The culture of "change" plays a decisive role in tackling existing and future crises. Demographics, epidemics, ecology, health, employment… we are facing many crises and yet mankind does not necessarily question its practices or methods of thinking. The perspective of Jacques Pommeraud, EVP Africa, France & Government Services at Bureau Veritas. Before joining Bureau Veritas, Jacques Pommeraud worked in SAP, as Senior Vice President Customer Success. He started his career in strategy consulting with McKinsey & Company in Paris and Boston. In 2009, he joined Atos as Chief Lean Officer and held management positions of increasing responsibilities up to Chief Executive Officer of Canopy Cloud, a joint-venture between Atos, EMC2 and VMware. In 2014, he was appointed Senior Vice President & General Manager, Success Services at Salesforce Inc, based in San Francisco, USA. Jacques Pommeraud, 45, holds an MScEng degree from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (France) and an MBA from INSEAD (France). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx