Join us to share a piece or our famous homemade Galette des Rois!
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.
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?
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:
Panel #2
Chair: Xavier Wartelle
Panelists: Sylvia Gallusser (French Tech Hub), Ben Lévy (BootstrapLabs), Laurence Fabre (FACCSF)
Preparation of entrepreneurship journey
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
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.
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