Decarbonising French industry, For what? Why?

(This event will be held in French)


Decarbonising French industry, For what? Why?
Why 'Climate Transition' is an imperative for French industry: to 'save the planet' (perhaps) and to save itself (certainly!).

Christophe Dubois-Damien, Chairman of the Economics Committee of IESF (Ingénieurs et Scientifiques de France) and Chairman of the 1980 professional group of Sciences Po Alumni, is delighted to invite you to a free lecture as part of the 25th "Entretiens économiques d'IESF" conference. The UNIT foundation (digital transformation support) is in charge of logistics.

Speakers :

Vincent Guardiola: Keynote speaker
Vincent Guardiola trained as an engineer (Ingénieur Civil des Ponts et Chaussées) with additional management training (IAE/Paris-Sorbonne Business School).
He has spent most of his career in banking (32 years), with a 7-year spell in industry:
- First at Indosuez (now Crédit Agricole CIB) in France and Asia as a product specialist (project finance),
- 7 years at Alcatel (now Nokia) in the Strategy & Finance department (responsible for financing customers' satellite and submarine cable projects).
- He then spent 17 years as a senior executive in the French branches of major foreign banks (RBS, BBVA, Uni Crédit, Lloyds Bank).
Since 2020, Vincent has specialised in ESG* consulting for industrial companies (decarbonisation strategies, ESG leadership, growth and competitiveness), within MSCC.ESG.
(*ESG: Environment-Social-Governance)

Christophe Dubois-Damien: Introduction and moderation of the conference
Career: PriceWaterhouseCoopers external auditor, internal audit manager, financial manager in an industrial then financial environment (Thomson Group then Altus Finance), headhunter (Euroconsulting), Ceo of SAS 01Innovation. Founder and moderator of the "Entretiens économiques d'IESF" (IESF Economic Talks), whose aim is to help people understand the opportunities and threats of the new economic paradigm arising from the 3rd industrial revolution of 1980, which uses data as an input. Emeritus member of the Académie de l'intelligence économique.

The conference will take place in hybrid mode:
- in person at IESF headquarters - 7 rue Lamennais Paris 8éme - Registration: christophe@01innovation.com or 06 60 84 79 33
- by videoconference: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jnVycaU1SuS-pXqvSjLa1Q

A drink will be offered after the conference.