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I am convinced that digital transformation has great potential to bring France and

Britain closer together. So I am particularly pleased that the French Chamber of

Great Britain is organising this first major conference on the topic in London. It could

not come at a better time.

After several years of robust growth in London thanks to its vibrant heart, Tech City, tech

entrepreneurs are now challenging traditional business. Sectors such as healthcare,

transport, energy and indeed every kind of business are facing unexpected and

innovative challengers. But this trend also presents new opportunities for our common economic development.

France, for its part, has reinvented itself as a nation of creativeness, innovation and boldness thanks to the impressive

network of French Tech ecosystems. Today, we are proud of the international successes of French start-ups such

as Criteo and BlaBlaCar. Our entrepreneurs and SMEs are cooperating with large companies such as Orange, Atos

and Société Générale as well as attracting American, Asian and British investment. Our recent economic reforms

have unlocked new business opportunities for foreign companies such as The Train Line to invest in France. All this

contributes to growth and employment not only in France but also in the UK.

Today, digital and entrepreneurial relationships between the UK and France are set to grow even stronger. New

partnerships will allow French companies to enjoy the full potential of the British market in cyber security, cloud

computing and crowdfunding. I have observed while visiting different parts of the country, notably Belfast and

Manchester, that French technology is blossoming in the UK and has a relevant place as a reliable partner. In the

constant connection of small and big, I have seen our networks of entrepreneurs and companies grow in Shoreditch

and Croydon, strengthening bonds unimaginable 10 years ago.

Finally, at the European level, our two countries are joining forces to support a single market for the digital economy.

Our governments believe that there is an opportunity for Europe to build the framework that we need to compete

with the United States and Asia, which are already ahead in the global digital race. This will create access to a market

of more than 500 million customers for French and British SMEs, which had not dared to trade overseas before,

promote harmonisation and lower costs.

Small meets big represents a new vision for a more collaborative and inclusive economy. Such innovative business

cooperation redefines manufacturing, creates reshoring opportunities and boosts our start-ups to become the

seeds of our future prosperity.

HE Ms Sylvie BermannFrench Ambassador to the UK

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Welcome to the Franco-British Digital Conference, organised by the French

Chamber of Great Britain in partnership with the French Embassy in the UK,

the Franco-British Council and FrenchConnect London. This is the third in a series

of conferences that the French Chamber organises annually to provide a platform of

high-level engagement between businesses, academics, institutions and government

on topical issues and prominent sectors. Previous conferences were themed on

Energy in 2013 and Transport in 2014.

It was Axelle Lemaire, French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs, who first suggested that we hold a Franco-British

conference on Digital. Indeed, as digital pervades almost every aspect of business, it is an opportune moment to

take stock of what is happening, not only in the political realms of policy, funding and facilitation, but also within

the ‘ecosystems’ that have evolved in both France and the UK, and the way digital transformation is taking place in

corporations, their value chains, supply chains and customer relations.

As the French Chamber is representative of businesses across the whole spectrum, from start-ups to blue chip

companies, we decided to focus on the interface between big and small companies. Start-ups may have been

responsible for the disruption to business as we knew it, but they are also now working with big corporations to help

and enhance their digital transformation in ways that will develop the growth and competitiveness of both. And

big companies are helping start-ups scale up into the companies of tomorrow with funding and mentorship. This

conference, through panel debates and case study presentations will provide a platform for discussion about how

that is happening and an insight into where future opportunities for all types of businesses may lie.

Finally, I would like to thank those who have made this Conference possible – our partners, the French Embassy

in the UK, the Franco-British Council and FrenchConnect London; our main sponsors Atos, HSBC and PwC; our

supporting sponsors London & Partners and Tramonex; as well as our speakers and moderators, Alan Rutter,

Co-Founder of Clever Boxer and Alexandre Sagakian, Co-Founder and President of FrenchConnect London.

Estelle BrachlianoffPresident, French Chamber of Great Britain

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The French Chamber of Great BritainEstablished in 1883, the French Chamber of Great Britain is the largest Foreign Chamber in the UK in terms of

both turnover and range of services offered. We have 600 members, ranging from start-ups to large corporates.

