Hardly had it organised its Inspire & Connect event in Abidjan in early June than French parastatal bank Bpifrance was already working on its Bpifrance Inno Generation (BIG) forum, which is due to take place in Paris on 7 October. The forum will be taking place in the same week as President Emmanual Macron's Franco-African Summit in Montpellier in southern France and the Ambition Africa conference (5-6 October), which is also being organised in Paris by France's other main business diplomacy arm,