Ready to Disrupt?

Hear The Economist’s Editor, Shell’s Innovation Executive, and France’s leading AI Investor.

Is France moving too slow?
Is France aiming too low?
Is France playing it too safe?
Is France built to innovate?
Is France reaching its full potential?

This is not a typical panel—it’s a unique roundtable for those ready to challenge the status quo and disrupt the future.

Join for a dynamic re-imagination of the future of France:

• Discovering the hidden Marie Curies and Louis Pasteurs of the future
• Designing future-centric education, learning, and skill-acquisition
• Languages: English proficiency, data literacy, AI fluency
• Accelerating invention and innovation throughput and output
• Democratizing access to startup formation and entrepreneurship success
• Securing the transformative promise of AI
• Designing and leading firms that realize their human-cum-AI potential
• Examining cultural mores and mindsets
• Defining France’s “Moonshot” ambitions and aspirations

Speakers

• Natacha Valla is the Dean of the Sciences Po School of Management & Impact. Natacha was Deputy Director General for Monetary Policy at the European Central Bank, Head of Policy and Strategy at the European Investment Bank, and Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Global Economic Research.
• Hans Haringa is a globally-renowned innovation executive. Hans served as a global innovation executive at the Royal Dutch Shell ‘Game Changer’ innovation division. He advises an orbital solar power startup and other groundbreaking ventures.
• Tom Standage is Deputy Editor of The Economist and Editor of “The World Ahead”, The Economist’s annual future-gazing analysis, predictions and speculation. Tom also served as the Technology editor, Business editor, and Digital editor of The Economist, and is the author of New York Times-bestsellers A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2005) and An Edible History of Humanity (2009).
• Charles-Edouard Bouée is the former CEO of Roland Berger. He is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital, a venture fund focused on investing in AI technology startups. Charles-Edouard is a member of the Global AI Council of the World Economic Forum.
• Sciences Po students Arielle Nsunda-Katondua, Pierre Reisse, and Houssam Chrifi Alaoui.

This event will be held in English.