The Before 2024 offers leaders an exclusive moment to anticipate retail transformations: AI, sustainability, purchasing power, and growth financing.

Le Before 2024: a step ahead of changes in the sector

Le Before 2024 One to One Retail E-Commerce

Before the official opening of the event, the program for the 2024 edition kicked off with a hard-hitting opening conference on the challenges of financing growth in an economic context under strain.

Three forward-looking commissions then explored the sector's major changes: the growing pressure on purchasing power and its impact on supplier/retailer relationships; the transformation of organizations under the effect of generative AI; and finally, the business opportunities to be seized in the face of accelerating CSR obligations.

A dense program, designed to anticipate, inspire and prepare decision-makers to face the challenges of an ever-changing commerce.

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Commission 1: Purchasing power at the heart of relations between suppliers and retailers - how can we remain constructive?
With Paul Lê (Co-founder La Belle Vie), Cyril Artur du Plessis (Founder Podcast Les digital doers) and Thierry Lernon (General Manager Marketing, Customer Experience, Data and E-Commerce at But)

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Commission 2: How will AI change our structures (for real)?
With Matthieu Stefani (President Cosavostra), Stanislas Polu (Software Engineer & Co-Founder Dust), Marjolaine Grondin (CEO & Co-founder Jam) and Alexandre Meerson (Director Digital, Data & IT/ Information Systems Europe and Middle East - Sephora)

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Commission 3: What if the impact of the ecological revolution on organisations generated business opportunities?
With Mélanie Benard Crozat (Founder and Editor Impact For The Future), Adrien Sfecci (President club Origine France Garantie 06), Arthur Auboeuf (Co-founder Team for the Planet), Lucie Basch (Co-founder Too Good To Go)

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Opening conference: Financing growth, a French headache

Inflation is slowing down, slowly but surely. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire explains that ‘the price to pay is higher interest rates, more difficult financing and therefore an economic slowdown’ (France Inter, Nov. 2023). The promise of growth is therefore still subject to severe constraints. What financing methods are best suited to this context? For example, profitability gives access to debt, in the absence of fund-raising, which is another financing solution to be considered all the more seriously as it does not affect the capital of the companies concerned. But with it comes the risk ...

  • Jessica Ifker Delpirou (Operating Partner, Board Member, Senior Advisor Serena)
  • Matthieu Stefani (Chairman Cosavostra)
  • Marc Ménasé - Sérial Entrepreneur