The fourth edition of the Positive Economy Forum brings you over 150 international and French speakers who will share their experience related to the positive economy. This year’s event will be organised on the 16-19 September in Le Havre, France. One of the speakers is Birgitta Jónsdóttir, poetician and activist in the Icelandic Parliament for the Pirate Party, and chairperson of the International Modern Media Institute, one of the D-CENT partners.
Among all the topics tackled during this edition, the following themes will be especially addressed:
- a Zero Waste world
- the world is changing, let’s change school
- Positive finance: the reasons to be optimistic
- you will never work as you used to
- the new face of energy
- digital revolution‘s limits
- Health: living longer and better
- Z Generation‘s dreams
The speakers range from business leaders, heads of NGOs, and politicians to social entrepreneurs and academics. They include:
Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Member of Parliament & Chairman of the Pirate Party of Iceland; Laurent Fabius, French Minister of Foreign Affairs; Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk; Jean Oelwang, Chairman of Virgin Unite; Paul Watson, Founder of Sea Shepherd; Pierre-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer; Stéphanie Rivoal, Chairwoman of Action Against Hunger France; Jean-Marc Borello, Founder and CEO of Groupe SOS, the largest social enterprise in Europe; Brice Lalonde, French former Minister and environmental activist; Her Royal Highness the princess Abze Djigma; Kevin Drew, Special Projects Zero Waste Coordinator of the city of San Francisco Department of Environment.
On the 17th of September, Birgitta Jónsdóttir will be speaking about how Icelandic citizens have taken power under section discussing new forms of participatory democracy. See the whole programme here.
