About Us
An expertise born from the field
As an expert in natural risks, Éric Leroi has intervened in the field across all corners of the world. These missions required detailed knowledge of territories, and they revealed the limitations of information gathering systems: long and costly collection, data often outdated or even non-existent, the mobilization of external expertise unfamiliar with the studied territories.
From this experience a belief was born: digital tools can save valuable time, conserve resources… and sometimes save lives… provided they can be accessible locally and mobilize local skills, especially populations.
It is to meet these challenges that he designed the Qriska software suite, now offered by Vigilance View, the company he founded to strengthen territorial resilience.
Innovative, flexible and powerful, these tools are aimed at all field actors—specialists, technicians, populations, youth—facing the need for reliable, precise and real-time accessible data.
Founder of Vigilance View
Éric LEROI
Strategic and operational expertise serving territories
A trained geological‑geotechnical engineer, with strong complementary skills in territorial planning, GIS and digital tools, Éric Leroi has devoted nearly forty years to natural risk prevention and territorial management. His high-level expertise, recognized by his peers internationally, was forged over many missions carried out worldwide, serving leading national and international institutions, and as part of numerous European research projects, as a member or coordinator.
He was notably:
- Director of natural risks at BRGM (national geological survey), the reference scientific institution in France;
- Expert to the French ministries in charge of risk prevention;
- Expert to the United Nations and the European Commission in the field of natural risk assessment and management.
- Member of the leadership of the international technical committee on ground movements “JTC‑1 – Landslides & Engineered Slopes”, member of the leadership of the international technical committee “ITC32 – Engineering practice of risk assessment and management”.
- Project manager for the Indian Ocean Commission to structure and coordinate public policies for natural risk reduction and propose concrete actions among several small island states, in connection with the French Red Cross, the Ministries of each country, and the United Nations.
Still today, he continues this field work and international consulting—especially in Brazil—as part of projects related to municipal climate plans and risk governance.
From analysis to action: birth of Qriska
Faced with the growing human, environmental and economic challenges of climate change, risk reduction and territory development; confronted with increasing standards and controls; the Qriska suite was designed as a modular professional toolbox adapted to operational field needs.
Our approach: SaaS-accessible software, on smartphone or tablet, capable of collecting, centralizing and sharing information in real time, structuring analyses, and supporting decision‑making even in crisis situations.
Today, Qriska supports both local authorities and companies and consulting firms in their preparation, diagnostic or intervention missions.
Our ambition: enable each actor to move faster from knowledge to analysis and then from analysis to action, with rigor, speed and pragmatism; enable a continuum between field, office and decision‑making.
Our values
At Vigilance View, we are convinced that technology must strengthen balanced development and territory resilience by making citizens actors in their protection, not spectators. Populations are not just potential victims to be protected, they are powerful sensors to mobilize. They are the territory’s eyes.
Our tools help everyone to better understand their environment to act better, both in emergencies and over the long term.
Our pillars are clear:
Solidarity in crises
Practical tools, designed for the field
Functional excellence, without unnecessary complexity
Human impact, not just technological
Population mobilization
They trust us
We collaborate with local authorities, laboratories and institutions that share our vision of a modern, operational and responsible risk and territory management.
Among them:
- The municipality of Hossegor: daily territorial management via Qriska Alert
- 25 departmental analysis laboratories: audits of collective catering, indoor air quality, regulatory control of water quality
- The Ginger Group: engineering, technical control and construction sites
- UFMG (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil): development of local climate plans for medium‑sized and small cities (CLIMATIVA® methodology)
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Innovation in the service of solidarity: birth of ONG Sentinelas do Território
Co‑founded by Éric Leroi and Natalia Aguiar‑Mol – professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), and co‑author of the ClimAtiva method – the ONG Sentinelas do Território extends the philanthropic ambition that accompanies Qriska.
This association aims to improve territorial knowledge to contribute to sustainable development of these territories by integrating the consequences of the climate crisis. To do so, it will rely on collaborative digital tools.
Its missions are as follows:
Collect data and information from the field; this data and information may concern, non‑exhaustively:
- Territorial knowledge,
- Natural risks and climate change, with their causes and consequences,
- Anthropogenic risks, with their causes and consequences,
- All constraints imposed on territories, regardless of their size,
Share this data,
Raise awareness among populations, especially young people, about risks related to climate change, human activities and territorial evolution,
Encourage these populations to implement risk reduction and adaptation actions, and to share good experiences.
At the heart of the system, an international network of volunteers—women, youth, professionals or ordinary inhabitants—collects geolocated data then made available to local authorities, researchers and NGOs. Dedicated programs, such as Sentin‑Elas (female empowerment) or Sentinelas Crianças (education of the youngest), ensure inclusive and ethical participation, in accordance with the association’s charter.
Interviews
2015 – Hearing of Mr. Éric LEROI, geological engineer, expert in the prevention and management of natural hazards in the overseas territories, by the Delegation for Foresight and Evaluation of Public Policies of the CESE, as part of the referral: “The territories facing natural disasters: what tools to prevent risks?”