Samuel Dominique is the CEO of HealthTech Station, the first national deeptech innovation center dedicated to healthtech. Samuel says that in the absence of production by large laboratories, “the ecosystem is centered on start-ups which provide R & D and provide them with solutions” . To prepare them to be integrated into large groups, Samuel Dominique brings to private investors the “Healthtech Station” (HTS) project, a biotech incubator located in the heart of Tours.

Cédric O is a French politician of La République En Marche! (LREM) who has been serving as Secretary of State (junior minister) for the Digital Economy in the governments of successive Prime Ministers Édouard Philippe and Jean Castex since 2019.

Jean-David Malo became Head of Unit in charge of regional aspects in DG R&I (2006-2010) and of the unit (2011-2013) in charge of increasing private finance and closing market gaps by expanding existing EU innovative financial instruments (see RSFF) and by developing new ones in the fields of debt (including guarantees) and equity financing (InnovFin). Horizon 2020SMEs was also addressed by the unit (i.e. EUROSTARS II, SME Instrument and the Fast Track to Innovation). Director for Open Innovation and Open Science in 2017, he designed and expanded initiatives such as the VentureEU Initiative and the RDI dimension under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) among other things.

In 2019 following the European Council’s request to set up the European Innovation Council (EIC), he became Director of the EIC Task Force.

Since April 2021 he is the Director of the Executive Agency for EIC and SMEs (EISMEA).

She joined L’Oréal Research and Innovation 13 years ago as Business Development Manager.
In 2019, she joined the newly created R&I Open Innovation as Strategic Partnering Lead.
She had the opportunity to put in place hundreds of partnerships around life science, cosmetic field and she is specialized in algorithms and devices projects.

In 2002, Ivan Rodriguez joined L’Oréal Advanced Research as head of the Make-up Chemistry Group before becoming the Chemistry and Performance Material Department Director.

In 2011, he became the Global Director of the International Innovative Raw Material Department and after 5 years at this position, he expressed the wish to be connected to the Business and took the responsibility of the Hair Care Development Labs for Cosmetic Active and the Professional Division.

Since February 2019, he has been appointed Global Research Open Innovation Director.

Chris has advised and recruited boards and leadership teams for science, technology and engineering companies for 25+ years. He has helped more than 90 Deep Tech start-ups and scale-ups along their journey from Lab to Market. He is also the founder of Deep Tech Jobs, an online job board for the Deep Tech community.  

After 15 years in leadership positions at global corporations, Sandrine moved to the strongest side of the force to become an entrepreneur. In 2018, she co-founded Cosmian: Cosmian is a revolutionary cloud-based API platform that leverages the most advanced cryptography technologies to secure data on and around the cloud. Cosmian’s customers range from financial services, health, energy to cybersecurity.

Sandrine began her career in 1995 at Procter & Gamble. In 1999, thrilled by the emerging potential of the Internet, she switched gears and joined Microsoft’s MSN consumer division. In 2004, Sandrine joined Google and exercised responsibilities as Southern Europe Marketing Director.

Sandrine holds a BS in Biotechnologies from INSA Lyon and a HEC Paris Master in Entrepreneurship. Sandrine is a 2004 Kellogg School of Management MBA graduate.

Wealth of experience in pioneering communications programmes in the life sciences for clients ranging from multinationals to start-ups and from NGOs to whole countries.Following acquisition of Hayhurst Media, led Schwartz Communications’ London office through to acquisition by MSL Group.

Now runs own consultancy with range of biotech/medtech/digital health clients in UK and Scandinavia

Emilie Mouren-Renouard is currently Vice President in charge of Innovation, Digital & IT, Intellectual Property as well as Global Markets & Technologies activity. She joined Air Liquide in 2004 as Business Developer. She then held various positions in different geographies, notably in R&D in France and business development for Large Industries in the United States.

Most recently, she was Vice President Metal Fabrication, in charge of the Packaged Gases and Welding Products business for Air Liquide Canada. In 2018, Emilie Mouren-Renouard supervised the Digital and IT department. Emilie Mouren-Renouard’s educational background is in engineering. She has been a member of the Executive Committee since 2019.

Mikel is a Germany-based corporate innovator, working for the Venture Lab at NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD, building ventures and forming partnerships. He previously worked for Bayer G4A (Digital Health Start-Up Accelerator) and the Bayer CoLaborator (Biotech Start-Up Incubator) in San Francisco. Co-Author of the academic paper: What Corporates Can Do to Help an Innovation Ecosystem Thrive — and Why They Should Do It, co-host of The Ecosystem Show, advisor, and mentor. He creates positive change through networks. A chemist by training and exponential thinker.

