Science Beyond Borders

🧬 Science Beyond Borders: a Deep Tech career hub🧬

​📆 Friday, November 15 2024

​📍 General’s Residence Fort Mason

RSVP here  ​(Registration required – On site only)

🇫🇷🇺🇸 Discover and create career opportunities between France and the United States
🔬 Foster American and French research collaborations
🚀 Promote innovation & showcase entrepreneurial ventures
👥 Encourage networking

Program:

​🕚12:00 PM – Welcome Keynote and luncheon buffet:
– Opening speech by the Consul General of France in San Francisco, Florian Cardinaux
– Fireside Chat with Luc Julia: transatlantic visions of generative AI, what to expect in 2025?

​🕕1:00 PM: Discover the leading French research organizations, their research areas, and how to collaborate with them: CNRS, CEA, INSERM, INRAE, CNES, INRIA, Pasteur Foundation

​🕘2:00 PM:
🎓 Track 1 – Academic exchanges & mobility grants Presentations of mobility scholarships between France and the United States
– Joanna Regulska: Vice Provost & Dean, Global Affairs at University of California, Davis
– Emmanuelle Pauliac-Vaujour: Attaché for science and technology, French Embassy in the United States
– Maria Laura Delle Monache: Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley
– Zack Gibson:  Research physicist and alumni Chateaubriand

​ 🚀Track 2 – Pathway to entrepreneurship: accelerating innovation Leveraging French and US accelerator strategies for success across the borders
– Anne Caillat: Director of Programs at StartX
– Stéphanie Marrus: Managing Director, Entrepreneurship at UCSF
– Gert Christen: Founder USA Launching Pad
– Valentine Asseman: Deputy for science and technology, Embassy of France in the United States

☕️3:00 – Coffee break & French delicacies

​🕤3:30 PM:
🎓Track 1 – Building bridges for talents Seizing the opportunity to welcome French and US talents for a research stay in your lab
– Natacha Crooks: Assistant Professor at University of California, Berkeley
– Antoine Islegen-Wojdyla: Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
– Emily Warne: Executive Director at Pasteur Foundation
– Cedric Westphal: Associate Adjunct Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz

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🚀Track 2 – Pathway to business: thriving in a multinational ecosystem Consolidating after market entry and navigating the international investment landscape
– Henri Deshays: Investor at NewFund
– Eric Buatois: Board Member of the French Tech San Francisco & General Partner at BGV
– Bastien Adolphe: Business Unit Director Energies & Green Tech, Business France
– Lisa Brown: Executive Vice President of the French-American Chamber of Commerce California SF-LA
– Thomas Cottereau: CEO and founder of SightCall

​🕤4:30 PM:
🎓Track 1 – Collaborative research Highlighting joint efforts between major national research centers in France and the U.S
– Satya Gontcho a Gontcho: Cosmologist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab
– Fabien Agenes: Director at Inserm representative office in North America – Reynald Pain: Former Director of IN2P3 and Director of the Pierre Binétruy Center – Laura Goncalves-De-Souza: Scientific cooperation officer for INRAE at the Embassy of France in Washington D.C.
– Marie Gombert: PhD at SRI International Lab

🚀Track 2 – They value their French connection Hear inspiring testimonials from French and American entrepreneurs who consider France as a strategic partner
– Sébastien Marque, PhD: Co-Founder of Horiana
– Lucas Bremond: Chief Software Architect at Loft Orbital
– Sylvain Gariel: Co-founder and COO at DNA Script
– Franck Marchis: Director of Unistellar Citizen Science
– Thomas Célérier: Director of the French-American Chamber of Commerce California SF-LA

5:30 – Innovation Strategies of French Companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, by EDF, Bouygues, Schneider, Valeo

​🍸6:30 – Closing remarks and french Aperitif!