Exponential Innovation 5.0

PAW
Practice Acceleration Workshop

Immersive workshop with Executive Explorer Certificate

9-13 June - On campus

Exponential Innovation 5.0

PAW
Practice Acceleration Workshop

Immersive workshop with
Executive Explorer Certificate

9-13 June - On campus

Workshop for the Next Frontier:
Digital, Responsible, Scalable

PAW marks the convergence of digital transformation and responsible transition with exponential business models. It empowers organizations to scale through data, feedback loops, networks, platforms, and emerging technologies. More than a trend, PAW is a megatrend reshaping business and society.

This hybrid workshop equips participants to navigate and lead in this evolving landscape of digitally enabled, responsibly driven markets. The experience blends learning sessions, company visits, and engagement at the VivaTech conference in Paris with group discussions and interactive activities.

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June 9–13, 2025 

Workshop for the Next Frontier:
Digital, Responsible, Scalable

PAW marks the convergence of digital transformation and responsible transition with exponential business models. It empowers organizations to scale through data, feedback loops, networks, platforms, and emerging technologies. More than a trend, PAW is a megatrend reshaping business and society.

This hybrid workshop equips participants to navigate and lead in this evolving landscape of digitally enabled, responsibly driven markets. The experience blends learning sessions, company visits, and engagement at the VivaTech conference in Paris with group discussions and interactive activities.

Why this workshop?

PAW is more than a trend—it's a megatrend reshaping business and society. As traditional models struggle to adapt to rapid digital acceleration and socio-environmental challenges, a new class of innovators is emerging. These leaders integrate technology, responsibility, and ecosystem thinking to design adaptive, inclusive, intelligent, and regenerative business models.

The Exponential Innovation 5.0 PAW Executive Workshop equips innovators, investors, and leaders with the insights, foresight, and frameworks needed to navigate and lead in this evolving landscape. Set against the backdrop of VivaTech Paris—Europe’s premier innovation event—this immersive experience blends theory and action, offering exposure to cutting-edge real-world use cases, interactive sessions, and invaluable networking opportunities.

Why this workshop?

PAW is more than a trend—it's a megatrend reshaping business and society. As traditional models struggle to adapt to rapid digital acceleration and socio-environmental challenges, a new class of innovators is emerging. These leaders integrate technology, responsibility, and ecosystem thinking to design adaptive, inclusive, intelligent, and regenerative business models.

The Exponential Innovation 5.0 PAW Executive Workshop equips innovators, investors, and leaders with the insights, foresight, and frameworks needed to navigate and lead in this evolving landscape. Set against the backdrop of VivaTech Paris—Europe’s premier innovation event—this immersive experience blends theory and action, offering exposure to cutting-edge real-world use cases, interactive sessions, and invaluable networking opportunities.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire actionable insights and practical strategies to implement the Exponential Innovation 5.0 framework within their organizations and innovation projects. Specifically, they will be able to:

  • Comprehend Industry 5.0 Dynamics: Understand the evolving landscape of Industry 5.0, characterized by the integration of digital transformation and responsible innovation, and its impact on markets and societies.
  • Analyze Innovation Metaclusters: Explain how the transition to Industry 5.0 fosters new metaclusters of innovation that challenge and redefine traditional business, economic, and operational models.
  • Identify Key Technologies: Recognize the pivotal technologies and digital enablers driving the exponential shift towards Industry 5.0, including artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced robotics.
  • Assess Organizational Readiness: Evaluate the readiness of businesses to transition from conventional models to digitally empowered, responsible, and exponential Industry 5.0 frameworks.
  • Design Exponential Models: Develop innovative economic, operational, and business models that align with the principles of Industry 5.0, emphasizing adaptability, inclusivity, intelligence, and sustainability.
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Learning Outcomes

Participants will acquire actionable insights and practical strategies to implement the Exponential Innovation 5.0 framework within their organizations and innovation projects. Specifically, they will be able to:

  • Comprehend Industry 5.0 Dynamics: Understand the evolving landscape of Industry 5.0, characterized by the integration of digital transformation and responsible innovation, and its impact on markets and societies.
  • Analyze Innovation Metaclusters: Explain how the transition to Industry 5.0 fosters new metaclusters of innovation that challenge and redefine traditional business, economic, and operational models.
  • Identify Key Technologies: Recognize the pivotal technologies and digital enablers driving the exponential shift towards Industry 5.0, including artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced robotics.
  • Assess Organizational Readiness: Evaluate the readiness of businesses to transition from conventional models to digitally empowered, responsible, and exponential Industry 5.0 frameworks.
  • Design Exponential Models: Develop innovative economic, operational, and business models that align with the principles of Industry 5.0, emphasizing adaptability, inclusivity, intelligence, and sustainability.