The diversity of our members – half of which have non-French representatives – contributes significantly to our

reputation and success.

Our role is to provide a platform for exchange and networking at the service of Franco-British firms in the UK, to

connect large and small companies for mutual benefit in arenas such as this conference, to promote our members’

interests to key decision makers and to help develop economic and commercial relations between France and

the UK.

Our Business Consultancy, Company Set up, Incubator and Recruitment services provide both British and French

companies with a wide range of bespoke professional services. The 60 events we organise every year, with

personalities from the British and French political, academic and business worlds, offer great opportunities for our

members to expand their network of contacts and ultimately develop their businesses.

Additionally, our Forums and Clubs, focusing on issues such as Human Resources, Climate Change, Cross-Cultural

Relations, Finance, Legal, Luxury, SMEs/Entrepreneurs and the Women’s Business Network offer our members

dedicated platforms to share experiences and best practice at the highest level of management.

We also take pride in the quality of our publications, including our magazine INFO, our members’ directory,

The HR Guide: a practical approach to Human Resources in Great Britain, a Cross-Cultural Relations Booklet as well as a

wide range of e-newsletters. They all provide a wealth of information and help promote the interests of the Franco-

British business community.

www.frenchchamber.co.uk

Conference organiser

The French Embassy to the UK The French Embassy’s role is to inform the French government about British policy, both domestic and foreign; to

represent and defend French foreign-policy positions with the British authorities, notably the Foreign Office; to

participate in the organisation of official visits to the United Kingdom; and to promote relations between France and

the United Kingdom in all sectors. www.ambafrance-uk.org

The Franco-British Council The Franco-British Council was created on the joint initiative of Président Georges Pompidou and Prime Minister

Edward Heath, when Britain joined the European Community. The FBC aims to promote better understanding

between Britain and France by bringing together experts from the worlds of culture, science, the arts, education,

politics and business to debate topical subjects and produce recommendations. Recent seminars have included

senior government Ministers and have tackled common areas of interest such as Transatlantic Free Trade with

British, French and US perspectives on a TTIP agreement; Promoting Diversity within Society, Education and the

Workplace; Le Grand Depart – getting Britain and France on their Bikes; Energy and the Environment as well as

Europe and where the UK stands. Our Annual Defence Conference has become a firm fixture in the bilateral calendar

and our dedicated Defence Website provides a forum for the exchange and cross fertilisation of ideas. Reports on

all the debates are available on our website. www.francobritishcouncil.org.uk

French Connect FrenchConnect London is the most exclusive invite-only club for French Digital Leaders in London. Our elite group

of tech entrepreneurs and investors have access to high-level networking opportunities and exclusive events all

year long. Launched 9 months ago by 3 French Entrepreneurs living in London (Stephanie Bouchet, Albin Serviant

and Alexandre Sagakian), the Club now has more than 80 members and has received some great press coverage in

Le Figaro, Le Monde, Challenge or Frenchweb. Previous member-only events include breakfast with Axelle Lemaire

(French Minister for Digital Affairs), private dinners with Gerard Grech (Tech City), Brent Hoberman (Lastminute),

Jean Bourcereau (France Digitale), Bernard Liautaud (Balderton), Philippe Botteri & Fred Destin (Accel Partners),

Benjamin Faes (Google) and Julie Meyer (Ariadne), Julien Cordorniou (Facebook). Upcoming events will welcome

Stéphane Distinguin (FaberNovel), Cédric Hutchings (Withings), JD Chamboredon (ISAI), François Fillon and Her

Excellency Sylvie Bermann (Ambassador to the United Kingdom). www.frenchconnectlondon.com

Conference partners

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08.50 - 9.00 Welcome address by Stephen Burgin, Vice President of the French Chamber Speech by Sylvie Bermann, French Ambassador to the UK

09.00 - 9.30Axelle Lemaire, French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs and Ed Vaizey, British Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy on French and British ecosystems.

