Invest in France Agency north-america Office

Opportunities for Innovation in Grenoble-Isère

2008-05-09
Boston, MA
Contact: Sebastien CARBON

Business Breakfast in Boston

 

When: Friday May 9th, 2008 - 7.30 – 9.30 AM
Where: Cambridge Innovation Center - 1 Broadway – 14th floor (Kendall Square)

 

Find out about the latest opportunities from leaders of three of France's top innovative forces:

Nicolas Leterrier
General Manager of MINALOGIC, micro/nano/embedded systems competitive cluster whose projects in the past 2 years represent a total of more than € 1.2 billion

David Holden
Manager of Commercialization and Technology Transfer, MINATEC (3,500-person innovation center whose anchor is the CEA-Leti)

Gilles Talbotier
Director of GRAIN, (GRenoble Alpes INcubation), supporting the launch, thus far, of more than 70 young high-tech companies

 

Topics include:

• Innovation in Micro & nanotechnology 
• Embedded Systems
• New Energy Technologies, including Low Power Consumption Ambient  Devices such as Sensors 
• Wireless Communications & their applications in Energy Management and Metering
• e-Health Usage, with Electronics & Computing involving Biotechnologies

 Meet potential partners 

• Learn about access to funding for high tech projects 
• Discover the activities of > 200 firms and labs in the renowned Grenoble area of France
• Hear from experts involved in the entire innovation value chain: from research to start ups and their incubation, and on to SMEs and their collaborative projects with local firms and labs both large and small.

 

To RSVP, please follow the link, or contact us by phone or email. Sharon Rehbinder, AEPI N. America sharon@france.com / cell (US): 310-880-5968

http://www.minatec.com/aepi_grenoble_business/index.htm 

 

Foreign Exchange Risk Management

2008-04-24
Chicago, IL
Contact: Ludovic VALLET

Business breakfast seminar

 

This business breakfast seminar co-sponsored by the Invest in France Agency will welcome Mark Neustadt, Foreign Exchange Trader, Fifth Third Bank

 

Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sofitel O’Hare
8-10 am

 

Fifth Third Bank's presentation will help you gain an understanding of the FX market place and FX hedging instruments, provide the groundwork to help formulate and implement an FX risk management program and help corporations accomplish their foreign exchange risk management objectives.

 

Reservations are required. To RSVP, contact us at 312-578-0444 or information@facc-chicago.com.

 

Fortune Brainstorm: Green

2008-04-21
Pasadena (California)
Contact: Benoît GAUSSERON

Top environmentally-minded business leaders and the green movement's brightest thinkers will convene in Pasadena, California on April 21 and 22—Earth Day— for FORTUNE's first-ever Brainstorm: GREEN Conference.

More information in English soon.

• Grenelle Environment roundtable in 2008 [pdf - 134 Ko]

Securitization and Systemic Risks - Panel Discussion

2008-04-17
New York
Contact: Benoît GAUSSERON

A thought-provoking discussion of the dangers of financial markets failing to remain current with the scale and increased complexity of the new financial instruments

Risk management is a vital element in both the pricing and stability of derivatives and other complex securitized structures. The exponential growth of these instruments has brought tremendous profit opportunities but also considerable credit risks. If not properly understood, we are threatened with an unmanageable level of systemic risk in the global financial system with potentially dire consequences in the event of a prolonged financial and credit meltdown.

 

Time: 12:30 - 2 p.m.

Place: FIAF - Le Skyroom

22 East 60th Street

New York, NY

 

Lunch will be served

 

Panel features:

Pierre-André Chiappori
E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics, Columbia University
A graduate from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Pierre-André Chiappori has been a senior researcher at the French National Research Center and a Professor at ENSAE. Between 1992 and 1997, he was in charge of one of the first three Chairs in Insurance Economics created by the French Federation of Insurance Companies. He then became a Professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chicago and an editor of the Journal of Political Economy. He is currently the E. Rowan and Barbara Steinschneider Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Chiappori is the author of three books including Risque et Assurance (Flammarion), awarded the CHEA Prize of the best book on insurance in 1997. He is a member of the Scientific Board of Institut Europlace de finance, Association française de gestion financière, Observatoire de l'épargne européenne and AXA Research Fund.

Rama Cont
Director, Center for Financial Engineering, Columbia University
Rama Cont joined Columbia University’s Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department in 2006, after previous positions as CNRS research scientist at Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Ecole Polytechnique (France), and visiting professor at Princeton University. His research currently focuses on stochastic modeling and computational methods in finance, inverse problems and model uncertainty, random graphs and social networks. He is the co-author of Financial Modeling with Jump Processes (CRC Press 2003) and Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit (Wiley 2005).

Richard D. Rudder
Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP
Dick Rudder is a Partner at Baker & McKenzie (New York) and a member of the firm’s U.S. Banking, Finance and Major Projects Group. A graduate of Lafayette College and NYU School of Law, he has chaired and lectured at numerous industry conferences in the U.S. and abroad. Rudder concentrates his practice in asset-backed transactions such as intellectual property as well as residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities. He has crafted many first-of-a-kind transactions, including, most recently, the first securitization of music royalties, first commercial mortgage conduit securitization, first pay-through bond transaction, and first multi-provider health care transaction.

Jarett F. Wait
Global Head of E-Commerce, Lehman Brothers Jarett F. Wait is the global head of e-Commerce activities and former chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers Asia. He is responsible for driving the Firm's e-Business strategy including strategic investments and partnerships as well as client connectivity, content delivery and e-Liquidity solutions. As CEO of Lehman Brothers Asia, Mr. Wait played a key role in establishing the Firm as the No. 1 financier of innovative startup companies in Asia, and was instrumental in establishing e-Bond Securities K.K., the first Internet bond trading business in Japan as well as advising NASDAQ on its establishment of Nasdaq Japan. Mr. Wait is a 1980 graduate of Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences.

 

RSVP to Jess Burkle:
646 388 6680 / jburkle@fiaf.org

New Ways to Improve Your Company's IP Portfolio

2008-04-03
La Jolla, CA
Contact: Alexandre THERMET

Discussion of competitive clusters in France with an international edge, hosted at the Salk Institute

 

New ways to improve IP portfolio for US-based firms: Internationalization of the French competitiveness clusters
at the Salk Institute in La Jolla

April 3rd 2008

 

8:30am       Registration Opening

 

9:00-10:00 Introduction to the IP specificities of the French competitive clusters

Michael White, Sr Licensing Executive; The Salk Institute
Thomas Jurgensen, CEO; Catalyst Law Group
 

10:00-10:40 Testimonials about pending French American programs by San Diego-based firms

Magda Marquet, Co-President & Co-CEO; Althea Technologies
Andrew de Guttadauro, VP Corporate Development ; Vical
 

11:00-12:30 Testimonials by French firms about fulfilled programs

Maud Bouvier, Ph.D., Business Development Manager, Erytech Pharma
Jean Baptiste Marchand, Ph.D., Head of Immunology, CEO; Imaxio
Sonia Escaich, Ph.D., CEO; Mutabilis
Nicolas Mouz, Ph.D;, CSO; Protein’eXpert
 

Conclusions :  Bernard Mandrand, LyonBioPôle’s CSO, will present how to take part in a French cluster’s program

 

12:30-2:00 Lunch & Networking

 

For a detailed program:

http://frenchbiobeach.googlepages.com/salkfabsapril2008