2020 SPEAKERS
Meet successful changemakers and thought leaders gathered at ChangeNOW to share their visions and experiences, and support game-changing solutions.
Solar Impulse Foundation, Founder and Chairman #OrganizingWorldwideAction #Adventurer
Burning Man Project, Founding Board Member and CEO #BuildingAnImpactCulture
The Ocean Cleanup, CEO and Founder #Ocean #PlasticPollution #EntrepreneurialSpirit
Yuka, Co-founder #Traceability #ChangingBehaviours
United Nations Global Compact, CEO & Executive Director #OrganizingWorldwideAction #CorporateSustainability
Fondation Nicolas Hulot pour la Nature et l’Homme, Honorary President #OrganizingWorldwideAction
Underwater Artist, Film Director #FilmFestival #Ocean
Tony Estanguet, President, Paris 2024 Organising Committee #SportsForGood, #SustainableCities
Entrepreneur & Philanthropist #EntrepreneurialSpirit #PhilanthropicInnovation
The Great Village, Co-Founder #EntrepreneurialSpirit
Schumacher College, Founder #Education
Future Positive Capital, Founder #ImpactFinance
B Lab UK, Co-Founder and Chair #RedefineSuccessInBusiness
United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean #Ocean #SDG14
City of San Francisco, President of the San Francisco Commission on the Environment #SustainableCities
Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, CEO and Founder #ImpactFinance
Ellen MacArthur Foundation, CEO #CircularEconomy
Pass Culture, President of Cinéma pour Tous #FilmFestival #ImpactCulture
Beyond Meat, Chairman #PlantBasedFood
FabBRICK, Founder #CircularEconomy #SustainableCities
Pandobac, Co-founder #CircularEconomy #TowardsZeroWaste
PLNT Burger, Director of strategic Marketing #PlantBasedFood
Vice President, Microsoft Technology and Corporate Responsibility #AIforGood
Ecosia, CEO and Founder #ChangingBehaviours #Reforestation
TerraCycle, Founder and CEO #CircularEconomy #TowardsZeroWaste
#sayno2plastic and #zerofoodwastage campaigns, Founder and advocate #FoodWaste #PlasticPollution
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Founder #Ocean #EnvironmentalHeroe #Adventurer (video-conference)
LITA.co, CEO and Co-Founder #EmpoweringCitizens
R20 Regions of Climate Action, President of the R20 Green Fund for Women #SustainableRegions #ImpactWomen
Sport Without Borders IUG, Founder #SportsForGood
Reseau vrac, Co-founder and Managing Director #FoodWaste #ChangingHabits
World record for the first skydive into the jet stream and high-altitude wind energy pioneer #ImpactExplorer #Windpower #FlyingTheJetStream
WWF-International President, UN Environment Goodwill Ambassador, GIST Advisory Founder-CEO #OrganizingWorldwideAction
B Lab Europe, Executive Chair Management Board #RedefineSuccessInBusiness
MUD Jeans, CEO and Founder #SustainableFashion #CircularEconomy #NoWaste #CircularJeans
SLA, Partner and CEO #SustainableCities
L'Ascenseur, Spokesperson #Inclusion
Artist #Refugees #LandArtPioneer #BeyondWalls
WWF Cities, Global Communications Lead #SustainableCities
Energy Observer, Founder and Captain #Ocean #Hydrogen #Explorer
Energy Observer, Expedition leader #Ocean #Hydrogen #Explorer
Sailor #Ocean #Explorer
Adidas, Managing Director Europe #CircularEconomy #SustainableFashion #PlasticPollution
France, Min. Ecological & Inclusive Transition, Secretary of State
Big Society Capital, CEO #ImpactFinance
Clarins Group, President of the Supervisory Board #SustainableBeauty
Helen Carlström, Head of R&D, Ectogrid #RenewableEnergy
Skipper of the Ellen MacArthur’s legendary 23m trimaran #CircularEconomy #Ocean
MAIF, CEO #MilitantInsurance
Scholavie, Co-founder #Education
European Heat Pump Association, Secretary General #HeatPumps #RenewableEnergy
Clarins Group, CEO #SustainableBeauty
On Purpose, Founder and CEO #ImpactJob
Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode, Executive President #SustainableFashion
France, Min. Ecological & Inclusive Transition, Secretary of State
Vice-Chairman of Roche Holding Ltd., Chairman of the Advisory Board of INSEAD Hoffmann Institute #OrganisingWorldwideAction
Patagonia, EMEA #SustainableFashion
RATP Group, Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer #Mobility
Surfrider Europe, CEO #Ocean
RePack, CEO and Co-Founder #CircularEconomy #TowardsZeroWaste