09.30 - 10.30Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech City UK Karine Bidart, Deputy Managing Director, Paris&Co Case studies: French start up in the UK and British start up in France- made.com, Julien Callede, Co-Founder and COO- onefinestay, Greg Marsh, Co-Founder and CEO 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 11.30 Case studies: Small meets big - Holition, Jonathan Chippindale, Chief Executive - Eurostar, Lionel Benbassat, Head of Marketing and Brand - Ekimetrics, Jean-Baptiste Bouzige, Founder and CEO

11.30 - 13.00 FIrST paNEl: DiGiTAL TrAnSForMATionModerated by Alan rutter, Co-Founder, Clever BoxerSpeakers:Christophe Chazot, Group Head of Innovation, HSBC

Andrew Humphries, Co-Founder of The Bakery and UKTI Global Entrepreneur, Dealmaker Pierre Péladeau, Partner at PwC Strategy& DIgitalTom Swanson, Chief Digital Officer, Atos Followed by a Q&A session

LUnCH BrEAK 13.00 - 14.00 Buffet lunch & networking 14.00 - 14.45 Keynote speaker: Pascal Cagni, Founder - CEO, C4 Ventures - Apple Europe GP, VP (2000 -2012)Followed by a Q&A session

14.45- 16.00SECOND paNEl: SCALinG UP: BECoME BiG or Join BiG? Moderated by Alexandre Sagakian, Co-founder and President, FrenchConnect London Speakers:nicolas Brusson, Co-Founder and COO, Blablacar nicolas Debock, Investor, Balderton Capitalrachel Delacour, Co-Founder & General Manager, BIME Analytics Marie Ekeland, President, France DigitaleFollowed by a Q&A session

16.00 - 16.30 Keynote speaker: Pierre Chappaz, Founder and Executive Chairman, Teads - Followed by a Q&A session

16.30 - 16.45 Conclusion by Alan rutter

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Programme

Exhibitors

iT Services Contact: Andreas Claudi, VP Digital Tel: +44 (0) 20 7830 4558 Email: andreas.claudi@atos.net www.atos.net/en-uk/home.html

1st mobile interactive breathalyser system with taking-you-home service 24/7 Contact: Karl Auzou, CEO Tel: +33 (0) 7 86 48 46 47 Email: k.auzou@good-angel.fr www. good-angel.fr

Banking and insurance Contact: Claire Gauducheau, Associate Director Industrials Sector Tel: +44 (0) 20 7992 2352 Email: claire.gauducheau@hsbc.com www.hsbc.co.uk

Social Media intelligence Company Contacts: Gareth Owens, Managing Director and Anthony Fradet, COO Tel: +44(0) 20 3514 4562 Email: gareth.owens@linkfluence.com, anthony.fradet@linkfluence.com www.linkfluence.com

innovative concept based on colour wellness Contacts: Valérie Corcias and Dominique Kelly, co-founders Tel: +44 (0) 79 2184 7024 Email: co@mycoocoon.com www.mycoocoon.com

Web hosting company Contact: Hiren Parekh, UK Sales & Marketing Director Tel: +44 (0) 20 7378 7699 Email: contact@ovh.co.uk ovh.co.uk

Strategy, Assurance, Tax, Consulting and Deal Services Contact: Marc Bena, Partner Tel: +44 (0) 77 1316 2721 Email: marc.bena@uk.pwc.com www.pwc.co.uk

international payments for SMEs Contact: Nicolas Laurent, Sales Executive Tel: +44 (0) 79 2184 7024 Email: info@tramonex.com www.tramonex.com

Glasses-free 3D media solutions Contact: Sylvain Jabar, Sales Executive UK Tel: +44 (0) 79 6425 9969 Email: sylvain.jabar@tridelity.com www.tridelity.com

Collaboration software for meetings & events Contact: Chloe Lasserre, Business Development Manager UK Tel: +44 (0) 20 3769 6840 Email: chloe@wisembly.com www.wisembly.com

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Conference moderators

Alexandre Sagakian Co-founder & President, FrenchConnect London

Alexandre is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor and one of the 3 co-founders of FrenchConnect London, a private Club for French Digital Leaders based in London. Currently VP Data and Research in a VC-backed start-up, Alexandre was previously Director of the 1st Techstars accelerator programme in London (2013). Before moving to the UK in 2012, Alexandre had co-founded DirectPanel, an online market

research start-up and successfully sold it to the Bolloré Group in France. Alexandre holds an MBA from Essec Business School.

