Hello everybody. Welcome to the Arden Laps podcast. Today, we have a special guest, Francois Bézouet. He is all the way in where, Francois?

Hello. I'm in Paris and I'm super happy to have this discussion with you.

Francois, so you're in Paris. Do you work out of Paris?

You're always in Paris or you live somewhere else or you kind of bounce around?

I'm living in Paris, but I travel a lot.

Just to give you some example this year, I've been to India, Korea, China, Japan, Nigeria, the States, and some countries in Europe.

So I live here in Paris. I work in Paris, but I would say that the world is my office.

That is so fun. Okay, then give me in two minutes a short version of what are you dedicating your efforts today

and just like roughly two minutes.

Yeah, okay.

So I'm the head of Vivatech.

Vivatech is the biggest tech innovation and startup event in Europe.

So basically, my job is to make sure that for four days every year in Paris, we have the best

of all the speakers coming from all over the world, the best innovation coming from all over the world, the best innovation coming from all over the world,

and the best startup coming from all over the world. So I am due to gasser the world in Paris

to make sure that innovation will spread in the media, in business, in content. And it's super exciting because as you can imagine, every year it's a new challenge with new

topics.

And we have this incredible pleasure to welcome every year, something like 180,000 people

coming from 170 countries.

So as you can imagine, it's a great party.

That's amazing, and that's happening this summer.

That's so good.

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