Olivier Archambaud

“The future of humanity underwater” Olivier Archambaud is a sustainable development engineer, diving instructor and pilot. He started his career developing seaweed farming branch in Madagascar for Sanofi Bio Industries. Back to France, he found a property development group from zero, make it grow as Ceo during ten years before to sold it to a bank group before taking a break going live with his family close to his passion, diving in a small island of French Polynesia. After big health issues he decided to involve his time and money from 2011 to the creation of HUS in order to contribute to promote development of breakthrough application to improve human autonomy in underwater environment and highlight the potentials impacts related to those themes beyond the immersion uses (to serve public health, industry and humanitary issues). In order to demonstrate that a such vision can generate business opportunity, he is become business angel of a R&D company of rehabilitation robotic whom he was former board director until it became public in 2015. Thanks to his exchanges with many specialist of new technology, he has acquired the conviction that time is coming to tackle the next step in our understanding of the relation between water and human life, sorely needed for solve next challenge society will have to face. He is promoting the creation of a major international « program for man in water » as it exist for space.