Alan Rutter Co-founder, Clever Boxer

Alan Rutter is the co-founder of consultancy Clever Boxer, and has worked as a journalist, digital consultant, product owner and trainer. He oversaw the iPad edition launches of Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair and Vogue in the UK, and has been working with Condé Nast International as product owner on a bespoke digital asset management system for their 11 global markets. He teaches for General Assembly and runs in-

house training for public sector clients with ModernGov. He previously worked with Guardian Masterclasses on curating and delivering new course strands, including the start-ups and business courses, and teaching their B2B data visualisation courses. Previously he was Online Editor at Time Out, having also worked as Acting Deputy Editor and Features Editor on the magazine. He has over 10 years’ previous experience of working for magazines, both online and in print.

Use your mobile phone to take part in the debate by asking your questions, posting your tweets using #FBDigitalConf, commenting and liking other peoples’ reactions, and participating in votes and surveys. You will also be able to view the agenda of the conference and ask your questions on Wisembly’s platform (app.wisembly.com/FBDIGITALCONF)

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Conference speakers

HE Ms Sylvie Bermann French Ambassador to the UK

A graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, the French Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Chinese) and the Beijing Language Institute, Ms Sylvie Bermann embarked on her diplomatic career in 1979. She was appointed French Ambassador to the United Kingdom in July 2014.Vice-Consul at the French Consulate in Hong Kong from 1979 to 1980, she became

Second Secretary at the French Embassy in China between 1980 and 1982. She was subsequently responsible for policy relating to China at the Quai d’Orsay’s Asia and Oceania Directorate until 1986, when she became Second Counsellor at the French Embassy in Moscow. In 1989, Sylvie Bermann returned to Paris to take up the post of Head of the Southeast Asia Department. In 1992 she was appointed Second Counsellor at the French Permanent Mission to the United Nations. In 1996, she became Head of the Common Foreign and Security Policy Department at the French Foreign Ministry, before becoming Ambassador to the Western European Union and to the European Union’s Political and Security Committee in Brussels in 2002. She headed the French Foreign Ministry’s directorate for the UN and international organisations, human rights and Francophony, from 2005 to 2011.She was appointed Ambassador to China on 23 February 2011, becoming the first woman to hold the post of French Ambassador in a country which is a permanent member of the Security Council.

Axelle Lemaire French Secretary of State for Digital Affairs

Axelle Lemaire (@axellelemaire) has been the French Ministry of State for Digital Affairs since April 2014. She calls her now position the “portfolio for imagination”. Born in Canada in 1974, she studied political science at Sciences Po in Paris and law at the Sorbonne and King’s College London. She worked as a researcher and international lawyer before entering politics as a parliamentary assistant in the House of Commons.

In 2012, Axelle was elected in the French National Assembly to represent the French diaspora living in Northern Europe. As the Secretary of the Law Committee and a member of the European Affairs Committee, her main areas of interest were the digital society and digital economy, the protection of human rights and gender equality, and European politics.

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Karine Bidart Deputy Managing Director, Paris&Co

After obtaining a master’s degree in International Business at Lomonossov University in Moscow and graduating from Normandy Business School, Karine Bidart started her career in the food industry at PepsiCo, and specialised in negociation with the purchasing groups of the retail industry in Northern France. She joined in 1998 the Finnish group M-real, a global leader in the paper and packaging industry, and extended

her international experience in Finland at Simpele production site, and in Durban, South-Africa. She took the group responsibility of the international key accounts in the cosmetics sector. In 2009, she joined Paris Développement, Paris economic development agency, as a global sales director, and launched the prospection activities in Asia, Latin-America and the Middle East. In 2011, she was appointed managing director of the agency. Further to the merger of the 2 agencies, Karine took over the International Investment direction as Deputy Managing Director of Paris&Co, the economic development and innovation agency of Paris.

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Lionel Benbassat Head of Marketing and Brand, Eurostar

Lionel became Head of Marketing and Brand of Eurostar in 2012 and is responsible for the development and activation of a coherent brand strategy internally and externally in all markets. Since 2015 he is also responsible for the customer experience development. He began his career at Eurostar in 2004 as Online Marketing Manager.