IMAGINE, Co-Founder and Chair #OrganizingWorldwideAction
Blue Oceans Partners, Co-Founder and Managing Partner #Ocean #ImpactInvestment
France, Minister of Labour #ResponsibleBusiness
Agence régionale de la biodiversité Île de France, Ecologist #UrbanBiodiversity
Danone, Chairman of the Board and CEO #OrganizingWorldwideAction
Survival International France, Director #HumanRights #Education #TribalPeoples
Precious Plastic, France #PlasticPollution #Ocean #Art
Adidas PURPOSE, Director Sustainability #CircularEconomy #PlasticWaste
Urban Forests, Founder #UrbanBiodiversity
Litterati, Founder & CEO #ChangingBehaviours #Waste
Nudgd, Co-Founder & Managing Director #Nudge
Microsoft, Director Artificial Intelligence and Developers #TechForImpact
SolCold, CEO & Co-Founder #AvoidingRefrigerants #Mitigation
Sayna, Founder & CEO #Inclusion
Glowing Glowing Gone Campain, The Ocean Agency, Founder & CEO #Ocean #CoralReefs
KissKissBankBank, Founder and CEO #Crowndfunding
Follow This, Founder #EmpoweringCitizens
The Good Lobby, Head of Engagement #EmpoweringCitizens
The Shift Project, Mobility Expert #Mobility #SustainableCities
Oceans of Energy, Founder & CEO #RenewableEnergy
Equium, Founder & CEO #AvoidingRefrigerants #OffGridCooling
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Founder and Former CEO and Chair #ImpactFinance
Extinction Rebellion UK spokesperson, Inspiring Sustainability founder #EmpoweringCitizens #StrategyStoryteller
Phenix, Co-founder and CEO #FoodWaste
Techleap, Special Envoy #TechForGood
Business Leader Startup Innovation #TechForGood
Union Cycliste Internationale, Advocacy Manager #SportForGood #SustainableCities
Future Positive Capital, Co-Founder #ImpactFinance
ShipReality, CEO & Co-Founder #MaritimeTransport #Ocean
Fermes d'Avenir, Director #AgricultureTransition
CITEO, CEO #ImpactInvestment
GIIN, Global Impact Investing Network, Co-founder and CEO #ImpactInvestment
Reforest'Action, Founder and CEO #Reforestation
Quantis, Managing Director France #PlanetaryBoundaries
MTArt, CEO #Refugees #TransformingCitiesWithArt
Beam, Founder #Inclusion
Arianee, CEO and Co-founder #TechForGood
Climeworks, Business Development #CarbonCapture
Ustinov Hoffmann Construction System (UHCS), Co-founder #CircularEconomy
Low-tech Lab, President #LowTech
Re_Set, Co-founder
Make.org, Founder & CEO #ChangingHabits
CITEO, Director of Mobilization #ChangingHabits
e.Voyageurs SNCF, CEO #Mobility
Echo Studio President, Creator of Disney Nature #FilmFestival
BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions, Chief Executive Officer #CircularEconomy #NewMaterials
Gr3n recycling, CEO and founder #PlasticPollution
Barreau de Paris, Lawyer, #FoodWaste
Échale, CEO and Founder #LowTech#SustainableCities
Wasteless, VP Bus Dev #FoodWaste
SoScience, Founder and CEO #CircularEconomy #NewMaterials
Boston Consulting Group, Managing Director & Partner #CarbonCapture
CITEO, Head of Eco-design #CircularEconomy #NewMaterials
Miracle Messages France, Lawyer #Inclusion
Avanade France, Data-Science Lead #TechForImpact
The Skateroom, Founder and CEO #EntrepreneurialSpirit
Perrier, International Business Unit Director #CircularEconomy #NewMaterials
Deputy Chief Executive Officer Finance, Performance and Europe #BusinessWithValues
Vépluche, President and Co-founder #FoodWaste
Zephyr et Borée, Co-Founder #MaritimeTransport#Ocean
Back Market, CEO and Co-Founder #Sourcing
Chivas House, Head of Sustainability & Responsibility #ImpactInvestment
Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, CEO #ImpactFinance
Natural Hydrogen Energy LLC, Co-Founder and CEO #Hydrogen
CDP Europe, Director Investor Engagement #ImpactFinance
CPR Asset Management, Deputy CEO #ImpactFinance
NextProtein, Co-founder & Managing Director #AgricultureTransition #Ocean
Sustain'Air, Managing Director #AvoidingRefrigerants
Courbet, Founder & CEO #Sourcing
Air Transport Action Group, Executive Director #AviationFootprint
EcoAct Spain, Director #SustainableFashion
RMN - Grand Palais, President #SustainableEvents
Who Cares!?, Founder #EmapthyAtWork #ChiefCareOfficer
Ananda Impact Ventures, Managing Partner #ImpactInvestment
Imagin/able, Founder & Director #SustainableFashion #Nudge
MAZE, Head of Acceleration #ImpactFinance
Good Tech Lab, Co-founder #TechForGood
