Past speakers at Lunch at the Circle

Here are a few of the speakers that we have previously welcomed at Lunch at the Circle. Most of our speakers come from the technology sector, in a broad sense, with an operational and business perspective. The list may not be entirely complete since the start in 2003. Apologies for any omissions.

We welcome suggestions for future speakers.

• Executive Interim Management
  • Anne Céline Martel
  • Experte en transformation organisationnelle et management de transition
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  • Jérôme Larue
  • Directeur Associé, Chaberton Partners
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• How to prepare small and large companies for a sustainable future
  • David Laurent
  • Directeur de la transformation écologique, d’Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EpE)
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• Web3, block-chain, NFT
  • Marina Niforos
  • board member, digital assets & blockchain advisor, impact investor, professor
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• International (financial) entrepreneurship in the age of internet and disruptive innovation
  • Jörgen Eriksson
  • executive and advisor on four continents with both the public and private sectors
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• L‘hypnose thérapeutique, comment peut-elle contribuer à l’optimisation des performances
  • Le docteur Laurent Taton
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• On Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Martin McCourt
  • Previously Executive Vice President M&A and on the management board at Gemalto for around a decade
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• “How I created Lauritz.com and made it Scandinavia’s biggest auction house”
  • Bengt Sundstrøm
  • founder, owner and president of Lauritz.com
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• Growing your business on unknown markets
  • Tom Thorelli
  • founder and managing partner, Thorelli Law Firm Chicago
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• A design and web entrepreneur: “How I created l’Usine @ Design”
  • Emilie Gobin
  • co-founder and CEO of Usine @ Design
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• ROI in online marketing. How can you measure success and effectiveness?
  • Sophie Callies
  • founder & CEO of SO’xperts
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• Talent management in technology, challenges and solutions
  • Marc Timmerman
  • Axiom Consulting
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• Information security in a world with both traditional IT and social networking: it’s all about people
  • Joseph Graceffa
  • co-founder and CTO of Advens
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• FSI, investing in the technology sector
  • Marc Julien
  • director of technology and environment portfolio, FSI
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• Teams That Work
  • Lindsay Adams
  • President, Teamocracy
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• Selling Ideas
  • David Ednie
  • Founder/President, Sales Channel Europe
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• Web presence strategy
  • Gifford Morley-Fletcher
  • Strategy Director, Skive
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• Enterprise Social Software
  • Carlos Diaz
  • Founder & CEO, blueKiwi
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• Detective Marketing
  • Stefan Engeseth
  • Founder & CEO, Detective Marketing
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• Virtualization
  • Carlos Escapa
  • Director Europe, VMWare
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• How can enterprises catch up with consumers on Web 2.0?
  • Louis Nauges
  • founder, Microcost
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• My web site is up. Now what?
  • Emmanuel Podvin
  • founder, Intersel
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• Pitching to Win
  • Philippe Jeanmaire
  • founder, Team Performance
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• Innovation in the Internet Age
  • Serge Soudoplatoff
  • founder & president, Almatropie
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• French Vertigo – Is France in terminal decline?
  • Peter Gumbel
  • senior writer, Time Magazine
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• Software as a Service – SaaS
  • Robert Steggles
  • Director of Marketing, NTT Online Europe
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• Time for text-to-speech – finally?
  • Roy Lindemann
  • manager France, and co-owner, ReadSpeaker
• Where the internet is moving; video on the internet; vpod.tv
  • Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz
  • founder of vpod.tv
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• Buzz Marketing
  • Emmanuel Vivier
  • founder and CEO, Culture Buzz
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• “The journalist made me say it” – mini-workshop on how to deal with media
  • Amy Porter
  • founder of Star Speeches, media consultant
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• The Long Tail, marketing revolutionised
  • Erik Larsson
  • VP marketing, Netcentrex
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• PriceMinister.com – the business model and history
  • Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
  • founder of PriceMinister
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• What happens with “old media” in the “new world”
  • Meredith Artley
  • editor and director, IHT.com
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• Broader Broadband
  • Jean-Michel Billaut
  • internet and networking consultant and “guru”
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• Social Networking and Internet Networking Sites’ business models
  • Alain Lefebvre
  • founder of 6nergies.net (and previously of SQLI)
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• Blogging
  • Loïc Le Meur
  • serial entrepreneur and head of Six Apart Europe
  • Jacques Froissant
  • head of Altaid Executive Search
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• Outsourcing and Offshoring
  • Rebecca Scholl
  • Director of Market Strategy, ACS (previously lead analyst at Gartner for outsourcing)
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• RF devices
  • Claudia Wolosin
  • Editor, RFID International Newsletter
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• What’s happening in the US tech sector – impressions from a traveller
  • Susan Lucas-Conwell
  • Founder, Clear Day Consulting
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• China and the Technology Sector
  • Jean-Charles Doineau
  • Research Director, Ovum
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• Grid computing
  • Laurent Charreyron
  • Executive VP, GridXpert
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• Open Source – why is it important?
  • Tristan Nitot
  • Founder and President Mozilla Europe and open source evangelist
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• What are today’s requirements on technology managers? or How to sell yourself to head hunters
  • Caroline Apffel, Russel Reynolds
  • Francesca Lahiguera, Mercier and Partners
  • Catherine Ducros, Whitehead Mann
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• Current trends in technology marketing
  • Erik Larsson
  • founder, Martenhus Consulting
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• VoIP – finally ready for the market?
  • Marc Couraud
  • marketing director LDCom
  • Philippe Diez
  • Head of Business development Alcatel
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• WiFi – What’s the business model? (Is there one?)
  • Marc Taieb
  • founder of a WiFi operator
  • Rick Thomson
  • founder, TCF (Technology Consulting and Finance)
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• Mobile marketing and mobile campaigning
  • Elias Moubayed
  • industry specialist and advisor to various companies
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• IT Security – what’s happening, what’s important
  • Christian Simatos
  • independent consultant, ex-head of IT Schlumberger
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• Biometrics – Does it work? Where is the business?
  • Michael Klug
  • Istec-Thykva