Speakers

Past speakers at Lunch at the Circle

Here are a few of the speakers that we have previously welcomed at Lunch at the Circle. Most of our speakers come from the technology sector, in a broad sense, with an operational and business perspective. The list may not be entirely complete since the start in 2003. Apologies for any omissions.

We welcome suggestions for future speakers.

  • Executive Interim Management
    • Anne Céline Martel
    • Experte en transformation organisationnelle et management de transition
    • and
    • Jérôme Larue
    • Directeur Associé, Chaberton Partners
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  • How to prepare small and large companies for a sustainable future
    • David Laurent
    • Directeur de la transformation écologique, d’Entreprises pour l’Environnement (EpE)
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  • Web3, block-chain, NFT
    • Marina Niforos
    • board member, digital assets & blockchain advisor, impact investor, professor
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  • International (financial) entrepreneurship in the age of internet and disruptive innovation
    • Jörgen Eriksson
    • executive and advisor on four continents with both the public and private sectors
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  • L‘hypnose thérapeutique, comment peut-elle contribuer à l’optimisation des performances
    • Le docteur Laurent Taton
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  • On Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Martin McCourt
    • Previously Executive Vice President M&A and on the management board at Gemalto for around a decade
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  • “How I created Lauritz.com and made it Scandinavia’s biggest auction house”
    • Bengt Sundstrøm
    • founder, owner and president of Lauritz.com
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  • Growing your business on unknown markets
    • Tom Thorelli
    • founder and managing partner, Thorelli Law Firm Chicago
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  • A design and web entrepreneur: “How I created l’Usine @ Design”
    • Emilie Gobin
    • co-founder and CEO of Usine @ Design
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  • ROI in online marketing. How can you measure success and effectiveness?
    • Sophie Callies
    • founder & CEO of SO’xperts
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  • Talent management in technology, challenges and solutions
    • Marc Timmerman
    • Axiom Consulting
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  • Information security in a world with both traditional IT and social networking: it’s all about people
    • Joseph Graceffa
    • co-founder and CTO of Advens
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  • FSI, investing in the technology sector
    • Marc Julien
    • director of technology and environment portfolio, FSI
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  • Teams That Work
    • Lindsay Adams
    • President, Teamocracy
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  • Selling Ideas
    • David Ednie
    • Founder/President, Sales Channel Europe
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  • Web presence strategy
    • Gifford Morley-Fletcher
    • Strategy Director, Skive
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  • Enterprise Social Software
    • Carlos Diaz
    • Founder & CEO, blueKiwi
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  • Detective Marketing
    • Stefan Engeseth
    • Founder & CEO, Detective Marketing
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  • Virtualization
    • Carlos Escapa
    • Director Europe, VMWare
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  • How can enterprises catch up with consumers on Web 2.0?
    • Louis Nauges
    • founder, Microcost
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  • My web site is up. Now what?
    • Emmanuel Podvin
    • founder, Intersel
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  • Pitching to Win
    • Philippe Jeanmaire
    • founder, Team Performance
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  • Innovation in the Internet Age
    • Serge Soudoplatoff
    • founder & president, Almatropie
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  • French Vertigo – Is France in terminal decline?
    • Peter Gumbel
    • senior writer, Time Magazine
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  • Software as a Service – SaaS
    • Robert Steggles
    • Director of Marketing, NTT Online Europe
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  • Time for text-to-speech – finally?
    • Roy Lindemann
    • manager France, and co-owner, ReadSpeaker
  • Where the internet is moving; video on the internet; vpod.tv
    • Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz
    • founder of vpod.tv
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  • Buzz Marketing
    • Emmanuel Vivier
    • founder and CEO, Culture Buzz
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  • “The journalist made me say it” – mini-workshop on how to deal with media
    • Amy Porter
    • founder of Star Speeches, media consultant
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  • The Long Tail, marketing revolutionised
    • Erik Larsson
    • VP marketing, Netcentrex
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  • PriceMinister.com – the business model and history
    • Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
    • founder of PriceMinister
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  • What happens with “old media” in the “new world”
    • Meredith Artley
    • editor and director, IHT.com
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  • Broader Broadband
    • Jean-Michel Billaut
    • internet and networking consultant and “guru”
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  • Social Networking and Internet Networking Sites’ business models
    • Alain Lefebvre
    • founder of 6nergies.net (and previously of SQLI)
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  • Blogging
    • Loïc Le Meur
    • serial entrepreneur and head of Six Apart Europe
    • Jacques Froissant
    • head of Altaid Executive Search
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  • Outsourcing and Offshoring
    • Rebecca Scholl
    • Director of Market Strategy, ACS (previously lead analyst at Gartner for outsourcing)
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  • RF devices
    • Claudia Wolosin
    • Editor, RFID International Newsletter
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  • What’s happening in the US tech sector – impressions from a traveller
    • Susan Lucas-Conwell
    • Founder, Clear Day Consulting
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  • China and the Technology Sector
    • Jean-Charles Doineau
    • Research Director, Ovum
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  • Grid computing
    • Laurent Charreyron
    • Executive VP, GridXpert
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  • Open Source – why is it important?
    • Tristan Nitot
    • Founder and President Mozilla Europe and open source evangelist
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  • What are today’s requirements on technology managers? or How to sell yourself to head hunters
    • Caroline Apffel, Russel Reynolds
    • Francesca Lahiguera, Mercier and Partners
    • Catherine Ducros, Whitehead Mann
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  • Current trends in technology marketing
    • Erik Larsson
    • founder, Martenhus Consulting
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  • VoIP – finally ready for the market?
    • Marc Couraud
    • marketing director LDCom
    • Philippe Diez
    • Head of Business development Alcatel
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  • WiFi – What’s the business model? (Is there one?)
    • Marc Taieb
    • founder of a WiFi operator
    • Rick Thomson
    • founder, TCF (Technology Consulting and Finance)
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  • Mobile marketing and mobile campaigning
    • Elias Moubayed
    • industry specialist and advisor to various companies
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  • IT Security – what’s happening, what’s important
    • Christian Simatos
    • independent consultant, ex-head of IT Schlumberger
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  • Biometrics – Does it work? Where is the business?
    • Michael Klug
    • Istec-Thykva

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