Eurosima Surf Summit preview Seignosse France 26-27 Sept
The 21st edition of the annual action sports business conference will take place on september 26th and 27th with Eurosima welcoming the action sports industry to its traditional 2-day conference which this year returns to the Belambra Club in Estagnots Seignosse.
The summit will start at 9.30am with an opening speech from Jean-Louis Rodrigues, President of Eurosima. The first talk of the day will commence at 10am with Christophe Chenut, former CEO of Elite Model, L’Equipe group, Paris Saint Germain and Lacoste, presenting on the topic of leadership & management. This will be followed from 11.30am to 12.30 with an interview of big wave rider Shane Dorian. After lunch there will be a discussion on digital and environmental impacts. This is followed at 3pm by Frederick Tain, Director of Sport-Guide.Com taking us through sales, data and distribution statistics from the European market. The first round table of the summit starts at 4.15pm with a debate on the sociology of Surf and Marketing. This will be led by Christophe Guibert Maître, HDR lecturer in Sociology and Anne Sophie, Sayeux Lecturer and Anthropologist at the Paris Institute of Sports-Health Sciences. Joining them from the surf industry will be Danielle MacKenzie – Roxy Marketing Director, Jean Seb Estienne – Rip Curl Marketing Director and Guillaume Dartenuc – Volcom Marketing Director and Laura Grenon, Oxbow Marketing Director.
The annual surf summit party will be held during the early evening from 7pm and will celebrate the winners of the Eurosima call for innovation projects 2024 at the 70 Hectares and Ocean hotel in Seignosse.
On Friday at 8.30am there is an option to go surfing with Surf Session or attend a workshop on how to deal with anxiety with Mathilde Depauli, Psychologist and Psychotherapist in Cognitive Behavioural & Emotional Therapies. The second day’s program starts at 10am with Cyril de Sousa Cardoso, CEO at Polaria, presenting on the democratising of AI technologies and the impact on innovation, processes and creativity by Artificial Intelligence. This is followed at 11am by the second round table of the summit on the latest developments around the CSRD Europe Regulations. This will be led by Stéphane Popescu, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Cose361 / Sustainable Fashion Catalyst and Aude Penouty
Next up at 2pm will be Jean Moreau of Phenix on Tech for good and the circular economy, Paving the way for change. The final presentation of the two day summit will be on branding & marketing strategy presented by Ludovic Pouilly, a global marketing expert with 20 plus years of experience in branding in Sports, Lifestyle, Entertainment and Fashion with companies such as Nike, The Coca-Cola Company and Heineken.
To finish and refresh there’s the Carlsberg closing party.
During the Surf Summit, Eurosima will be presenting the 7th edition of the Surfing Lounge exhibition, which showcases the most innovative products and services in action sports. Summit guests get to examine at first hand the products and are able to talk to many of their creators.
So if you need to visit SW France for business or pleasure, add the Surf Summit to your calendar and participate in Europe’s number one networking event for the surf industry. See you soon.
