Top 10 french speakers on innovation

At a time when every sector must adapt to rapid upheavals and unprecedented expectations, innovation stands out as the true driving force behind transformation and organizational resilience. Making decisions, setting direction, or providing training around this dynamic requires much more than mere intuition: it means understanding real-world situations, anticipating trends, and integrating feedback from those who innovate every day. To shed light on these challenges, we have selected ten speakers whose vision and expertise offer valuable insights into innovation in 2026.

Our speakers on the topic

Philippe BOULANGER

Philippe Boulanger has built his career at the crossroads of entrepreneurship and leadership within major international groups, notably at Apple, Sony, and Neopost, where he led major projects and initiated transformation strategies. As President of the Association Française des Conférenciers Professionnels and elected Vice President of the Global Speakers Federation, he now shares his vision of experimentation and change with energy and humor, inspiring leaders and organizations seeking new horizons.

Talk: Understand the Boldness of Innovation Dive into the heart of innovation with Philippe Boulanger in an immersive talk that unveils the drivers of boldness and unlocks your creative potential. Discover how to overcome cognitive and organizational barriers to boost agility, risk-taking, and transformation within your company. Leave with concrete tools to cultivate a sustainable and impactful culture of innovation.

Topics: innovation, audacity, agility, digital, digital-transformation, management, change, future-of-work, foresight, digital-technology, artificial-intelligence, resilience, intrapreneurship, collective-intelligence, corporate-culture, transformation, disruption, entrepreneurship, strategy

Sylvie Brémond Mookherjee

Through her conferences, Sylvie Brémond Mookherjee shares her positive vision of the transformations taking place in the world of work, drawing on her experience as HR Director at Orange and L'Oréal, where she supported numerous transitions. A pioneer in introducing emotional intelligence into the workplace in France, she provides keys to navigating today’s changes. As a lecturer at Sorbonne-Panthéon Paris 1, she relies on an approach rooted in the reality of organizations and attentive to new generations. Her career sheds light on the human challenges and opportunities to be seized in a constantly evolving context.

Conference: Know-How to Innovate—The Innovation Mindset to Adapt to a Changing World
In a world of constant change, Sylvie Brémond Mookherjee invites you to adopt the "know-how to innovate" mindset to turn uncertainty into opportunity. Through concrete examples from innovation and personal development, discover how to harness creativity, emotional intelligence, and agility to meet today’s major challenges and build a future full of meaning and optimism.

Themes: leadership, innovation, engagement, management, intelligence-collective, motivation, creativite, engager, transformation, transformation-rh, intelligence-emotionnelle, team-building, softskills, coaching, soft-skills, teambuilding

Pierre henri CHUET

A former fighter pilot with the French Naval Aviation, trained by the US Navy, Pierre-Henri Chuet has accumulated 18 years of experience in both civil and military aviation, with over 200 carrier landings on the Rafale Marine and participation in world championships across three sports disciplines. Now active in the European and North American aerospace industry, he shares performance, adaptation, and communication methods drawn from the cockpit to help organizations rethink their practices. His journey—marked by resilience after a stroke and the publication of D.BRIEF—illustrates the ability to turn adversity into an opportunity for collective progress.

Talk: From the Cockpit to the Company: The Debrief Discover how the culture of debriefing—a cornerstone of excellence in combat aviation—can transform your company’s performance. Through Pierre-Henri Chuet’s unique experience, learn a rigorous method to analyze, improve, and unite your teams, and leave with concrete tools to establish continuous and sustainable learning within your organization.

Topics: voyage, stress, debriefing, project-success, feedback, time-management, mental-overload, mindfulness, learning, efficiency, followership, pilot, leadership, human-resources, risk-management, sales-performance, military, human-factor, management, project-management, anti-stress, extreme, self-learning, innovation, sport, communication, anticipation, flexibility, personal-development, performance, new-technologies

Bruno Marion

Bruno Marion, nicknamed the Futurist Monk, has been helping leaders and their teams navigate uncertainty for over thirty years, using a rigorous framework drawn from chaos science. After an international career in industry and management, he dedicated his life to decoding the major transitions of our era. Author of several seminal works, he offers a fresh perspective on today’s upheavals and concrete tools to turn the unexpected into opportunity—a method that resonates with the challenges of innovation.

