Gauthier Delomez, with AFP 2:57 p.m., June 19, 2022

The day after the end of the sixth edition of the VivaTech show, the chairman of the Publicis group's supervisory board and co-founder of the show, Maurice Lévy, was the guest of "Europe Midi Week-end".

At the microphone of Thierry Dagiral, he unveiled the key figures of the "event" and cited the significant innovations.

The VivaTech show is full of visitors.

After the last two years marked by restrictions due to Covid-19, the sixth edition of the "event", as its co-founder Maurice Lévy calls it on Europe 1, dedicated to start-ups and new technologies from June 15 to 18 , attracted 91,000 visitors.

The Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Publicis group revealed the key figures for this edition.

"There were 300,000 people on the digital who connected, 4.3 million who watched the ephemeral television VivaTech News", he lists at the microphone of Thierry Dagiral in

Europe Midi Week-end

.

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There were also "incredible" figures, reported Maurice Lévy: "We reached 400 million people in 400 countries, and there were three billion views through social networks".

These innovations that marked Maurice Lévy

Every year, VivaTech is held at the Parc des Expositions at Porte de Versailles in Paris.

For a few days, the event hosts companies and start-ups, including unicorns.

Innovations are also presented, and some caught the attention of the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Publicis group.

"The first thing, which is quite amusing, is the fact of being able to book on an application a sort of flying taxi, without a driver, which takes you from one place to another. It is

The Fifth Element

by Luc Besson which is present”, he laughed.

"There is also the delivery of medicines to homes in very remote places. There is the possibility of making food products from insect proteins," he said, also highlighting a very small company, Klaxoon, which has become a global start-up.

Among the innovations, Maurice Lévy also cited an "inflatable scooter" at the microphone of Thierry Dagiral, as well as Renault's next Scénic model, "which is made from recycled products".

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Headliners present

Among the headliners present this year, VivaTech welcomed Changpeng Zhao, the boss of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange platform, or the former chess champion, the Russian Garry Kasparov.

In total, "we had the impression that it was a rock concert! People were ready to crowd everywhere, we couldn't pass!", Maurice Lévy smiled.

The sixth edition of VivaTech was also an opportunity to highlight French unicorns.

There are currently 27 digital start-ups valued at more than a billion dollars in France, including Back Market and Doctolib.