Network for Global Innovation, President & CEO #ImpactInvestment
City of Lahti, Mayor #SustainableCities
Chief Poetic Officer #Education
The Weaving Lab, Co-Founder #Education
Fiction Changing the World, Producer #FilmFestival
Planet Heart, President #ImpactCulture
Green Spark Group, Principal, Sustainability Strategy and Engagement #FilmFestival
Another Way Off, Founder and CEO
VAE Solis Communications, Partner
SkyNRG, Managing Director #AviationFootprint
Ocean Polaire, Explorer #Ocean
Solubio, COO #AgricultureTransition
City of Angers, Mayor #SustainableCities
Carbiolice, Business & Alliances Director #CircularEconomy
Research on Yoga in Education, President #Education
ClientEarth, Chair of the Board of Trustees #EmpoweringCitizens
Wild Immersion, CEO #FilmFestival
Earth Angel, Founder & CEO #FilmFestival
FAMAE Challenge, Head of the Foundation #FoodWaste
Yusuf Bilesanmi, Founder and CEO, Eja – iCe
Lactips, Innovative Product Manager #CircularEconomy #NewPackaging
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Chairman Collaboration board #SpaceExploration #FromSpaceToImpactOnEarth #BlackHoleImage
Raise Impact, Partner #ImpactInvestment
ZeroAvia, VP of Business Development #AviationFootprint
Fairphone, Founder #PlanetaryBoundaries #Sourcing
Techfugees, CEO #Refugees
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Director #SustainableEvents
Axionable, Executive Director #TechForImpact
Hugo Décrypte, Journalist #FakeNews
Maisons du Monde, CEO #Reforestation
Center Interdisciplinary Research, Savanturiers Director #Education
International MC
Musée national Picasso-Paris, President #SustainableEvents
ATR, SVP Engineering #AviationFootprint
Stimergy, President and Co-Founder #DigitalPollution
Fondation Tara Océan, Executive Director #Ocean
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, Director of CSR & UR Lab #SustainableCities
SkySails Group, CTO #WindPower #MaritimeTransport
La Ving-Cinquième Heure, CEO #FilmFestival
Fipadoc, President #FilmFestival
Quantis, Absolute Sustainability Advisor #PlanetaryBoundaries
City of London, CEO of London & Partners #SustainableCities
Espace Totem, Co-founder #ImpactCulture
The wellbeing project, Project Lead #ImpactCulture
Renaissance écologique, Author #Education
Conf Kids, Founder #Inclusion #Education
Tony’s Chocolonely, Choco Evangelist #Sourcing #Traceability
Pour un Réveil Ecologique, Student #Education
Musée de L’Orangerie, Director #SustainableEvents
BNP Paribas, Head of CSR #Ocean
BNP Paribas Asset Management, Global Head of Products and Strategic Marketing & ExCo Member #ImpactFinance
Kat Borlongan, Director of French Tech
Sebastien Folin, Storyteller, activit, content producer #SustainableDevelopment #Solidarity #Equality
Emmanuel Marcovitch, Deputy General Manager, RMN - Grand Palais
City of Breda, Vice-Mayor #SustainableCities
Secoya Eco Tournage, President and Co-Founder
Surfrider Foundation Europe, Ocean Protection challenge #Ocean
ChangeNOW, Co-Founder and CEO
French Ministry of Ecological Transition, SSE High Commissioner #ESS #SocEnt #RSE #impact
Flying Whales, Market Manager #aeronautics #flyingwhales
ChangeNOW, Co-Founder & COO
EIT Climate-KIC, Scaling Strategist / Impact Hub Zürich, Co-founder / Stride, Co-founder #Community #ClimateChange #NewEconModels
Journalist, Writer, Entrepreneur
ChangeNOW, Co-Founder & Chief Development Officer
Le Campus de la Transition, Co-founder and CEO #Education
Devex, Brussels correspondent
BNP Paribas, Head of Company Engagement
Capgemini Invent, VP Sustainability & Energy
President of the French Federation of Women's Wearing Apparel
City of Strasbourg, Strasbourg Planning Agency
LanDestini, Retour à la Terre, Co-president
Smart World, Founder #SmartCity #IA
Africa - France Summit 2020, Ambassador & General Secretary
Koan Coaching, Founder
Koan Coaching, Senior Scientific advisor
L'Autre Ecole, Founder
Co-Gîtons, Founder
Officience, Decidologist
Kamea Meah Films, Impac Strategist
ATLAS V, Founder
France Televisions Lab, Storytelling Researcher
Ticket For Change, Founder
Pixetik, Co-Founder
Finland, Minister of Economic Affairs
BNP Paribas, Head of Social Business
La Bascule, Member
CliMates, Member
Magic Makers, Founder
GSG, Market Development Director
