Wednesday, April 4

“Innovation in the Internet Age” with Serge Soudoplatoff

Can you promote innovation? Or is it simply a thing that happens in brilliant minds?

More than being yet another technological invention, the internet has totally changed the life of over one billion people, in a time frame of only 14 years. Why is it so? What is the real impact of Internet? How can you use it to create more value? How does the innovation processes that led to internet in turn help people and companies to be more innovative?

Examples such as “second life” or Wikipedia are some of the keys to understand this revolution.

Serge Soudoplatoff is founder and president of Almatropie, a foundation that promotes intelligent use of the internet and innovation. His previous career includes: co-founder of Highdeal, a company providing software solutions to telcos and internet operators; director of Cap Gemini’s R&D activity , director at France Telecom Innovation centre, as well as positions in higher education and research. He has written a book, “Avec Internet, où allons-nous” (“With the internet, where will we end up?”). You can download the book on Serge’s web site.

Serge will talk about how you can facilitate and promote innovation and how the internet can make your organisation more innovative.

More info on Serge and on Almatropie here:
http://www.soudoplatoff.com/
http://www.almatropie.org/

– Wednesday April 4
– Lunch starts at 12.15-12.30 and ends at 14.00
– Inscription: By email only and I will confirm.
– Pre-registration required

The next L@C lunch event will be:

— Friday March 9
— “Is French business and French society in terminal decline?” with Peter Gumbel, Time Magazine.

Peter is Time Magazine’s senior writer in France. You have no doubt read some of his articles. He has a long career in journalism (Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Time) with a stint in the dotcom venture Business.com in the early 2000s as an extra spice. His talk will be based on his recently published book French Vertigo.

The best way to introduce Peter is perhaps to quote himself: “I reckon it’s time to say enough is enough. […] France isn’t in great shape economically, but it’s clear to me that the situation isn’t nearly as terrible as French doomsayers would have the country believe. […] I’ve been a journalist and foreign correspondent for more than 20 years. Since 2002, I’ve been based in Paris as a senior writer for TIME Magazine, mainly covering the European economy and business scene. […] I spent 16 years at (the Wall Street Journal), working in New York, Moscow, Paris, Berlin and Los Angeles. […] The high point of my career to date was my 1988-1992 assignment in Russia. I covered the rise and fall of President Gorbachev, culminating in the 1991 coup against him and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. I’ve won a number of journalism awards, including two from the Overseas Press Club of America for my Moscow reporting. In January 2006, the London-based Work Foundation named me Journalist of the Year. I took a year out from print journalism in 2000 to help found an Internet startup, Business.com. It was supposed to be a business information site modeled on Yahoo! but it didn’t become the big success we’d hoped for.” From Peter’s website on his new book. (And I can perhaps add that BKWine was one interviewed by Peter and appears in the book)

The book’s web site: http://www.frenchvertigo.fr
Peter’s blog: http://blog.petergumbel.fr/

– Friday March 9
– We limit participation to ~20 seats.
– Inscription: By email only and I will confirm.
– Pre-registration required

Buy French Vertigo by Peter Gumbel on Amazon.fr

30th October 2006

Rodrigo starts his Abut in his blog with “I have over 10 years experience in the Internet space”. Well, in internet that is actually quite a long time…Rodrigo currently runs a new venture called vpod.tv that he co-founded and is CEO of. vpod.tv is a video publishing on demand service that just raised $5.1 million. Rodrigo has previously co-founded RISC Partners, a private small equity firm in Paris and was involved in the start up of Glowria.fr (online rental of DVD) as interim CEO.

not available

Download the podcast of the lunch:
Part 1
Part 2

[Previous event]

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet

Early 2006 we did an event with Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, founder and CEO of the French trading site PriceMinister.

(Photo: Adrian Johnson)

Unfortunately, we did not record that event, but our podcast producer Adrian recorded Pierre speaking at a Wharton Entrepreneurship Breakfast a little while previously.

Here’s the podcast from that event.

But what we do have is a (very short) video podcast from the event done by Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz. Click on the picture to see the introduction to the event with Pierre.