Program Schedule

Day 1: Foundations of Exponential Innovation
& Industry 5.0

  • Welcome & Program Kickoff
  • Keynote: The Rise of Industry 5.0 and the Exponential Transition
  • Lecture Sessions: Metaclusters of Innovation and Exponential Design Principles
  • Evening Networking Drinks

Day 2: Exponential Business, Economic,
& Operational Models

  • Lecture Sessions: Technologies Enabling the Exponential Transition (AI, Web3, XR, Digital Twins, etc.)
  • Executive Conversations: Risk and Readiness Matrix of The Emerging Futures
  • Tear Down Workshop: Analyzing and Mapping Conventional, Digitally Empowered, and Exponential Innovation 5.0 Strategies
  • Evening Networking Drinks

Day 3: Field Visits & Immersion - Entrepreneurial
Ecosystem in Paris

  • Visiting innovation hubs and corporate R&D initiatives at VivaTech
  • Meetings with entrepreneurs and investors active in exponential and responsible tech
  • Reflection Circle: group work on Insights and Implications

Day 4: VivaTech
Engagement

  • Targeted visits at VivaTech
  • Joining organized sessions and strategic briefings
  • Analysis: How exponential innovation is manifested across sectors and startups

Day 5: Innovation &
Integration Workshop

  • Group work, analysis of the key findings and integration of observations
  • Present the explored gaps and opportunities for Exponential Innovation 5.0
  • Group Feedback Sessions and Exchanges
  • Closing Networking Drinks.

Program Schedule

Day 1: Foundations of Exponential Innovation & Industry 5.0

  • Welcome & Program Kickoff
  • Keynote: The Rise of Industry 5.0 and the Exponential Transition
  • Lecture Sessions: Metaclusters of Innovation and Exponential Design Principles
  • Evening Networking Drinks

Day 2: Exponential Business, Economic & Operational Models

  • Lecture Sessions: Technologies Enabling the Exponential Transition (AI, Web3, XR, Digital Twins, etc.)
  • Executive Conversations: Risk and Readiness Matrix of The Emerging Futures
  • Tear Down Workshop: Analyzing and Mapping Conventional, Digitally Empowered, and Exponential Innovation 5.0 Strategies
  • Evening Networking Drinks

Day 3: Field Visits & Immersion - Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Paris

  • Visiting innovation hubs and corporate R&D initiatives at VivaTech
  • Meetings with entrepreneurs and investors active in exponential and responsible tech
  • Reflection Circle: group work on Insights and Implications

Day 4: VivaTech Engagement

  • Targeted visits at VivaTech
  • Joining organized sessions and strategic briefings
  • Analysis: How exponential innovation is manifested across sectors and startups

Day 5: Innovation & Integration Workshop

  • Group work, analysis of the key findings and integration of observations
  • Present the explored gaps and opportunities for Exponential Innovation 5.0
  • Group Feedback Sessions and Exchanges
  • Closing Networking Drinks.

How to Apply

Tuition, Discounts & Deadlines

Don’t hesitate! This is an intimate and tailor-made learning experience, limited to just 50 participants.

Tuition: €10.700

Early-bird rate (valid for those who apply before April 28): €7.900

If you are interested in participating in L4i together with your team or other members of your organization, contact us for a group rate.

  • All participants will receive the École des Ponts Business certificate of completion.
  • Deadline for application: May 30, 2025
    After application, you will receive more information about completing the registration process.

Dates & Hours

From Monday, June 30 to Friday, July 4, 2025

  • Monday to Thursday: from 9 am to 6 pm
  • Friday: from 9 am to 1 pm
  • Participation is intended only in person and for the entire duration of the program

Where

École des Ponts Business School
Paris Executive Campus
6 Pl. du Colonel Bourgoin • 75012 Paris

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