{"id":2881,"date":"2025-12-17T12:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:24:34","slug":"round-table-discussion-alex-at-insa-toulouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/round-table-discussion-alex-at-insa-toulouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Round table discussion: Alex at INSA Toulouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bccb033e u002du002dcorpus\" id=\"corpus\"><div class=\"gb-inside-container\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>On Tuesday, 16 December 2025, on the occasion of a round table organised by INSA Toulouse, the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse, engineering and sports performance were discussed for the benefit of elite athletes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Let\u2019s look back at three key points from this discussion between Alex Guiral (for Antidote Solutions), Victor Simonin (Groupama-FDJ) and Sebastien Ricciardi (Alten).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-6c568a36 gb-headline-text\">1. Data and creativity: opposition or alliance?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>At times, it is necessary to challenge conventional wisdom, for example, by designing a more flexible rear assembly to gain efficiency. Alex emphasised the crucial role of creativity when faced with constraints related to weight, strength, and stiffness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-7586e19a gb-headline-text\">2. The human factor<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We work with and for the athlete, and trust is essential. Even the best bicycle in the world is of no use if the athlete does not feel comfortable on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-bab96751 gb-headline-text\">3. Career catalysts<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to an audience of students, Alex stressed the importance of networking and boldness as key career drivers: internships, personal projects, and direct messages sent on LinkedIn. Stay curious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Thank you to INSA Toulouse for the invitation and for the high quality of our discussions.<br><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1766226721323-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"Alex Guiral on the left during a round table discussion at INSA Toulouse with Victor Simonin (Groupama-FDJ) and Sebastien Ricciardi (Alten) in the centre and on the right, surrounded by six students.\" class=\"wp-image-2874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1766226721323-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1766226721323-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1766226721323-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1766226721323.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, 16 December 2025, on the occasion of a round table organised by INSA Toulouse, the National Institute of Applied Sciences of Toulouse, engineering and sports performance were discussed for the benefit of elite athletes. Let\u2019s look back at three key points from this discussion between Alex Guiral (for Antidote Solutions), Victor Simonin (Groupama-FDJ) &#8230; <a title=\"Round table discussion: Alex at INSA Toulouse\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/round-table-discussion-alex-at-insa-toulouse\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Round table discussion: Alex at INSA Toulouse\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"Alex Guiral took part in a round table discussion at INSA Toulouse to talk about engineering and sporting performance for elite athletes.","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antidote-solutions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}