Passionate about blockchain technology, video games, and education, Sébastien Borget is the co-founder of Pixowl, then The Sandbox, which was listed in Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential Companies in 2022. The Sandbox game has been downloaded by over 40 million players worldwide.

A graduate of Columbia University (New York), where she completed her Ph.D., and of Sciences Po Paris, Charleyne Biondi conducts research on the political stakes of the digital age. She is the author of the essay "Dé-coder. Une contre histoire du numérique" (Bouquins, 2022).

With a degree in architecture, François Wunschel co-founded 1024 Architecture in 2007, an artistic label that conceives projects and installations at the frontier of architecture, design, sculpture and the visual arts. 1024 collaborates with artists, musicians, electronic engineers, programmers, architects, builders, engineers and makers of all kinds...

Born in 1983, Emeric Lhuisset holds degrees in art (École des Beaux-Arts de Paris) and geopolitics (École Normale Supérieure Ulm/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne). At the crossroads of photojournalism and contemporary art, many of his series are shot in conflict zones, notably Syria and Ukraine.

Trained in civil engineering, followed by urban planning and technical history, Sabine Barles specializes in the study of “urban metabolism”, territorial ecology and the “socio-ecological trajectories” of urban societies. Her work focuses on the Paris conurbation, and the management of its water, by-products and waste, as well as its roads and subsoil.

Creative director and artistic coordinator, Xavier Mailliez has been putting his expertise and sensitivity at the service of video creation for 20 years. In 2014, he founded the Holymage creative studio with his friend Antoine Géré, which they co-direct together. The ceremonies for the Sochi Olympics, the Fête des Vignerons and the Rocher des Trésors shows at the Château de Chantilly are among his major achievements.

Damien Bancal is an internationally recognized cybersecurity expert, founder of the Zataz project in 1989 and of veillezataz.com in 2022. Author of numerous specialized books, he is also a TV and radio commentator, and regularly gives lectures, notably on hacking and data protection.

Born in 1965, Pascal Dombis is a visual artist whose work explores both language and perception. He is renowned for his excessive use of simple algorithmic rules. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including in Paris, São Paulo, Brussels, Venice, London, Shanghai and Bangkok.

Odile Decq studied architecture at the Universities of Rennes and Paris VI before specializing in urban planning at the Institut d'études politiques of Paris. Since 1978, her work has blended architecture, design, art and urban planning. In 2014, she founded her own architecture school.

A multidisciplinary artist born in 1976, Agoria (aka Sébastien Devaud) is a French electronic music producer, composer and DJ. For the past four years, he has been developing an artistic practice in the blockchain in which he blends sounds and images.

For over 50 years, artist and designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has been developing a singular body of work that transcends the boundaries of fashion and art. A master in the art of appropriation, he works with major brands in a wide range of fields, from André Courrèges to the faïencerie de Gien.

Entrepreneur, teacher, lecturer, author and artist, Marion Carré explores the crossroads between art and artificial intelligence. Co-founder and president of Ask Mona, she is the author of “Propos sur les NFT dans le monde de l'art” and “Qui a voulu effacer Alice Pécoque ?”

After an initial career in private law, Valérie Cazin founded Galerie Binome in Paris in 2010. Dedicated to contemporary photography, the gallery brings together artists exploring developments in the medium. Valérie Cazin is a member of the honorary committee of Paris Photo and of the steering committee of the Polyptyque salon (Marseille).

Known online by his alias Arthemort, Brian Beccafico is considered one of France's leading collectors of crypto art. Formerly head of the NFT department at Sotheby's Paris, he is co-founder of the Artcrush Gallery. He has curated NFT exhibitions in galleries, fairs and Web3 events.

Guillaume Désanges is a curator and art critic. President of the Palais de Tokyo since 2022, he has also been artistic director of the Salon de Montrouge for the past two years. Over the past fifteen years, he has organized numerous exhibitions in France and around the world.

Maurice Benayoun is a French visual artist, curator and theorist. Since the 1990s, alongside teaching researching, he has pursued an artistic career in the field of digital art, using a variety of tools, from virtual reality to artificial intelligence.

With a PhD in neuroscience, Samah Karaki founded the Social Brain Institute in 2014, whose aim is to design strategies to improve learning, organizational culture and social and environmental justice using cognitive and social sciences.

Laurent Le Bon graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the École du Louvre. After passing the examination for heritage curator, he joined the Centre Pompidou, before becoming director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz in 2010. He has been President of the Centre Pompidou since 2021.