Talk: Chaos Isn't Chaos! — Transform Uncertainty into Opportunities In a world that has become unpredictable and complex, Bruno Marion offers a new approach inspired by chaos theory to turn uncertainty into opportunity. Through practical and accessible tools, he guides you to make better decisions, strengthen your resilience, and turn crises into a real competitive advantage. Leave with a clear vision, immediately applicable methods, and the energy to take action.

Topics: management, leadership, motivation, innovation, resilience, change, transformation, collective intelligence, complexity, strategy, uncertainty, decision-making, vision

Emmanuel Vivier

For nearly thirty years, Emmanuel Vivier has been supporting executive leadership in understanding and adopting emerging technologies, particularly generative and agentic artificial intelligence. As co-founder of the HUB Institute, he works with major French and international companies to shed light on the strategic challenges of digital transformation. His hands-on approach, enriched by international benchmarks and industry-specific use cases, enables decision-makers to seize opportunities for growth, with a pragmatic perspective on performance and change drivers.

Talk: What Generative and Agentic AI Really Changes for Marketing: Produce 10 Times More Without Increasing Budgets: Discover how generative and agentic AI is truly revolutionizing marketing, enabling you to produce more, faster, and at controlled costs, while introducing new economic and organizational challenges. Emmanuel Vivier will share concrete feedback, practical advice, and a map of use cases to help you optimize your processes, anticipate risks, and deploy these technologies effectively.

Topics: intelligence-artificielle, innovation, creativite, artificial-intelligence, ai, marketing, marketing-de-contenus, creation-de-contenu, digital, transformation-digitale, futur-du-travail, nouvelles-technologies, disruption, retail, commerce, e-commerce, leadership, ressources-humaines, hr, management, changement, open-innovation, revolution-digitale, transformation, transfonum

Cyril Jamelot

Cyril Jamelot, drawing on his experience as an international marketing director at Coca-Cola, Yoplait, and Danone Alpro, has led the launch of numerous successful innovations in multicultural environments. As an international speaker, he shares his expertise in communication, storytelling, and inspiring management with humor and energy, enriched by over 200 presentations in ten countries. Author of several books, he helps companies stand out through creative strategies and impactful communication. His approach, shaped by working with major brands and diverse teams, offers stimulating perspectives for organizations seeking renewal.

Talk: Storytelling in the Luxury Industry Dive into the heart of the art of storytelling as applied to the luxury industry and discover how to build a powerful value proposition that combines quality, rarity, commitment, and prestige. This talk will reveal the keys to inspiring every level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, strengthening or preserving your brand’s exclusivity, and winning over a truly exceptional clientele for the long term.

Topics: rse, communication, reseaux-sociaux, humain, storytelling, luxe, strategie, marketing, humour-au-travail, transformation-digitale, vente, story-telling, motivation, management, numerique, marketing-de-contenus, social-media, digital, branding, entrepreneuriat, performance-collective, leadership, engagement, innovation, donner-du-sens, disruption, performance, management-intergenerationnel, experience-collaborateur, experience-utilisateur, experience-client, ecologie, retail, omnicanal, multiculturel, inspiration, transition-energetique, conduite-du-changement, creativite, marketing-emotionnel, succes, culture, culture-dentreprise, positive-impact, influence, influence-positive, motivation-des-equipes, performance-commerciale, marque, force-de-vente, vente-complexe, ventes, interculturel, pitch, personal-branding

Aïna Queiroz

A researcher in biology trained at the CNRS, Aïna Queiroz spent ten years leading Research and Scientific Innovation within both SMEs and major corporations. Passionate about biomimicry, she has conducted field studies on animal self-medication and marine symbioses, as well as ethnobotanical research with centenarians in the world’s blue zones. Through her talks and presentations, she encourages companies to draw inspiration from nature’s strategies to rethink their organizational and adaptation methods. Her career path highlights the ability to renew business approaches by observing the natural world.

