The second edition of Engineering Day, organized by the Collège Ingénierie Lyon Saint-Étienne, which brings together Centrale Lyon, ENTPE, INSA Lyon, and Mines Saint-Étienne, will be held next March.
An event designed to explore and define, from a forward-looking perspective, the role and responsibility of engineering in the decarbonization of industry and its uses, the circular economy, and responsible digital practices.
Engineering professionals, socio-economic stakeholders, high school and university students, the general public, and media are expected at the Grand Auditorium de Lyon for Re-use, Re-invent, Re-generate, through five round tables and scientific mediation workshops.
On the programme:
- Company & CSR: How can engineers act from within?
- Carine De Boissezon (Director of Impact Department, EDF)Carole Desnost (Director of Technologies, Innovation and Group Projects, SNCF)Michel Kahan (President, SETEC)
- Cécile Renouard (President, Campus de la Transition & Scientific Director, CODEV at ESSEC Business School & Professor, Facultés Loyola Paris)
- Building a corporate trajectory for carbon neutrality: from vision to reality?
- Natacha Gondran (Research Lecturer, Mines Saint-Etienne)Amélie Coantic (Deputy Director, General Commission for Sustainable Development)Florent Menegaux (President, Michelin Group)Laurent Morel (Associate, Carbone 4)
- Xavier Piechaczyk (Chairman of the Executive Board, RTE)
- Engineers facing the challenge of overexploitation of natural resources – The case of water in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
- Laurence Borie Bancel (Chairwoman of the Executive Board – CNR (Compagnie Nationale du Rhône))Elvire Charre (Director of Bugey Nuclear Power Plant)Elise Regnier (Deputy Director – DREAL AuRA)
- Jérôme Teissier (President, Naldeo)
- AGI, algorithms, and manipulation: should engineers set limits?
- Yoann Bersihand (VP AI Technology, Schneider Electric)Laurence Devillers (Professor of Computer Science, CNRS Researcher, Sorbonne University)Sébastien Gauthier (Chief Strategy Officer & Head of AI, EKIUM)
- Axelle Lemaire (Executive Director for Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility, Sopra Steria Group | Former French Minister for Digital Affairs and Innovation)
- Keynote Cyril Dion – From one world to another – Rethinking our models to face planetary limits – The keynote will be followed by a CNSMD dance performance
Cyril Dion, writer, director, and committed figure in ecological transitions, will speak at the end of the day. Author of the film Demain and numerous reference works, Cyril Dion offers an inspiring and demanding perspective on the transformations needed to address environmental and societal challenges, and his participation promises a rich, enlightening, and resolutely action-oriented exchange.
