Two engineers.
One revolution.
VIRTEON was born from a shared conviction: that critical energy infrastructure deserves open, auditable, and sovereign software. Here is where that conviction came from.
Aurélien Wataré
Architecture & TechnologyA substation protection system is not a product you buy. It is a critical system you must understand, control, and evolve. That is why we are building VIRTEON open, from the ground up.
— Aurélien Wataré, Co-creator of VIRTEONAurélien explains what VIRTEON builds and why it matters: a software-defined platform that replaces the closed, proprietary black boxes of today's substations with open, modular, and virtualized protection and automation functions.
His background in electrical engineering and digital infrastructure drives VIRTEON's core architecture — from IEC 61850 process-bus design to the virtualized PAC (vPAC) model deployed on standard compute hardware.
Where the industry sees stability in legacy systems, Aurélien sees a window of opportunity: the next generation of digital substations is being defined now, and open software must be at its foundation.
Pierre Guillaume
Strategy & DevelopmentVIRTEON did not start with a business plan. It started with a real problem observed in the field, at a real substation — and a conviction that the industry could do better with the right foundation.
— Pierre Guillaume, Co-creator of VIRTEONPierre tells the story of how VIRTEON came to be: from observing the operational constraints of legacy substation systems in the field, to designing an alternative on open and virtualized principles — and validating it on a live site.
The founding proof of concept, conducted at RTE's Campus Transfo in Jonage, demonstrated that protection and automation functions could run reliably on standard compute hardware, under IEC 61850, without depending on a single proprietary vendor.