[PROGRAMME IN PROGRESS - timetables and speakers may still be added to and adjusted].

The new Biomim'expo 2025 plenary session, in the amphitheatre of the Palais du Pharo.

A rich and diverse programme to showcase initiatives and innovations in all areas. Schedules are subject to change ... thank you for your understanding.

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9.30am - 9.40am [ WELCOME NOTE

In 2005, Éric Berton was appointed university professor. He created a master's degree in movement engineering and ergonomics and also undertook to develop relations between companies and Aix-Marseille-II, with the creation in 2008 of a chair of excellence involving the industrial group Oxylane. As part of the university foundation, he also launched a chair in 'Engineering, innovation and ergonomics for sports projects', which funds research projects in the field of sport and technologies for ageing.

In January 2012, Eric Berton joined the governing body of the merged University of Aix-Marseille as a member of the Executive Board. vice-president responsible for added value and innovationHe is also director of the Institut des sciences du mouvement (UMR AMU/CNRS) until 2019. Éric Berton is also President of AMU's two business incubators: Impulse (since 2012) and Belle de Mai (since 2015).

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9.40am - 10.15am [ WHY DOES NATURE INSPIRE US? OUR FIGHT FOR BIOMIMICRY

>> Presentation of the programme / review of trends and news on the rise of biomimicry / Why is biomimicry accelerating and emerging as a new paradigm for overcoming the crisis? but also as a tool for managing innovation and creating a new form of global added value? How far have we got? What are the obstacles (still) and what are the levers? A look back at 10 years of intensive work and the outlook for the future.

To see for yourself:

As a reminder, biomimicry is a real opportunity for the future. It is a fast-growing approach with strong multi-sector potential, at the heart of the disruptive innovation strategies of many companies, research centres and innovative businesses, because it is at the heart of the new transition underway: saving energy; working in short circuits; reducing waste; rethinking agriculture; preferring the circular to the linear; combating global warming; making our housing, towns and territories resilient; combining growth and biodiversity; working and communicating in open, collegiate systems; ... breaking out of silos to innovate through decompartmentalised approaches, inspired by 3.8 billion years of R&D on living things!

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10.15am - 11.15am [ BIODIVERSITY, CLIMATE, THE OCEANS AND US ... DESTINIES LINKED

Why are Biodiversity and Climate issues so important? two sides of the same coin, that of preserving the capacity to live on Earth, including for the human species. Why is everything linked, but not in the same way and at the same levels? How can we re-prioritise causes and effects, solutions and objectives? How can we move from a fatal dead end, where biodiversity dies (before we do) from global warming (and accelerates it by its collapse), to a biodiversity-solution and major tool for decarbonisation and quality of life? And above all, what are the hopes, solutions and encouraging trends?

To discuss and debate these issues, we have brought together :

Take advantage of their presence in the showroom to discuss the subject further ...

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11.15am - 12pm [ AND WHAT IF THE AGRICULTURE OF THE FUTURE WAS ALREADY HERE?

>> Perhaps never before has agriculture been so much the focus of both criticism and hope, a testing ground, a political and societal issue, a subject of public debate, sometimes virulent, at a time when we have never had so much common interest in reinventing together this vital activity that will determine our future. After a summer marked by the Duplomb law and the historic mobilisation of the petition calling for opposition to it, where do we really stand in the new agricultural mosaic that is emerging?

To talk about it and debate it:

Take advantage of their presence in the showroom to discuss the subject further ...

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12 noon - 12.20 p.m. [ THAT INVISIBLE WATER THAT NOBODY COUNTS!

An exceptional turnout for a spotlight on what is becoming a new economic, ecological, social and geopolitical challenge! You'll be surprised!

At a time when the climate and biodiversity are attracting all the attention (and rightly so!), Esther Crauser-Delbourg will remind us that water is - also - a key challenge. A specialist in public policy and water economics, she will be highlighting an often invisible reality: 90 % of our water consumption is 'hidden' in our production and food habits (you "eat" up to 5000 litres of water a day! ... that you can't see). How can we better 'see' and make the most of this vital resource, reduce our 'water footprint' like we have a carbon footprint, rethink its governance and reduce our consumption without necessarily giving up our comfort? With concrete examples and solutions that are already accessible, she invites us to change our way of looking at things and to consider water as a new economic indicator, too.

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12.20pm - 1pm [ BIO-INSPIRED FASHION SHOW

>> A first! Biomim'expo invites Nature to be the artistic director of a fashion show! It's an idea launched as a challenge and a way of stimulating our thinking and our creativity: drawing inspiration from living things to redesign fashion that is more resilient, vernacular, circular, symbiotic, brighter, more poetic too, reinventing itself according to the specifications of living things.

Come and discover a fashion show that is also an experimental first, with commentary by ...

Take advantage of their presence in the showroom's fashion village to discover what they do ...

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1pm - 2pm [ SHOWING OF THE FILM "NATURE, OUR UNINSPECTED ALLIANCE" and discussion with its producer

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It's hard to imagine a film more in tune with one of the main themes and raison d'être of Biomim'expo! to reconcile Nature and Climate and to (re)consider life as a "weapon" for massive decarbonisation. Many thanks to Gilles Dufraisse for offering us the chance to see this film, which is both beautiful and full of promise. It's also an opportunity to catch up if you missed the last broadcast on France tv.

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... back to work ... the players are ready ...

2pm - 2.45pm [ AND WHAT IF IA WAS GOOD FOR BIODIVERSITY?

How can AI draw inspiration from living things and - above all - benefit them? Like any good tool, AI can be used more or less well. Here too, we could say that "it's the intention that counts". Climate modelling, ecosystem management, prioritisation and adaptation of actions, characterisation of living organisms, data analysis, risk prevention, monitoring of species demographics, etc.

To talk about it and illustrate it:

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2.45pm - 3.15pm [ SHAREHOLDER NATURE HAS ITS SAY

Until now, human activities have been developed in the interests ... of human beings, often considering the rest of the living world as a resource, a stock of raw materials or a cheap asset. What if this other living thing also had the right to vote? To have its say? For mutually beneficial decisions? What if giving this vital stakeholder a seat at the table was the real new paradigm? What if Biodiversity really, officially, and legally became part of the management committee?

2 duo witnesses to tell us about this emerging trend:

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3.15pm - 4pm [ THE FUTURE IS A TEAM SPORT, TESTIMONIALS FROM DUOS

The Brundtland Report was published in 1987. The IPCC was created in 1988. The first COP took place in 1995. The so-called NRE laws in France (obligation for listed companies to report on their impacts) came into force in 2002. It was also at this time that Sustainable Development Departments were set up in companies... all this is both old and still new. What has been achieved? Why are the results not yet there? Focus on the new dynamics, methods and initiatives that are proposing a change of gear, with concrete examples to back them up, in duos between supporting networks and supported companies.

To talk about it and, above all, to illustrate it:

Take advantage of their presence in the showroom to get some advice...

Also on hand with us ... the whole Transition family!

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4pm - 4.45pm [ CITIES, TERRITORIES AND RESILIENCE: HOW CAN WE RETHINK THEM TO SERVE THE FUTURE?

The city! the challenge of all challenges! Soon to be the predominant habitat of our species, with more than 2 out of 3 people living in cities by 2050. It's where most of the challenges are concentrated (consumption, energy, pollution, water, emissions, etc.), and it's also where new generations are disconnecting from nature and living things. The territory is also a major lever for action and decision-making, to recreate a mutually beneficial cohabitation between human activities and biodiversity, to - like Living Things - live in good health in a healthy ecosystem. Cities and Territories are the 2 facets/scales of a major reinvention project, to ensure that we no longer think of our living environment solely in terms of human beings, but in terms of welcoming living things back into it and making these spaces more sober, resilient and alive...

To talk about it and debate it:

Take advantage of their presence in the showroom to discuss the subject further ...

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4.45pm - 5pm [ PRESENTATION OF THE BIOMIM'EXPO AWARDS 2025!

SPOTLIGHT ON THE NUGGETS AND WINNERS OF THE 2025 BIO-INSPIRATION AWARDS. This year, we've decided to put them on the big stage: live presentation of the Biomim'expo Awards 2025. The candidates will have presented their projects and innovations at the beginning of the afternoon (at 2pm). The Jury will have deliberated and they will be ready to award the prizes to the winners (who have not been notified in advance ;-). Come to the plenary session to congratulate them!

In the presence of members of the Jury.

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5pm - 5.20pm [ GRAND FINALE AND GROUP PHOTO OF THE "PHARO APPEAL

Exceptionally this year, Biomim'expo 2025 will end with a "joint declaration".

From this emblematic spot on the Pharo, between land and sea, but also between nature and humanity, between the city and biodiversity, this "Appel du Pharo" will invite us and all those of good will and daring and willing minds to invent a new world inspired by the world, in a community of linked and fraternal destinies between the human race and all the other inhabitants of the Earth. It's a call to move on from the pedagogy of why we need to change (which is sometimes difficult to understand) to the pedagogy of how, which is the only way to demonstrate that other fields of possibility exist, that they are already there in many cases, tried and tested, and that we need to grow this tomorrow that has already been born and is just waiting to unfold. It's a call to us to take our place, as a young, inexperienced species in the midst of an ocean of life rich in knowledge and genius, to help us innovate and take care of ourselves if we are capable of taking care of the Life that has preceded us and will survive us.

If you want to be part of this new generation of the future, there's a big platform and a group photo.

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The event closes at 6pm! ;-(