We Are French Touch: relive the best moments of the 2022 edition

Released December 5, 2022

4 min

Nicolas Dufourcq on stage at We Are French Touch

Find, in less than 2 minutes, the best of the 2nd edition of We Are French Touch, the meeting place for cultural and creative industries (ICC).

From Web 3 to the climate, via export and parity, the 2022 edition of We Are French Touch has tried to shaping the future of the creative industries. Through talks, debates, masterclasses or even demonstrations of startups, this event made the creative industries shine in physics, but also in digital, especially in the metaverse.
The proof in video with the best-of of this event.

We Are French Touch: “the celebration of inventiveness”

« We need the French Touch said Nicolas Dufourcq, CEO of Bpifrance, during his We Are French Touch opening speech in which he also described the event as " inventiveness party ". A vision shared by some 150 speakers and 1 participants who were able to attend more than 200 round tables and masterclasses, or exchange views with the twenty or so exhibiting start-ups.

On November 23, the French Touch was also in the spotlight in the region – with four events organized simultaneously in Clermont-Ferrand, Lens, Tourcoing and Soler – as well as in the metaverse of Decentraland which welcomed no less than 400 avatars, thanks to the teams of the RLTY collective. This French Touch startup wants to make accessible the metaverse to brands and event companies to allow them to deploy unique and personalized experiences in virtual worlds

They said, I day D

« The CCIs should play this role of hybridization between the worlds, and engage in it. The challenge is to hybridize. "
Gabrielle Halpern, philosopher
« Art is what makes life more interesting than art. "
Gérard Garouste, quoting the artist Robert Filliou
« There is a real challenge between exterior and interior which is fundamental for us directors of museums and artists: we have to pick people up by the hand, even in the street, start outside to bring them into the museum. Let's start with the " street show ». »
Aurélie Clémente-Ruiz, director of the Museum of Man
« In the film Usual Suspect, we find the following reply: The greatest victory of the devil is to have succeeded in making believe that he does not exist ". Well, it's a bit the same for feminism: the biggest victory of non-feminists is to have succeeded in passing off feminism as a taboo subject of which we are ashamed. »
Sonia Sieff, photographer
“To move the lines, it is sure that it takes energy. For me, this energy bottle-opener side is what drives me and inspires me. We are in a world that is more than hectic, very uncertain, it is perhaps better to focus on one thing: to be inspirations, liberators of creativity. Let's set the course, let's accept formative errors.
Catherine Spindler, Deputy General Manager of Lacoste