Le Cercle networking events

It's all about us!

More than ever, people are at the heart of everything. We've seen this every year for the past 25 years during the Assises, and we're seeing it with the shortage of talent and the difficulties associated with recruitment.

We're getting down to work too, and we've decided to launch Les Assises' Academy, the aim of which is to create a bridge between young people and us, the players in the cyber sector, to promote the values of inclusion and open-mindedness, and to showcase the jobs available in our sector. This academy is directly inspired by the career and actions of an exceptional woman who herself created a bridge between music and the suburbs, a particularly innovative creative and social initiative! She is doing us the honour of sponsoring Les Assises' Academy and will be talking about her career, the successes and failures of her Orchestre Divertimento, and how the Académie can help to establish a dialogue between populations that today speak little or nothing to each other.

Conductor Zahia Ziouani is the guest speaker at Le Cercle on November 26th: coordination, harmony, exploration, new possibilities... it's all about us!

Commitment

In 2024, ‘Half the world's population of voting age will be called to the polls in free elections or in elections that have already been decided in advance’, Le Monde, 6 January 2024. The risks are immense: disinformation campaigns, hacking of results, geopolitical upheavals, etc. In this context, democratic commitment takes on all the more meaning and importance! For this Cercle, we invite you to (re)discover the notion of commitment:

• First part: an original talk by Christine Ockrent, journalist and writer.

Commitment at the service of information: when sources and channels are multiplying and generative AIs are opening wide the doors to disinformation, the press is under scrutiny and all the more central. What is the role of the journalist today? To make the news accessible... without compromising its quality... while encouraging the desire to understand. It is more difficult, more criticised, more attacked, but the journalist's commitment in 2024 is the safeguard of our societies. Commitment is also the commitment of the reservists who will be present at the Cercle, during the conference and the cocktail, in uniform, to share their experience with the participants.

• Second part: a round table discussion with Eric Freyssinet, Scientific Director, Office of the Director General of the Gendarmerie Nationale and Olivier Ligneul, Director of Cybersecurity, EDF Group.

The necessary commitment of cybersecurity players to anticipate the impact of this high-risk year. Governments and public organisations are going to be put to the test in 2024, but attackers have long understood that they don't have to go after obvious targets alone. Destabilisation comes from speed and volume: apply the butterfly effect principle to cyber security, imagine a multitude of structures and industries under attack, and calculate the short- and medium-term consequences... society as a whole is rapidly destabilised. Against this backdrop, CISOs and players in the ecosystem need to put themselves ‘under stress’ and commit themselves to serving the community. Reservists will be present at the Cercle, in uniform, during the conference and the cocktail reception, to share their experience with participants.