Boardwave Debate @Dinner: Hiring for the future, not today
Wed 15 Nov
|Hotel Plaza Athénée
Join us as we head to Paris for our second VIP event! This time we will be debating attracting, retaining and developing the leaders of tomorrow with some of the industry's leading visionaries. The future of your business lies within the potential leaders you develop today.


Time & Place
15 Nov 2023, 18:30 – 22:30 CET
Hotel Plaza Athénée, 25 Av. Montaigne, 75008 Paris, France
About the event
VIP Co-hosts:
Jean-Philippe Baert: Board Member and NED, Prowide Development
Franck Cohen: Chair, Cye, GoCardless & VC partner, Sarona Ventures, Isreal
Guy Dubois: Chair, The Access Group
Fred Hessabi: Ex-EVP & Chief Customer Officer, HERE Technologies
Laurence Lafont: Vice President Strategic Industries EMEA, Google Cloud
Sponsored by: Heidrick & Struggles
What To Expect At A Boardwave Dinner?
The secret sauce to a really great networking dinner, is the calibre people who are there to meet you, the quality of the discussion, which is interesting and thought provoking. And finally the dining experience, whether its at a cool venue, or michelin star restaurant. If you bring all these things together everyone has a great time, learns a little and meets new friends and colleagues.
Please note that, as a pan-European community, our events are conducted in English.
Hiring for the future, not today
Is your organisation doing enough today to develop the future-ready leaders of tomorrow?
Great people strategy is about playing the long game. You’re investing in talented people with the potential to grow - but how do you, as their employer, ensure you facilitate that growth?
92% of executives cite learning and development opportunities as top retention tools, but 77% fear they’re losing talent to better career progression opportunities elsewhere, according to research from executive search leaders Heidrick & Struggles, our sponsor for this event.
So what more could your business be doing? We’ll help you fill in the blanks.
Boardwave comes to Paris this November, bringing together Europe’s finest growth strategists for a dinner debate focused on attracting, retaining and developing the leaders of tomorrow.
VIP speakers include:
- Jean-Philippe Baert: Board Member and NED, Prowide Development
- Franck Cohen: Chair, Cye, GoCardless & VC partner, Sarona Ventures, Israel
- Guy Dubois: Chair, The Access Group
- Fred Hessabi: Ex-EVP & Chief Customer Officer, HERE Technologies
- Laurence Lafont: Vice President Strategic Industries EMEA, Google Cloud
The future of your business lies within the potential leaders you develop today.