After completing a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science, David Fathi began to develop an artistic practice alongside his engineering career. His work covers subjects as varied as the atomic bomb, artificial intelligence and medical ethics.

Antoine Fenoglio is a designer who, in 1997, co-founded Sismo, an independent design studio with Frédéric Lecourt, where they developed the concept of "design with care". With the philosopher Cynthia Fleury, he leads a seminar at the CNAM and is also responsible for design at the hospital's Chair of Philosophy (GHU Paris).

Born in 1968, Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil has been an artist since the mid-1990s. Winner of the Prix Meurice for contemporary art in 2010, he was a former resident of the Villa Médicis. His work has been the subject of numerous personal exhibitions in France and abroad.

Olivier Ezratty is a Centrale Paris engineer (Centrale Supelec since 2015). Author, lecturer and teacher, he advises companies and the State on quantum technologies. He is co-founder of the Quantum Energy Initiative, expert for the French Public Investment Bank (Bpi France) and qualified personality of France 2030.

Lucie Marinier is a Cnam professor, holder of the new cultural and creative engineering chair since 2021. She teaches at the University of Paris I–Sorbonne School of Arts, within various Masters including Art in the public space and Sciences and techniques of the exhibition.

Fabrice Bousteau is a French journalist, writer and curator. Editor in chief of Beaux Arts Magazine since 1996, he is also editorial director of numerous editions of the Beaux Arts & Cie group, including Le Quotidien de l’Art

Founder of the company « De l'autre cote du Périph’ » in 2008, Laurence Lascary has produced more than forty short films, five documentaries and two feature films, including « L’Ascension » (over a million admissions ) adapted by Netflix for worldwide broadcast.

Journalist, writer and essayist, Ariel Kyrou uses science fiction to think about our period. Editorial Director of the Cognacq-Jay Foundation's Solidarity Laboratory, he is the author of « Dans les imaginaires du futur » (paperback reissue by Hélios in March 2023).

Since her training at the Ateliers-ENSCI in the 1990s, matali crasset has defended a design at the crossroads of an artistic, anthropological and social practice. In 30 years, she has carried out hundreds of projects in architecture, scenography, design of objects, furniture, public spaces and development.

Rodolphe Gelin is a Ponts et Chaussées engineer and holds a DEA in Artificial Intelligence. Since 2019, he has been working in Renault's Research Department as a leading expert in AI. He is the author of numerous popular works including: Latest News from Artificial Intelligence (Flammarion, 2022).

Graphic designer, graduate of the School of Visual Communication (ECV), Helena ICHBIAH founded Ich&Kar in 1991, a studio dedicated to creative direction and brand strategy with many activities: branding, packaging, publishing, illustration, design, architecture. interior, scenography, etc.

Physicist and philosopher of science, Etienne Klein is director of research at the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) where he directs the Research Laboratory on the Sciences of Matter. Etienne Klein is interested in the question of time or the origin of the universe. He hosts « science in question » every Saturday on France Culture radio.

Jean-Paul Fourmentraux is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of Arts ans Media at Aix-Marseille University. He conducts research at he School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS). His work focuses on the political and anthropological issues of contemporary arts and technologies.

A researcher at Orange Labs and president of the Vecam association, Valérie Peugeot joined the college of commissioners of the CNIL in April 2016 where she is in charge of the health sector. She is co-author of Terra Data - What are we going to do with digital data? (Editions Le Pommier, 2017).

Professor of art history at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, Michel Poivert is a critic, curator and president of the International College of Photography. He is the author of numerous books including 50 years of French photography (Textuel, 2019).

Dominique Moulon is an exhibition curator, art critic and teaches creative technologies at the EPSAA Ville de Paris school. Holder of a doctorate in Arts and Art Sciences, he is a member of the French Association of Exhibition Commissioners (CEA) and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).

Journalist, specializing in technology, Jérôme Colombain wrote the New World column at Franceinfo and is, with François Sorel, co-founder of the 01TV channel. He hosts the Digital World podcast, which gives a voice to those involved in innovation. He is the author of the book : “Should we leave social networks?”

Odile Burluraux is curator at the museum of modern art in Paris where she is responsible for the video collection. Mainly specialized in contemporary extra-western art, she has organized numerous exhibitions at MAM and outside the walls. She is a member of several procurement committees and expert committees.

DJ, producer, remix of the greatest standards… Dimitri from Paris is a pioneer of electronic music in France. It emerges at the end of the 1980s with free radios, contributing to the dissemination of the House music in France. He has sold over 1 million records in 30 years.

