"6 become 7" : Software République welcomes JCDecaux

“6 Become 7” : Software République welcomes JCDecaux, paving the way for new open-innovation opportunities for cities and citizens.

JCDecaux strengthens the Software République ecosystem as a new member alongside Dassault Systèmes, Eviden, Orange, Renault Group, STMicroelectronics and Thales.
With its seven members and multiple partners, Software République can count on new collaborations in supporting territories and public services to meet their challenges of tomorrow.

PARIS – 15th March 2024

Founded in April 2021, Software République will celebrate its 3^rd anniversary by welcoming JCDecaux amongst its members, thus demonstrating its collective drive to explore new business opportunities, working towards making mobility more innovative, safer, sustainable, and accessible to all. Global leader in outdoor advertising JCDecaux will bring its expertise in designing and deploying innovative solutions with communities, local authorities, and smart cities to expand Software République’s technological and business footprint. JCDecaux possesses significant expertise in data, mobility and traffic analysis as well as in advertisement technology. Integrating this with the founding partners’ complementary capabilities, the Software République’s open ecosystem reinforces its mission to develop innovative services for towns and cities and their citizens, positioning it as a key player in shaping digital solutions for the future of communities and territories.

Software République’s attractive open-innovation ecosystem based on collaboration between large companies, start-ups and institutions demonstrates its effectiveness. With 20 innovations developed in a record time of 6 months, the Software République H1st Vision concept car is a compelling example of how combining forces enhances innovation and accelerates transformative solutions.

Luca de Meo, CEO Renault Group

“From the energy transition to the digital revolution, today’s huge challenges cut the boundaries between traditional sectors. It is clearer than ever that we must adapt, collaborate and find new opportunities together! That’s why we created the Software République, a federation of legendary European tech companies. Today, we are particularly pleased to welcome JCDecaux to the founding club. This is further proof of the attractiveness of the Software République model. JCDecaux’s unique expertise of cities, of the transport and retail environments, is a powerful asset which this major company will bring to the Software République open innovation ecosystem.”

Jean-Charles Decaux, Co-Directeur Général de JCDecaux

« We are proud and excited at the idea of joining the Software République to continue and further enrich our innovation strategy, both disruptive and incremental, for the benefit of cities and citizens, airports, transport partners and passengers. We are convinced that collective intelligence and knowledge sharing will enable Software République’s partners to design and then carry out great projects. We are delighted to partner with Dassault Systèmes, Eviden, Orange, Renault Group, STMicroelectronics and Thales. »

In 1964, JCDecaux was created thanks to an innovation: the advertising bus shelter. And with it arrived a new business model: to create sustainable products and services financed by advertising that benefit cities, residents, and visitors. Ever since, JCDecaux has placed innovation at the heart of its business, constantly offering its services in cities, to improve the quality of urban life and to develop sustainable mobility solutions; in transport and retail environments to enhance the travel and shopping experience.

With a truly entrepreneurial spirit, invested in data-driven digital solutions, engaged in an open-innovation strategy, JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC) is the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, present in over 3,900 major cities across the globe.

Since its creation, Software République is proud to have 10 operational projects, and many more in the pipeline. For example:

“Detect and Respond” is an automotive cybersecurity tool using AI to detect and defend against cyber threats,
In-car apps for smart devices (BYOD) have been developed and are included in the Dacia range as a recently as February 2024,
Mobilize PowerBox ® – an intelligent, secure bidirectional charging station – was industrially launched and will soon be marketed in the Renault network.

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The Software République is defined as an open innovation ecosystem dedicated to intelligent, secure, and sustainable mobility. It was created in April 2021 by six founding members: Dassault Systèmes, Eviden, Orange, Renault Group, STMicroelectronics and Thales.

The Software République builds collective businesses focused on tomorrow’s mobility through its unique horizontal collaboration model. The ecosystem stands out for its innovative approach, combining established companies and start-ups from different backgrounds to bring to market products and services that meet the new challenges of the connected vehicle, the smart city and energy. These projects are based on the complementary expertise of its partners in data analysis, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, connectivity, and digital twins, and on the ambition to invent a new model of innovation while keeping people and the environment at the heart of its motivations.

Eviden is a next-gen technology leader in data-driven, trusted and sustainable digital transformation with a strong portfolio of patented technologies.

With worldwide leading positions in advanced computing, security, AI, cloud and digital platforms, it provides deep expertise for all industries in more than 47 countries. Bringing together 47,000 world-class talents, Eviden expands the possibilities of data and technology across the digital continuum, now and for generations to come. Eviden is an Atos Group company with an annual revenue of c. € 5 billion.

Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. We provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations.

By creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with our 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, our customers can redefine the creation, production and life-cycle-management processes of their offer and thus have a meaningful impact to make the world more sustainable. The beauty of the Experience Economy is that it is a human-centered economy for the benefit of all –consumers, patients and citizens. Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 350,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 150 countries.

JCDecaux – a French family-owned company founded in 1964 and the No.1 outdoor advertising company worldwide – is committed to improve the quality of life for people wherever they live, work and travel by offering innovative, sustainable street furniture and services that are meeting citizens’ expectations and financed by brands and their advertisement.

With a presence in more than 80 countries, JCDecaux is the only company in the world to operate exclusively in the outdoor advertising sector and to develop all of its activities: street furniture, transport advertising and billboards. For 60 years, the products and services offered to cities by JCDecaux have been considered the benchmark for quality, aesthetics and functionality. As a sustainable media in contact with more than 850 million people every day and true to its mission of improving the quality of life for all citizens, JCDecaux enhances and promotes responsible outdoor advertising and places social and environmental quality at the core of its solutions and its business. Since 2023, JCDecaux is an official partner of the UN Joint SDG Fund, supporting the Sustainable Development Goals across its Group.

Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 43.5 billion euros in 2022 and 136,000 employees worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 75,000 employees in France.

The Group has a total customer base of 287 million customers worldwide at 31 December 2022, including 242 million mobile customers and 24 million fixed broadband customers. The Group is present in 26 countries. Orange is also a leading provider of global IT and telecommunication services to multinational companies under the brand Orange Business. In February 2023, the Group presented its strategic plan “Lead the Future”, built on a new business model and guided by responsibility and efficiency. “Lead the Future” capitalizes on network excellence to reinforce Orange’s leadership in service quality. Orange is listed on Euronext Paris (symbol ORA) and on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ORAN). More information on the Orange News app or follow us on Twitter: @orangegrouppr. Orange and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trademarks of Orange or Orange Brand Services Limited.

Renault Group is at the forefront of a mobility that is reinventing itself. Strengthened by its alliance with Nissan and Mitsubishi Motors, and its unique expertise in electrification, Renault Group comprises 4 complementary brands – Renault, Dacia, Alpine and Mobilize – offering sustainable and innovative mobility solutions to its customers.

Established in more than 130 countries, the Group has sold 2.1 million vehicles in 2022. It employs nearly 106,000 people who embody its Purpose every day, so that mobility brings people closer.

Ready to pursue challenges both on the road and in competition, Renault Group is committed to an ambitious transformation that will generate value. This is centred on the development of new technologies and services, and a new range of even more competitive, balanced, and electrified vehicles. In line with environmental challenges, the Group’s ambition is to achieve carbon neutrality in Europe by 2040.

More information www.media.renaultgroup.com

At ST, we are 48,000 creators and manufacturers of microelectronic technologies. We control the entire semiconductor supply chain with our state-of-the-art production facilities.

As an integrated component manufacturer, we work with over 200,000 customers and thousands of partners. With them, we design and create products, solutions and ecosystems that respond to their challenges and opportunities, and to the need to contribute to a more sustainable world. Our technologies enable smarter mobility, more efficient energy and power management, and large-scale deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) and connectivity.

ST is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2027.

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a world leader in high technology, investing in digital and deep tech innovations – connectivity, big data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum – to build a future of trust, essential to the development of our societies.

The Group offers solutions, services and products that help its customers – companies, organizations and governments – in the fields of defense, aeronautics, space, transport and digital identity and security, to fulfill their critical missions by putting people at the heart of decision-making. Thales employs 81,000 people in 68 countries. In 2021, the Group generated sales of €16.2 billion.

Software République : Mark York mark.york@renault.com Tel. +33 6 76 29 67 61
Eviden : Laura Fau laura.fau@eviden.com Tel. +33 6 73 64 04 18
Dassault Systèmes : Arnaud Malherbe arnaud.malherbe@3ds.com Tel. +33 1 61 62 87 73
JCDecaux : Clémentine Prat clementine.prat@jcdecaux Tel. + 33 6 60 33 00 15
Orange Business : Séverine Belhomme Moisand severine.belhommemoisand@orange.com Tel. +33 6 07 34 95 61
Renault Group : Paul Jacobsoone paul.jacobsoone@renault.com Tel. + 33 6 82 76 23 96
STMicroelectronics : Nelly Dimey nelly.dimey@st.com Tel. +33 6 75 00 73 39
Thales : Vanessa Viala – vanessa.viala@thalesgroup.com Tel. +33 6 07 34 00 34