High Tech Committee

The High Tech Committee is composed of high-level people in the High Tech industry in the Bay Area. The committee aims at providing its members a highly interactive forum to discuss industry specific issues, thus facilitating networking and partnerships. The High-Tech Committee is above all a networking platform forming a tight-knit core of the FACCSF's High-Tech members, focusing on their interests, and developing corresponding events and conferences:

• Technology review sessions:
  The Chamber offers the unparalleled opportunity for French startups and businesses to draw upon the experiences and expertise of their fellow expatriates. A unique forum for French high-tech enterprises, the Committee organizes bi-annual lunches in Redwood City in order for our members to network, present their Business model or challenges, and find solutions.

• High Tech Conferences:
  Covering a great variety of topics, the Committee’s conferences help the committee’s members meet with high level speakers of their industry and learn from their experience. In addition to organizing conferences to discuss important topics of the industry, it also promotes other organizations' events fitted to our Membership and Calendar.

• Web, Wine & Wisdom:
  Because we love new Web apps and because we enjoy discovering new wines, it seemed natural to mix it all in one event.Web Wine & Wisdom is a networking event made for tech lovers, entrepreneurs, developers, inventors and startups and anyone who is curious about new tech applications and of course, loves wine.

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       • Co- Chairs          • Members          • Monthly Meetings          • Events
 

Committee Chairs

• Frederic Stemmelin - IDB Consulting

Frédéric brings more than 15 years of experience in Software and IT consulting. He drives the operational strategy of the company, with a focus on establishing IDB as an independent global consulting firm specialized in Data Management.

• Patrick Giacomini- TheGreenBow

Members

• Clement Alteresco - Fabernovel
• Michael Amar - Ifeelgoods
• Aurelia Ammour - iVentures Consulting
• Alain Azan - Sofinnova Ventures
• Benoit Bergeret - Qipit
• Bernard Bolz - CapGemini
• Chantal Buard - Picture Earth
• Bertrand Diard - Talend, Inc.
• Jean-Charles Dupuis - Neocase Software, Inc
• John Forge - Euro Pacifica
• Olivier Garbe - Winnov
• Patrick Giacomini - TheGreenBow
• Theresa Gibbons - Union Bank
• Andre Gueziec - Beatthetraffic
• Barry Hotchkies - eCFOs
• Remi Lacombe - Dxo Labs Corp.
• Francois Laugier -  RMKB
• Olivier Lauzeral - Irotech
• Jean-Philippe Emelie Marcos - D.E. Shaw & Co. LP
• Georges Nahon - Orange Labs San Francisco
• Xavier Oustalniol - Alvarez & Marsal
• Vincent Paquet - Google
• Frederic Tardy - L'Atelier BNP Paribas
• Dominique Piotet - Rebellion Labs
• Daniel Saks - App Direct
• Arnaud Thiercellin - Flying Pig
• Herve Utheza - RCDb
• Anselme Le Van - Agilone
• Marc Verstaen - Lorienne
• Remy Vespa - Venus Software Corporation
• Emmanuel Vieillard-Baron - Oracle
• Antoine Villata - Planisware
• Jean Claude Viollier - Cap Gemini - Cupertino Office
• Eva Voisin - Law offices of Voisin and Associates
• John Wallace - BRI
• Xavier Wartelle - Prime
• Bruno Winck - Radialsoft
• Richard Zolezzi - Catapult Advisors

Notable Past Events
 

The FACCSF has hosted a number of highly successful conferences in the past years...

2011

• May 3^rd 2011 “Silicon Valley Trends”
• June 2^nd 2011 High Tech Committee Lunch 

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2010 

• Wednesday November 10th: Web, Wine & Wisdom 
• Tuesday, june 29th: Web, Wine & Wisdom
• Tuesday, June 1st: Leveraging Social Media in Business
• Thursday, February 23rd: Web, Wine & Wisdom 

2009

• Thursday, April 30th: Alternative Financing Conference, TBD

• Wednesday, January 25th: Internationally Cool and Plugged In, Palo Alto

2008

• December 8-9: Essonne Trade Mission, San Francisco

• Monday, December 8: Open Source Conference, San Francisco

• Monday, June 9th: e-Marketing Bootcamp #2, San Francisco

• Wednesday, May 21st: Valley Talk: "One Day of Conversations with Silicon Valley's Most Influential Companies, Press and Analysts", San Francisco

• Tuesday, May 20th: Tech Connection, San Francisco

• Wednesday, April 9th: e-Marketing Bootcamp #1, Redwood City

• Wednesday, January 23rd: High Tech Conference, Are Satellites missing the boat for future GIS services ?, Sofitel, Redwood City

2007

• Tuesday, June 5th: High Tech Conference, "Mélange à deux: What makes a VC/startup relationship click", Menlo Park

• Thursday, October 18th: "Global Health, Biotech Innovation and International Education" at The Institute of International Education, San Francisco

2006

• Thursday, March 16th: High Tech Conference, Trends in the IT Venture Capital Market

• Thursday, May 11th: High Tech Conference, Who pays for software: new and old software business models, Palo Alto

• Thursday, September 21st, 2006: Wine, Cheese and Cool Demos, Demonstrations from the leading-edge Silicon Valley companies

• Wednesday, November 15th, 2006: High Tech Conference

2005

• Wednesday, January 26:  High-Tech Event, The Digital Home: are we there yet? (And who will control the access to the consumer?) Palo Alto

• Wednesday, April 13th: "Internet Security: Will we get our money back?Technical investment or business cost?", The Peninsula

• Wednesday, September 28th: Wine, Cheese and Cool Demos,Demonstrations from the leading-edge Silicon Valley companies, San Francisco

• Wednesday, November 16th: High Tech Conference, Palo Alto

• "Voice over IP, why now?" with top panelists from Vonage, 8x8, NetCentrex, Dialpad and  Avaya and "Broadband wireless: today and tomorrow"

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In 2003, we had a chance to have conferences about " Next Generation Internet IP V6 ",
" Wireless Gaming change of venue ", " Mergers & Acquisitions - Strategic Opportunity or Necessity for Technology Firms? ", " Is software dead? " and " Is wireless international?"
 

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