Events under 'AFAM Events'

Come join the Gadz'Arts in Houston to share the first 2015 diner of the Alumni group.
Contact Eric Tran, , for further information.

Join us to share a piece or our famous homemade Galette des Rois!
Please register here.

Come and join the Gadz'Arts in New York to share a drink and some good food.
Please contact Jean-Rodolphe if you want more information.
Thank you!

Enjoy the presentation of Dr Rémi Brossel on a disruptive innovation in oncology and the opportuny to meeting the French community.


Please register here.


 

The AFAM board meets regularly. While these meetings are not open to the full AFAM membership, feel free to contact AFAM board members directly or the AFAM Community Manager Albina Patou-Chebykina if you want to contribute topics for consideration by the board, or if you want to receive minutes of a particular meeting.

The AFAM board meets regularly. While these meetings are not open to the full AFAM membership, feel free to contact AFAM board members directly or the AFAM Community Manager Albina Patou-Chebykina if you want to contribute topics for consideration by the board, or if you want to receive minutes of a particular meeting.

AFAM Strategy Offsite

September 7-8, 2018

The event is by invitation only

 

Goal of the off-site:

Define AFAM strategic directions for the second decade within a focus on entrepreneurship.

 

Proposed Program:

 

Friday Program

Il Fornaio restaurant, Palo Alto, CA

 

13:00 – 14:30              Lunch at Il Fornaio

 

14:30 – 14:45              Welcome                                             (Eric Benhamou, AFAM)

                                    Introductions

                                    Objectifs

                                    Agenda Review

 

14:45 – 15:30              School’s strategic vision         (Laurent Champaney, Arts et Métiers ParisTech)

 

15:45 – 16:15              Individual points of view

                                   How French schools differ in the process of student preparation to the journey of entrepreneurship, particularly as they expatriate themselves to the US?

• Xavier Wartelle (AFAM)
• Anne de Louvigny Stone (AAGEF President)

 

16:15 – 17:30              Points of view

                                    Panel #1

Chair: Eric Benhamou

Panelists: Reza Malekzadeh (French Alumni Association), Philippe Perez (Attaché for science and technology), Anne de Louvigny Stone (AAGEF)

 

Student preparation to the American journey:

• What is your impression of the preparedness of French engineers (recently graduated)?
• What is the role of the alumni (individual engagement)?
• Best practices (role of the non-profit)

 

                                    Panel #2

Chair: Xavier Wartelle

Panelists: Sylvia Gallusser (French Tech Hub), Ben Lévy (BootstrapLabs), Laurence Fabre (FACCSF)

 

Preparation of entrepreneurship journey

• Why is it important?
• Gaps and difficulties
• What is the role of the ecosystem?

 

17:30                           Conclusions of the day

 

18:30                           Dinner

 

Saturday September 8th, 2018,

French Tech Hub, SF, CA

 

Saturday Program:

 

09:00 – 10:00              Breakfast

 

10:00 – 10:15              Reminder of Friday conclusions (Marc Amblard)

 

10:15 – 11:15              Testimonials – US journey

Benjamin Carlu (Ch 203)
Erwan Guy (Ch 2011)
Mathieu Gonçalves (Bo 210)
Martin Millischer (Ch 216)
Patrick Cantelli (Cl 185)

Michael Deligant

 

11:30 – 12:45              SWOT of the preparedness of students to the American journey

 

Group #1 (Chair: Xavier Wartelle)

Group #2 (Chair: Thomas Ferré)

 

12:45 – 14:00              Lunch

 

14:00 – 14:30              la SOCE  strategic vision (Corentin Lallet)

 

 

14:30 – 15:30              AFAM priorities for the next decade:

objectifs, strategies et tactics

 

Groupe #1 (Chair: Xavier Wartelle)

Groupe #2 (Chair: Marc Amblard)

 

15:30 – 15:45              Break

 

15:45 – 16:00              Discussion review by the school (Laurent Champaney)

 

16:00 – 16:15              Discussion review by AFAM (Eric Benhamou)

                                    Next steps

                                    Conclusions

 

18:30                           Diner (optional), SF

 

Please join the Gadzarts based in Detroit region for a drink or two

Where: Bill’s a Bloomfield Hills restaurant

When: Nov. 7th, 6:30 pm

Contact: Xavier Ovize

The AFAM board meets regularly. While these meetings are not open to the full AFAM membership, feel free to contact AFAM board members directly or the AFAM Community Manager Albina Patou-Chebykina if you want to contribute topics for consideration by the board, or if you want to receive minutes of a particular meeting.

