Lunch at the Circle

After Fontainebleau/Paris and Singapore it's time for ... Second Life.

INSEAD is the first business school to open a campus in the virtual online world Second Life.

"Students will be able to meet and interact on INSEAD’s Second Life campus simply by logging on to the virtual world. The campus will also host events for applicants or admitted students."

http://secondlife.com/

INSEAD Press Release

Wednesday, April 4

“Innovation in the Internet Age” with Serge Soudoplatoff

Can you promote innovation? Or is it simply a thing that happens in brilliant minds?

More than being yet another technological invention, the internet has totally changed the life of over one billion people, in a time frame of only 14 years. Why is it so? What is the real impact of Internet? How can you use it to create more value? How does the innovation processes that led to internet in turn help people and companies to be more innovative?

Examples such as “second life” or Wikipedia are some of the keys to understand this revolution.

Serge Soudoplatoff is founder and president of Almatropie, a foundation that promotes intelligent use of the internet and innovation. His previous career includes: co-founder of Highdeal, a company providing software solutions to telcos and internet operators; director of Cap Gemini’s R&D activity , director at France Telecom Innovation centre, as well as positions in higher education and research. He has written a book, "Avec Internet, où allons-nous" (“With the internet, where will we end up?”). You can download the book on Serge’s web site.

Serge will talk about how you can facilitate and promote innovation and how the internet can make your organisation more innovative.

More info on Serge and on Almatropie here:
http://www.soudoplatoff.com/
http://www.almatropie.org/

- Wednesday April 4
- Lunch starts at 12.15-12.30 and ends at 14.00
- Inscription: By email only and I will confirm.
- Pre-registration required

If you have the energy to read all the text, maybe this could be of interest:
http://blog.van-proosdij.fr/2007/03/09/ouverture-du-openc...

(Perhaps they need to go on an "elevator pitch" training?)

OpenCoffee Club de Paris seems to be some kind of weekly networking event for entrepreneurs. If you go, let us know it it was interesting.

Peter is Time Magazine’s senior writer in France. You have no doubt read some of his articles. He has a long career in journalism (Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Time) with a stint in the dotcom venture Business.com in the early 2000s as an extra spice.

On March 9 he talked about his book, French Vertigo (buy the book on Amazon here), and about the upcoming French presidential election of course.

Watch the vidcast

Here's an 11 minute video interview with Peter on his views on French society and French business. Click on the image (L@C logo) below to view.


Listen to the podcast

If you want to know more you can listen to the podcast that we recorded at the Lunch at the Circle event when Peter spoke.

Download the podcast here (1h12m, 33MB).

From the Lunch at the Circle event on January 31. Is “Software as a Service” (SaaS) disrupting the online business world? A meeting with Rob Steggles, director of marketing, NTT Europe Online.





Watch the vidcast

Watch the 7 minute video interview:



Listen to the Podcast

Download the podcast of the lunch (57 mins, 27MB)

Lunch at the Circle event on October 30, 2006. Rodrigo talks about his new venture vpod.tv and about starting a business in France.


A short video introduction:








Download the podcast of the lunch

Listen to all of Rodrigo's presentation:

Part 1
Part 2

A preliminary program for the upcoming events:

- Wednesday April 4: Serge Soudoplatoff, innovation in the internet age (DATE CHANGED)

- Thursday May 10: Philippe Jeanmaire, mini-seminar “pitching to win” how to convince, investors, customers, bosses or your spouse