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Tip & Shaft/Connect, the business and impact meeting place for competitive sailing, is back for its ninth edition, but this time in Lorient, in the heart of sailing’s Silicon Valley!

On Wednesday 2 April, we’ll be in Lorient at the Palais des Congrès for another day of discussions on the economic and CSR challenges facing the sector.

150
PARTICIPANTS
1
DAY OF INTERVENTIONS
3
NETWORK BREAKS

Program

From 8.00 am
🥐 Welcome breakfast

 

9.00am-9.05am
📣 Introduction
Pierre-Yves Lautrou, Tip & Shaft, co-founder

 

9h05-9h30
🆕 Brut and the Vendée Globe 
Yon Le Priol, Consulting Director, Brut.

 

9.30am-10.00am
🌎 What victory means in the Vendée Globe
Frédéric Côme, Commitment Director, Macif métier santé prévoyance

 

10.00am-10.45am
⛵️ 2025-2029: what will the next Imoca cycle look like?
Antoine Mermod, President, Imoca Class
Johan Salén, Director, The Ocean Race
Justine Mettraux, Imoca skipper, Teamwork Team Snef

 

10.45am-11.15am
☕️ Coffee break

 

11.15am-12.00pm 
🏆 Do you need a new boat to win?

Pierre-François Dargnies, managing director, Team Malizia
Sam Manuard, architect, Sam Manuard Yacht Design
Katia Merle, engineer, VPLP Design

 

12.00-12.30 p.m.
💶 How do you finance a racing boat today?
Laurent Garnier, Head of Equipment Finance, Arkéa Crédit Bail

12:30-14:00
🍴 Lunch break

 

14:00-14:30
🤝 What are the synergies between Grand Prix sailing and ocean racing?
Stephan Kandler, founder and co-CEO, K-Challenge

 

14:30-15:00

🚀 How the SAILGP circuit’s business model works and its impact

Lauren Robinson, Regional event director, EMEA, SailGP

 

15h00-15h30
☕️ Coffee break

 

15h30-16h15
🧐 Is Class40 a good investment?
Claude Robin, president and founder, Amarris
Cédric de Kervenoaël, president, Class40
Lionel Garcia, Managing Director, Everial

 

16h15-16h45

⛰️ How agents structure a discipline: the example of trail running

Goulven Cornec, celebrity agent & co-founder, Fraich’Touch

 

16h45-16h50
👋 Conclusion

Rates

AT THIS TIME

Until 27th February

Early bird rate

99€ HT

Corporate pack*

299€ HT

From February 28th

Normal rate

139€ HT

Corporate pack*

419€ HT

Until 27th February

Early bird rate

99€ HT

Corporate pack*

299€ HT

AT THIS TIME

From February 28th

Normal rate

139€ HT

Corporate pack*

419€ HT

* 4 day passes

Your pass includes:

  • welcome coffee
  • access to Tip & Shaft/Connect Nantes Mars 2025 and all its content
  • lunch cocktail
  • access to the network of participants and speakers
  • access to the day’s image bank
  • podcast replay of the day

Ticketing

Speakers

Official partners

Media partner

Official supplier

By becoming a sponsor of Tip & Shaft/Connect, you’ll benefit from the impact and network of the only business and impact event for competitive sailing in France.

Do you want to connect with marketing, communications, media and CSR professionals in the race?
Are you looking to raise awareness of your brand or services among industry experts?
Do you have messages you want to get across to the entire sailing racing ecosystem?

Become a partner of Tip & Shaft/Connect – we have several sponsorship offers!

Contact Frédéric Chevance: frederic@tipandshaft .com

How to get there

Train from Quimper:

TER Quimper-Lorient 7h19-7h52 or 7h50-8h35

From Nantes:

TER Nantes-Lorient 6h14-8h48

From Rennes:

TER Rennes-Lorient 6h07-7h44 or 7h04-8h48

From Paris: 

TGV Paris-Lorient 7h00-9h51

Bus: Lines 10, 11, 40E, 41E, 42E, T1, T2, T3, T4 at 500 meters from the Palais des Congrès, stop « Faouëdic » Line 13 stop « Palais des Congrès » in front of the Palais des Congrès.

Bus boat: Lines B1 and B5 at 400 meters, stop « Quai des Indes »

Timetables and itineraries

In Lorient

Free parking: 120 free parking spaces at the foot of the Palais

Pay car parks: Parking Nayel 330 paying spaces in an underground car park 150 m from the Palais des Congrès

Pay car park Place d’Armes: 490 spaces 350m away

Les Arcades pay car park: 140 spaces

Find a parking space in real time

Carpooling

Think about carpooling!

Location

Palais des Congrès de Lorient
Quai Gustave Mansion

56100 Lorient

Contact

Your contacts

General organisation

Hermine Flichy
hermine@tipandshaft.com

Partnerships

Frédéric Chevance
frederic@tipandshaft .com

Program

Pierre-Yves Lautrou
pyl@tipandshaft.com