… At nine o’clock on the dot, or “neuf heures pétantes” as Anne Thevenet-Abitbol (editorial and artistic director) would say, who opens the seminar every year alongside Christine Descamps (executive producer).

The 300 new EVE participants have already started arriving in the beautiful town of Evian where they are discovering the magical setting in which the seminar will be held until Friday #EVE2016. Today, trains and planes have presented opportunities to begin networking in a friendly environment for the biggest intracompany seminar given over to balanced leadership. Conversations will be continuing during the welcome dinners to be held in just a few hours at the Royal and the Ermitage.

While the reputation of EVE now means it needs no introductions, managers attending the 2016 edition still don’t quite know what to expect. The most curious among them will have studied this webmagazine and visited our YouTube channel (which features interviews with speakers, as well as the webseries Those Who Dared, with testimonies by participants of previous EVE seminars). But EVE is a unique experience, a transformation that happens while you are there, by allowing yourself to be taken away by the momentum of “inspiration/respiration”.