John Karp is an entrepreneur and has been working in the technology field for 15 years. Specializing in mobile applications, he co-founded Food Reporter and BeMyApp. Hackathon organizer (programming marathons), he is the co-author of NFT Revolution with his partner Rémy Peretz, a work published in digital and paper version.

Alexia Fabre is chief curator of MAC/VAL, a contemporary art museum located in Vitry-sur-Seine. A graduate of the Ecole du Louvre, she is a knight of the order of arts and letters. In 2009 and 2011, she co-directed the artistic direction of Nuit Blanche with Frank Lamy.

Graduate of the ENSCI-Les Ateliers (National School of Industrial Creation) Ramy Fischler is a Belgian designer based in Paris. In 2011, he created his own agency, RF Studio. Eclectic, his achievements include interior architecture, furniture, artistic direction and scenography.

Laurence Vignon is vice president of ici Barbès, an independent agency since 2018. A graduate of the Institut Pratique du Journalisme / Paris Dauphine, she is a member of the board of directors of the association of Communication Consulting Agencies and a member of the IPJ board / Paris Dauphine.

Nils Aziosmanoff is president of Cube, a digital creation center that he co-founded in 2001. Expert in innovation, speaker, trainer and host of a forward-looking program on digital society, he has been working for 20 years on the concept of “smart city”: creative and resilient.

Former student of the National School of Charters and historian specializing in the 17th century, Rémi Mathis is also an exhibition curator, teacher and curator in the Prints Department of the BnF. Wikipédien since 2005, he was president of Wikimedia France from 2011 to 2014.

After studying visual arts, philosophy at the Sorbonne and multimedia at the ENSBA, Grégory CHATONSKY has developed a work around the internet, considering the web as a medium on its own. Since the mid-90s, his projects focused on notions such as identity, the aesthetics of ruins or even disappearance.

Stéphane MAGUET founded the gallery and the Numeriscausa agency in 2003. At the same time, he was responsible for public contracts related to multimedia at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine. In 2010, he joined Digitas / Publicis, then in 2013 the We Are Social Paris agency where he steered R&D and innovation around immersive media and social networks.

Co-founder of the Art Press magazine in 1972, Catherine Millet is an art critic, curator and writer. She is the author of numerous essays, including Dalí et moi (2005) and Le corps exposed (2011), as well as autobiographical accounts including The Sexual Life of Catherine M (2001).

Graduated from the Institute of Political Studies, Diane Dufour was director of the cooperative of photographers Magnum Photos from 2000 to 2007. She founded the BAL with Raymond Depardon, a contemporary space dedicated to the document image (photography, video, cinema, new media) which she has been managing since 2010.

Digital and Internet pioneer, entrepreneur and prospectivist, Daniel Kaplan explores the future through the lens of innovation on the one hand, and imaginary on the other. In 2000, he created the New Generation Internet Foundation (Fing), which he directed until 2016. He then co-founded the Université de la Pluralité Network.

French philosopher and writer Vincent Cespedes created the Philosopher collection at  Editions Larousse in 2008. Author of various books including Maraboutés and Magique, a study of happiness, he gives numerous lectures on subjects as diverse as education and management.

Creator of typographic characters, Jean-Baptiste LEVEE studies visual communication at the Estienne school before integrating the DSAA typographical creation from which he graduated in 2004. Founder of the digital type design agency "Production Type", he is vice-president of the international typographical association (ATYPI).

From photo journalism to more personal projects, the work of GH is protean: publications in the press, exhibitions, books, blogs… His photographs have been the subject of several books and been exhibited many times.

Co-founder of Dataveyes in 2010, a company specialized in human-data interactions, CG studied data journalism. She believes that the age of rich data will transform the way we work, learn and communicate.

Author of "The digital half-turn, when digital forces companies to innovate upside down", Thomas Houy supports companies in the development of their digital stategy. He is a senior lecturer in the economic and social science department of Telecom Paris.

Composer of electronic music, Alain Thibault is the initiator of the Elektra International Digital Art Festival in 1999 from which emerged the Montreal International Biennial of Digital Art (BIAN), two events of which he is the art director.

SIRI co-founder and author of the book : “Artificial Intelligence does not exist”, Luc JULIA is technical manager and vice-president innovation at Samsung company. He has defined and led the group’s strategy for the Internet of Things and is dedicated to making this objects intelligent.

