Serge Soudoplatoff

About Serge Soudoplatoff

Serge Soudoplatoff is an Internet expert, which he discovered in 1984 at IBM’s research center.

Since 1978, he has been conducting research in computer science: at IGN, on the first Landsat images and on the navstar (the ancestor of GPS), at IBM’s R&D center in Paris, then at Cap Gemini Innovation, where he led a computer science research center, and finally at the innovation department of France Telecom.

He co-founded four start-ups: Highdeal in 1999 (acquired by SAP), CommonBox in 2007, Sooyoos in 2008, and Familia Games in 2011, focusing on educational social games. He also created two associations: the Club Galilée, a think tank focused on innovation, and Almatropie, which works with the public sector on the impact of the Internet.

Serge Soudoplatoff provides his expertise to companies and administrations, advising them on strategic aspects related to the Internet through his company Hyperdoxe. In 2009, APM sought his expertise on the transformations induced by the Internet, leading him to give around fifty conferences a year to SME and ETI leaders across France. He is a strategic advisor to Kzero, the leading consulting firm in virtual worlds, and to Vastpark.

Since 2010, he has been in charge of the 2.0 political section of the think tank Fondapol, Foundation for Political Innovation.

Serge Soudoplatoff teaches at ESCP and Hetic, the prestigious Internet school, where he established the first course in France on virtual worlds.

He published a book in 2004 with Éditions du Pommier, “With the Internet, where are we going?”, and more recently a novel dedicated to the corporate world, “The French Multinational”. Finally, his latest book: “The World with the Internet: Learning, Working, Sharing, Creating in the Digital Age” was released at the end of March 2012.