Paris Talks

In 2023, the Paris Talks Ideas Festival curation team chose to introduce the annual theme with a poem entitled "We Don't Know Yet". This is a narrated version of the theme's trailer. The 2023 edition of the Paris Talks Ideas Festival took place at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. For more details, please visit https://www.paris-talks.com/ and come attend the upcoming events...

In her talk on the 2023 Paris Talks Ideas Festival's stage, Neuroimmunologist Aleksandra Deczkowska shared a fascinating story about her work. The question Aleksandra is interested in within the science of Neuroimmunology, and which we do not yet have an answer to, is how to employ the immune system to treat neurological diseases, like dementia or depression or the aftermath of a stroke. She a...

Before watching this Wani Iris Manly Paris Talks 2023 talk, we suggest you close your eyes, take a deep slow breath, and say to yourself, “ I love you. I love you. I really, really love you.” Repeat this two more times and notice how you feel. Now open your eyes, watch, and carefully listen to what this change expert had to share with the Paris Talks audience at the Bibliothèque Nationale de Franc...

Looking to unlock the secrets of your DNA and discover who you truly are? For years, scientists and biologists believed that our DNA held all the answers to our future, including predicting diseases and other critical information. But in a riveting talk at the 2023 Paris Talks festival, Molecular Biologist and Research Director Germano Cecere blew the lid off this outdated notion. As he explains i...

Dans son talk sur le stage du festival d'idées Paris Talks au printemps 2023 à la Bibliothèque Nationale de France à Paris, Marie Pushparajalingam, numérologue, facilitatrice en croissance harmonieuse et coach en harmonie, parle de son cheminement et de sa quête de sens. Pour plus d'informations sur Marie et ses services, visitez son site internet: https://www.marie-menaha.com/ Plus d'...

In his 2023 Paris Talks Ideas Festival talk titled: Generative Artificial Intelligence - Human Partnership is Nigh: Embracing the Inevitable, artist, photographer and adman David RAICHMAN shows the way into the right approaches to adopt (on a societal level), in our partnership with Generative Artificial Intelligence. This talk was filmed and recorded in March 2023 at the Paris Talks Ideas Festiva...

Dans son talk sur le main stage de Paris Talks en Mars 2023, le champion de l'autonomisation de la jeunesse, Reince Trésor Gandou, raconte l'histoire de Luc et la fille Ghislaine, deux jeunes étudiants en quête d’intégration socio-professionnelle dans un environnement très hostile, compétitif et rempli d’incertitudes, à l’image de l’époque que nous sommes en train de traverser, une époque...

With her angelic voice and soulful melodies, Sumana is a speaker everyone wanted to see and hear on stage at Paris Talks 2023. The Paris-based India-born singer-songwriter found her calling in music by chance, after an unexpected encounter with a subway musician in the Parisian metro. Her mentor, @VanupieOfficiel inspired her to pursue her passion and start performing in the city's underground...

"The day you stop dreaming is the day you kill your drive for success." In this talk, entrepreneur and leadership educator, Bernard Muhindo shares insights, inspired by real-world success stories, on ways to keep harnessing the art of creativity for success in business, stressing that entrepreneurs and business people are a force for good with the mandate to make this world a better plac...

If we were to start a new normal, what and how should it be? The entire second season of the Paris Talks Podcast has been built upon this question. Welcome to the last episode of the second season of Paris Talks Podcast. This episode is called Shrewd Thinking. Today’s episode will take us through the path that led us to this “New Normal” theme of the Paris Talks Podcast and a few other lessons we’...

He was born in The Democratic Republic of the Congo, has travelled a lot for business, studies and fun, he’s a lawyer by profession, a policy-designer, entrepreneur and he currently lives in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. This Paris Talks Podcast episode features Bernard Muhindo. Bernard was on Christmas holidays in France with his family when he first heard of the Coronavirus but, just like...

Born in Italy to an Italian Catholic mother and a Senegalese/Gambian father, this African, European, Italian, Gambian, Senegalese, blue collar, bourgeois, Muslim-Catholic, afro-italian guy is, well “technically”, all and none of these adjectives at the same time”. It’s important to mention here that that’s a self-description of Adama Sanneh, today’s Paris Talks Podcast guest. Adama is the Co-Found...

