Alexia Barrier: the audacity to stay the course in uncertainty
At the five-year anniversary of FCE Var Estérel, chaired by Claire Le Gouill, sailor Alexia Barrier shared a journey where sports performance intertwines closely with entrepreneurship, leadership, and managing uncertainty. Building a project without having all the resources, making decisions under pressure, knowing when to change course, forming a team, and preserving energy to endure...
Thomas Pesquet in Monaco: space, a human adventure built on Earth
By Pascale Caron In Monaco, Thomas Pesquet took his audience far beyond the spectacular images of the International Space Station. Through the account of his Alpha mission, the European astronaut spoke about science, cooperation, sovereignty and transmission. Above all, he showed what makes exploration possible: years of preparation, patiently built trust and a collective ability...
Jean-Pierre Petit in Monaco faces global economic tensions
Entrenched conflicts, mounting state debt, and accelerating technological investments: in Monaco, Jean-Pierre Petit describes a resilient global economy nonetheless subject to growing financial constraints. Behind his market analysis lies a question directly relevant to business leaders: how can transformation efforts be sustained when resources become harder to mobilize? By Pascale Caron "The global economic situation...
Matthieu Ruatti: adapting AI to business to enter the era of agentic commerce
"Changing my entire business to make it good for AI doesn't make sense." This sentence summarizes the vision that Matthieu Ruatti defends with MULTI and MyMULTI.ai. According to him, artificial intelligence should not impose its constraints on businesses. It must understand their trade, their priorities, their processes and their limits. AI was first adopted as...
“These certainties have disappeared”: Ursula von der Leyen redefines the European economic model
At La REF 2026, on August 27 at Roland-Garros, Ursula von der Leyen delivered a speech to French entrepreneurs that goes far beyond the question of competitiveness. The President of the European Commission starts from an observation: the conditions that have supported the European economic model for several decades are being profoundly challenged. Energy, China,...
AI in business: the missing link between productivity and value creation
A report by the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence raises a question that should directly interest business leaders: who actually captures the value created by AI? Behind this question lies a much broader problem. Companies have invested heavily in accessing technologies, adopting them, and multiplying use cases. But they still have...