MY ARTICLES
Entrepreneurship - Innovation - Ecology - Diversity & Inclusion - International
Here I write articles about topics that are close to my heart. From time to time I will introduce you to remarkable personalities who have made our world a better place.
I was touched by their ideals, their speeches, their struggles, their commitments that stand out and challenge in an era where individualism tends to impose itself as a global value. These personalities have chosen hope rather than fear and perseverance rather than renunciation.
SUCH A SMALL VIRUS
While replaying the film of the last few months, I cannot help, no doubt like many of you, but think back to Albert Camus' masterpiece "The Plague" as the tracing of this story is so superimposed on our reality...
STAY YOURSELF AND TAKE YOUR PLACE
Too often human inclination pushes us to behave and think in the direction of the mainstream. Most people conform to it out of fear of being marginalized, of being excluded from their group of belonging or simply for convenience....
The Hill We Climb
She brought all her class to Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony with a calm, graceful and assured voice. Amanda Gorman, 22, crowned the best young poet in the United States three years earlier, considers that “Being a woman of letters...
WHAT AMAZON'S PSYCHODRAMA TELLS US ABOUT FRANCE
Following Bruno Le Maire's request, Amazon and most retailers and websites have agreed to postpone the consumerist "Black Friday" event until December 4. In recent days, calls to boycott Black Friday have been...
WANGARI MAATHAI, THE WOMAN WHO PLANTED TREES
At a time when the Amazon and the forests of the Congo River basin are burning - the two "green" lungs of the planet - I wanted to highlight an extraordinary woman who deserved to be elevated to the same rank as Nelson Mandela...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Time flies by so quickly and every year we try to hold on to all those precious moments, thinking we can hold on to them without ever succeeding. When a new year begins, we always hope that it will be better than the one that just passed...
TONI MORRISON, BELOVED FOR EVER
I hadn't planned to write an article about this great lady of American literature, not because I didn't want to, but because sometimes words are too small to tell someone's story. But how can I not pay a heartfelt tribute to this great...
INDRA NOOYI, THE AMERICAN DREAM, THE INDIAN GENIUS
Her name may not mean much to you. Neither does her face. Yet Indra Nooyi is one of the most powerful businesswomen in the United States. She is the pure embodiment of the American dream. Starting from nothing, this inspiring woman with an extraordinary destiny...
SOCIAL NETWORKS, A MIRROR OF OUR SOCIETY
As formidable tools for communication, emancipation and freedom of expression, social networks have permanently changed our daily lives. The web has become, in a way, the new place for contemporary utopias, a vast place of exchange that has largely contributed...
I WENT TO VIVATECH AND I'M TELL YOU ABOUT IT
Well, here it is, the Vivatech 2019 edition ended on Saturday, May 18. This year, "Tech for good" was the common thread of the 2019 edition and took place as an extension of the summit of the same name which took place at the Elysée and initiated by Emmanuel Macron...
OMN PERSONALITY 2018
Monday, November 20, 2018, the "Innovation Outre-Mer" event took place at Station F, an evening organized by Outre-Mer Network, BPI and Impact partners. The guests of one evening were thus able to discover a magnificent event, promising startups....
THE WORLD IS FACING GROWING NATIONALISM
The entire history of humanity is there to attest to this. When the ruling elites lie and betray, sooner or later the people end up making them pay. From election to election, the people vote in favor of nationalist parties and nothing seems to change...
EDUCATION IS THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON FOR CHANGE...
On July 18, South Africa and the world celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela, a date that coincides with the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights....
THIS WAR IS TOO MANY THAT EUROPE COULD LOSE
Described as the new electricity by American researcher Andrew Ng, artificial intelligence has continued to evolve in recent years, thanks in particular to the development of NTIC and the increase in computing power required for learning...
MENTOR, THE ART OF LISTENING
For several years, I have been supporting entrepreneurs from all walks of life, all origins and all ages who share a passion and a desire to succeed. This support is above all personal, voluntary, unpaid and I want it to be caring...
THE STARTUP ECOSYSTEM DUSK OF LAST...
I promise, I swear, the digital economy was to be a territory free of social gravity, an ecosystem where the contingency of success would prevail over the sacrosanct logic of endogamous circles. It was to put innovation at the service of progress, to think of itself...
ON THE PATH TO EQUITY
"The first equality is equity" said Victor Hugo, to this beautiful quote we could add that equity is the essential means to achieve equality, true equality. Often used interchangeably, the paronyms equality and equity have in common...
FRANCE LIKELY START-UP NATION
Recently Xavier Niel declared in a long interview "We need to create the CAC 40 of the next century with large digital companies that create jobs". At a time when digital is transforming the world, how can we not agree...