The AFAM board meets regularly. While these meetings are not open to the full AFAM membership, feel free to contact AFAM board members directly or the AFAM Community Manager Albina Patou-Chebykina if you want to contribute topics for consideration by the board, or if you want to receive minutes of a particular meeting.

On the occasion of AFAM Community Manager's Atlanta visit, brunch will be organized in Atlanta. It will be a great opportunity to meet alumni and Arts et Métiers students and also ask all your questions about AFAM and its activities.

AFAM Community Manager will be visiting the school, meeting students and faculty members. Please contact AFAM if you have any questions or suggestions or if you want to meet AFAM Community Manager during her Paris visit.

AFAM Community Manager will be visiting the Bordeaux campus, meeting students and faculty members. Please contact AFAM if you have any questions or suggestions or if you want to meet AFAM Community Manager during her visit of Bordeaux.

AFAM Community Manager will be visiting the school, meeting Parcours US students and faculty members.  Please contact AFAM if you have any questions or suggestions or if you want to meet AFAM Community Manager during her Paris visit.

AFAM Community Manager will be visiting the school, meeting students and faculty members. Please contact AFAM if you have any questions or suggestions or if you want to meet AFAM Community Manager during her Aix visit.

Le paysage de la mobilité urbaine est en plein bouleversement. Micromobilité, transports en communs, transports de marchandises, véhicules autonomes, electrification..autant d'acteurs qui tendent à redefinir la ville de demain ! 

Marc Amblard, Managing Director @Orsay Consulting (and CFO de l'AFAM), Christophe Soudier @Nio, Guillaume Perronet @Faurecia North America et Pierre Maillot @Robert Bosch North America nous aideront à comprendre les forces en présence et à mieux appréhender les opportunités du secteur.

Cette rencontre est co-organisée avec French Founders.

Au Programme:

18h30 : Accueil des participants
19h00 : Intervention & Q/A
20h00 : Echanges et networking
20h30 : Fin

Où:

Bank of the West – Wealth Management Center, Palo Alto

For more information and to register.

AFAM board meeting is held once in three months and is open to all board members.

If you are interested in any particular meeting or topic, do not hesitate to contact AFAM Community manager to get board meeting minutes or suggest a question for further discussion.

In spring 2020 board members will be reelected. If you want to join AFAM board, please contact any board member or AFAM Community manager by March 31st 2020.

Aper’s Gadz Virtuel

Equipé(e) de ta zarouille (H20), binouze (C21H30O5, e.g. une Corona Extra fraîche), ou de ton Quarantini1, rejoins-nous depuis ton salon pour faire résonner l’hymne à Bacchus
(ou sans doute un simple Sal’s suffira) aux quatre coins des USA.

Sur un ton plus sérieux mais toujours dans une bonne ambiance chaleureuse, cela sera également l’occasion de prendre des nouvelles des uns et des autres et de faire
remonter toute situation difficile de camarades ou de leurs proches.

