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The future of brain-machine synchronisation

avec Hamilton Mann, Group Vice President of Digital Marketing and Digital Transformation at Thales and Senior Lecturer at INSEAD, Cornelia C. Walther, Senior Visiting Scientist at Wharton Initiative for Neuroscience (WiN), Michael Platt, Director of the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative and a Professor of Marketing, Neuroscience, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania

Bitcoin: electricity consumption comparable to that of Poland

avec Jean-Paul Delahaye, Mathematician and Emeritus Professor at Université de Lille

Edge innovation: a creative approach to revealing the unexpected?

avec Didier Bazalgette, Senior Officer in the French Army and Economics Lecturer at Sciences Po Paris, Jean Langlois-Berthelot, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Head of Division in the French Army, Christophe Gaie, Head of the Engineering and Digital Innovation Division at the Prime Minister's Office

Generative AI: what are the next steps?

avec Andrew Rogoyski, Innovation Director for the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI

What future can we expect for water resources in France?

avec Eric Sauquet, Research Director in Hydrology at INRAE

Young people and war: a renewed patriotism?

avec Anne Muxel, Research Director of Sociology and Political Science Research at CNRS (CEVIPOF/Sciences Po)

Rewilding, a new approach to protecting biodiversity

avec Clémentine Mutillod, PhD student at the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology at Avignon Université, Simon Chollet, Lecturer at Université de Rennes

Biological inequalities between men and women in the face of disease

avec Shannon Dunn, Associate Professor of the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto

Quantum computing and AI: less compatible than expected?

avec Filippo Vicentini, Assistant Professor of AI and Quantum Physics at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

Climate change will also have an impact on volcanic eruptions

avec Virginie Pinel, Research Director of Volcanology at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Thomas Aubry, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Earth Science at the University of Exeter