Vendredi 30 octobre 2026
Ardans at SQY Business Day 2026
The Made in SQY Business Convention
Thursday 26 November 2026 at the Vélodrome National
SQY Business Day is a conference organised by the
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (SQY) urban community, which brings together
key players in the region: Ardans will be there as always!
On Thursday 26 November 2026, from 9.00 am to 6.00 pm, come along to the Vélodrome National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines for the latest edition of SQY Business Day 2026!
A suitable venue in the local area
We are delighted to announce that we will be at the National Velodrome in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines to discuss information and knowledge technologies.
The event is aimed at local businesses, ranging from SMEs to large corporations, including start-ups and organisations involved in research and innovation.
Ardans has been a regular participant at this gathering of local stakeholders ever since the first event.
An opportunity to find out more about Ardans’ expertise
Since its foundation in December 1999 and the subsequent opening of its first office in the region, Ardans has developed unique expertise in information and knowledge management systems.
The three topics we would like to discuss with you are:
1. Knowledge management (KM) in your organisation
- What should we make of the real contribution of Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
- How can we address the risk of losing knowledge as senior staff retire in the near future?
- How can we prioritise based on an approach that assesses the criticality of knowledge?
- How should we design a ‘Knowledge Transfer’ plan?
- How can we protect the organisation’s knowledge to ensure its long-term sustainability?
- How can you get a knowledge management (KM) initiative off the ground and move forward at the right pace, given the resources available?
- What should we make of the ISO 30401:2017 standard: just another standard?
2. Information management (Information Technology) within your organisation
- Those ‘Excel of Death’ files, so valuable yet so fragile: how can they be replaced with robust, shared IT tools?
- How can an end-of-life information system application (such as Access) be taken over and transformed into a modern application that meets business requirements?
- Why does improving an application’s usability by bringing its user interface up to the state of the art and ensuring it complies with cybersecurity regulations lead to greater collective efficiency?
3. Ardans Software Solutions: sovereign solutions for your organisation
For nearly 30 years, we have been designing, developing, refining and scaling up cutting-edge IT technologies based on our research, experience and expertise. Come and talk to us to gain greater autonomy with our technologies, developed specifically for the business units within your organisation.
- Ardans Knowledge Maker: our AKM platform and the Ardans Make method for capitalising on your expertise. Capitalising on knowledge means modelling, structuring, drafting, editing, validating, approving, protecting, versioning, publishing, linking, contextualising, searching, tracing, editing, visualising, aggregating, compiling, sharing, storing and disseminating knowledge… with the aim of enriching your organisation’s business heritage. Find out more about AKM.
Managing feedback (REX) – a challenge tackled by Ardans using the AKM platform and its EKB module?
- EKB: the secure module for publishing your knowledge bases. Find out more about EKB.
- A²I AKM AssIstant: the AI module integrated into AKM, which is based on a RAG architecture utilising various LLMs (Mistral, open-source models, etc.) and is being prepared for the integration of a ‘Graph RAG’ architecture and a ‘ChatBot’.
- BES: the economic, social and environmental database for your HR department, your employee representative bodies and, ultimately, your senior management. Find out more about BES.
- COP: The CoPBoK (Community of Practice Body of Knowledge) brings together in a single corpus the principles, activities and terminology relating to the management of Communities of Practice, whilst the CoPMgr (Manager) supports the Manager of the Community of Practice of Communities of Practice. Find out more about COP.
OEM DS has selected Ardans Information Maker for its strategic information system.
Training
It would be foolish to offer these technological and methodological solutions without any training!
Rest assured, Ardans has the resources to support you until you are fully independent.
- Ardans has been a training organisation since 2001 and delivers high-quality training courses that, of course, comply with the principles of Qualiopi certification, and has done so without interruption since 5 July 2024. A course catalogue is available, and bespoke in-house training courses are offered. This is in line with our objective: “Putting information and knowledge into action!”
- To support this certification, Ardans utilises the SQUALE knowledge base, which is based on AKM. Indeed, it was on the basis of the principles of this very platform that ERIADE (the Regional School for State-Certified Anaesthetic Nurses), France’s first school for state-registered nurse anaesthetists, founded in 1949, now a member of Campus inSanté and based at the UVSQ’s Simone Veil-Santé Faculty, has adapted and developed OPIUM in order to successfully meet the requirements of this same certification. The ERIADE management team took the opportunity to capitalise on the educational, organisational and administrative expertise of its in-house team.
Practical information
To register and attend the event, please visit the organiser’s website: SQY Business Day 2026.
Photo credits
We would like to thank the following for their respective contributions:
- Ardans (National Velodrome by Alain Berger © Ardans),
- the French Navy (Duguay-Trouin (S636) – © French Navy),
- OEM DS (Airbus A400M Atlas and an Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal – © DGA), and,
- the communications team at SQY BusinessDay (© https://sqybusinessday.com/).
