Showcase: Innovating for the Wellbeing of Humans and Ecosystems

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Date 10.09.2025
Hour 09:0017:00
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
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Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language French, English

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. 

THEME OF THE 2025 EDITION:  Innovating for the Wellbeing of Humans and Ecosystems

Block 1: Facing Reality – Wellbeing in a fragmented world
What are the main current obstacles that halt the transition towards a system centered on wellbeing? What are the opportunities and how can we seize them? This block analyses the new geopolitical landscape and the evolution of democracy.

Block 2: Rethinking the Model – An economy for wellbeing
What does an economic system that targets the wellbeing of humans and ecosystems look like? How far are we from such reality and what are concrete pathways towards it? By addressing these questions, this block aims at discussing a feasible social and economic system that ensures sustainable wellbeing for humanity and nature.

Block 3: Acting Now – Showcasing innovation for wellbeing
What solutions are ready to be deployed today? How is innovation currently steered towards wellbeing? This block showcases solutions geared towards wellbeing and that are scalable, even in these times of uncertainty.

FORMAT: WHAT TO EXPECT

  • Inspiring Talks & Fireside Chats
  • Thematic Workshops
  • Immersive Solutions Exhibition
Stay tuned as the program will be announced soon and registrations will open shortly on e4s.center/showcase

Practical information

  • General public
  • Free

Organizer

  • The Enteprise for Society (E4S) Center 

Contact

  • federica.poletti@epfl.ch -  justine.lecam@epfl.ch

Tags

Innovation Startups Society Health & Wellbeing Geopolitics

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