11th International Workshop on Anomalies in 
Hydrogen Loaded Metals in Airbus Toulouse on October 15th-16th 2015

The ISCMNS with the support of Airbus Group, HERA, LENR-Cities, LENRIA,SFSNMC is organizing the 11th International Workshop on Anomalies in 
Hydrogen Loaded Metals , in Airbus resort in Toulouse, with Jean-Francois Geneste as Chairman.

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About Jean-Francois Geneste, his title it is a good question.

Airbus Innovation, is a structure that in modern companies/groups match what we called in French "Direction technique", the division which manage the various technical/technology strategies of a company.
The boss of Airbus Innovation, have the title of CTO and Chief Innovation Officer for the group :
http://enterpriseinnovation.ne…-difficult-job-1684609858
http://enterpriseinnovation.ne…t-job-1684609858/page/0/1

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Dr Jean Botti, Chief Technical and Innovation Officer at Airbus, is a veteran engineer ...

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My role in the Airbus Group is to be responsible for technology, IT and quality. Not quite in terms of operations, but with other tools that help the company get more unified, more integrated. In particular, under the “quality” umbrella, I have program management, systems engineering tools, and Product Life Cycle Management (PLM).

On top of that, I'm also looking at innovation and new business ventures.

In my organization we create little startups that are supposed to become the companies of tomorrow – these will take some of the technologies that are not necessarily core, but that could become core in 10 or 15 years from now.

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So my spectrum of responsibilities in the company is pretty broad. It's not only technology. That's why I'm not the technology officer, but technical officer, which is much broader.

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Jean-Francois Geneste is "Executive Chief Scientist" of "Airbus Innovation", and is just under CTO in the hierarchy.
The level of "Executive" is the top level for experts in this organization.
As some have reported to me, this level of responsibility participate to "ExCom" (Executive committee) which take decisions for the group.

In this kind of organisation the time scale of the decision should be longer, and scope larger, for group level executives, than for division level executives. As the CTO explains in the interview, his technical responsibility are mostly not on the operational side of each division, but on the questions that concern the whole group.

As it was explained in Neuchatel meeting, modern companies have understood (thanks to Kodak failure) that it is important to know what disruptive technology will kill them, and to really prepare. (see eg: http://650labs.com ).

In management today, "Open Innovation" is very fashion. The idea is for big corporations to accept that they are too big to innovate fast enough, and that they should get help from startups. You can see that idea in the interview, and in the partnership with LENRG.

Question is whether LENR have a disruptive potential.
Even if you see all LENR evidence as uncertain, dubious, it would be, it is, irrational not to consider it as a huge risk.
It it is a huge risk, even with low probability, it have to be managed, mitigated, exploited, hedged, watched. That is the job of the CTO/CIO to drive those efforts, with the expertise of his Executive Chief Scientist, in coordination with peer executives and experts in each division.
You can see Boeing/Nasa/Lockheed-Martin, Toyota/Mitsubishi/Nissan/Tohoku, NTVA/Statoil,Elforsk/Vattenfall, and some others, having similar strategies.

This not even considering LENR is proven as peer reviewed papers show, and that there are some evidences of a commercial application next year.

With a naive eye, it is surprising we are surprised by such move.

The announce is made on ISCMNS site
http://www.iscmns.org/work11/index.htm

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Preliminary Announcement

11th International Workshop on Anomalies in Hydrogen Loaded Metals
5-16 October 2015

Airbus, Toulouse, France

Conference Chair

Jean-François Geneste

Organizing Committee

W. Collis, J.D. Vinko, S.Valin-Le-Gouellec, M. Valat

Patrons

Airbus, Hera, ISCMNS, FSCMNS, LENR-Cities

Location

The Workshop will be held at Airbus, Toulouse in south west France. Transport to and from the Novotel (Wilson Centre) in central Toulouse will be organized for participants. The conference hall is 15 minutes ride from the airport making it easy to schedule your return. Airport transfers are not organised. Information on public transport can be found at http://workshop.wonderevents.fr/

Workshop Goals and Format

Hydrogen gas loading is a promising technology to reliably create thermal and nuclear anomalies. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together an international group of experts to present their results and encourage discussion. The emphasis is on theory, models, explanations, but novel experimental results will also be accepted. In addition there will be discussion on topics of interest.

The working language of the workshop is English.

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Peter Gluck publish the preliminary program of the ISCMNS conference to happen in Airbus Toulouse resort,
and start to consider the various presentations.
http://egooutpeters.blogspot.r…of-nuclear-otherness.html

EDIT: The program is now there: http://www.iscmns.org/work11/Agenda.pdf

Peter first consider the presentation by Airbus Innovation executive chief scientist, Jean-Francois Geneste, with the good questions:

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First Airbus and LENR- what he will say and what he will NOT say (but do) about the research strategy, extent, aims, team, ideology, science-technology harmony- starting REAL competition with Rossi.

Second- Essential- how he will present his Theory Breakthrough in Energy Creation and LENR, it is a very high level opus, paradigm changing (transforming)

Third: From Experiment to Theory- is also an important theoretical contribution of Jean-Francois; next to come is From Theory to Technology, I hope!

Peter also put the emphasis on experimental articles

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• J.P. Biberian : Replication Attempts of the Parkhomov Experiment
• A. Korshunov : Calorimetric Investigation of Anomalous Heat Production in Ni-H Systems
• J. Ruer : Analysis of the Potential Behavior of the Energy Catalyzer as Described in the Patent US 9,115,913 B1
• Jacques Dufour : Unconventional Heat Observation in the Hydrogen/Iron/Sodium System (some surprise, dear Jacques?)
• F. David : Hydrogen Isotopes in Alloys: Hypotheses and Experiments
• XZ Li : Lithium 6: An Important Fuel in Condensed Matter Physics
• R. Lundin : Power Generation by Resonant Isotope Transmutation of Nucleides

This is also the occasion to quote Leonid Uruskoev, with a key vision on LENR theory, as Peter reported in that post http://egooutpeters.blogspot.r…of-nuclear-otherness.html :

Quote from Leonid Uruskoev

I will try to convey to the participants of the Workshop a simple idea: as long as you are trying to treat LENR as reactions between individual particles, they will obtain nothing new compared to what we already know from the traditional nuclear physics.
The answer is simply that no such [lexicon]low energy nuclear reactions[/lexicon] can take place due to the laws of conservation.
ONLY if we consider collective nuclear processes, we will be able to understand LENR. The paper will give a phenomenological model and its mathematical basis. I will send you the text when ready

The only positive flawless calorimetry I've heard recently was Edmund Storms (as usual).
Formerly there is Ferarra.

All other that make me happy, let some questions open anyway.
Hope, not confidence.

I expect some good experimenter will tighten the bolts on his experiment, or will help others replicators.
This takes time.

I have updated the page to reflect latest data from ISCMNS.

The patrons of the event are listed here :

Airbus Group, HERA, SFSNMC,LENR-Cities, LENRIA, and of course ISCMNS

The program is available as a single page in PDF:
http://www.iscmns.org/work11/Agenda.pdf