Gilles Babinet

Gilles Babinet is a French multi-entrepreneur, born in 1967 in Paris. He represents France in the Digital Champions group built by the European Union since 2013. He is also co-President of the Conseil National du Numérique, a body advising the French Government on digital matters.

After passing his baccalaureate as a free candidate, he founded numerous companies in fields as diverse as consulting (Absolut), construction (Escalade Industrie), mobile music (Musiwave, sold for €139 million), co-creation (Eyeka, whose co-creator community is the largest in the world with 540,000 members), decision-making tools (CaptainDash)... Since then, Gilles Babinet has helped many startups to develop.

In April 2011, Gilles Babinet was elected the first President of the Conseil national du numérique. After a 14-month mandate, he is appointed Digital Champion by the French Minister for Digital Affairs, Fleur Pellerin. In this position, he represents France's digital challenges to the European Commission. He will return to the Conseil national du numérique in September 2018 as Vice-President and is again elected Co-President in 2021.

Gilles Babinet also collaborates with the Institut Montaigne on various projects related to competitiveness and digital technology. He writes in various newspapers on these themes and teaches in various schools in France (Sciences Po Paris, INSP, HEC in particular) and abroad (UM6P in particular) for which he offers training in digital transformation. Each year, he participates in the eCAC40 barometer of digital agility of CAC40 companies. He also sits on the board of EY from 2013 to June 2019 as well as on the board of the EDF foundation and also advises several Fortune 500 CEOs.

Finally, Gilles Babinet has published several books, including Transformation digitale; l'avènement des plateformes. Histoires de licornes, de données et de nouveaux Barbares (2016) in which he discusses the challenges of operating the most successful startups and digital transformation models for traditional companies, and Refondre les politiques publiques avec le numérique (2020). In March 2024, he published his latest book entitled "Green AI - L'intelligence artificielle au service du climat" (Green AI – Artificial Intelligence at the service of the climate).