After graduating in mechanical engineering, Frédéric Vacher began his career in 1993 with EADS Matra Datavision, a software editor in the field of Product Lifecycle Management.
Frédéric Vacher joined Dassault Systèmes in 1988 to define and manage the Software partnership program. Frederic was then responsible for all alliances at DS including Software, Technology and Services, on a worldwide basis. Also in charge of the partner online business platform for the group, leveraging new way of interacting and doing online social business.
Since 2010, Frederic developed digital content strategy, now in charge of prospective strategy for the group Frederic is setting the new trends and experiencing 3D as a new social media.

Elisa focuses on partnerships and investments in Fintechs in order to build an ecosystem and thereby accelerate BNP Paribas’ digital transformation.

Elisa’s work philosophy is to look at technology adoption through the lens of diversity, inclusion, and sustainability.

Elisa has got more than 15 years of experience in the financial services sector. Her diverse project experience spans from consulting to capital markets.

Prior to her current position, Elisa spent 12 years within BNP Paribas CIB Equity Derivatives business as an Equity Derivatives structurer and Equity Derivatives Sales for French and Swiss Institutional Clients.

This experience greatly helped her to develop her interest in technology-led innovations and solutions that enable businesses to stay relevant in today’s rapidly changing marketplace.

Dean has been working in the Financial Services industry for the past 16 years in the intersection of business, technology and innovation.

His main interest lies in the application of the emerging technologies such as AI and Blockchain to business model transformation.

Dean believes that the only sustainable way into the future is with an integrated approach combining business strategy, creativity and technology! Yes, he loves technology, and truly believes in technology serving the planet and humans!

Dean is also a speaker and blogger, and often participates in the Financial Industry conferences and panels.

Executive Manager, Advisor and Founder with 15 years of international work experience within various industries, corporates & start-ups.

Venture Lab EMEA’s vision is to be a powerful engine to create and invest in new companies in mobility, health and decentralised utilities space. The goal is to provide solutions that improve the quality of life in the world.

After graduating from business school, Géraldine began her career at the famous Opera Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, in charge of communications and advertising. In 1999, she joined an international design agency where she was in charge of different brands defining the strategy and development of innovative projects, from concept to marketing and sales in a sustainable approach. In 2012, she joined Dassault Systèmes (3DS), initially to lead and coordinate global strategic and operational projects on corporate branding and marketing.

In 2017, she joined the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab, the 3DS Open Innovation Lab as a Business Mentor, Innovator Advocate to support disruptive projects of innovators, entrepreneurs, makers by enhancing the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab program and amplifying projects that have a positive impact on people and society.

Lisbon based Pierre C. Rousseau, is Senior Strategic Advisor for BNP Paribas’ Sustainable Business. In that role, he
develops and establishes collaborative relationships and partnerships with external entities from the public sector
and the civil society. He also leads some innovative solutions to finance some sustainable transition initiatives.
His main interests are on Blended Finance and Impact Investing with a strong focus on the food supply chain
transformation, nature and biodiversity preservation and regeneration, carbon capture, blue economy, plastic
pollution and waste-to-circular economy. He is working and promoting the integration and the valuation of the
externalities in the financial model. He strongly believes on the role of the science, the technology and the digitalization as key enablers for the sustainability.

Larissa Holzki is a reporter at Germany’s No. 1 business daily “Handelsblatt”. She focuses on technology companies, covering everything from startups to tech giants and has a special fondness for deep tech innovation topics. Before joining Handelsblatt in 2019, Larissa started her career at “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in Munich. She was trained as a business editor at the Cologne School of Journalism.

Vincent Brillaut is the Managing Director at ALIAD, the Strategic Corporate Venture Capital Arm of the Air Liquide Group. Focusing on the key sectors of Energy Transition, Healthcare and Digital Transformation, ALIAD supports the growth of technology startups by being a strategic investor taking minority shares in innovative companies with disruptive technologies or business model. ALIAD contributes to a cleaner and more sustainable future so that, together, we can continue to invent the future.

Florent Illat began his career in 2004 as an Equity Capital Market analyst at Société Générale. In 2006, he joined the Paris office of McKinsey as a strategy consultant for major groups and investment funds. In 2013, he became Senior VP of Quadrille Capital, a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investment in innovation and technology, where he was involved around 10 investments in startups and funds in Europe and the United States.

Florent Illat holds degrees from the École Centrale de Paris in 2006.

