Event: French Tech Apero #7

Ecosystem Economics — A French Tech Apéro with VIVA GTM

Summary

If a competitor can clone your product in a weekend, your moat isn’t your roadmap — it’s your ecosystem. A French Tech Apéro with Thomas Dussarrat (Founder, VIVA GTM), sponsored by ABGI.

Description

True differentiation has moved from the product layer to the network layer. If your features can be copied in a sprint, your real defensible edge is the alliance network around you — and how well you operate it.

Join French Tech Dublin and Thomas Dussarrat, Founder of VIVA GTM, for an evening on Ecosystem Economics: how scaling companies turn strategic alliances into a growth engine competitors can neither copy nor catch — with a Franco-Irish “Glocal” lens throughout. Same apéro spirit, deeper conversation.

What you’ll walk away with

• The VIVA GTM Ecosystem Formula — a mental model for multiplying market velocity through trust and network reach
• Concrete tactics to “borrow” enterprise trust capital and bypass slow procurement cycles
• A live pressure-test of the framework against three Irish ecosystem innovators
• The conversations you came for, over drinks

Agenda

• 18:00 — Welcome by French Tech Dublin + a few words from our sponsor, ABGI
• 18:10 — Keynote: Un-Clonable GTM — Why Your Ecosystem Is Your Ultimate Moat, with Thomas Dussarrat
• ~18:35 — Interactive roundtable with three Irish innovators:
• 19:00 — Drinks and open networking until 20:00

About the speaker

Thomas Dussarrat is the Founder of VIVA GTM, where he helps B2B leadership teams turn partnerships from signed paperwork into active pipeline. Before VIVA GTM, he spent nearly 20 years in EMEA leadership roles at Dataiku and Imperva / Thales Cybersecurity. He works hands-on with executives through his Customer Partner Experience (CPX) methodology, built around collective intelligence and cross-border collaboration.

With the support of ABGI

This French Tech Apéro is made possible by our sponsor ABGI — thank you for backing the Franco-Irish tech community.

Logistics

📍 Venue: Alliance Française de Dublin

🗓️ Date: Monday 22 June, 18:00 — 20:00 (Dublin time)

🎟️ Tickets: Free thanks to our sponsor

👋 Who’s it for: Founders, scale-up execs, GTM and partnerships leaders, investors and friends of the Franco-Irish tech corridor.

À bientôt, santé, and see you on the 22nd.