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Echappée Volée 2016: science, creation and experimentation

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Echappée Volée 2016: science, creation and experimentation

Echappée Volée 2016: science, creation and experimentation

Nearly 1,000 people gathered for a weekend of conferences and experiments: the third season of Echappée Volée has just come to a close. The event was organized by the Brightness agency, producer of Tedx-Paris, in collaboration with Les Fontaines. Here's a look back at the weekend at the end of May.

The Echappée Volée concept is based on the famous Ted conferences, but with the addition of an opportunity for the public to interact with the speakers and take part in various experiments in a giant Innovation Lab.

In this way, a specialist can open up a theme, create intellectual emulation with regard to a subject, and then encourage spectators to become actors, for the time of a manipulation, an experiment, or a creation. Echappée Volée 2016 featured 40 lectures (on the block chain, Big Data for job seekers, the consequences of longer life expectancy, etc.) and 50 "Demos".

Participants were able to take advantage of the Capgemini Les Fontaines Campus and all the technological, logistical and hotel features of this extraordinary center. On the menu: virtual reality, telerobotics, 3D printing of robots, as well as cardboard musical instruments, a political program comparator, relaxing armchairs that diffuse music throughout the body, and a civic engagement platform!

"It was natural for us to partner with Brightness to organize this event," explains Bertrand Cheyrou, President of Campus Les Fontaines. First of all, the Les Fontaines campus is an eco-labeled site. We live and breathe our customers' concerns about preserving our environment, and this was a key theme of all the conferences. Secondly, the theme of the Echappée Volée: Dream, Dare, Change. The campus is a place for sharing and innovation. We experience innovation every day, whether it's digital, with the implementation of solutions that make our customers' work easier, or more frugal. Last but not least, the alternation of conferences, which tend to appeal to the analytical part of the brain, and experiments, which mobilize the emotions, is a pillar of the Capgemini Group's event organization. We often draw on ESA and socio-dynamic approaches to achieve this. "

A parallel can be drawn between Echappée Volée and the ASE (Accelerated Solutions Environment) methodology proposed by Capgemini Consulting for over twenty years. Both encourage the involvement of participants and the resolution of complex problems through collective intelligence. ASE is built around three key phases: Scan, Focus and Act. Scan" is similar to the Echappée conferences, always "disruptive" and multiplying the angles of approach to the same subject. The "Focus" period is a time for experimentation and positioning each participant on the subjects that are most relevant to him or her. Finally, "Act" is the time for commitment.

"L'Echappée participants were able to contribute their expertise to the realization of the projects presented at the conference. L'Echappée Volée is an event for the general public, and we were delighted to be associated with it," explains Bertrand Cheyrou. Les Fontaines is an exceptional setting for mobilizing corporate executives and supporting their commitment. The venue is designed with this in mind, and all the mobilization methods Capgemini has tried and tested enable us to get the very best out of it for our clients."

5 keys to developing participant commitment

(1) Get to know your population: Identify problems, obstacles and objectives

(2) Think outside the box: beyond this injunction, create the conditions for our brains to mobilize different resources and associations. This can be achieved by bringing in experts who are sometimes deliberately disruptive, or by staging new workspaces with the specific layout of collaborative rooms.

(3) Be sensible: identify the range of possibilities together and discover that there are several solutions. "Insanity is behaving in the same way and expecting a different result", said Albert Einstein.said Albert Einstein.

(4) Select the most interesting possibilities and refine them as a group, to create commitment and make participants the driving force behind the transformation.

(5) Unfold an action plan to channel enthusiasm and creativity and take the first steps towards a new way of selling, organizing or developing.

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