ReTech Center Manifesto

ReTech Center marks a new chapter for the network of alumni and industrial, scientific,
and academic partners of École des Ponts Business School.
As a personal passion project and a part of my postdoc work, ReTech Center was an entrepreneurial idea that grew with the invaluable support of our dean, our team, and our alumni network and turned into an intrapreneurial initiative at my alma mater and second home, École des Ponts Business School, as our collective passion project since 2023.

With a multistakeholder approach and community-driven design, ReTech Center follows the same principle as our mother school, École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC) - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, which was founded in 1747 as a peer-to-peer school where experts shared their knowledge with other experts.

ReTech Center is an enabling platform for channelling the collective intelligence of our strong global community of alumni, professors, researchers, innovators, executives, and industry leaders from across geographies and sectors, for creating shared value and driving the digitally empowered responsible transformation of our societies, markets, and industries.

ReTech Center is a community-driven multistakeholder platform for rethinking, reshaping, and redefining innovation, leadership, governance, and competitiveness by leveraging science, innovation, and technology responsibly - for propelling social, economic, and environmental prosperity.

To this end, we have more than 30 Specialization Tracks that cover the most prominent topics and disciplines that drive the above, and nurture ReTech RISE Labs’ initiatives - Research, Skills, Innovation, and Engagement across the public and private sectors, as well as academic, scientific, and industrial leading organizations and communities.

Since 2023, I’ve been building up the above with our alumni, our partner institutions, and our extended network of professors, researchers, scientists, innovators, investors, and expert practitioners, and hereby invite the keen-minded and visionary leaders to join us at the forefront to shape and drive the responsible digital transformation of our markets and societies - to Enhance Today, while Enabling a (more) Desirable Tomorrow.

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ReTech Center – Enhancing Today, Enabling the Emerging Desirable Futures

The uncharted territories of desirable futures of markets and societies are emerging at the convergence of digital and responsible transformation. In these emerging desirable futures, technology and science empower responsible innovations that enhance nature, humans, creativity, art, culture, social values, and sustainable economic growth.

The transition to Industry 5.0 at the intersection of digital and responsible innovation and transformation is exponentially redefining how we interact, engage, experience, learn, communicate, work, and live. New concepts like immersive markets and experiences, tokenized economies and business models, as well as circular supply chains and regenerative practices, are reshaping the dynamics of markets and societies.

We are seeing new forms of resilient infrastructure empowered by data science, advanced simulations, Web3, digital twins, AI-powered robotics, smart assets, and autonomous agentic systems. As we move from smart to resilient, circular, inclusive, and cognitive cities, new forms of computing - distributed, quantum, cloud, edge, and spatial – will power our symbiotic ecosystems.

The above and many more enabling and disrupting forces, are foundationally restructuring our economies, industries, markets, and societies. This unfolding dynamic landscape provides immense opportunities for investors, executives, innovators, decision-makers, and policymakers to shape the emerging futures of competitiveness, innovation, leadership, and governance - driven by humans, empowered by technology, grounded in responsible value systems, with an ecosystemic approach.

By bridging the industry and academia, research and practice, public and private sectors, investors and innovators, decision-makers and executives, and the inspired and the leaders, ReTech Center is about the above – enhancing today and enabling the emerging desirable futures of markets and societies.

With a multistakeholder approach and a community-driven design, ReTech Center is an enabling platform for our alumni, participants, partners, innovators, investors, professors, researchers, scientists, policymakers, and executives to collectively shape the emerging desirable futures of digitally empowered responsible markets and societies – across sectors, disciplines, and geographies.

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