Theme & Interview
of our guest speakers
“Perseverance in the face of adversity”
of our guest speakers
“Perseverance in the face of adversity”
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THE CONCEPT
Since 2020 has been challenging on many levels for our business community, we choose a very special theme that will hopefully inspire and give hope to our audience: “Perseverance in the face of adversity” |
OUR GUEST SPEAKERS
Two women athletes, one french, one american, both living legend of Moutaineering and climbing, will share their rules for success in sport, life and business: Spirit of conquest, reinventing yourself, reaching the top… |
INTERVIEWER: André Manoukian
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André is a passionate musician and jazz pianist. After attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he returns to France and becomes iconic in his field. Accomplished film score composer and musical guru, he comes to fame as a member of the jury in the national hit TV-show, “La nouvelle star” (French version of American Idol). With his transcendent understanding and depiction of music, musical theory and history, he contributes to, and appears in many national TV and Radio shows.
Self-proclaimed cosmic philosopher and forever fascinated with voices, he dedicated part of his career to working with singers. He has since returned to his Armenian musical roots, his piano, and to jazz, merging the musical worlds of the East and the West. |
As a fervent improvisator, he claims Johann Sebastian Bach is the author of the very first musical algorithms with the Art of Fugue, to which he traces back the roots of Artificial Intelligence. Always on the go, he devotes his time to Muzeek, a creative AI music start-up, to AI conferences and piano concerts.
GUEST SPEAKERS
Catherine Destivelle
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Catherine Destivelle was born and raised in Paris and was introduced to climbing at a young age in the Forêt de Fontainebleau on the outskirts of the city. By the time she was 15 she could climb the toughest rocks. At 17 she was spending her weekends scaling the highest peaks in the Alps. Around the age of 20, she settled down to a career as a physiotherapist, but after five years the lure of the mountains proved too much and she started competing in international climbing competitions. |
Lynn Hill
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Lynn Hill is a living legend. Few have accomplished an athletic feat more than a decade before anyone else- man or woman. Lynn changed the definition of what is possible in rock climbing with her first free ascent of the most famous big wall climb in the world called, The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, California. Over eleven years later, Tommy Caldwell and Lynn are still the only two people in the world to have succeeded in making an all free one-day ascent of this historic route.
(Credit photo: Bob Carmichael) |
