Pierre Sigrist has co-founded Epicnpoc, an automotive startup company settled in Sophia-Antipolis, to support the NextGen user experience of our Customers' smart cockpit vision for the new mobility vehicles. Convinced that Automotive domains need to fill the gap between Innovation and Production, he brings software engineering know-how to develop Innovation prototypes. Pierre has studied at Skema and the Université de Nice and has spent over 25 years in startups and large and global companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation (Telecoms), Ascend Technologies (Telecoms) and finally Visteon (Automotive). Curious by nature, animated by a startup and entrepreneurship mindset, he strongly believes that Effectuation and Agile approaches can also drive sustainable and continuous Innovation.

The Pop in Your Job: Technology is constantly evolving and becoming more complex. People whose job is to imagine the UX of complex systems should be able to benefit from these advances without having to become experts. It is by putting myself in the shoes of these people to simplify their work that I’ve created Epicnpoc.

As vehicles became smarter, systems became more complex gathering more and more technologies assembled through an engineering-driven eye: this approach creates technology-push solutions where UX aspects are poorly treated. This surge of technologies must necessarily lead the designers of these systems to refine the associated UX to affirm the DNA of their brand and make life easier for their users. The UX is increasingly complicated to determine and specify, it needs a means that allows designers to prototype and validate, in a short cycle, the ideas that will make a difference. Determined to change this paradigm, Epicnpoc bridges the gap between design and engineering, enabling teams to create seamless, human-centered in-car experiences. By offering BOWL®, a cutting-edge prototyping SDV tool, Epicnpoc helps OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, and designers turn bold ideas into reality, accelerating the path to the future of mobility.