Theme: impActs

An event to reflect on our ideas to make the world a better place, and how to leverage these ideas through concrete acts!

Conservatoire Darius Milhaud
380 avenue Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Aix en Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 13100
France

Elsa GODART

Elsa Godart is a philosopher and a psychoanalyst. As a specialist in ethics issues, she is in charge of several medical ethics degrees at université Paris Est and Ville-Evrard medical school. Besides her teaching activities, she also sees patients as an analyst in her private practice since 2003. Elsa also provides training for companies (Club Med, RATP, Yahoo, M.A.E…) ; she has authored several books and shares her analyses and research in various media. Since 2006 she is an expert for the Association du Progrès du Management, an international association of leaders, which allows her to expose her views to a wider audience.

Eric VIVIER

Eric Vivier is a professor of immunology at Aix-Marseille Université. He graduated in veterinary medicine at the Ecole vétérinaire of Maisons-Alfort, and holds a Ph. D in immunology from Université Paris XI. He has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, before joining the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) as a professor. He is the director of the CIML since 2008. In 1999 he co-founded the biotech company Innate-Pharma, then Marseille-Immunopôle, a cluster combining primary research, therapeutics, innovation and industrial development in the Aix-Marseille area. Eric Vivier’s works focus on immunology and more specifically on ontogenesis, on therapeutic functions and manipulations of natural killer cells (NK) and innate lymphoïd cells (ILCs) in mice and in humans. He is the author of over 300 scientific publications, and the recipient of numerous national and international awards for his outstanding work. Eric Vivier is a senior member of the French Academie des Sciences and has been recently elected at the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Ian Carnelli

Ian Carnelli is currently managing a program dealing with the preparation of future space missions and programs at the European Space Agency. He is an aerospace engineer and in the last 12 years he has worked on several space mission concepts to deflect potentially threatening asteroids. Since 2015 he has led teams of scientists and engineers in the Asteroid Impact Mission, a small interplanetary probe part of a joint effort with NASA to test the kinetic impactor deflection technique.

Jean-Paul Delevoye

Jean-Paul Delevoye is known for standing for his beliefs with authenticity and assertiveness. This applies to his passion for chocolate, as well as to his willingness to draw action from sense making, and rebuild societal sharing through shared values and respect. He refuses to lock intelligences within political barriers. He began his political career as a town councillor in 1974. Mayor of Bapaume, Jean-Paul Delevoye has been a regional councillor for the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, then president of the Sud Artois communauté de communes, president of the French Association of Mayors, and deputy of Pas-de-Calais. Senator and president of the senators-mayors group, he chaired the report « Social cohesion and territories » and the Senate’s task force on decentralization. 2002 to 2004, he was Minister for Civil Service, Regional Planning and State Reform, overseeing among others the ENA transformation and civil servants retirement plan reforms. He becomes then Médiateur de la République, a function that became in 2011 the Défenseur des Droits (Rights defender) after the 2008 constitutional reform. He chaired the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) between 2010 and 2015. He was honoured Officer of the Ordre national de la Légion d’Honneur in 2015.

Jeanne Dambreville

Jeanne Dambreville holds a postgraduate professional musician diploma in choir conducting; she is passionate about how music is braodcasted to the public and the singers, regardless of the style of music. Founder and Director of the Abadachœur and Funky Frogs associations in Paris, she explores the great potential of the current musical trends a cappella with choirs of all ages and levels. She is also highly involved in the new concept of « participatory opera ». In 2017, she began working with the Opéra Comique to create vocal workshops dedicated to the public. Jeanne Dambreville is passionate about the link between the musician and their body, she regularly works with dancers to conduct trainings, known as « voix et mouvement ». One of her shows ” D’accords – de l’individu au groupe, une histoire sans parole” was awarded the Tremplin chef de choeur 2017 prize from the Philharmonie of Paris. In addition to her choirmaster activity, Jeanne Dambreville studies the Dalcroze pedagogy, the Alexander and Pilates methods, and body percussions.

Jessica Robino

Jessica Robino is an airline pilot. She began volunteering within associative communities in 2009. Her first experience led to her to found her own association, "Fées des rêves", to support sick children and young adults by improving their life and hospitalisation conditions, and by making their favorite dream become reality.

