Business: how to rebound after the crisis?

“We want people to leave at the end of this day, reboosted to death, ready to go again with coal. Benoit Buridant, CEO of French Founders, is clear on the objectives of the "Online Summit, Business Rebound" he is organizing on Wednesday April 29: to allow entrepreneurs and business leaders to take a whiff of optimism they need.

French Founders, a club of Francophone entrepreneurs around the world, has had to reinvent itself, like everyone else, since the start of the Covid-19 crisis. Accustomed to hosting dozens of events every month around the world, the team has turned into mass webinar organizers. “There is an extraordinary engagement, with some webinars attracting over 800 people, notes Benoit Buridant. People need to exchange, to understand. " With this ambitious online summit, the team aims even higher: "It's 16 hours of event, 50 speakers, and a multitude of specialized sessions, by industry and the possibility of networking". Starting at 2pm Hong Kong time (8am in Paris and 2am in New York), the conferences will continue until 6pm New York time. The event will be open to all, members or not of French Founders.

To be able to find all the characteristics of a physical conference during this online event, French Founders will use the services of a brand new London-based start-up, Hopin, which specializes in complex online events, which can host up to 100,000 people. “Our goal is for the conference to be used fully by the participants, for example as a team, to “Team building” and re-motivate everyone ”.

Several big names in the business answered the call: Jacques Attali; Sébastien Bazin, the CEO of Accor Hotels; Bertrand Badré, head of the Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital investment fund; Hubert Joly, Executive Chairman of Best Buy. (Full program here)