The day, which attracted some 1,000 professionals, featured a number of highlights, starting with a speech by Enrico Letta, former Italian Prime Minister and author of the report "Much more than a market", in which he argues for the enlargement of the European single market, and in particular for a savings and investment union.
Then came geographer Martin Vanier, AI specialists Guillaume Leboucher and David Lacombled, Sakina Pen Point and architect Maud Caubet to share their vision of the challenges and impacts of demographics, AI and climate change on the cities we'll be living in tomorrow.
Cities that will always be the playground of mayors. And four of them, from across the political spectrum, came to share their vision of their territory and the challenges they face in terms of urban transformation.
The summit was also an opportunity for the Palladio Foundation to present some of the 16 collective actions it has initiated in recent years to empower cities. Among these actions, six were presented for "putting vacant housing back on the market and renting it to populations in difficulty", "housing single-parent families", "massifying the transformation of offices into housing", "reconciling city and production", "developing nature in the city" and "accelerating the financing of urban regeneration".
The Palladio Foundation also unveiled the results of the 2025 Barometer (Palladio - EY) of the global impact of the city industry in France.
It also announced the national roll-out of the "Beauty will save the world" operation, by Quentin Brière, mayor of Saint-Dizier with GrandPalaisRmn, to introduce art into public spaces, with the aim of reaching 100 communes and 5 million French people by 2026.
Bertrand de Feydeau, honorary president of the Palladio Foundation, and François de Mazières, mayor of Versailles, took part in a (too short) cross-interview entitled "l'Atrium".
Business Immo, press partner of this summit, invites you to watch some of the highlights of this event on video.