Place: Room 3.216-Campus Grand Paris and online
Time: 12pm-1:30pm
Speaker : Christine Balagué - Institut Mines Telecom Business School

Biography of the speaker: Christine Balagué holds a degree from ESSEC, a Master's degree in Econometrics and Statistics from ENSAE, a DEA from Université Paris Dauphine and a PhD in Management Sciences from HEC. She holds the Social Networks and Connected Objects Chair at TEM and Institut Mines Télécom. Her thesis focused on modeling Internet user behavior using Petri nets. She was awarded the HEC Foundation thesis prize in 2006 and the 4th EDAMBA (European Doctoral programs Associations in Management and Business Administration) thesis prize. A specialist in new technologies, Christine Balagué is particularly interested in e-marketing and social networks. Her research focuses on the creation of economic value by social networks for companies, on modeling the behavior of Internet users on these networks, and on the Social Internet Of Things. In the age of the Internet of Things, networks extend not only to humans, but also to machines. Christine Balagué is a regular speaker on these topics at international research and professional conferences. Christine Balagué is also Vice-Chairwoman of the Conseil National du Numérique (French National Digital Council) and chairs the services commission of Cap Digital, a competitiveness and digital transformation cluster, whose aim is to foster the emergence of collaborative R&D projects in France between large companies, SMEs, start-ups and research laboratories.

For further information, please contact Professor Margherita Pagani: margherita.pagani@skema.edu