The conference was founded in 2005 by Franck Nazikian (
Simplified Chinese: 方克纳), a tech entrepreneur and investor. He is the CEO and co-founder of WowTune, a company focused on creating VR singing and spoken voices, and several other
Web3 enterprises. Together with
Renaud Laplanche, Franck co-founded
TripleHop Technologies, acquired by
Oracle. Franck also served as a managing director at
Gemplus International, making venture capital investments in tech companies, and runs DEVELOPNEUR, which he created in 2011. ==References==