Ed Vaizey British Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy

Ed Vaizey MP was appointed Minister of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, with responsibility for digital industries on 15 July 2014. Ed was first elected as the MP for Wantage in 2005. He was re-elected in 2010, and May 7 2015. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries in May

2010. He was Shadow Minister for the Arts from 2006 to 2010. In 2004 he became a political speech writer. Ed was educated at Merton College, Oxford. After university he worked as a political researcher, before training and practising as a barrister. From 1996 to 2004 he was director of a public relations company.

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Nicolas Brusson Co-Founder and COO, BlaBlaCar

Nicolas is co-founder & COO of BlaBlaCar. He leads the company’s international growth and operations. Naturally pragmatic, he uses fast iteration to uncover high-growth opportunities. Nicolas is a strong advocate of local teams and acqui-hire, a strategy he implemented to expand BlaBlaCar’s footprint to a global scale. He also successfully

led BlaBlaCar’s various rounds of fundraising. He started his career working for start-ups in Silicon Valley during the 2000 boom, moved on to executive and investor roles, and finally worked as a Venture Capitalist in London, before leading BlaBlaCar’s global expansion. Nicolas holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MSc in Optics from the Ecole Superieure d’Optique and an MSc in Applied Physics from Paris XI University. He’s a regular speaker on the theme of transport industry disruption and scaling innovative businesses.

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Jean-Baptiste Bouzige Founder and CEO, Ekimetrics

Jean-Baptiste graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole des Mines de Paris, with a specialisation in applied mathematics and micro-economics. Jean-Baptiste founded Ekimetrics in 2006 after having started his career at DDB, where he was in charge of developing modeling methodologies. Ekimetrics was created with the purpose of unlocking value for strategy thanks to innovative statistical methodologies. Ekimetrics

has quickly become a European leader in the market and now leads projects in more than 40 countries with 4 offices in Paris, London, New York and Hong Kong. The 100 Ekimetrics consultants are delivering custom-fit approaches to answer key business questions in various sectors. Jean-Baptiste pilots worldwide projects in Automotive, Luxury goods and Insurance and develops innovative approaches for CRM and digital. He is deeply passionate by innovation in the way of delivering simple insights from complex methods for a better decision-making, with a specific interest in the value of data visualisation and tools. Jean-Baptiste is also leading the development of Ekimetrics New York.

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Julien Callede Co-Founder and COO, made.com

A few years in the sourcing business were enough for Julien Callede, 30, to understand the huge opportunities for innovative new business leaders in the design furniture industry. With a solid background in new business models development and the fast growing companies environment in Paris, Julien co-founded MADE.com together

with his business partners Chloé Macintosh and school friend Ning Li. Based in London since the creation of the company in 2010, Julien is originally from Nantes and holds a Master degree from Ecole HEC PARIS, one of the most prestigious business schools in France. Julien has been overseeing all operational aspects at MADE.com since its launch, and is now leading expansion in new territoires as well as new project development.

Pascal Cagni Founder - CEO, C4 VenturesApple Europe GP, VP (2000 -2012)

Pascal Cagni is the founder and partner of C4 Ventures (c4v.com), a firm that invests in start-ups and contributes to product development and international market strategy.

Pascal holds non-executive directorships at Vivendi SA (VIV.PA) and Kingfisher Plc (KGF.L). Along with Vogue editor Anna Wintour, he was recently appointed to the board of directors of the Condé Nast-owned e-commerce website Style.com. In 2014, he conducted a strategic review of Net-A-Porter for owner CF Richemont, advising on business re-engineering for the company before the merger with Yoox. Hired by Steve Jobs, Pascal joined Apple in 2000 as General Manager and Vice President of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA). Under his leadership, Apple EMEIA grew from $1bn to nearly $40bn while rolling out groundbreaking products and services including the iPod, iTunes Store, iPhone, App Store and iPad.Pascal has an MA in Political Sciences from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris (Sciences Po), an MA in Business Law from the Robert Schumann University in Strasbourg and an MBA from HEC Paris. He graduated from the Executive Program (EPGC) at Stanford University, CA, USA. He joined the 63rd promotion of IHEDN (Institute for Higher National Defence Studies). More recently, he was appointed Chairman of the Hardware Club, a highly selective platform for hardware start-ups. Pascal is member of the French Foreign Trade Advisors (CCEF) in London.

