About · French magician and mentalist · AI magician
Magician and mentalist, professional since 2010, member of the French Federation of Magic, more than two hundred performances a year for companies and private clients. Based in Lyon, at home in Geneva and on the French Riviera, performing in English and French across Europe and beyond.
Who he is
Hugo Marceau is a French magician and mentalist who has made a living from the stage and the reception floor since 2010. He started with sleight of hand, as most magicians do, and moved towards mentalism because it was the form that held an adult room: a thought read across a table lasts longer in the memory than a card found in a pocket. In the last few years he has done something very few performers anywhere have attempted, which is to build a working artificial intelligence and put it on stage next to him as a second mentalist. That act, and the keynote that grew out of it, are why companies such as Montblanc, IBM and Sanofi book him, and why most of his year is now spent in corporate rooms rather than theatres.
What he does
Close-up · receptions and dinners
Group to group during a drinks reception, table to table between courses. Cards, borrowed objects, thoughts named before they are spoken, and the iPad routine in which your product leaves the screen. No set-up, no sound, two hundred and fifty guests in two hours.
Stage · galas and conventions
Thirty to sixty minutes of mind reading, prediction and influence, written for the room, with the company's figures, the award winner or the product sealed in an envelope since the start of the evening. A guest levitated in full light when the venue allows it. See the mentalism show.
AI · keynotes and launches
A working AI joins the stage, reads the audience and reasons out loud. As a show, it is the AI magician act; as a sixty-minute talk for leadership days and conventions, it is the AI keynote, documented talk after talk.
Who books him
Montblanc, IBM, Mercedes, Porsche, Honda, Sanofi, Bayer, Danone, Orange, EDF, SNCF, Bouygues, Carrefour, Leclerc, IKEA, Crédit Agricole, AG2R La Mondiale, Olympique Lyonnais, the Paul Bocuse group and the ByMyCar group have booked Hugo Marceau for receptions, galas, seminars and launches, alongside event agencies, production companies and hotels. Three evenings, as examples of what the booking looks like in practice:
Geneva · a bank
Close-up during the reception, then a short stage moment before the speeches. The finale was a colleague from the audience, chosen by the room, who was made to levitate in front of her own team. The point was not the trick: it was that everyone there, from every department, shared the same moment at the same time.
Montreux · corporate
A large part of the audience had flown in from India, so the evening was played entirely in English, between the lake-facing terrace and the ballroom. The moment the room still talks about: a ring borrowed from a guest, left on the table, which rose and floated in front of everyone before returning to her finger.
Lyon · 750 guests
A seminar for seven hundred and fifty people: a running thread on stage across the day and close-up between the sessions, which is the format most large companies end up choosing. IBM at Château Vatel, two hours of close-up and a levitation before a hundred and fifty witnesses, is the smaller version of the same idea.
How he works
In their words
"We were lucky enough to have Hugo Marceau at our company evening, and he was quite simply incredible. His professionalism and his good humour contributed a great deal to the success of the event."
"Annoyed, but won over."
Read the 178 reviews on Google, most of them in French. The 80-word bio, portraits and the showreel are on the page for event planners.
Where
Hugo lives and works in Lyon, which puts Geneva and Switzerland under two hours away by road and the French Riviera an hour away by air. Paris is two hours by train. Those four territories make up most of his year; the rest is Europe and other continents on request, with everything he needs in cabin luggage. Agencies and event planners will find formats, riders and logistics on the dedicated page; the French version of this site is at mentaliste.ai and his French-language site at hugomarceau.com.
Tailor-made for your event
Fees on request. Every proposal is tailored to the act, the duration, the audience, the venue and the travel involved.
Prefer to talk first? +33 6 88 61 29 00, WhatsApp welcome, English and French.
Before you enquire
Both, and the order matters. Hugo trained as a magician and has been a professional since 2010; mentalism is the discipline he built his stage work on, and the artificial intelligence act is where the two meet. At a reception you will see sleight of hand and mind reading in the same five minutes; on stage, the spine of the show is mental.
He is based in Lyon, France, under two hours from Geneva by road and an hour from the French Riviera by air. Most of his year is spent between Lyon, Paris, Geneva and the Riviera, with the rest of Europe and other continents on request. Travel is included in every proposal.
Yes. Every act exists in English and in French, and both can be mixed in the same room when the tables are international. Mind reading crosses languages well: the thought is the same whatever language it is thought in.
A stage act and a keynote in which a working artificial intelligence, built by Hugo, takes part as a second mentalist: it reads the audience, reasons out loud and makes predictions in real time. It is the reason technology companies and conferences book him, and it is documented on the AI magician and AI keynote speaker pages.
Send the date, the venue, the number of guests and the shape of the event through the form on this page, or call or WhatsApp +33 6 88 61 29 00. You get a short call within one business day and a tailored proposal, travel included, with one all-inclusive figure. Fees are on request.
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