Sébastien Bachollet

Country:	France
Email:	sebastien.bachollet [at] isoc.fr
LinkedIn:	[Sebastien Bachollet Sébastien Bachollet]
Twitter:	@SebBach

Sébastien is a citizen and resident of France (Europe) From Versailles.

Sébastien Bachollet began his career with Air Inter (French domestic airline) then with SNCF (French National Railways) where it led important technological and organisational projects (around information systems). Based on this experience, he re-launch and accompanied the development of CIO networks (Chief Information Officer) at national level (within Cigref) and at European level (creation of EuroCio). Within this framework, he had the responsibility for strategic actions for development and networking.

Internet engagement

Sébastien has been deeply involved in the Internet world since 1994 with his SNCF (French National Railways) experience, where he launched www.sncf.fr [1], today the first e-business web site in France. He was also involved in developing a comprehensive programme to allow employees to be connected and to use Internet technologies (TCP/IP, Domain names).

During the 2000–2003 period, Sébastien was Deputy General Manager of CIGREF (Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises) and he has represented Cigref and business users in the Internet Governance field at all levels: France, Europe and world-wide. In ICANN, Cigref has been a member of the Business Constituency since the beginning. Sébastien participates, in a personal capacity, on the ICANN New TLDs Evaluation Process Planning Task Force and to the Assistance Group of the Evaluation and Reform Committee for the formation of the ccNSO.

Sébastien works actively (with Olivier Iteanu – Lawyer) in setting up and holding the European Global Event on domain Names and address systems, known now as EGENI Europe held in Paris in June or July each year since 2002 with an audience of more than 250 participants. The event is organized by ISOC France with the help of Cigref, Medef, and CCIP. In 2006 with ISOC Morocco, he launched EGENI Africa. In 2007 the meeting was held in Paris around the French elections and in 2008 in conjunction with the ICANN meeting - link to Egeni([2]).

Sébastien lead the local team for the organization of the ICANN meeting in Paris in June 2008 (http://par.icann.org/fr) with 1700 participants.

professional Life

At a professional level, Sébastien is the founding CEO of BBS International Consulting, trading since June 2004, which handles consultancy in the Information Systems arena with a particular emphasis on Internet technologies.

He participates in various projects for new gTLDs (.paris, .green [3]).

Community Participation

Sebastien Bachollet is engaged in community life since many years.

• In the field of youth:

* During more than 20 years board member of UCPA (National Union of Outdoors Sports Centers) www.ucpa.com,
* Parents’ federation of pupils - FCPE.

• In the field of information technologies to make hear the voice of all users (large and small companies, not for profit organisation and people), on usages and of Internet governance questions.

• Internet Society French Chapter - www.isoc.fr

* Member since 2001
* Board member 2003 – 2009
* Chair 2004 – 2009
* Honorary President since 2009

• Board member of FING 2004 – 2009 www.fing.org
• Founder with Olivier Iteanu (Lawyer) and chair of EGENI Europe and Africa (conference around the questions of naming, addressing and Internet governance - www.egeni.org
• Advisor for Information letter Sociétés de l’Information – www.societesdelinformation.net
• Elected European Internet users representative since May 2007 – ALAC vice-chair (At-Large Advisory Committee) since 2008