Science Beyond Borders
The event is fully booked, but we will accommodate additional entries if any cancellations occur.
[Registration required - On site only]
🧬Science Beyond Borders: a Deep Tech career hub🧬
📆Friday, November 15
📍General’s Residence Fort Mason
🇫🇷🇺🇸 Discover and create career opportunities between France and the United States
🔬 Foster American and French research collaborations
🚀 Promote innovation & showcase entrepreneurial ventures
👥 Encourage networking
🕚11:30 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 & Video Interview with Frédéric Mazzella, Successful French Entrepreneur and Founder of BlaBlaCar.
🕤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
🚀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!