Goals
Thursday 4th and Friday 5th February, 2010 at the Senate, Paris
“2 days to report on the emerging innovations and trends that will influence our society and economy or even turn them upside down, and share an overview of a year’s constant monitoring of the Web.”
The Netexplorateur Forum is an opportunity to meet the pioneers behind new digital practices that will have a lasting impact on society, business and public and private governance. The event is not a technology show, a start-up funding fair or a series of workshops focusing on a specific business.
The Forum goes beyond sector-based, financial or technical approaches to address the socio-cultural phenomenon of the Net.
The event’s vocation is to enable the audience to identify, observe and analyse the behaviour, decisions and achievements of global Internet players. The aim is to help participants understand how digital culture will transform their environment, business and operating methods by preparing them for new practices and the management changes they entail.
The Netexplorateur Forum has been based on a threefold rationale since its creation.
- Selectiveness: The event is restricted to 100 political and media figures who are identified and invited beforehand and to 500 executives from member corporations of Club Netexplorateur. This approach confirms the Forum’s status as a preferential meeting place for key players in politics, business and media.
- Collective intelligence: Through supervisory commissions at the Senate (Club Netexplorateur), representatives of participating institutions and companies determine strategic orientations, workshop topics and speakers. This ensures that the Forum meets the expectations of French decision-makers and addresses businesses’ concerns relating to the digital shift in their activities and organizations.
- Global openness: the Forum programme draws on the Observatory’s global intelligence work through local networks of innovation spotters. International pioneers behind the digital practices of the future are invited to speak every year at the Forum.
