Join our Delegation 

As a preferred partner of ChangeNOW, we are assembling the VIP Delegation from Los Angeles.

If you are a Los Angeles based entrepreneur, faculty, local government officials, and non-profit organizations, contact us to come to Paris, share what you are doing and enjoy top-level networking and pitching opportunities.

On top of a free pass and the full-day program detailled here, Delegates can also enjoy

• Private meetings with a selection of the best innovators addressing challenges for cities

• On-demand scheduled 1:1 meetings with decision-makers at city level, entrepreneurs, industrial firms, investors, or academics from all over the world.

• Start up founders from Los Angeles will also have the opportunity to pitch their concept in front of investors or even have a booth on the start up exhibition hall.

Los Angeles has been selected as one of the 20 "Sustainable Cities" selected to be featured at the ChangeNOW conference in Paris on September 28-19, 2018.

A Delegation of Mayors is invited from each of the Sustainable Cities is invited to a full one-day exclusive program to discover the latest innovations and help build partnerships with other city members.  The VIP program includes:

• Private tour of Station F meeting with a selection of best innovators addressing challenges for the cities

• Private Lunch with representatives of the City of Paris and selected guests

• Panel 1: Resilient Cities. Selected experts by ChangeNOW will approach the subject from several perspectives. Sébastien Maire, Chief Resilience Officer of the City of Paris, will represent the 100 Resilient Cities Program by the Rockefeller Foundation. The Mayor of a city belonging to the European Covenant of Mayors will present an already deployed innovation.

• 1:1 Meetings. Every member of the delegation will have the opportunity to meet the innovators, speakers, representatives of large companies, experts ... in the form of speed-meetings. These meetings can be scheduled from mid-September. More than 2,000 meetings were held in 2017 leading to many new collaborations.

• Panel 2: Sustainable Mobility / Air Pollution. For this session, ChangeNOW will select experts who will approach the subject from several perspectives. The Mobility as a Service innovation will be presented by its founder who asked the question: How to give up the car ownership while having the same level of comfort

• Official Opening Ceremony Cocktail: This evening is reserved for VIPs attending ChangeNOW (invitational). For about two hours the global leaders of Positive Impact will highlight all that is happening during the two days of the event. The members of the delegation will have a reserved place.