Éric Lafargue is a graduate of ENSG Nancy (French National School of Geology in Nancy) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs (ENSPM, now IFP School). In 1986, he joined IFPEN’s Geology-Geochemistry Division where he led various R&D projects relating to oil formation and its accumulation in fields. From 1998 to 2002, he was seconded to the French Ministry of Industry (Oil and Gas Department) where he was specifically responsible for monitoring companies in the French oil-related sector. 

Since 2017, Éric Lafargue has been Executive Vice-President responsible for industrial development, subsidiary management and legal, economic and financial affairs.

Gaëtan Bonhomme was a co-founder and CTO of Kurion, a US environmental management startup founded in 2008, focused on nuclear waste treatment solutions. Through Gaëtan’s leadership, Kurion was able to successfully deploy its technology in the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima crisis; and the company was ultimately acquired by Veolia.

Prior to Kurion, Gaëtan worked in technology development and industrial innovation at Saint-Gobain in the US and in France. Gaëtan holds several graduate degrees, including a PhD in Materials Science working on the industrial applications of quasicrystals and an MBA from MIT Sloan where he was part of the first Entrepreneurship & Innovation cohort.

Arnaud de la Tour helps deep tech startups, investors, and mature companies work together and solve world challenges.

 He has 15 years of experience in business development and international project management, as well as in promotion and communication activities (PR and event communication). 

Jérémy has a solid business network established in France and Japan and a very good knowledge of the issues of economic development, international attractiveness and more broadly of international investment.

Sean O’Sullivan is managing partner of SOSV, a venture capital firm with over $1 Billion in assets under management. SOSV specializes in programs for very early stage, deep-tech startups and is one of the most active venture investors in the world, with more than 1,000 companies in its portfolio.

Suzanne is a General Partner with Prime Movers Lab investing in breakthrough scientific startups in energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture and human augmentation. She has 20 years of experience working in the technology and investment space. She spent five years at StartX, the Stanford University focused entrepreneur community, managing the Stanford-StartX Fund and working directly with hundreds of entrepreneurs.

Christian Angermayer is an entrepreneur and investor and the founder of Apeiron Investment Group, his family office and merchant banking business. Apeiron focuses on Financial Services (especially fintech and crypto assets), Technology, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment and Real Estate & Prop-Tech.

Clea is an expert in carbon capture and sequestration, climate solutions, and energy policy. As Partner and Head of Science at Lowercarbon Capital, she leads the firm’s technical research, diligence, and scientific strategy efforts and supports portfolio companies in similar efforts.

Clea’s distinguished career has been focused on solving the climate emergency through innovation in technology, business models, and policy. Prior to joining Lowercarbon, Clea worked in energy consulting at E3, designing decarbonization plans for state agencies and energy companies across North America. Clea also founded a company working on financing and distribution solutions for clean cooking fuel access in West Africa. Clea holds a PhD and MEng in chemical engineering and environmental policy from Imperial College London where she focused specifically on techno economic and process modeling of carbon capture and storage systems.

Lowercarbon Capital invests in early stage companies with solutions to either reduce the amount of GHGs going into the atmosphere, remove it or buy more time for those on the front lines, most impacted by climate change.

Pae is a Partner at SOSV and CTO at IndieBio, where she is responsible for portfolio management and technical oversight.

Prior to joining IndieBio, Pae served as the Scientific Director of Telefónica’s moonshot factory, Alpha (in Barcelona). She was Science Director at the US Office of Naval Research – Global (out of Singapore), and technical consultant at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Her whole career, Pae has been investing in high risk solutions to intractable problems for national defense, humanity, and the planet.

She is especially passionate about bridging engineered materials and systems to biology.

As Head of Solvay Ventures, Thomas leads Solvay’s investments in startups and VC funds. He also manages the Tech. Scouting R&D activity targeting growth opportunities beyond the core of Solvay’s businesses. He has 25 years of experience in different businesses and regions.

Thomas holds an MBA (FIA / BENTLEY) with a specialization in Strategic R&D Management (INSEAD), as well as degrees in Chem. Engineering (MSc) and Materials Sci. & Engineering (Bachelor).

Aymerik Renard is a business development and venture capital veteran with over 20 years of partnership and investment experience related to information technology hardware, software, and services.

Several of his hardware, software and services portfolio companies IPO’ed on the Nasdaq and New York stock exchange, with others being acquired byMicrosoft, IBM, Cisco, SAP, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Cox Automotive, Keynote, Ericsson, Oracle, and Cable & Wireless.

