Speaker

Gilles BABINET

Digital Champion for France - European Commission

Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur, born in 1967 in Paris. Since 1989, he created 9 companies in various areas of activity, such as mobile music (Musiwave), co-creation (Eyeka) or Big Data marketing (CaptainDash).

He was appointed Digital Champion in 2012 by Fleur Pellerin, French minister of digital technologies, and works with Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner in charge of digital technologies. This function is the right follow up of his former position as president of the French National Digital Council (CNN).

Publication :

Gilles Babinet published his first book in January 2014, “l’Ère numérique, un nouvel âge de l’humanité”, where he discusses the impact of new technologies on our societies, our lives and our institutions. Throughout his book, he identifies five areas such as Education, Healthcare, the State, Knowledge and Production, that are deeply challenged in the context of the ongoing digital revolution. His new book, “Big Data : penser l’homme et le monde autrement”, came out in February 2015 and deals with economic and social issues linked to the eruption of the data.

Twitter Account: @babgi