My speech in OEA conference:

For the first time in History, mankind is facing a challenge, may be the biggest challenge it never faced. In fact, there is more than one challenge… will see after, but this one is the first we have to fix.

·       Scarcity, we know now that earth will not be able to sustain mankind indefinitely.

Scarcity of food and water, only 2,5% of water on earth is drinkable, but also scarcity of raw material and mineral wealth.

This is the problem we should fix…

First let me introduce myself,

By the late 2000s, I worked in electronics, and my own wish was to start a new life and I was animated by a profound conviction: Electronics will not be the same anymore and Printed electronics will be its future.

New applications (sensors, flexible displays…) will represent important growth factors for our economy. As they are based on new uses (smart cities, internet of things, autonomous vehicles, communicating clothes…), they will meet fast expanding markets. In addition, they constitute valuable aids to sustainable development, energy conservation, improving people daily lives...

And this was my deep motivation, I wanted to contribute to the wellbeing of the mankind.

To contribute to the implementation of these applications, new materials should be invented and developed.

I decided to manufacture these products that will make us move from dream to reality, so, in 2008, I left the comfort of a major company in traditional electronics, and founded Genes'Ink, an innovative startup in the field of nanomaterials and printed electronics.

And you know what, we created those materials!

We invent a conductive ink without sintering, even any heating, our silver ink is conductive at room temperature.

You can use it with all the deposition methods existing in printed electronics, you can see it on the demoline…

Let’s go back to our concern, we leave a wonderful time, we are at the very beginning of a new era, opens by the new technologies we are developing all together.

Not only nanos! You know what we call NBIC:

-        Nanotechnology

-        Biotechnologies

-        Information sciences

-        Cognitive Sciences

And those sciences are booming, just an example:

-        In 1990 people said: « it will take 3 to 5 centuries to sequence the whole human genome »

-        In 2003 the human genome sequenced entirely for the first time

Now if you want to sequence your own genome it will cost you less than 1000 $. May be tomorrow we can modify it will all become supermen!

If we can face these challenge, which is good in fact, we must answer one question: WHY?

Science was invented for repairing what is broken by life, now we go further we improve!

Why do we want to be supermen, could we still be considered as a human after?

Or will we loose our humanity?

We are in the middle of the river (we are seating on the fence).

An old world breaking and a new one emerging. The Italian political theorist and sociologist, Antonio Gramsci, said it best, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

Therefore, technological, environmental and political changes will likely disrupt our business. How can we prepare for a different, even unimaginable world that will arrive faster than projected?

However, in a world of exponentially changing technology, we are presented with both new opportunities to overcome human limitations and entirely new and unpredictable challenges.

We don’t need policies that lag behind but policies that rapidly adapt and enable innovation, equity, and safe regulation. This applies equally to all organizational governance structures —from large corporations to small startups.

While technology is pausing new challenges for governance, it is also a rapidly evolving new approaches to governance.

Another example is Artificial Intelligence.

Stephen Hawking stated in late 2016 that artificial intelligence will either be “the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.”

The rate of human evolution is accelerating as we transition from the slow and random process of “Darwinian natural selection” to a hyper-accelerated and precisely-directed period of “evolution by intelligent direction.”

The bottom line is that change is coming, faster than ever considered possible. All of us leaders, entrepreneurs and parents have a huge responsibility to inspire and guide the transformation of humanity on and off the Earth. What we do over the next 30 years — the bridges we build to abundance — will impact the future of humanity for millennia to come. We truly live during the most exciting time ever in human history.

In our domain, it is the same, we will invent new applications, new materials and they will be everywhere.

Why do we want to create and produce all these new applications, objects material? Do we want to be just consumers?

In 1865 the Hyatt brothers has invented plastic. Initially, they just want to replace ivory ball for pool, not for saving elephant, just because it was expensive…

Today in the middle of the ocean we have a new continent made of all the plastics that we throw up every day.

What will happen with all the new material we invent today. All of us are the one who are making that happened.

If we do not answer the question of ethic in 50 years or less the consequences could be worse than the 6th continent, because what we are doing today is more than plastics!

Who can answer? Futurist?

Futurists don’t have secret powers to predict the future. They don’t have a special basket of fortune-cookie predictions. Rather, futurists discipline themselves to question the status quo.

They regularly scan external trends, adjacent industries and underlying forces.

They consider diverse perspectives.

And they boldly tell stories about the future before all the data is available to back it up.

They use a method, called backcasting, the act of imagining a preferred future and then stepping backward toward the present, repeatedly probing what has to happen to enable each step.

We are experiencing the most exciting time of humanity, I’m deeply convinced by this. But also, the most uncertain, and possibly dangerous.

Let’s make sure we are creating the best environment we could dream of, renewing governance with young people, using all the technology at their best, and making sure our children are educated with the right values to lead the world of today.

I do not have the answer now and not alone, what I know, but I am sure that the answer is in our hands, all together!

Science is a concept, ethic is a human value, if we want to make a revolution, it is not a technical revolution. Our responsibility is bigger than that, our revolution must be ethic.

The science must be at the service of mankind, not the opposite.

Rabelais in 1530 said:” sciences sans conscience n’est que ruine de l’âme »

“science without a soul is only the ruin of the spirit” it is time to apply it !