Engie, Executive Vice President
Republic of Uzbekistan, Minister of Innovative Development
Publicis Group, CSR Director
Sitra, Senior Lead Business Development
Business France, Environment Manager
European Investment Bank, Vice-President
European Investment Fund, Chief Executive
Carbon Neutral Helsinki program, City of Helsinki #SustainableCities
Thomas Landrain, Co-Founder and CEO, JOGL #OpenSource #OpenScience
Paolo Bassanini, CEO, Bioma #AgricultureTransition
Jan Vermeulen, Mayor, City of Deinze #SustainableCities #Mobility
Nils Larsen, Charmain Sustainability Board, City of Umeå #SustainableCities
Pascale D'Erm, Journalist and film maker, Natura
Dr Reina Camacho Toro, Mentee, Homeward Bound #ImpactWomen, #TakeYourPlace, #StrongerTogether
Sandeep Verma, Managing Director Europe, Allbirds #SustainableFashion
Anne Catherine Husson-Traore, CEO and co-founder, Novethic #ImpactFinance
Jean-Charles Guinchard, Associate Partner, Dalberg Advisors
Shanta Bloemen, Director, Mobility For Africa
Frédéric Pfister, Directeur Off-Grid Afrique, NEoT Capital
Daphnée Benayoun, Associate Partner, Dalberg Advisors
Ilija Gudnitz Weber, Senior Consultant, Dalberg Media
ANIMA, Co-Founder, #AIforGood
ZEI,CEO #Sourcing
Fairphone, France Ambassador #DigitalPollution
SOLUTIONS
ChangeNOW praises changemakers and innovations answering to the most urgent Global Issues of the XXIst century,
with practical, high-potential and sustainable solutions.
The first biomimetic wind turbine, combining Aeroleaf and Photovoltaic Petals, proximity and design, for perfect acceptability
The compostable packaging that is just as transparent, durable and impermeable as conventional plastic packaging
The unique, intimate and interactive experience of the Whole Earth in rotation captured from outer space
The affordable, evolutive and 100% renewable deep sea desalination solution
Converting household waste into sustainable bio-based materials
A totally automated urban transport system for people and goods, running on a dedicated aerial infrastructure
The process technology that can turn cotton rich textile waste into new fibers for the textile industry, infinitely
The modern freight that combines cutting-edge technologies and wind energy to reach cost effective and sustainable transport solutions
The seaweed cultivation in developing countries to produce sustainable biomass for bioplastics
The simple yet efficient filter for removing microfibres from washing machine wastewater
The tech nonprofit building the social services of the future through software and data science
Solar Energy Converging With Architecture
Recapturing raw materials from end use polyester and cotton to provide inputs into new clothing, replacing virgin resources.
The self-supporting structures with an autonomous and connected irrigation system to fight pollution, heat islands and biodiversity loss
The collecting and composting of food waste within the city in short cycle
Eliminating 100% water usage when urinating, with a 1ml solution, cheaper than water
Edible and compostable packaging, made of potato and water, natural and gluten free
Smart soil-less agricultural system to grow staple food crops almost anywhere globally with minimum grower risk & environmental impact
The digital platform transforming the externalization of tasks in a socially responsible way in Africa
This smart demand-management solution drives significant water and energy savings to empower users through Behavioral Efficency "nudge" technology
The phone making a change in the electronics industry by using fairer materials, good working conditions, reusing and recycling
Detect, valorize and release the cooking talents of housewives from migrations or refugees to empower them
The marketplace for responsible consumption
The sustainable forests created with a unique economic system with social impact
The world's first mobility ecosystem that combines all journeys with public transport, taxi, car, bikes and more in one service
The agriculture company transforming unused underground locations in cities into productive & sustainable farms
The shiny dash of color that brings awareness to the environmental cost of glitter
The company transforming food crop waste into high-value natural fiber products