THE FRENCH FUTURIST

#00. MEET THE FRENCH FUTURIST

Episode Summary

Jean-Christophe Bonis is a futurist, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and writer. His “The French Futurist” podcast is being recorded in wartime in Kyiv in 2023, on the battlefield of civilizations and values, mindsets, and technologies.

Episode Notes

Jean-Christophe Bonis is a futurist, entrepreneur, TED speaker, and writer, recognized in 2019 as one of the most influential French experts in the field of artificial intelligence across the planet. He is passionate about technology and all of his life connecting innovations with people. 

In March 2022, in response to the war in Ukraine, he established NGO Team4UA and HIT (Humanitarian Innovative Technologies). 

It’s a global humanitarian foundation with a mission to introduce disruptive technologies into humanitarian emergency response. Together with invited tech entrepreneurs from all over the world Jean-Christophe Bonis launched an informational center for refugee support and started delivering humanitarian aid across Ukraine in partnership with UN World Food Programme. 

In May 2022, he initiated the 3D printing of the school building in Lviv which is starting in April 2023. It will be the first school in Ukraine built with 3D technologies. Later on, Team4UA by HIT plans to scale this technology and rebuild destroyed houses and buildings all over the country. 

More details here: https://www.wearehit.org/ 

Join HIT to help. 

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