Julia MARIS

Julia Maris has been a defense expert for over 20 years. After graduating from Sciences Po Grenoble and Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), she’s been holding positions within state administration (Department of Defense, Department of Legal Affairs) and also within ministerial staff or in the private sector. She is the current Deputy CEO of Defense Conseil International (DCI). Julia Maris has been awarded Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite and has joined the « Rising Talents » and « CEO Champions » initiatives from Women’s Forum.

Laurent Debas

Holding a PhD in aquatic sciences, Laurent Debas is an expert of all issues in aquaculture, fisheries and costal environment preservation. Recognised expert in his field, he’s been working for french public institutions, for the United Nations as well as for the WWF. For over 25 years, his various positions led him to manage teams and to achieve programmes for the protection of marine species and marine areas, for a sustainable management of fisheries or against hydrocabon pollution. In 2004 he joined Jacques Perrin, french director of the documentary movie « Océans », as scientific consultant and co-author of the film. In 2007 he co-founded « Planète Mer » association, an officially recognized non-profit organization, whose purpose is to « preserve marine life and human activities depending on it ».

Mariame Tighamine

Mariame Tighanimine is a « serial entrepreneur » : co-founder of a participatory e-magazine dedicated to French women of Muslim culture (Hijabandthecity.com), she then launched a leather goods company which was created, promoted and distributed by an online community including more than 17,000 women. Strengthened by these experiences with women, related to the « empowerment » topics, she worked then with local associations, elected officials and public authorities of the Ile de France area (Paris administrative area) in order to provide training in entrepreneurship for young and precarious women. Through this process, she has concluded several partnerships with major groups, one being Danone, to set up alternative distribution channels based on a mobile micro distributors network. In 2015, she co-founded Babelbusiness.com, a business training method based on sport rules and regulations in order to learn how to create, grow and improve entrepreneurs as « Business Athletes ». The programs and dedicated tools of her method are open to anyone who wants to start a business with 0 euros and be operational within 24 hours. Mariame is a Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI) fellow 2016; she has also been nominated to represent France at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit of San Francisco. Since 2016, she has been a lecturer at the entrepreneurship department from the french political studies institute, Sciences Po.

Mariame Tighanimine

Mariame Tighanimine is a « serial entrepreneur » : co-founder of a participatory e-magazine dedicated to French women of Muslim culture (Hijabandthecity.com), she then launched a leather goods company which was created, promoted and distributed by an online community including more than 17,000 women. Strengthened by these experiences with women, related to the « empowerment » topics, she worked then with local associations, elected officials and public authorities of the Ile de France area (Paris administrative area) in order to provide training in entrepreneurship for young and precarious women. Through this process, she has concluded several partnerships with major groups, one being Danone, to set up alternative distribution channels based on a mobile micro distributors network. In 2015, she co-founded Babelbusiness.com, a business training method based on sport rules and regulations in order to learn how to create, grow and improve entrepreneurs as « Business Athletes ». The programs and dedicated tools of her method are open to anyone who wants to start a business with 0 euros and be operational within 24 hours. Mariame is a Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative (YTILI) fellow 2016; she has also been nominated to represent France at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit of San Francisco. Since 2016, she has been a lecturer at the entrepreneurship department from the french political studies institute, Sciences Po.

Markus Alsleben

Markus Alsleben is a management consultant and an advisor to global companies with rich experience in the IT, software and professional services industry, focused on Agile R&D management and transformation. Having worked for more than 14 years in the high velocity Chinese marketplace with senior management positions in professional services and software development, he truly embraced agile management and rapid transformations for results. As an innovation and design thinking coach, he designs, implements and operates corporate innovation labs for large international companies, using a large array of creative and analytical methods to drive corporate innovation from within. As regular lecturer at the Mannheim Business School, at the Aalto University in Helsinki and at the corporate NextMBA program for the global auditing company Mazars, Markus Alsleben has been recognized as an outstanding educator, providing thought provoking lectures, workshops and programs. Markus holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from City University of Hong Kong and a Diploma in Economics from Leibniz University Hanover, Germany.

