
Mechanical engineer turned software founder. I started out designing aerospace manufacturing facilities in VR at DAHER, then founded Konfigear in 2019 to bring the same visualization tools to the way configurable products are sold. Today the platform serves more than 200 organizations across 20+ countries, and Konfiwear applies it specifically to custom apparel.


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Yassine Ait Oufkir


[Emerging Valley](https://www.emergingvalley.co/) 2024 sat on 3 December in Aix-Marseille-Provence — Europe and Africa in one room, under the patronage of the French presidency. I was there with the [Technopark Maroc](https://www.technopark.ma/) (MITC) delegation, next to **Lamiae Benmakhlouf**, Directeur Général of Technopark. That is the useful way to walk into a summit: not as a lone badge, as a network that already works.

The conversations were with African founders and operators who are building the same class of company we are, just from a different shore. Marseille is a good city for that. It does not pretend the Mediterranean is a border.

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  <figcaption>Technopark Maroc (MITC) delegation at Emerging Valley 2024, with Lamiae Benmakhlouf, Directeur Général, Technopark.</figcaption>
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We also spent time at [Marseille Innovation](https://www.marseille-innov.org/). Rachid Alhiane and Badreddine Chater walked through work they have already shipped — not a pitch deck, a record. That is rarer than a panel.

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  <figcaption>At Marseille Innovation with the Technopark delegation.</figcaption>
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  <img src="/images/emerging-valley-2024-ouverture-officielle-aix-marseille.jpg" alt="Official opening of Emerging Valley 2024 in the Aix-Marseille-Provence auditorium" width="1024" height="473" loading="lazy" decoding="async" />
  <figcaption>Official opening — Emerging Valley 2024.</figcaption>
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I came back with names, not slogans. That is the only reason to cross the water for a one-day summit.


Yassine Ait Oufkir with the Technopark Maroc (MITC) delegation at Emerging Valley 2024 in Marseille, alongside Lamiae Benmakhlouf, Directeur Général of Technopark.

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Technopark Maroc at Emerging Valley 2024