On 10th and 11th July, more than 100 people, coming from all around the world, joined together in Toulouse to attend the High Voltage Workshop co-organised with SAE International and hosted by IRT Saint Exupéry.

SAE International is a global association of more than 138,000 member engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial vehicle industries. Together with industrial members SAE proposes high quality events.

Piloted by Laurent Albert, head of Dielectrics, Conductors & Plasmas Competence Centre of IRT Saint Exupéry, with the support of Thierry Lebey, Research Director at CNRS and LAPLACE Laboratory Director, this workshop focused on high voltage challenges in aeronautic.

High-quality présentations were provided by IRT members and partners : Christophe Lochot and Christian Donadille – Airbus, Serge Roques and Olivier Gosselin – SAFRAN, Ian Cotton – University of Manchester, Robin Acheen – IRT Saint Exupéry, Sombel Diaham – LAPLACE, Thomas Hahner – NEXANS, Redouane Boukadoum – Amphenol-Socapex, Philippe Naneix – Zodiac Aerospace, Pr. Alfredo Contin – University of Trieste, Kunihiko Tajiri – Mitsubishi Electric, Cédric Abadie – IRT Saint Exupéry, Mateusz Szczepanski, and Christophe Trebosc – SAFRAN Electrical & Power.

At the occasion, all the attendees discovered the new B612 Toulouse Aerospace Innovation Center building and had a guided tour of our “More Electrical Aircraft” platforms.