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TEDxCannes 2023 was on November 24.
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On the stage

Lucie Monticelli
Researcher and start-up cofounder

An ecologist specializing in biocontrol, Dr. Lucie Monticelli, worked for 8 years at INRAE before setting up her company which has received support from the Université Côte d'Azur's Initiative d'Excellence innovation programme. Her aim is to develop natural and effective solutions to reduce crop pests in a sustainable way.

Lucas Buchholz
Promoter of a regenative future

Lucas Buchholz advocates a transformation towards a regenerative economy and society based on indigenous wisdom. Having immersed himself in the ancient teachings of Colombia's indigenous Kogi people, he shares his insights into what we can learn from cultures that have served life for millennia.

Thierry Carlin
Drinkable water creator

Thierry Carlin has developed a process using renewable energies to provide affordable drinking water. The public discovered him on the French TV show "Who wants to be my Partner?” in which he won the full support of the various jurors by raising the largest amount of funds of the 2023 season.

Anne-Sophie Roux
Ocean Rights Activist

Anne-Sophie Roux is an activist working to protect and regenerate the world's largest carbon and biodiversity sink: the ocean. She campaigns against seabed mining for the Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and founded a social enterprise which restores marine ecosystems alongside biologists in 4 oceans.

Maxime Blondeau
Cosmographer, author

Maxime Blondeau questions our perception of the world and our collective representation of territory through cartography, imagination and data. He teaches at Sciences Po Paris and is interested in the relationship between technology and territory. His daily posts on Linkedin exceeded 50 million views in 2023.

Francesca Casagli
Digital explorer of environmental biotechnologies

Francesca Casagli specializes in mathematical modeling of innovative biotechnologies for wastewater treatment, resource recovery and renewable energy sources, using artificial intelligence. She is currently a permanent researcher at the Inria Centre at Université Côte d'Azur.

Cédric François
Entrepreneur

An experienced entrepreneur, whose career has crossed commercial, marketing, design, creative, strategic and managerial issues, Cédric François today takes up the challenge of making disruptive and sustainable technology for heating and refrigeration of buildings possible.

Melanie Marshall
Journalist, Storyteller

Melanie tells stories from the most fascinating and often high-risk places in the world, from Ukraine to Afghanistan to China. A BBC Journalist for over 20 years, she’s internationally recognised for her ability to weave complex threads in a uniquely human and accessible way.

Baptiste Laurent
Expert in resilient urban greening

Baptiste Laurent is an entrepreneur who seeks to develop innovations for the benefit of as many people as possible, making them part of our daily lives, little by little, and turning them into habits. In doing so, his ambition is to help change the world to make it more pleasant to live in, more welcoming for all, and more sustainable.

Jean-Baptiste Landes
Water resource sharing specialist

Jean-Baptiste Landes is a specialist in hydroelectricity who initially developed a digital service to promote economical management of water resources on a watershed scale. His current aim is to improve water management in towns and buildings, through collective and balanced management of water resources.

Imogen Napper
Marine Scientist & National Geographic Explorer

Through her research, Imogen Napper investigates different sources of plastic pollution into the environment. In particular, her work influenced legislation banning microbes in facial scrubs. She shows how small changes can make a difference and that larger environmental commitments are needed by industry and governments globally.

Justine Lipuma
Woman entrepreneur for the future of soils

Revolutionizing agriculture: that's the seed idea that prompted Justine Lipuma to launch a startup committed to serving soil and farmers, which has received support from the Université Côte d'Azur's Initiative d'Excellence innovation programme. This industrial DeepTech uses mycorrhizal fungi as natural fertilizers that help plants adapt to drought problems while reducing their need for chemical fertilizers.

An iconic venue:
Théâtre Croisette
JW Marriott Cannes

Located in the middle of La Croisette in Cannes, the theater hosts the « Quinzaine des réalisateurs » during the International Film Festival and most of the concerts of the Regional Orchestra of Cannes-Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

To get there:
🚆 Cannes Train station, 800 meters away
🚎 Bus:
· A, 1, 2, 4, 6A, 6B, 7, 12, 21 – Stop: rue des Serbes
· Palm Express, A, B, 1, 2, 4, 6A, 6B, 7, 9, 12, 21, 22, 35, ZOU! – Stop: Gare SNCF de Cannes
· City Palm – Stop : Palais Croisette
🚗 Parking lots: Palais Stéphanie, Lamy

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