The Covid-19 Pandemic has brought the entertaining and arts world to a standstill. When this episode of the Paris Talks Podcast was recorded, the City of Paris was under total lockdown and just like many other artists and musicians in particular, our today’s guest was massively impacted. All of her concerts and gigs were cancelled. One of the ways she innovated was through Social Media by discover...

This special episode of the Paris Talks Podcast is featuring a former corporate-turned entrepreneur. Christopher Kramme is the co-founder and CEO of Outcome , a Paris-based startup leveraging collective intelligence and technology to change the way firms work together. Prior to launching Outcome, Chris spent two decades with BNP Paribas in Europe and the United States in roles ranging from corpora...

On February 26, the coronavirus landed in Latin America when Brazil confirmed a case in São Paulo. Since then, governments across the region have taken an array of actions to protect their citizens and contain the spread of the devastating respiratory disease called by the World Health Organization COVID-19. But, per July 2020, Latin America had become the region with the highest number of confirm...

If we were to start a new normal, what and how should it be? The NEW NORMAL is the title we've given to the second season of the Paris Talks Podcast. It's made of six episodes that have been been built upon the above-asked question. Subscribe and listen to the 1st episode coming in on December 17, 2020.

In his lecture-like talk on the Paris Talks stage at UNESCO, the  Writer, Environmental and Energy Transition Innovator Pierre-Etienne FRANC methodically argues on the benefits of Hydrogen, adding that “it’s possible to demonstrate zero emission mobility in a city using Hydrogen fuel-cell”  

In his talk on the 2019 Paris Talks Conference stage at UNESCO, the Writer & ICAN France spokesperson & Arctic research, expert on issues of Defence and International Security, Jean-Marie Collin freaks participants out on future possibilities of an imminent nuclear war. Telling a story of The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency’s false alert about an incoming ballistic missile, Jean-Marie a...

In her talk on the 2019 Paris Talks Conference stage at UNESCO, the humanitarian, former Pakistani parliamentarian and cabinet member, Marvi Memon , talked about a disturbing observations of conflicts - mismanaged by corrupt institutions and global leadership - that nurture chronic poverty for some and great economic opportunities for others. To have safer and equal economic opportunities for all,...

In this talk, Kyle Matthews , the  Executive Director of Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies , insists that to be able to win the war on terrorism, we have to be able to engage in the battle of ideas.  How can we do that?  Kyle argues that education is the key.  We must continuously teach critical skills, apply the rule of law and stop our military obsessio...

In his 2019 Paris Talks Conference talk at UNESCO in 2019,  Writer & Journalist Alex Taylor discusses the messy break-up of Brexit, looking at its implication for popular confidence in glogal leadership. According to Alex, Identity & sincerity are some of the main issues politicians and the global leadership should learn to fix to avoid many issues that can turn into conflict. 

In this round table discussion on the Paris Talks stage at UNESCO in March 2019, the radio personality David J. COFFEY ,  Deputy Head of Service RFI English engages Marvi Mermon , Sonia BEN ALI and Timo Eliott in a discussion on issues related to conflict and ways to resolve current politically-motivated divides in our society.

In her talk on the Paris Talks stage at UNESCO in March 2019, the Social Innovator, Co-Founder and CEO at URBAN REFUGEES Sonia BEN ALI , argues that even though refugees are victims of armed conflicts and, definitely suffer from the consequences of these conflicts, they are also powerful solutions builders and finders that need to be empowered and engaged.

In her talk at the 2019 Paris Talks conference at UNESCO, Ms Stefania Giannini, the UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education sent a wake up call to Paris Talks participants asking them to stand up for education not only for number educated children but in terms of the quality of the education given to them. This talks promotes educational values based on development, strong cooperation for...

In his keynote speech at the 2019 edition of the Paris Talks Conference at UNESCO,   Lassina Zerbo , the Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization challenged the Paris Talks participants on the importance of innovating through the art of getting to commit to our engagements as Nation States and citizens but also learning to love and care for one another.