Ludovic L’HOIR is 42 years old and has worked in the IT sector for the past 15 years. He first studied Greek Archeology then after his diploma he decided to change his life and left France to live in Australia for about 2 years. He started his IT career at Reuters SA in 2001 in Geneva as a Network Controller Specialist. In 2005, he founded a company that was the first open source cybercafe in France. His career continued as an IT systems administrator at the IT lab of CNRS. Ludovic also worked at Concorde Logistics (OBS) as a Networks and Systems Manager. After this rich experience, he joined MICHELIN (Tyredating) in September 2010 as CTO. Currently, he is the IT Manager of S4M (Success for Mobile), which is a mobile-native ad tech company transforming ads into genuine personalized content for each individual user.

Ludovic is passionate about childhood development. He enjoys writing books for young children (http://ludobooks.fr) and also participating in the doudoulinux project (a Linux distribution especially designed for children to make computer usage as easy and pleasant as possible for them http://doudoulinux.org). In his spare time, Ludovic likes cooking food from different cultures. He lives in the South of France with his wife and 9 year old daughter.