May 11, 2007 - Paris
Maison de la chimie
International Forum
THE EMERGENCE OF COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

Keynote Speakers

Jean-Pierre Changeux

Is neurobiologist, professor at Collège de France, director of the molecular neurobiology laboratory at Institut Pasteur. Between 1992 and 1998, he was president of the national consultative committee on ethics for health and life sciences. His research has earned him many high distinctions, both French and International, of which, in 2006, the Award of the Biotechnology Study Center, with E. Kandel (Nobel Prize in Medicine). Among the books he has published, “L’Homme Neuronal” and “L’Homme de Vérité” have made him known among the larger public.

Jean-Michel Cornu

Is Scientific Director of the Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération (FING) in which he is responsible for the forum on « Collective Intelligence ». Jean-Michel CORNU has twenty years of experience as an international consultant and European expert in the domain of New Technologies and the Information Society. He is member of the Internet Society and of the French-Canadian (Quebec) research team on internet governance, and participates in many French and international bodies. He is the author of, among others : Cooperation, new approaches and Internet, services and uses of tomorrow.

Jacques de Gerlache
Noël Tritz

SOLVAY Jacques de Gerlache Head of sustainable Development Communication Noël Tritz Secretary European Works Council “Management and personal representatives working together toward a shared vision of the future” They will describe the strengthening of exchanges implemented on the occasion of the CEE’s 10 th anniversary, aimed at acting together on the group’s sustainable development practices. It is intended to extend this strategy in each country and each site, as part of global and local concerted action.

Arie de Geus

Has had 40 years career at Royal Dutch / Shell where he was Group Planning Coordinator during the 1980’s. Under his direction, the planning function developed an expertise in scenario planning that became recognized world-wide. He is the initiator, with Peter Senge, of the learning organisation concept and is a co-founder of SoL. He is Associate Professor at the London Business School and author of “The Living Company” (1997). In this book he proposes a model which he has personally experienced, a human community which favours sustainability and the development of its own potential. His research has focussed on decision-taking which he sees as the organisation’s basic learning process. He is the initiator of this forum on collective intelligence.

Henri Giscard d’Estaing

Before becoming CEO of Club Méditerrannée, he was Board Chairman (2002-2005) and CEO of Jet Tours, and before that Deputy General Manager in charge of Finance, Development and International Affairs. He joined Danone in 1987 were he was successively Development Manager, Managing Director at HP Food Lea & Perrins in the UK for two years and General Manager of Evian-Badoit. He completed his career at Danone as General Manager of the Mineral Waters Sector. He was educated at the Institut des Sciences Politiques of Paris and holds a Master of Economics. He started his career at COFREMCA as Associate Director. Today, he is also administrator of Casino Group Guichard-Perrachon and member of the Supervisory Board of Vedior Bis.

Gunter Pauli

Graduate of the Université de Loyola (Belgium), holds an MBA from INSEAD (France) and a doctorate honoris causa from Turin University (Italy). He was the founder of seven companies before creating, in Japan, as part of United Nations University, the Zero Emission Research Initiative (ZERI) which promotes the reintegration of the intelligence of the living into our production processes. Gunter Pauli is the author of several books, of which Upsizing, translated into eight languages, which describes numerous experiments throughout the world, of which the regeneration of an 8000 ha tropical forest in Colombia. Gunter Pauli is also the author of stories written to educate children of the world in the principles of ecology.

Andreu Solé

Sociologist, Professor at Groupe HEC, Andreu Solé is also a lecturer at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He is a member of CIRET (International center for transdisciplinary research and studies) and of the scientific committee of the Société de Stratégie. He had developed an innovative anthropology which opens a new perspective on a number of essential questions having to do with freedom, responsibility and happiness. He is the author of Créateurs de Mondes (Editions du Rocher).

Alain de Vulpian

Ethnologist and consultant, Alain de Vulpian developed since 1950 an ethnological field research activity on the way the modernisation process transforms our civilization. The aim of this research is to shed light on the change dynamics in our modern societies, so as to catalyse the emergence of potentials and ease the action of progress makers. Co-founder of COFREMCA in 1954, he is presently CEO of Sociovision Group. He was a member of the Managing Committee of Club Jean Moulin (1959-1970) and belonged to ARDI (Association for Research on Initiatives Spreading). He is one of the facilitators of L’Ami Public and takes part in the Citizenship Workshops.