Réserve tout de même ta meilleure anecdote sur le Corona pour la partager en toute simplicité et dérision. ;)

Date : Mardi 31 Mars 2020
Lieu : Sur le Gorgu visuel (Google Meet), merci de RSVP pour recevoir une invitation en
suivant le lien : https://forms.gle/koo29xzy7WPRTa7F8
Heure : 18h PST / 21h EST

Au programme : (durées estimés)
5 – 10 min : Connexions et rapide introduction par Sacha Ghebali
15 – 20 min : Quelques infos de l’AFAM sur les élections à venir
1 min : Petite photo par impression d’écran pour un souvenir #COVID19 (n’hésite pas à
décorer ton background)
15 – 20 min : Rapide tour de table pour que chacun puisse se présenter
Illimité : Discussion interactive

Suivant le nombre de participants, nous ajusterons le mode de communication ; si nécessaire, la discussion sera modérée par Sacha et quelques codes d’animation
seront communiqués en direct.
Venez donc nombreux, y’a moy’s de faire rayonner notre fraternité dans ces moments difficiles ! See you IVL2!
Bien fraternellement,
Zi’Socks 15-18 Bo211 dit Sacha Ghebali
Zident Groupe East Coast

AFAM board call

To register and for more information

Date: Friday 13 November 2020
Time: 12pm - 1pm EST (9am West Coast, 12pm East Coast, 5pm London, 6pm France)
Where: Zoom link to be sent by email

Come and hear from GadzArts + guests and connect with them, be it out of general interest, professional aspirations, or to celebrate together the beauty of Engineering.

The event will consist of a fireside chat followed by a more interactive discussion where the audience will be welcome to interact freely with the speakers.


Speakers:

- Dr. Sacha Ghebali (Bo 211)
Sacha studied at Arts et Metiers in Bordeaux, then completed the Research Master in Fluid Mechanics in Paris and went on to pursue a PhD in Aeronautics at Imperial College London with a studentship from Airbus and Innovate UK. His research focused on turbulence and optimizing wall geometries to reduce the turbulent drag.


- Dr. Ryan Alimo
Ryan Alimo is a lead data scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology's deep learning group. His primary research interests span theory and practice of nonconvex optimization for machine learning for autonomous spacecraft systems, and he is advancing the field of human-AI teaming and multi-agent systems.

To register and for more information

All parcours US students are welcome to participate in this online event! You will have an opportunity to introduce yourselves, talk to other parcours US students and ask questions to our US-based alumni.

If you are an Arts et Metiers alumnus/alumna willing to participate in this meeting, you are very welcome to join us!

This event will take place online.

If you are interested to participate, please contact Albina Patou-Chebykina

See you soon!

Your AFAM team

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AFAM board members will meet on November 30th for a board meeting.

Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about AFAM activities.

If you are an Arts et Metiers student and would like to know more about Shasta program, internship search, CV tips and learn how to create an effective CV for a successful internship search in the US, join this workshop.

This workshop is practical. We will use some exercises to see how to create an engaging and effective CV.

Please join us this Friday!

When: February 12, Friday, 3 pm- 5 pm (Paris time), 6 am - 8 am PST

Participants:

Patrice Brossard, member of AFAM operations committee, DG Ameriques

Albina Patou-Chebykina, AFAM community manager

To register for this workshop you can contact Pierre Guiol, BREI Lille or AFAM

Please join us for a first online spring gadz apero!

All US-based gadz are welcome to participate!

When: Thursday, April 8th, 4 pm PST ( 7 pm EST)

Where: Zoom

For more information and to receive a Zoom link to participate please contact Sacha Ghebali, West Coast group president or Albina Patou-Chebykina, AFAM community manager

AFAM would like to invite you to our second event of the series "Gadz stories".

This event will be dedicated to the aerospace industry.

Our speaker:

Hugo Wagner (Bo 211)

Based in San Francisco, Hugo leads strategic technology partnerships efforts for Airbus in North America, with a strong focus on sustainable aviation and commercial space. His mission is to find and explore early collaboration opportunities with providers of potentially disruptive technologies and to manage Research & Technology programs in coordination with strategic partners such as universities, federal research centers, startups, and multi-national companies.    

Prior to Airbus, Hugo led the telecommunications company Orange into the heart of the Silicon Valley aerospace ecosystem to conduct assessments of early technology concepts, generate partnerships and develop strategic pilot projects with a focus on high-performance satellite networks. Hugo advised Orange Digital Ventures and Orange M&A on deals in the space-satellite connectivity sector and adjacent domains.

