Showcase: Innovating for the Wellbeing of Humans and Ecosystems

Event details
Date | 10.09.2025 |
Hour | 09:00 › 17:30 |
Speaker | Jean-Marc Jancovici, Founding Partner, Carbone 4 Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, President, EPFL Abhishek Jain, Director of Green Economy & Impact Innovations, CEEW Maria Neira, Director of Environment, Climate Change & Health, WHO Sophie Bacq, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, IMD Bastien Sachet, CEO, Earthworm Foundation |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Event Language | French, English |
THEME OF THE 2025 EDITION: Innovating for the Wellbeing of Humans and Ecosystems
DRAFT AGENDA
09:30 Welcome to Showcase, with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Florian Hoos, Michaël Aklin, (Co-Directors of E4S)
09:50 Setting the Stage: an Economy for Wellbeing, with Christian Gollier (Professor of Environmental Economics, Toulouse School of Economics)
10:15 - 11: 15 Block 1: Facing Reality – Wellbeing in a fragmented world
With:
11:30 -13:00 Thematic Workshops
13:30 - 15:00 Block 2: Rethinking the Model – An economy for wellbeing
With:
15:00 - 15:30 BreaK
15:30 - 17:00 Block 3: Acting Now – Showcasing innovation for impact
With:
17:00 - 17:30 Closing remarks
Showcase is E4S impact innovation summit that gathers all actors of society (the academic community, businesses, start-ups, investors, large organizations, NGOs, policy-makers and civil society) to build a better future for the people and the planet.
FORMAT: WHAT TO EXPECT
DRAFT AGENDA
09:30 Welcome to Showcase, with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Florian Hoos, Michaël Aklin, (Co-Directors of E4S)
09:50 Setting the Stage: an Economy for Wellbeing, with Christian Gollier (Professor of Environmental Economics, Toulouse School of Economics)
10:15 - 11: 15 Block 1: Facing Reality – Wellbeing in a fragmented world
With:
- Simon Evenett (Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy, IMD)
- Timothée Parrique (Researcher in Ecological Economics, HEC-UNIL)
- Maria Neira (Director of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation)
- Pitches from our Solutions Exhibition
11:30 -13:00 Thematic Workshops
13:30 - 15:00 Block 2: Rethinking the Model – An economy for wellbeing
With:
- Jean-Marc Jancovici (President, the Shift Project)
- Karen Scrivener (Professor, Materials and Construction Laboratory, EPFL)
- Fire-side chat with Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (President, EPFL), Frédéric Herman (Rector, UNIL).
15:00 - 15:30 BreaK
15:30 - 17:00 Block 3: Acting Now – Showcasing innovation for impact
With:
- Sophie Bacq (Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, IMD)
- Abhishek Jain (Director of Green Economy & Impact Innovations, CEEW)
- Bastien Sachet (CEO, Earthworm Foundation)
- Adina Edme (Chief Transformation Officer, Decathlon Switzerland)
- Nicolas Hänny (CEO, NIKIN)
- Pitches from our Solutions Exhibition
17:00 - 17:30 Closing remarks
Showcase is E4S impact innovation summit that gathers all actors of society (the academic community, businesses, start-ups, investors, large organizations, NGOs, policy-makers and civil society) to build a better future for the people and the planet.
FORMAT: WHAT TO EXPECT
- Inspiring Talks & Fireside Chats
- Thematic Workshops
- Immersive Solutions Exhibition
Links
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- The Enteprise for Society (E4S) Center
Contact
- federica.poletti@epfl.ch