The Quay of Knowledge of Toulouse will go into mode Futurapolis for three days. Conferences and debates on innovation, technology and ecological transition will be on the program, grouped under a code name: ” the life ahead of us“. See you from Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 November 2022.

“Finding Pleasure”

This edition was presented at the premises of the Quai des Savoirs, Thursday, November 10, 2022. Point Directorwho oversees the event, Etienne Gernelle, posed a kind of problem. « Comment on made to be happy in this world that we invent, how do we manage to find pleasure and be free too? “, he questioned, before transmitting the microphone to two indestructible partners.

On one side, Toulouse Métropole, represented by Bertrand Serp. On the other, the Occitanie Region, with Nadia Pellefigue. ” Futurapolis gives ideas, inspires, and gives the possibility of opening up to sectors that we will not know for all that, recalled the president of Toulouse Métropole Habitat. Everything must be additoinal, we must work together for the happiness of all. »

For her part, the vice-president of the Occitanie Region showed that “what is pleasant is that we can confront the points of view which make it possible to respond to broken bones that exists in our country. Nadia Pelefigue also judged that “if we want to be able to combine pleasure and the fight against climate change, and do so effectively beyond the controversies, we must be able to establish our programs, our ideas, our solutions on scientific values“.

La Factory program to launch a rich

Next are the journalist Boris Georgelin and the events editor at Le Point Romain González who provided the programming details. which starts with the fabric, Thursday, November 24, 2022. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., exchanges with companies will be at the heart of the debates.

“In 2022, we experienced the war in Ukraine, record inflation, the explosion in the cost of energy, materials… We are going to ask all our actors, partners or local companies, how they are adapting to this new deal, how they are changing and how entrepreneurs can transform their business to adapt to new constraints.”

Economy and climate, transformation of models, energy crisis, decarbonization, gender equality: various topics will be covered with several speakers who will be there:

• Celine Guivarch (co-author of the IPCC report),
• Amandine Largeaud (co-director of the 100th Monkey),
• Estelle Brachlianoff (CEO of Veolia),
• Marianne Laigneau (chairwoman of the management board of Enedis),
• Sylvain Vidal (EDF Occitanie regional delegate),
• Christophe Calin (deputy managing director of Vinci Autoroutes),
• Xavier Pavie (professor of philosophy at Essec Business School),
• Mehdi Berrada (CEO Agronutris),
• Sylvie Pierre Brossolette (President of the High Council for Equality between Women and Men)

From airplanes to video games to covid

It is then multiple themes open beyond companies that will animate the days of Friday and Saturday. “We are going to have the pleasure of discovering the theme that we have called ‘life ahead of us’. How can we, could, should reconcile the new climate and transition imperatives with this pleasure concept“, presented by Boris Georgelin.

For Friday, these are debates and conferences on food, sobriety, the electric car, nuclear energy, video games, the concept of High Intellectual Potential, saving the planet or even the “banned from stadiums” that will be on the menu.

For Saturday, focus on the plane, the train, the water, the Moon, young people facing covid, the thousand and one ways to enjoy, wine, and finally the metaverse. With, once again, during these last two days, a long list of speakers. Here are some names:

• Nora Bouazzouni (freelance journalist)
• Jean-Pierre Poulain (food sociologist)
• Pierre Lambinon (chef of the Py’R restaurant in Toulouse)
• Marc Benayoun (EDF Group Executive Director)
• Deborah Papiernik (in charge of strategic alliances at Ubisoft)
• Frank Ramus (CNRS research director)
• Francois Gemenne (co-author of the latest IPCC report)
• Christophe Tzouri (professor of epidemiology)
• Magali Croset Calisto (psychologist, addictologist, sexologist)

Totally free event

Nadia Pellefigue made a point of recalling it during her speech: “there is the desire to share this information very widely from Futurapolis, it’s free with top scientists. Science must become accessible to all”. If the event is therefore totally free, it is still necessary register mandatory on this link. The conferences will be broadcast live on the Point website and social networks.

Futurapolis
Thursday, November 24 (5 p.m.-8 p.m.)
Friday, November 25 (9 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
Saturday November 26 (9 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
Quay of Knowledge, Toulouse
Free and mandatory registration

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