Theme: Neoventure

Our current way of life, based on an economy that consumes too much carbon and warms up the Planet, is not sustainable. The bell has rung and the COUNTDOWN has begun: we have barely 10 years left at the global level to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 7% every year to reach -50% in 2030 and a "net zero" situation by 2050. We can't say we didn't know. Future generations will hold us to account: what have you done?

Of course, the health crisis of 2020/2021 will have passed through here. But in the end, it will have only revealed what we already had in mind: our Planet is "one" through its globalized human activity, its pandemics and its climate change. The present and the future of the people of the Blue Planet are linked.

So what can we do? How can we approach on an individual and collective scale this world that needs to evolve? Solutions exist and we would like to address a certain number of them during this edition of TEDxCannes. We see the future as a source of opportunities, so we want to project ourselves positively through NEOVENTURE: new adventures and new ventures driven by pioneering doers.

Palais des Festivals
6 Bd de la Croisette
Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, 06400
France

Alex Jaffray

Composer, Producer and Music Columnist

(EN) In the beginning of music, nature. Alex Jaffray deciphers the links, the connections that exist between music and nature. Nature soothes us as much as it inspires music. Yet, we have lost the habit of listening to it. This energising talk is a sound invitation to become aware of our environment and to open our ears to discover astonishing melodies, those of water, of the Earth, but also of space and the planets. Co-founder of the sound agency Start-Rec, Alex Jaffray is a true musical Swiss Army knife: composer, producer or musical columnist. He has composed the soundtracks of feature films by great names in cinema (Claude Lelouch, to name but one), flagship TV programs for French channels (TF1, France2, France3, M6...), advertisements and major events, as well as the sound identities of major French and international brands. This passionate person also animates the musical column of "Télématin" on France 2 and created the first musical stand up "Le Son d'Alex".

Axel Carion

Bike explorer

(FR) Axel Carion est un explorateur français qui arpente à vélo les tracés les plus vertigineux du globe. Il a notamment traversé deux fois l’Amérique du Sud dont une fois en établissant le record du monde en moins de 50 jours pour rallier Carthagène à Ushuaia. Il a également voyagé à vélo sur le chemin royal des Incas au Pérou, la route des rois en Jordanie et dans d’autres lieux emblématiques. Il partage sa passion pour l’exploration à vélo avec les épreuves sportives BikingMan, ses récits dans les médias et lors de conférences. (EN) Axel Carion is a French explorer who has been cycling the most dizzying routes on the globe. He has twice crossed South America, once setting the world record in less than 50 days to reach Ushuaia from Cartagena. He has also traveled by bike on the royal road of the Incas in Peru, the kings highway in Jordan and in other emblematic places. He shares his passion for exploration by bike with the BikingMan, with his stories in the media and at conferences.

BlueLeaf Conservation NaturDive

Seagrass Advocates

Talk conjoint de BlueLeaf Conservation, une start-up à impact qui propose des solutions de lutte contre le changement climatique basées sur la capacité des océans à capturer du CO2, et de l'association NaturDive qui met en œuvre, développe et encourage toute action visant à étudier, préserver et protéger l’environnement marin. /// Joint talk by BlueLeaf Conservation, an impact start-up that offers solutions to combat climate change based on the oceans' ability to capture CO2, and the NaturDive NGO, which implements, develops and promotes any action to study, preserve and protect the marine environment.

Christophe Vasseur

Biotech Entrepreneur

Christophe is the Co-founder and President of inalve, a biotech company based in France that develops highly sustainable and functional ingredients from marine microalgae for animal feed and care. Prior to founding inalve, Christophe was an oceanographer. For 10 years he studied the impact of climate change on marine microalgae from the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. Then, over the course of the last 15 years he developed Biotechnology R&D programs that aimed at producing microalgae-based active molecules in the green chemistry sector. He holds its PhD in Biological Oceanography from Canada.

David Gurlé

Entrepreneur

Founder and CEO of Symphony, a cloud-based collaboration platform that securely connects markets, organizations and individuals, David Gurlé was previously CEO and Vice President of Skype's Business Unit and Global Head of Collaboration Services at Reuters. Author, inventor and visionary, David keeps a watchful eye on the place of people in the digital world of tomorrow that we are inventing today.