Micheline Pelletier

Micheline Pelletier is a photojournalist. Her first international reporting about equatorial african pygmeas is published in 1975. She then works for press agencies, covering international politics (Cambodia after the red Khmers, Ayatollah Khomeiny’s arrival in Iran, Poland under Walesa… for Gamma agency) as well as society issues (children and cancer, child prostitution in Thaïland… for Corbis/Sygma agency). She has also worked as set photographer for renowned directors like Wim Wenders or Claude Chabrol. Micheline has been the exclusive photographer of l’Oréal-Unesco Women in Science award recipients worldwide during 12 years, and since 2001 her portraits of Nobel prize laureates have been exhibited on all european and american major sites. Her RapaNui, île de Pâques photograph exhibition at the Fondation Electra in Paris has received over 63000 visitors in 2008 ; it has been extended in the book Ile de Pâques : Terra incognita. Micheline Pelletier is the artistic director of the international photography festival L’Oeil-en-Seyne in La Seyne-sur-mer ; she is also art director of the new Raymond Devos museum and vice president of the related foundation. Her outstanding work has been recognized by many awards ; she is Chevalier de l’ordre national du Mérite, Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and Chevalier dans l’ordre de la Légion d’Honneur

Moran Cerf

Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience (department of neurosurgery, LIJ) and business (Kellogg School of Management).His research uses methods from neuroscience to understand the underlying mechanisms of our psychology. He works with patients undergoing brain-surgery to study behavior, emotion, decision making and dreams, by directly recording the activity of individual nerve cells using electrodes implanted in their brain. Recently, his focus has been on the neural mechanisms that underlie decision-making, thereby offering a new perspective on predicting future choices and investigating how much free will we have in our decisions. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Cerf spent nearly a decade in industry, holding managerial and development positions in computers security, pharmaceutical, telecom, Fashion, software development, and innovations development. Moran has had additional short-lived careers as a furniture-designer, a pilot, a radio host, and a filmmaker. He participates regularly in story-telling competition Additionally, Dr. Cerf is the Alfred P. Sloan professor at the American Film Institute (AFI), where he teaches an annual screenwriting class on science in films.

Riadh Lebib

Riadh Lebib is an expert in neuropsychology (Ph.D.) and comportemental behavior therapy (graduated). He is interested in rational and irrational human behaviors, and studies their impact on decision making, in calm or stressful situations. Highlighting the neural underpinnings and cerebral mechanisms that underlie these cognitive operations is central to his work to provide innovative solutions for professionals, based on information processing, emotional valence (positive or negative aspect of an emotion), and reasoning processes occurring within the brain.

Shemin Nurmohamed

Shemin Nurmohamed is currently Vice President of Document Messaging Technologies (DMT), a branch of Pitney Bowes for Europe where she is responsible for developing a growth strategy for a region that has been declining for several years, and for optimizing the go-to-market model. She is a member of the Pitney Bowes Leadership Team, and has been nominated to the Pitney Bowes Technology team to help craft the strategy on innovation and machine-to-machine learning. Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Shemin Nurmohamed had a successful 17-year career at IBM, where she was the Director of Sales for IBM France, growing the business over 30% and re-motivating and transforming the local teams. She has held a number of other leadership roles, in both finance and sales, at the national, European, and global levels. She was recognized by IBM as a Top Performer from 2000-2015, was a member of the 100% Club during each of her years in sales, and received an Outstanding Excellence Award for originating and concluding a first-ever deal with Europe’s largest cloud services provider. A graduate from Cornell and Toronto university, Shemin Nurmohamed is actively engaged in the start-up ecosystem in France. She is Chairman of fast-growing startup LiveMon, and serves on the board of ScaleZone, a new venture sponsored by IBM to support the growth of the French start-up community. Through Carbon-Leadership, an organization dedicated to helping working women progress in their careers and companies address the issue of female talent pipeline creation, Shemin Nurmohamed is regularly invited to speak at seminars and conferences in Europe and the Middle East. She also serves in a voluntary capacity as a member of the Aga Khan Economic Planning Board for France, which works to improve the quality of life of low income families.

Soraya Djermoun

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