Relive the CentraleSupélec 2025 TEDx

Review the performances of the speakers invited this year by theGenius student association when TedX CentraleSupélec which took place on November 27, 2025 on our Paris-Saclay campus.

• After captivating audiences with his musical universe, his unique sensitivity, and making a lasting impression by winning France's Got Talent, Rayane Hechmi invites us to delve into his journey where each note tells a story of growth, perseverance and passion.
   
• Stéphane Vaillant He flips the script: what if our path was to have several? Salesman, teacher, coach, trainer, basketball club president… his career resembles an improbable puzzle. And yet, behind these multiple pieces lies a coherent vision: that of a man who understood that curiosity is not a flaw, but a driving force.
   
• Aïnhoa Lamagnere, a second-year Bachelor's student at CentraleSupélec and winner of our Call for Talents, takes us on a sensitive and intense journey, the one we all go through as we grow up: learning to move forward without an instruction manual. (In English).
   
• Laurent Alexandre — A urologist and surgeon, a graduate of Sciences Po, HEC, and ENA, a successful entrepreneur (co-founder of Doctissimo), and a renowned essayist, he is today one of the most influential voices in Europe on transhumanism and the future of intelligence. A formidable analyst of the geopolitical transformations linked to AI, he describes himself as “the last generation with Alzheimer's.” Accompanied here byAlexandre TsicopoulosA law student, author of analytical articles, and creator of a podcast dedicated to technological and societal transformations, he belongs to that boundary generation that could live a thousand years… but without being augmented or selected. He explores the challenges of neuro-augmentation, the free availability of intelligence, and the new cognitive competitions that will redefine our world.
   
• David Elka, a graduate of CentraleSupélec, is currently a neuroscience researcher at EdgeLab. After completing a joint PhD in social psychology, he became interested in the extreme cases of science and what they teach us about our world. He is joined here by Louis Guilhamon, author of several bestselling science fiction novels (Within and Without, Farseer, The World Begins Now), and an associate researcher at EdgeLab.
   
• At only 13 years, Lamia EK. launched her first start-up. Today, at TEDx, drawing on the tunnel effect of quantum physics, she shares a universal story: how to confront the walls that stand in our way... and learn to get through them.
   
• What remains of us after the tunnel of progress?  At a time when our lives unfold to the rhythm of notifications and endless scrolling, Nirina Malard invites us to take a step back and consider what technology shapes… and sometimes takes away from us.