Art historian, Claire LE RESTIF has been the head curator of the Centre d'Art Contemporain of Ivry CREDAC since 2003. She is a member of the general assembly of FRAC Ile de France, and also a member of the CNAP Publishing and Exhibition Support Committee since 2018.

José-Manuel GONCALVES has been the director of the “104” art centre since 2010. He was also the head curator of Paris “Nuits Blanches” in 2014 and 2015, and artistic director of numerous exhibitions including Panorama 20 at Fresnoy (2018) and Paysages Bordeaux (2019).

Investigative reporter, « special envoy » on the Internet, Jean-Marc MANACH investigates especially on issues of surveillance and privacy. He is the recipient of a Data Journalism Awards and  European Press Prize.

Gilles Alvarez is the art director of NEMO, the Ile-de-France digital arts biennal produced by CentQuatre Paris. He created this art festival in 1997 and has been running it since then.

Artist, curator and lecturer, Julien Previeux is born in 1974 in Grenoble where he studied Fine Arts and biology. He has been laureat of Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2014.
 

Well known in the world of the underground music, Fanny Corral is a DJ, programmer and the founder of "Kill the DJ". She’s currently in charge of the programmation of the queer festival "Loud and Proud". She launched this feminist and intersectional festival in 2013.

Doctor in Art History and Architecture, Marie Ange Brayer (EHESS) is curator, head of design and industrial prospective department at the national museum of modern art (Centre Pompidou) since 2014.

Media sociologist, Jean-Louis Missika is  a political councilor of  the mayor of Paris, in charge of urban planning, architecture, economic development and attractiveness. He is also in charge of the "Grand Paris"project.

Marie Ekeland has co-founded France Digital in 2012 and the Daphni investment fund in 2015. After studying mathematics and computer science in Paris Dauphine university, she obtained a master's degree in analysis and economic policy in Paris School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).

André Gunthert is a teacher-researcher, lecturer at the EHESS(School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences)  and historian of visual cultures. He is among the first to have studied the digital transition describing the sharing of images and their conventional uses.

French visual artist Valérie Belin considers the photographic medium at once both the subject of her work and the means of creation. Her images have been exhibited internationally and acquired by numerous collections.

Adrien Basdevant is a faculty teacher in the masters’ program in Data Sciences at the ESSEC/Centrale Supélec, a lawyer, and the co-author of L’Empire des données, an essay on society, algorithms, and law.

Jean-Louis Fréchin is a DPLG architect, designer, teacher-researcher, curator, and in 2001 co-founded the strategic and digital design agency NoDesign.

Holding a doctorate in geophysics from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis in 1996, Florence Tressols runs the software R&D laboratory at IBM France, and is a specialist in decision engineering.

A graduate in philosophy and education sciences from the Central University of Barcelona, art critic and curator Marta Gili was the director of the Jeu de Paume from 2006 to 2018.

An expert in narrative design – the art of bringing interactive stories to life in video games – Kurt McClung is also a World Designer and screenwriter. He is known as the creator and writer of the DragonSeed comic.

A passionate educator with intimate knowledge of the international hacking community, and founder of companies specializing in information security, Nicolas Sadirac was the general director at the 42 school.

The director of Canaux (center for innovative solidarity economies) Elisa Yavchitz previously worked for the WHO on the evolution of social welfare systems in developing nations.

Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Milan, Andrea Pinotti is a member of such institutions as the Warburg Institute in London, the Zfl in Berlin, and the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris.

Founder and director of Designers Interactifs, the first professional organization dedicated to the digital design professions, Benoît Drouillat is also the author of several publications in this field.

Psychiatrist, doctor of Psychology, member of the Academy of Technologies, and research associate at the Université Paris VII Denis Diderot (CRPMS), Serge Tisseron is also the imagination behind the “3-6-9-12” tags for the moderation of screen usage.

Gérard Assayag directs the Musical Representations team, which he founded at the IRCAM in 1992. He was also head of the research laboratory Science and Technology of Music and Sound (STMS).

Design Engineer at Orange Labs, Catherine Ramus is at the crossroads between engineer and artist. She currently works at Orange Labs in the ‘Sense’ team.

Author of L’intelligence artificielle: vers une domination programmée? (Artificial Intelligence: Heading for a programmed domination?), Jean-Gabriel Ganascia is a professor of computer science at the University Pierre and Marie Curie, and the deputy director of the laboratory (Labex) OBVIL.

