Dr Sylviane Toporkoff is partner & founder of Items International - a company specialized on strategic digital consulting.

She is founder and president of the Global Forum / Shaping the future an annual, international, high profile, thought-provoking and self-sustained think tank dedicated to business, policy and strategy issues affecting the digital society & economy. The Global Forum has been going on for over 25 years.
As professor at Paris university, she has been cofounder and has animated the Institute of European Studies.
She obtained her doctorate in Economics from the university of Paris ! Pantheon Sorbonne. She is specialized on international research & consulting in the area of the digital society; public policy; economic & strategic international partnerships for industrialists, operators & local authorities marketing on issues related to e-business, e-gov, e-health; local, regional and international development through the use of ICT; e-democracy; and regulation.
Dr. Toporkoff is also founder of ENSA "European Education New Society Association" - an association on the future of education and ICT.
She serves as an expert in a number of international organizations.
Dr. Toporkoff is author of a number of publications in the field of IT & digital and gives lectures at numerous universities. She regularly intervenes as speaker in front of leading industry associations and at national and international conferences & forums in France, Europe, the US, and Asia.
"Chevalier of the Legion of Honor" and Medal of "Arts, Sciences and Letters".