Aymerik was most recently heading Western Digital’s investment activities across North America, Europe, and Asia, investing on behalf the CTO’s office as well as the WD, HGST, SanDisk, and G-Tech brands. Aymerik came to Western Digital via its acquisition of SanDisk, where he led the US venture activity.

Bastien Gambini has more than 16 years of experience investing across Europe and North America in both venture and private equity. Former Managing Director for Europe at Equinor Ventures, he previously led the Spanish team at Demeter Partners as Partner and worked for Société Générale and Caisse des Dépôts.

He has led deals in the renewable, power grid, waste management, artificial intelligence and energy industries.

Bastien has been a board member to more than 12 companies.

Daria has been active in the digital industry for over a decade. She served as an investment manager at SevenVentures, an investment arm of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media Group, and worked in the investment team at Holtzbrinck. Prior to joining Vito Ventures, Daria led the TMT DACH practice at Skillcapital, a buy-side advisory firm for the Private Equityindustry.

Daria also founded Bellegs, an eCommerce startup, and is a co-founder of the Munich Founders Association. She started her career at KPMG and later at global investment bank Jefferies, where she worked in the international media team.

Daria holds a diploma degree in business administration from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.

Pearse has been the founding CEO, first investor or first head of sales in 11 tech ventures, 6 of which have gone on to scale and/or successful exit.

Deeptech Seed Fund is a multi-stage investor that invests early in new ventures in Europe that have achieved a significant breakthrough in technology/science and now wish to exploit a global commercial opportunity. We invest only in ventures that have come through one of the incubator programmes that we have partnered with and we don’t do life-sciences.

Allegra is an investment professional with a passion for innovations that can address climate change. Most recently she helped Stellar Impact, a family impact vehicle, structuring its processes and accelerating its deployment focused on sustainability topics ranging from water, food & ag and carbon emissions. Prior to that role, Allegra was an investment manager at SPDG, a large single family office, where she helped expand the family office’s diversifications across several asset classes, including venture capital. 

Xavier cofounded Elaia. Having started his career in the Arithmetics and Algebraic Geometry research lab at Université Paris-Sud, Xavier founded a start-up in the e-learning sector sold in 1999 to a French publisher.

He then joined CPR (acquired by Crédit Agricole Indosuez) where he created and developed a VC business in the software and internet sectors.

Among his areas of expertise: Ad Tech, Big Data, Machine Learning, Digital Media, SaaS.

Aymerik Renard is a business development and venture capital veteran with over 20 years of partnership and investment experience related to information technology hardware, software, and services.

Several of his hardware, software and services portfolio companies IPO’ed on the Nasdaq and New York stock exchange, with others being acquired byMicrosoft, IBM, Cisco, SAP, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, Cox Automotive, Keynote, Ericsson, Oracle, and Cable & Wireless.

Aymerik was most recently heading Western Digital’s investment activities across North America, Europe, and Asia, investing on behalf the CTO’s office as well as the WD, HGST, SanDisk, and G-Tech brands. Aymerik came to Western Digital via its acquisition of SanDisk, where he led the US venture activity.

Since joining BCG in 2005, Tawfik has worked extensively with clients in Europe, North America, and Asia, helping transform their businesses. He has also worked with private and public institutional investors around the world. Tawfik advises clients on all aspects of business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, operations, and family business and governance. He has also spent a significant amount of time in the broader digital space and is the Board Chair for the firm’s Digital Ventures business.

Prior to joining BCG, Tawfik worked in consulting, investment banking, and tech in the US, Canada, and France.

Stefano Gurciullo is a Partner at Redstone, where he focuses on deep tech, AI (artificial intelligence), IoT (internet of things) and mobility. He is in the leadership team of Future Industry Ventures, and spearheaded our data-driven efforts with a strong vision towards evidence-based venture capital.

Prior to joining Redstone VC, Stefano held various positions as data scientist and investor in sustainable finance. He also consulted public institutions on matters related to data, science and sustainability. Stefano holds a PhD in Financial Computing from University College London, is deeply passionate about complex systems and new investing models for science.

 Benjamin works with SOSV’s startups on strategy, marketing, PR and fundraising. He is considered a global thought leader on deeptech innovation and ecosystems

Moving from France to Asia in 2000, Benjamin is a reformed mechanical engineer who turned to strategy and worked in Japan, South Korea and China. His experience covers several tech industries: telecom, mobile, gaming, hardware and deeptech.

Prior to SOSV, Benjamin was the founder of a strategy consultancy which researched Asia-based digital innovations, with clients such as Microsoft, Citi and Harvard Business School. He also founded Mobile Monday Beijing, a community of thousands of mobile industry professionals in China.