Before joining Orange, Hugo led technical due diligence efforts on various highly innovative topics for renowned visionary entrepreneur Peter H. Diamandis and consulted for Planetary Resources, a small satellite startup, on hyperspectral imaging technology applied to precision agriculture. Aside from being an Arts & Métiers alum, Hugo holds graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley (M.S., Mechanical Engineering) - where he worked on combustion and robotics projects for NASA - and the International Space University - where he worked on the theory and use cases of open innovation in space. He served as volunteer STEAM Director of the San Francisco section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, is an active member of the TED community, and member of the Explorers Club of New York City.

To register to the event, please click here

For more information please contact Nicolas Baghdassarian

AFAM board meting will take place on June 7th.

AFAM board meeting will take place on September 6th

AFAM will organize Gadz US energy networking which will take online on November 9nd ( Tuesday), at 4 pm PST ( 6 pm CST).

The event is open to all gadzarts based in the US working or interested in energy sector.

Please do not hesitate to join, and to share the information about this events with others.

For more information to get an invitation to the event please contact Patrice Brossard or Albina Patou-Chebykina

While AFAM board meetings are not open to the public, you can always contact AFAM community manager or any of the board/team members if you have any suggestions concerning AFAM activities

AFAM will participate in the International Week organized by Arst et Metiers:

AFAM's online presentation and Shasta student's testimonial will take place on March 11th, from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm (Paris).

To join the meeting - TEAMS:  Click here to participate

Program:

• AFAM/Shasta presentation
• Student's testimonial ( by Lancelot Danne)
• Q/A

Please contact Albina Patou-Chebykina or the school for more information

APÉRO Gadz Energy Network #2 is coming soon!

Please join other gadz based in Houston working in the energy sector for a drink or two.

The address: By Popular Demand, 12420 Memorial Dr, Houston 77024.

To receive the invitation, please send your request to Patrice Brossard

Les entreprises, les etudiants, les anciens se posent parfois beaucoup de questions sur les visas aux Etats-Unis. Quels sont les visas pour venir aux Etats-Unis? Quelles sont les procedures pour les obtenir? Interessé par ces questions? Rejoignez American Friends of Arts et Metiers (AFAM) pour comprendre mieux la question des visas aux USA.
Notre discussion se tiendra le 8 avril à 9 am PST ( 12 pm EST, 18h France) et se basera sur les temoignages de nos etudiants et nos anciens. Vos questions seront les bienvenues.

Au programme de l'événement:
1) Introduction
2) Témoignages de Hugo Wagner, Paul Langlois-Meurinne et Mattia Pelissou
3) Q/R

Si vous souhaitez participer à cet evenement, merci de remplir notre formulaire d'inscription pour recevoir le lien Zoom:

https://forms.gle/c4sLciKEyex9J6Pj8

Bonjour à tous,

Réservez votre samedi 7 mai (11:30-16:00)


Où:  
Brookside Club of Saratoga
19127 Cox Ave, Saratoga, CA 95070
 
Format:
Evenement gadz, vous pouvez venir accompagné(e) de votre famille, les enfants sont les bienvenus

Prenez vos maillots de bain!


Potluck : apporter quelque chose à partager

Pour s'inscrire:

https://forms.gle/tAJgx2go5pegdaVW6

On June 6th AFAM June board meeting will take place.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact AFAM community manager or any member of the AFAM team

You can send us your ideas and suggestions about community life if you wish so! Our team is open to new projects and initiatives!

Next Gadz Energy Networking will take place on September 6th at de 7:30 PM (Houston Time) - 5:30 pm PST

2 Guest Speakers - Robert Stelly (Vallourec, Texas) Olivier Clerc (Bloom Energy, California) will share their experience.

For all infornation and to get Zoom link for the meeting, please contact Patrice Brossard or Albina Patou-Chebykina

On September 22 AFAM and its members will be presenting its programs Shasta, Yosemite and Sequoia. We invite all Arts et Metiers students to join our online meeting if you are interested in AFAM activities or willing to find an internship in the US.

To receive Zoom link please contact AFAM community manager or R-inter on your campus.