Biography
CEO & Co-founder of Timeleft. We provide human connection IRL at scale, in 50+ countries. Every month, 150,000+ people show up to share a moment together.
I started Timeleft on a simple idea: use technology to get people off their screens and give them a shot of real human connection.On my LinkedIn, I share what I'm learning while building it, the wins, the mistakes, the parts nobody puts in the highlight reel. Every day at 2pm and 7pm.
Session
- AI For TodaySpeaker
Fireside 1 - From Dating Fatigue to AI Saturation: Why People Are Coming Back to Real Life
Tuesday 22 September, 17:00 – 17:15Auditorium StageDating apps removed rejection, not loneliness. AI removed friction, not the need to be known. Maxime Barbier built Timeleft on the opposite bet: put strangers around a dinner table in 200 cities worldwide, and make the awkward part the point. In this fireside he argues that friction is a feature, that restaurants have become the last piece of social infrastructure we have left, and that the harder an experience is to outsource to a model, the more it is worth doing yourself. Booking gives you a room. Skyscanner gives you a flight. Timeleft gives you a human. A deliberately contrarian counterweight to the rest of the programme, on loneliness, third places, and what we quietly lose to LLMs.
With Katrina Logie