High Tech Committee


The High Tech Committee is composed of high-level people in the High Tech industry in the Bay Area. During its monthly meetings, the goal of the group is to provide a highly interactive industry forum for our members, which facilitate networking and partnerships.
In addition to organizing conferences to discuss important topics of the industry, it also promotes other organizations' events fitted to our Membership and Calendar.

       • Co- Chairs          • Members          • Monthly Meetings          • Events

2008 HIGH-TECH COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND REPRESENTED COMPANIES

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- The GreenBow

Members

  • Stephane Allaire - Bouygues Telecom
  • Clement Alteresco - Fabernovel
  • Michael Amar - Agorad.
  • Aurelia Ammour - iVentures Consulting
  • Herve Auch-Roy - Calaros Bay
  • Alain Azan - Sofinnova Ventures
  • Benoit Bergeret - Qipit
  • Bernard Bolz - CapGemini
  • Chantal Buard - Picture Earth
  • Dominique Butel - Business Decision
  • Frederic Lucas Conwell - Growth Resources
  • Marc Dangeard - Dangeard Group
  • Jean-Francois Dechant - LogLogic
  • Fabien Degaugue - PeerPong
  • Bertrand Diard - Talend, Inc.
  • Guillaume Dumortier - WorldWideTech
  • Jean-Charles Dupuis - Neocase Software, Inc
  • Damien Dykman - Exalead Inc.
  • Sina Fateh - VegaVista
  • John Forge - Europacifica/Boma Systems
  • Aaron Fraser - Archer Leads, Inc
  • John G - Equinoa
  • Olivier Garbe - Winnov
  • Gilles Garcia - AMCC
  • Thierry Gerardin - Database Architechs
  • Patrick Giacomini - TheGreenBow
  • Theresa Gibbons - Union Bank of California
  • Gaetan Gachet- Ubifrance
  • Francois Granade - NexB
  • Andre Gueziec - Beatthetraffic
  • Pierre Hiraclides - Kwartz, Inc.
  • Barry Hotchkies - eCFOs
  • Philippe Jeudy - Altaide Valley
  • Remi Lacombe - Dxo Labs Corp.
  • Thierry Lamouline -  SMUB, Inc.
  • 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
  • Brian Piech -  Telltale Games
  • Dominique Piotet - L'Atelier BNP Paribas
  • Olivier Poissonnier - Corporate Finance Consultant
  • Jean Pommier - ILOG
  • Francis Prevot - Open Sphere USA
  • Alain Regnier - Nuxo
  • Philippe Roche - Alioscopy
  • Jean-Baptiste Rudelle - Criteo Corp.
  • Jack Shandle - e-ContentWorks
  • Herve Utheza
  • Jean-Luc Valente - Cittio
  • Marc Verstaen - Lorienne
  • Remy Vespa - Venus Software Corporation
  • Emmanuel Vieillard-Baron - Sun Microsystems
  • Antoine Villata - Planisware
  • Michel Villemain - Presto Engineering
  • Jean Claude Viollier - Cap Gemini - Cupertino Office
  • Eva Voisin - Law offices of Voisin and Associates
  • Xavier Wartelle - Presto Engineering
  • Bruno Winck - Radialsoft
  • Richard Zolezzi - Catapult Advisors


 

MONTHLY MEETINGS

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.
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 monthly meetings in Redwood City in order to network, present their Business model and challenges, and find solutions.

Email Carole Granade if you are interested in participating.
A special thanks to our host:

 

Notable Past Events


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


2009

 

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?"
Interested in participating?
Email Carole Granade