Gilles Betis

Gilles Betis is an engineer who graduated in 1987 from the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité in France. He leads the Urban Life and Mobility action line of EIT ICT Labs (www.eitictlabs.eu). He is also a chair of the IEEE Smart Cities Initiative (smartcities.ieee.org). Since the end of the 1980s, he has been involved in Thales in the design of complex systems. He has extensive industrial experience in transportation systems IT, anytime in an international and multi-industrial environment. At the time when he joined EIT ICT Labs, he was a smart city and mobility solution leader in Thales Communication and Security. Holding positions of product line manager, marketing manager, and solution leader, he has been constantly involved with prospective, innovation, and product design matters. Through a holistic systemic approach, his goal was always to link up emerging behaviours and societal needs to innovative technological solutions, allowing a smooth adoption by final users.