Arnaud Pagès

Arnaud Pagès is a journalist, author, and speaker. After starting his career at Technikart in the late 1990s, he became a freelance journalist for numerous magazines. Specializing in major societal shifts and disruptive technologies, he has written for Vice, Usbek & Rica, Slate, Korii, and Détours, Canal+’s platform dedicated to new mobility. Starting in 2017, he began collaborating with L’Atelier BNP Paribas, the BNP Paribas group’s foresight think tank, producing articles on smart cities, energy transition, new mobility, and "tech for good." Since 2019, he has been an independent editor-in-chief at L’ADN, overseeing Le Livre des Tendances, a 350-page annual publication analyzing trends across 20 key economic sectors. Since 2022, he has also worked as a journalist and speaker for Altavia Watch, the international Altavia group’s media outlet dedicated to retail. More recently, he served as editorial consultant for Paradigm Brussels, the institution leading the digital transformation of the Brussels-Capital region, on the POD IT program (IT Expenditure Optimization Program), focused on digital sobriety. He is the author of several books: Villes de demain (Cities of Tomorrow), published in 2022 by Michel Lafon; Web3, written for L’ADN and published by Hachette in 2023; and Villes 2050 (Cities 2050), co-written with architect Vincent Callebaut and released by Eyrolles on October 31, 2024.