François Taddei is a graduate of the École Polytechnique, chief engineer of Bridges, Waters, and Forests, a doctor of molecular and cellular genetics, and heads the evolving systems and dynamics engineering team at Inserm.

A graduate of the École Normal, with a doctorate from the École Polytechnique, David Chavalarias is the director of CNRS research at the EHESS Center for Social Analysis and Mathematics.

Manuela De Barros is a philosopher, art theorist, and a lecturer in philosophy, aesthetics, and art theory at the Université Paris 8, Department of Visual Arts.

Laurence Devillers is a professor of computer science at the Université Paris-Sorbonne 4, and oversaw the theme “Emotional and Social Dimensions in Spoken Interaction” at LIMSI-CNRS in Orsay.

Cédric Villani is the director of the Institut Henri Poincaré, and a professor at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon. He is a specialist in the application of mathematical analysis to problems of statistical physics, geometry, and probability.

A doctor in philosophy, Stéphane Vial is a lecturer in design and digital cultures at the University of Nîmes, where he is the director of PROJEKT (EA 7447), a research team in social innovation through design.

Antonio Casilli is a lecturer at Telecom ParisTech, and research associate at the EHESS. He is a member of the Institut Interdisciplinaire de l’Innovation (I3 CNRS).

Sylvie Catellin is a researcher at the Center of Cultural History of Contemporary Societies at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay, where she also teaches.

Primavera De Filippi is a researcher at CERSA (a joint unit of the CNRS and the Université Paris II), and a research associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University).

Danièle Bourcier is the director of research at CERSA (CNRS/Paris II), a jurist, essayist, and member of the commission for the consideration of digital ethics (CERNA-ALLISTENE).

David Cage is a French video game creator (Nomad Soul, Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain…) focused on interactive storytelling, emotion, and innovation. In 1997, he founded the studio Quantic Dream.

Michaël Boumendil is a graduate of the EDHEC, with a concentration in Marketing/Communication. He is the founder of the agency Sixième Son, where he has invented the concept of musical design, and sound identity for brands.

Gilles Babinet has founded numerous companies, in fields as diverse as consulting, construction, mobile music, and decision-making tools. He has also served as president of the National Digital Counsel.

Jean François Porchez is the founder of Typofonderie, and the typographic director of ZeCraft. His expertise covers both the design of custom characters and designing for brands.

François Brument teaches at ESADSE (the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Saint-Etienne), as well as at the ENSCI/Les Ateliers from where he also graduated. He is a designer who substitutes computer programming for drawing.

Mathieu is an engineer and the co-founder of the startup Simple IT. At the age of thirteen, he created siteduzero, now better known by the name: OpenClassrooms.

Michaël Stora is a psychologist and psychoanalyst. In 2000, he co-founded the OMNSH (Observatory of Digital Worlds in the Humanities). He uses video games as a tool for therapeutic mediation.

Éric Sadin is a writer and philosopher. He speaks regularly at Sciences Po Paris. He has published several books, including La Société de l’anticipation (Society of Anticipation), L’Humanité augmentée (Augmented Humanity), and L’Administration numérique du monde (Digital World Order).

Etienne Mineur is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (ENSAD). Co-founder and creative director at Volumique, he teaches at numerous schools.

Samuel Bianchini is an artist and teacher-researcher at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (Paris), where he directs the research team Reflective Interaction on interactive and performative methods.

Damien Henry is an acoustic engineer and works in the Lab at the Google Cultural Institute. Co-inventor of cardboard, he is also the co-founder of AudioGaming, a startup specialized in sound synthesis.

Dominique Jakob is a graduate of the École d’Architecture at Paris-Villemin. With Brendan MacFarlane, she founded the Jacob+Macfarlane Agency. Their work is characterized by the utilization of digital tools.

Geneviève Gauckler is a graduate of ENSAD. Artist, illustrator, and creative director, she is known for her characters (often enigmatic black silhouettes) and her colorful universe.

Eve Ramboz ha studied at the Beaux-Arts in Norway, then in Belgium. Author and director of animated films, she is one of the founding members of A La Maison, a company specialized in visual effects.

Benoît Labourdette directs the Quidam production company, and practices in four audiovisual fields: creation, diffusion, pedagogy, and technology. He is the creator of several fictional works and documentaries.

Dominique Cardon is a sociologist in the Sense department at Orange Labs. He is also an associate member of the Center for the Study of Social Movements at EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

ORLAN is a multidisciplinary artist. She has forged a path of hybridization, at first carnal with her surgical performances, then digital with her self-hybridizations, and now technological.