.

In this singular landscape, one of the most important event will open its doors in less than a month. I-expo will gather 6000 visitors (!!) among 70 exhibitors between the 12 and 14 of June.

Workshop are organised beside the show, and one can be really interesting to French information industry players : "Climate change? Market & Technological Forces that will impact the Professional Information Industry over the Next Five Years" This conference aims at analysing the future evolution of the industry. Speakers are Anglo Saxons specialists. The smallest of the warranty attendees can have !

Conference on Wednesday the 13th of June 2007, 14h30-16h00, Salle Dürer.