Delphine Guillebault

Entrepreneur

(EN) While access to good quality water is deteriorating for two thirds of the world's population, our civilisation continues to pollute this precious and limited resource. Cyanobacteria, the precursors of life on Earth, take advantage of this nourishing manna to proliferate, asphyxiating and poisoning aquatic environments. Breakthrough molecular tools exist to monitor and anticipate these harmful multiplications and protect the blue gold of the 21st century. Curious, dynamic and attracted by the environment, Delphine Guillebault had a taste for exploration and research at a very early age and naturally turned to a career as a researcher. She co-founded Microbia Environnement in 2013 to transfer knowledge from the scientific world and apply it to everyday life that. The company offers breakthrough innovations to anticipate microbiological proliferation in water, protecting users and resources.

Isabelle Gerente

Dirigeante de startup dédiée à la protection de la mer

(FR) Au cours des 25 dernières années, Isabelle a partagé son temps entre sa carrière d’analyste économique au sein d’une grande institution, sa passion pour les activités d’outdoor (parachutisme, plongée sous-marine) et l’ultra trail (Marathon des Sables, …), la nage en eau libre longue distance et le Swimrun. Devenue scaphandrière professionnelle en 2019, elle crée avec son associé, Green City Org., une startup dédiée à la protection de la mer. (EN) For the past 25 years, Isabelle has divided her time between her career as an economic analyst in a large institution and her passion for outdoor activities (skydiving, scuba diving) and ultra trail (Marathon des Sables, ...), long distance open water swimming and swimrun. Becoming a professional diver in 2019, she creates with her partner, Green City Org. a startup dedicated to the protection of the sea.

Jean-François Noubel

Open Source Earthling and Humanonaut

Jean-François Noubel fait de la R&D en intelligence collective, une nouvelle discipline de recherche qui explore comment les systèmes vivants fonctionnent et comment notre espèce évolue. Il travaille sur les cryptotechnologies permettant l'émergence de l'intelligence sociale distribuée et la société post-argent. Il voyage dans le monde pour donner des conférences et conseiller des dirigeants sur les sauts évolutionnaires. Appliquant ses recherches à lui-même, Jean-François vit une vie expérimentale et se définit comme un terrien open source qui pratique l'économie du don. Il vit en Provence, suit un style de vie végan, enseigne les arts martiaux et s’adonne à différents sports extrêmes.

Juliette Siozac

Companion of the Child's Happiness

(-- ENGLISH --) Juliette Siozac is driven by the desire for children to express their emotions, develop their self-confidence and learn to find their own path to happiness. She left the communication industry, invested the time to live new experiences rich in meaning and created "Mon Moment Magique" in 2015, training more than 800 ambassadors in about 30 countries to date. She is also the author of a book and a deck of cards.

Laurence Fanuel

Scientist and Multimedia Perfumer Artist

(EN) What is the sense of smell? How important is it for human life? What can the creation of perfumes teach us about “smelling” and "feeling"? Laurence Fanuel takes us on a journey between sciences and arts, exploring this sense that is much deeper than we think, whose importance was revealed by the recent global anosmia. Laurence Fanuel, PhD in biotechnology, worked in a global company as R&D scientist then as perfumer. She went on to create in perfume houses of various cultures (Japan, France, India, Netherlands). Today, she works with artists, museums, scene directors and private clients to develop new ways to use smells. For her, arts and sciences must be intertwined to apprehend the human being and the unknown: this is what she teaches to her international students. Laurence has contributed to the writing of several books: L'Art Olfactif Contemporain (Ed. Classiques Garnier), Les Femmes en Parfumerie (Ed. Soroptimist) and L'Art de Distiller la Vie selon Rosa Rose (Ed. Maïa).

Lily Jung

Voice Explorer

Les musiques du monde gardent précieusement les secrets des traditions au travers les âges en portent les voix et plus particulièrement les cris des femmes. Avec des mélanges personnels de plusieurs influences glanées lors de ses voyages et de ses rencontres – en Inde, Mongolie, au Tibet, en Chine, Bulgarie, Norvège, Birmanie, Afrique et à la Réunion, Lily pratique le chant de gorge et le chant harmonique, inspirés des chants mongols. Pour elle, le chant est comme un cri du coeur, un miroir de l'être, mais aussi un vecteur de l’instant présent pur où le temps se dilue totalement pour devenir une véritable rencontre avec soi et avec les autres.

