A TEDxTalks con­fer­ence took place in a UTC lec­ture hall on March 28, 2026 on the theme “Explor­ing Your Time.” It was an after­noon of talks fea­tur­ing six speak­ers, each speak­ing for 20 min­utes about our cur­rent world.

Mem­bers of the TEDx­UTC asso­ci­a­tion were delight­ed to wel­come six speak­ers to the TEDxTalks event in late March. “We took over this asso­ci­a­tion in Sep­tem­ber. The goal was to show stu­dents new ways of think­ing and new per­spec­tives on the world through the jour­neys and expe­ri­ences of peo­ple from out­side UTC. TEDx talks make this pos­si­ble. We invite speak­ers from out­side the UTC sys­tem who can inspire engi­neer­ing students—who need to under­stand the many facets of the world in order to make the right deci­sions in the future,” explains Alix Aman­ton, pres­i­dent of TEDx­UTC. Among the speak­ers was Claire Blondel, an engi­neer by train­ing, who began her career in the indus­try before join­ing Decathlon, where she devel­oped a strong back­ground in man­age­ment and inno­va­tion. In 2007, she left her posi­tion to move to Japan: an expe­ri­ence that marked the begin­ning of a remark­able inter­na­tion­al jour­ney. Joris Bossard is a New Space expert and mem­ber of 3I3Signature LLC; he is also a sci­ence com­mu­ni­ca­tor and coor­di­na­tor of events relat­ed to space and science.

Environment and Society

A Nikon pho­tog­ra­ph­er and cre­ator with a unique per­spec­tive, Yohan Ter­raza explores the world and the visu­al image. His work stands out for its sen­si­tive and atmos­pher­ic approach to imagery. Elsa Da Cos­ta is the exec­u­tive direc­tor of Ashoka France, an NGO ded­i­cat­ed to the pub­lic good and to social and envi­ron­men­tal entre­pre­neur­ship. In Jan­u­ary 2026, she pub­lished the book *To Our Valiant Hearts: A Man­i­festo for a Cul­ture of Engage­ment. Stéphanie Drouhin has turned her atten­tion to ear­ly child­hood sec­tor. In par­tic­u­lar, she has been involved in lan­guage devel­op­ment for chil­dren between 3 months and 3 years of age through the “Par­ler bam­bin” project. She returned to school to become a health­care man­ag­er. Dur­ing her Master’s pro­gramme, she and her entire class con­duct­ed in-depth research on stu­dents’ sex­u­al health. Final­ly, Tim­o­th­ée Duver­lie is the co-founder of Ehope, an orga­ni­za­tion that places ecol­o­gy at the heart of civic priorities.

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