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06/22/2016, Paris
During a press conference about Viva Technology Paris, the top international meeting place dedicated to open innovation and the growth of startups, Maurice Lévy, Chairman & CEO of Publicis Groupe and Francis Morel, CEO of Groupe Les Echos presented details about the first two B2B-focused days, June 30th and July 1st, and revealed a preview of the programme of Saturday July 2nd, open to the public.
“This endeavor was deemed a long-shot at the beginning, but we are well on our way to succeeding. France, Paris, will soon welcome the world’s leading event dedicated to open innovation between startups and large companies. The figures speak for themselves – more than 5,000 startups, over 100 VCs and innovative companies. The most important, from my perspective, is that this event is taking place in Paris, bringing together the most important industry leaders and leading innovations. I am sure that the third day, open to the public, an innovation in and of itself, will allow for an even a wider audience of inquisitive minds, students, families, to take part in a wondrous experience,” says Maurice Lévy, Chairman & CEO of Publicis Groupe.
« We have built a unique editorial programme, with 300 inspiring sessions, interviews and keynotes by the world’s most high-profile tech leaders. How does innovation disrupt society as a whole? What are the emerging trends? Those are just a couple of the topics we will be exploring at Viva Technology,” adds Francis Morel, CEO of Groupe Les Echos.
Two B2B days to discover the Top of Tech
Coming from all around the world, opinion leaders will reveal their visions of the digital world. Will be attending: Jay Carney (Amazon), Joe Schoendorf (Accel Partner), Jim Gianopulos (21st Century Fox), Bob Pittman (Heartmedia), Xavier Hürstel (PMU International), Rosabeth Moss Kanter (Harvard Business School), Isabelle Kocher (Engie), Jacques Aschenbroich (Valeo), Tim Amstrong (AoL), David Kenny (IBM), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), Zack Weisfeld (Microsoft Ventures Europe), Adam Singolda (Taboola), Chemi Peres (Pitango Venture Capital), Yossi Vardi, Eric Schmidt (Alphabet), John Chambers (Cisco), Jim Wales (The Wikimedia Foundation), David Marcus (Facebook), Yuanqing Yang (Lenovo), Sandra Rey (Glowee), Robin Li (Baidu), Sy Lau (Tencent), and the rising Centaurs and Unicorns such as BlaBlaCar, Airbnb, Houzz, WorldRemit, Criteo, etc.
Viva Technology’s Open Day: an enriching and extraordinary experience, open to all!
A rare thing for this kind of international event, Viva Technology Paris opens its doors to the public. Students, future entrepreneurs, young talents and families will be able to attend three conference cycles, and meet with major business and political players; participate in the Talent Connect job board, created with ManpowerGroup, to boost their careers or find a job; to learn coding with the Mairie de Paris (City Hall), and enjoy dozens of attractions that will take place all day long on July 2nd.
Three conference cycles, something for everyone:
World premieres in Paris
At Viva Technology Paris, some of the world’s leading innovative companies will present new technologies, including: Lenovo and Google will jointly present augmented reality embedded on a 3D camera smartphone and Carrefour will demo a true-to-life hologram. A prototype of the Google Self-Driving Car project, showcased here for the first time in Europe, to be presented alongside innovations such as the Sea-Bubble, the Exosquelette, and the Bionic Bird will all be present in the Hall of Tech or the Discovery Square arenas. Saturday visitors will be immersed in various virtual reality universes (tennis, soccer, roller coaster, games...), discover the artificial intelligence Facebook Lab, connected clothing with IBM-Watson, a Roche-Posay UV patch with L’Oréal, learn all the secrets from the famous painting by Courbet “Studio of the Painter”, or take a 360° tour of tomorrow’s city with the RATP. PMU and Melty will organize the semi-final and final of League of Legends, robot races, drones animated by famous You Tubers, and Ingress will animate a track game in augmented reality.
Join us from June 30th to July 2nd in Paris to discover the best of innovation and technology. Download the programme here:
http://www.vivatechnologyparis.com/detailled-program
If you’d like to register for press accreditation, please fill out the form here: http://subscribe.vivatechnologyparis.com/media
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Viva Technology Paris is an international event organized by Publicis Groupe and Groupe les Echos, dedicated to the growth of startups, and digital transformation and innovation. From 30th June until 2nd July 2016, in Hall 1 of Porte de Versailles, Viva Technology Paris will bring together more than 30 000 visitors, including tens of thousands entrepreneurs, talents, investors and academics. Find out more: www.vivatechnologyparis.com and @VivaTech
Viva Technology Paris
Sophie Chevallon - sophie.chevallon@vivatechnologyparis.com - 0608819055
Julie Dardelet - Julie.dardelet@consultants.publicis.fr - 0633859683
Karine Mazurier - kmazurier@lesechos.fr - 0675159998
Marie-Philippine Méchet - mpmechet@kalima-rp.fr - 0786033441
Florence Calba - fcalba@kalima-rp.fr - 0675659616
Jean-Michel Bonamy
Deputy CFO
Amy Hadfield
DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS PUBLICIS GROUPE