Marc de La Ménardière

Globe Trotter, Film Director and a bit of a Farmer

Former business developer for Danone in New York, Marc began in 2009 an inspiring journey around the world with the roadmovie « A Quest for Meaning » (12 awards). On his return, he learns about organic farming, works with humanitarian NGO (Voix Libres), Non profit (Colibris) and French medias (France 2). Convinced that it is urgent to create places of emergence and another art of living, he co-founded the Kambrousse, an eco-place for actors of change in search of inspiration, alignment and regeneration.

Melpomeni Dimopoulou

Post-doctoral researcher

A graduate engineer from the University of Patras in Greece, Melpomeni Dimopoulou combines her passion for computer science and biology. As a post-doctoral researcher at the I3S laboratory (Université Côte d'Azur and CNRS) in Sophia-Antipolis, France, her research areas focus on the storage of digital data on DNA. In 2019, she won the final of the "My Thesis in 180 Seconds" competition of the Université Côte d'Azur Chapter as well as one of the best student paper prizes at the EUSIPCO (European Signal Processing Conference). In 2021, she received two innovation prizes awarded by Bpifrance (Public French Investment Bank) and CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research). She also won the Award L'Oréal-UNESCO Young Talents France for Women in Science.

Michel Oggero

Eco-constructeur

(FR) Formé à la géologie appliquée, Michel Oggero prend très vite conscience que la Terre est exploitée au lieu d’être préservée. Il change de voie, se forme et crée en 1987 sa structure en immobilier opérationnel. En 1997, la conviction de réunir la géologie et son métier de constructeur / aménageur s’impose à lui pour se lancer dans l’éco-construction en terre et matériaux géo-sourcés, issus des déblais de terrassement. Filiater est né, dont il est fondateur et dirigeant. (EN) Trained in applied geology, Michel Oggero quickly became aware that the Earth was being exploited instead of being preserved. In 1987, he changed his path, trained and created his own structure in operational real estate. In 1997, he was convinced that geology and his profession as a builder/developer should be brought together and he decided to launch himself into eco-construction using earth and geo-sourced materials, derived from earthworks. Filiater was born, of which he is the founder and director.

Pierre-André Galy

Biowaste Recycling Entrepreneur

(-- ENGLISH --) One third of the waste in our grey garbage cans is food waste. Rather than losing this resource, short circuit solutions exist to recover it locally by composting or methanization. Local authorities have been obliged to offer a solution for sorting bio-waste at source and citizens have the opportunity to be positively involved in this evolution thanks to the equipment put in place which includes digital tools. After a career of twenty years in industry and services within international groups, Pierre-André Galy embarked on the entrepreneurial adventure. Passionate about recycling and energy issues, he co-founded Axibio in 2017, a company specializing in the design of equipment and digital solutions for the collection and treatment of bio-waste.

Sabrina Andiappane

New Space Initiatives Manager

Sabrina Andiappane is working on the future missions that will change space as we know it. These new missions, although appear to be coming straight out of a science-fiction novel, are real and require the development of key technologies to come to life: one of these key technology being space robotics. Sabrina is responsible of new space initiatives at Thales Alenia Space. She started her career in 2013, received the trophy of the Women in Industry as a promising newcomer in 2017 and the Stars of Europe award in 2019.

Sébastien Gacougnolle

Transformative Entrepreneur

(-- ENGLISH --) Despite the necessary and increasing efforts to reduce food waste, the total volume of food scraps and peelings represents 100 million tons for the European Union, which are still massively buried or incinerated! The European law now obliges all producers (individuals, restaurants, supermarkets, markets, transformation workshops...) to sort, collect separately and recover bio-waste by methanization or composting. This talk describes the principles of this sector, which is set to grow significantly, and outlines the range of solutions best suited to different situations.

Tanguy Goetz

Blue Naval Entrepreneur

(-- ENGLISH --) The transport of people and goods suffers from hours lost in traffic jams in polluted urban centers while "highways" - waterways - remain unused. It is now possible to reduce the environmental footprint and relieve congestion in cities through the use of a zero-emission mobility solution that is both efficient and intelligent, combining the use of green hydrogen propulsion with a range of technological breakthroughs developed by the NepTech team. Passionate about transportation technologies and driven by his desire to innovate, Tanguy Goetz joined his forces in May 2020 with two sea lovers, Clément Rousset and Corentin Bigot, to design zero-emission, high-performance and intelligent vessels. Throughout his experiences in the aeronautical field, Tanguy acquired a significant international experience in business development and team management. He is today fully committed to develop the maritime solution of tomorrow.v