Stéphane Mallard

Speaker Stéphane Mallard Keynote Topics

Artificial intelligence

• A.I is no science fiction any more. Machines are now learning and reaching intelligent levels that were prieviously unthinkable. The advent of A.I totally reshapes businesses and demand that people and organizations rethink how they work, and especially what they do. Artificial Intelligence is not a matter of performance and automation, it is a displacing the value and calling for different skills.

Speaker Stéphane Mallard Keynote Topics

Digital Revolution

• Digital is not only new technologies. It is about empowering people with new and unlimited capacites and leverages that change the way people and organizations interact. The digital revolution calls for a new way of conducting business that harness the power of networks and demands fast, direct, streamlined and amazing experiences at all levels.

The disruption of Marketing

• As tech is empowering each of us with new and unlimited capacities, marketing will be also be impacted. We usually think of marketing as being augmented by technolgy and especially by A.I. This is true on corporations’ side. A.I will provide tools to bettter know customers and reach them at unimaginable ways. But consumers will be endowed by A.I to protect themselves against the power of A.I on marketing. As a result, marketing’s impact might be diminshed… if corporations don’t change their marketing approach.

Speaker Stéphane Mallard Keynote Topics

Digital world/startup culture

• The digital revolution comes with new customs and habits. The corporate world is lagging behind as it rests on a way to conduct business that was adapted the 20th century : vertical organizations, uptight command and control management, outdated key performance indicators, and more broadly a culture of secrecy. The digital revolution demands that organizations open widely to the external world and radically cut loose from their corporate culture. Digital is about genuine, smooth and flexible interactions, not rigidity. Startups show the way.

Speaker Stéphane Mallard Keynote Topics

HR and skills of the digital world

• As algorithms gain more power and flexibility, professionals will train them to transfer their knowledge and expertise. As a result, expertise will become a commodity in business. Skills will have to be sharpen towards more empathy. Becoming good at being human will become as important as being a reliable trained professional. HR will have to foster the shift.