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Pierre Chappaz Founder and Executive Chairman, Teads

Pierre Chappaz is a leading European entrepreneur and founder of Kelkoo, Wikio, Ebuzzing, and Teads. Pierre is one of the Europe’s leading entrepreneurs having spoken at many of the top marketing and tech conferences such as Le Web and DMEXCO. Pierre held various Marketing and Communications positions at Toshiba, Computer Associates and IBM before founding the price comparison site Kelkoo in 1999, which

he sold to Yahoo in 2004 for €475 million. Briefly president of Yahoo Europe, Pierre Chappaz created Wikio in 2005, a recommendation based search engine and participated in the launch of Netvibes. Wikio merged with Ebuzzing in 2009, a social media and video platform created by Bertrand Quesada in 2007 with the help of Pierre Chappaz. In 2014 Ebuzzing merged with Teads and rebranded under that name, to become a global leader in online video advertising and inventors of outstream video advertising. Pierre, as executive chairman and co-founder, has driven Teads’ success on a global scale making an estimated $98 million in revenue last year.

Christophe Chazot Group Head of Innovation, HSBC

Christophe Chazot is Group Head of Innovation for HSBC, leading teams responsible for Strategic Innovation Investment, investing in disruptive companies, the Innovation Strategy team that identifies and analyses themes that are key to HSBC’s future, and the Innovation Centre that organises the internal initiatives including incubation. Christophe has over 20 years experience across all the major asset classes in Capital

Markets. He joined HSBC in 2005 as Global Head of Equity Derivatives. He was promoted to Co-Head of Global Equities in 2008 and was made a member of the Global Markets Executive Committee in the same year. In 2012, he became Head of Strategy and Planning for Global Banking and Markets. Prior to joining HSBC, he worked at Dresdner Kleinwort as the Global Head of Equity Derivatives; at Bankers Trust as the Global Head of Foreign Exchange Options; and at Barclays de Zoete Wedd as an interest rates swaps trader. Christophe’s interest in FinTech dates back to 1987, when he founded Softinvest, a technology company specialising in financial services which developed the Topval Option pricing and visualization software which was sold to the French Stock Exchange. Christophe holds a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. He is the author of ‘Les Swaps: concepts et applications’, which is rated 4.7 stars on Amazon.fr. He is an avid skier and sailor of the northern European seas. He is passionate about technology and artificial intelligence, and their impact on society.

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Nicolas Debock Investor, Balderton Capital

Nicolas is covering France, Spain and Portugal for Balderton Capital. Balderton is one of the largest pan-european VC fund investing in start-ups from all over Europe and looking for companies and funders with great ambition and innovative models. In his past experiences, Nicolas invested mostly in Fintech, C2C marketplaces, mobile app and SaaS companies.

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Rachel Delacour Co-Founder & General Manager, BIME Analytics

Rachel is the General Manager and co-founder of BIME Analytics, a pioneer in SaaS Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) start-up, with dual headquarters in Kansas City, MO and Montpellier, France. BIME analytics was recently acquired by Zendesk in October 2015 for 45 million $. As a young, female controller she saw a real business need for BI tools in the age of Big Data, leading her to found BIME in 2009. The company offers

true cloud BI service and was the first front-end analytics partner of Google BigQuery. Prior to BIME, Rachel held finance positions at Carrefour and FM Logistics Russia. She holds a Masterʼs finance degree from the Euromed business school in Marseille.

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Jonathan Chippindale Chief Executive, Holition

Jonathan comes from a background in luxury retail having spent 10 years working for the De Beers Group as a Managing Director, and Asprey, Garrard and Mappin & Webb in senior marketing roles. An External Industry Advisor and Visiting Lecturer at University of the Arts London, mentor to BBC Worldwide Labs and TechStars and digital advisor to the University of Cambridge Compass Group, Jonathan is a regular speaker at tech, retail and innovation conferences around the world.

