Showcase is E4S’ impact innovation summit that gathers all actors of society (the academic community, businesses, start-ups, investors, large organizations, NGOs, policy-makers and civil society) to build a better future for the people and the planet. 

2025 Edition: Innovating for the Wellbeing of Humans and Ecosystems

On September 10th, 2025, Showcase brought together over 1,150 participants at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne to explore innovation for human and ecosystem wellbeing. Thank you for being part of the journey!

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Agenda – Sept 10th, 2025

08:30 – Exhibition opening and welcome coffee

09:30 – 11:15 Introduction and block 1: Facing reality – Wellbeing in a fragmented world

• Welcome to Showcase – Julia Bory (Innovation Lead, E4S) and Jean-Philippe Bonardi (Co-Director, E4S)
• Setting the Stage: an Economy for Wellbeing – Christian Gollier (Professor of Environmental Economics, Toulouse School of Economics)
• Planetary health: a shared global concern – Maria Neira (Former Director of Environment, Climate Change and Health, World Health Organisation)
• Changing circumstances, changing priorities? – Simon Evenett (Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy, IMD)
• Policies for human and ecological well-being: between lucidity and ambition (FR) – Fire-side chat with Bruno Le Maire (Former French Minister of the Economy and Finance) and Timothée Parrique (Researcher in Ecological Economics, HEC-UNIL)

Moderated by Jean-Philippe Bonardi (Co-Director, E4S- HEC UNIL)

11:15 -12:15 Thematic workshops

Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:00 Block 2: Transforming sectors – An economy for wellbeing

• Living well within planetary boundaries : which opportunities for the next 5 years ? (FR) – Jean-Marc Jancovici (President, the Shift Project)
• Decarbonizing construction – Karen Scrivener (Professor, Materials and Construction Laboratory, EPFL)
• Leveraging constraints: how higher education can lead change – Fire-side chat with Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (President, EPFL), Frédéric Herman (Rector, UNIL) and David Bach (President, IMD)

Moderated by Michaël Aklin (Co- Director, E4S – EPFL)

Afternoon Break

15:30 – 17:00 Block 3: Acting now – Showcasing innovation for impact

• How to integrate societal challenges into the transformation of an institution? The example of UNIL – Benoît Frund (Vice-Rector, Ecological Transition and Campus, University of Lausanne)
• Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st century – Sophie Bacq (Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, IMD)
• From watts to wellbeing: how decentralized energy sparks sustainable livelihoods – Abhishek Jain (Director of Green Economy & Impact Innovations, CEEW)
• Solutions for robust value chains (FR) – Sabrina Bosson (Senior Partnership Lead, Cocoa, Earthworm Foundation)
• Solutions for sport and well-being: bringing meaning to sporting experiences (FR) – Adina Edme (Chief Transformation Officer, Decathlon Switzerland)
• Solutions for circular fashion – Nicholas Hänny (CEO, NIKIN)
• An SME’s journey of transformation for wellbeing – Stephanie Tauber Gomez (Deputy CEO, B Lab Switzerland)

Moderated by Florian Hoos (Co- Director, E4S – IMD)

Closing by Julia Binder (Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation, IMD) and Florian Hoos (Co- Director, E4S – IMD).