Guy Caverot is Associate and Director of Innovation and robotics at BA Systèmes, French leader of AGV-Based Intralogistics solutions. He hold two master degrees in Automation Engineering and Business Strategy and a PhD in Open Innovation Management. His industrial experience started as R&D engineer before being involved in project management and customer relationship management in automatism and mobile robotics activities. Since 2007, the year he joined BA Systèmes, he managed several cross disciplinary projects which led him to fill several patents on robotized systems, be awarded with the Invention and Entrepreneuship Award by the IEEE in 2014 and become an ANR and European expert for FP7 and H2020 projects. He has undertaken for several years now, teaching activities focusing on transmitting his years of experience on innovation & business strategy and mechatronics & robotics. He is also the author of several research papers published on open innovation, and mobile robotics.