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Marie Ekeland President, France Digitale

Marie founded daphni in 2015. She focuses on European early stage investments in user driven start-ups. In her previous 9 years at Elaia Partners, Marie invested in over a dozen companies, including Criteo, Sigfox and Teads. She started her career at JPMorgan as a computer scientist working on front office systems in New York before joining CPR Private Equity as a venture capitalist in 2000. She currently sits on the

board of Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO), Parrot (PARRO:EN Paris) and is co-founder and co-president of the French start-up lobby France Digitale. Marie is also member of the French National Digital Council. She holds a master degree in Mathematics & Computer Science from Paris Dauphine University, as well as a master degree in Economics from Paris School of Economics.

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Gerard Grech CEO, Tech City UK

Gerard Grech (@gerardgrech) is the CEO of Tech City UK, an organisation focused on accelerating the growth of digital businesses in London and across cities in the UK. He is also a member of the UK Government’s Digital Economy Council and Greater London Authority’s Smart London Board, both focused on economic growth through digital innovation.Gerard has 15 years experience in the world of digital media, web

and mobile. His international experience in London, Paris and New York, building digital products and rolling them in 5 continents has given him global vision and local expertise, spanning product development, business strategy and venture capital. Before that, he was a new media journalist and started his career in the music business.

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Greg Marsh Co-Founder and CEO, onefinestay

Greg has led the onefinestay team since founding the company in 2009, prior to which he spent 3 years on the IT investment team at Index Ventures. Previously he worked at logistics marketplace start-up GF-X, latterly as the firm’s Product Manager. He has an MA from Christ’s College, Cambridge, and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School where he was a Fulbright Scholar

and graduated top of his class. He also works with Amnesty International as an elected member of the charity’s Finance and Audit Committee.

Andrew Humphries Co-Founder of the Bakery & UKTI Global Entrepreneur, Dealmaker

Andrew is Co-Founder of The Bakery, the Worlds’ first dedicated accelerator for the advertising and marketing industry, where large brands meet with innovative early stage companies, getting new technology to market at rocket speed. Previously, he co-founded 2 successful technology businesses, raising over $42m in venture

funding, and growing both in Europe and the US, before exiting via trade sales. In 2012, London’s Olympic year, he was appointed by The Prime Minister’s Office as Tech City Champion, helping to fuel the growth of London’s Tech City, Europe’s fastest growing creative digital and tech cluster. A Dealmaker for the UK Government’s Global Entrepreneur Programme, he encourages Foreign Direct Investment in the UK, helping entrepreneurs and their businesses go global from a UK HQ. In 2015 he was selected as one of the Sunday Times Maserati 100, which recognises British business leaders who actively give back to the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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Pierre Péladeau Partner at PwC Strategy& Digital

Pierre holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Pierre et Marie Curie University and a Master’s of Science and a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Computer Science from McGill University. He started his career in Teaching and Research at McGill University and then as a Research Associate at the Centre National Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He joined Booz Allen & Hamilton (now called Strategy& and part

of the PwC Network) in 1993. During his career, Pierre has led many digital strategies and digital transformation programs with large global companies in a wide variety of sectors such as telecommunications, technology, energy, utilities, retail and aerospace. Pierre manages PwC’s Strategy& team in France and is leading the development of Strategy& digital activities in France and across Europe.

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Tom Swanson Chief Digital Officer, Atos

Tom Swanson is Chief Digital Officer for Atos. He advises large enterprises on Digital Strategy, acts as a Senior Advisor to SME partners and leads the evolution of Digital within Atos. Tom’s spent the first 10 years of his career in the Tech Industry and then moved into Consulting where he designed and led major Transformation Programs for Global Corporations across a range of industries. His desire for experience of start-

ups led to him working for a VC-backed business creation vehicle and then running a software company which tripled in value. Returning to professional services, Tom led a Consulting Business and created a Global Innovation Network which brought diverse companies together in innovation exchanges. Tom is particularly interested in how technology can elevate the performance and wellbeing of individuals and companies and studied this whilst achieving a Masters Degree in Psychology.

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