Talk: Biomimicry in Business: Thriving in the Corporate Jungle Dive into the heart of biomimicry to turn business challenges into drivers of performance and engagement. In this talk, discover how nature inspires innovative solutions in leadership, cooperation, and adaptation in the face of uncertainty. Leave with practical tools to rethink your practices and spark a lasting dynamic within your teams.

Topics: management, leadership, motivation, innovation, biomimetisme, audacity

Nicolas Levi

Nicolas Levi has led an extraordinary double life: first as a professional poker player among the world’s elite, then as an entrepreneur heading innovative companies, all the way to their acquisition by a major group. Accustomed to making quick decisions under pressure and exploring new frontiers like big data and artificial intelligence, he now shares his experience in decision-making and commitment through interactive talks, where poker becomes a concrete testing ground for rethinking transformation.

Talk: Capturing Attention — Gamification in the Service of Engagement In a world saturated with distractions, capturing attention has become a key lever for performance. Discover how gamification, far beyond simple rewards, can stimulate authentic and lasting engagement. Through concrete examples and practical tools, participants will learn how to harness intrinsic motivation to transform training, customer experience, and management.

Topics: motivation, emotional-marketing, innovation, attention, cognitive-biases, performance, leadership, artificial-intelligence, decision-making

Marc AMERIGO

An engineer by training, Marc Amerigo has stood out for over thirty years for his ability to take on major industrial and sporting challenges, with a track record that includes a dozen world records in extreme sports and fourteen registered patents. As a committed entrepreneur, he shares his experience through more than 300 conferences in France and internationally. His career, marked by the pursuit of performance and knowledge-sharing, inspires others to turn obstacles into drivers of progress—a particularly relevant approach for organizations seeking renewal.

Talk: My 7 Key Foundations in Management and Leadership for High Performance Discover how to combine high performance and eco-responsibility through the seven key foundations of management and leadership, drawn from Marc Amerigo’s experience. Through concrete examples and inspiring stories, you’ll leave with practical guidelines to strengthen trust, collective energy, and achieve ambitious goals, all while putting people at the heart of your professional approach.

Topics: resilience, inspiration, leadership, tedx, harmony, team-spirit, commitment, innovation, flow, crisis-management, self-confidence, agility, creativity, performance, ultra-performance, pushing-limits, motivation, management, transformation, industry, influence, exploration, energy-transition, digital, human, new-technologies, audacity, human, decision-making

RAPHAEL DOMJAN

Raphaël Domjan is a Swiss eco-explorer and entrepreneur, behind groundbreaking achievements such as the first solar-powered circumnavigation of the globe with PlanetSolar and the SolarStratos project, which aims to reach the stratosphere aboard a plane powered solely by solar energy. Through his adventures, he demonstrates the real-world potential of clean technologies and the power of dreams as a driving force for transformation. His journey illustrates how boldness and experimentation can open new paths in the face of today’s energy challenges.

Talk: From the Ocean to the Stratosphere – On Solar Energy
Dive into the fascinating world of Raphaël Domjan, a solar energy pioneer, who takes you from the ocean depths to the stratosphere through his unprecedented expeditions. Participants will discover how boldness, innovation, and environmental commitment can turn dreams into tangible achievements, while gaining key insights to inspire leadership and drive the energy transition in their own fields.

Themes: management, innovation, pionnier, transition-energetique, esprit-dequipe, leadership, motivation, ressources-humaines, gestion-de-projet, reussir, transition-ecologique, voyage, histoire, transition-societale, transition, aventure