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[WORKSHOP] Corporate Venturing in action @ VINCI Omexom

[WORKSHOP] Corporate Venturing in action @ VINCI Omexom

On May 12th, I had the privilege of running a full-day Corporate Venturing workshop with the Omexom innovation network at VINCI Leonard in Paris, alongside my colleague Yves Colinet.

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Conférence et dédicace à la Foire du Livre de Bruxelles 2026

Conférence et dédicace à la Foire du Livre de Bruxelles 2026

En mars 2026, j’ai eu le plaisir d’intervenir à la Foire du Livre de Bruxelles pour une conférence consacrée à mon ouvrage Révolutions silencieuses.

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[PODCAST] The Corporate-Startup Collaboration Gap (Novable Voice #3)

[PODCAST] The Corporate-Startup Collaboration Gap (Novable Voice #3)

I recently sat down for Novable Voice with Adèle Yaroulina, author of Collaborate to Innovate and creator of the Co-Innovation Builder. Our host Yves Colinet put us in the same room to interrogate a question we have both spent years circling from different angles: why do large organizations need startups more than ever, while remaining the least equipped to absorb them?

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Subscription Death: The Industrial Invention of the Afterlife

Subscription Death: The Industrial Invention of the Afterlife

We are starting to sell something that used to be inalienable: the way we lose each other. Griefbots and “digital afterlife” services promise comfort and “extended presence” by letting us keep talking to AI versions of our dead, built from their data.

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From Authors to Interfaces: what ‘Energym’ gets right about our AI future

From Authors to Interfaces: what ‘Energym’ gets right about our AI future

In 2036’s “Energym” world, humans no longer train models; they literally power them, and buy back a sense of usefulness by turning their bodies into batteries for the very systems that made them obsolete.

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Quand le CEO rêve d’être remplacé par une IA : naissance de l’Homo Delegatus

Quand le CEO rêve d’être remplacé par une IA : naissance de l’Homo Delegatus

Il y a quelques mois, Sam Altman, le CEO d’OpenAI, a eu cette phrase sidérante dans un podcast : shame on me if OpenAI is not the first big company run by an AI CEO (honte à moi si OpenAI n’est pas la première grande entreprise dirigée par une IA).