May’s business lunch was held at the Lyinc and our guest speaker was Thomas Rosset, Artistic Director at TwinFish Design and member of Designers+. Thomas’ presentation was focussed on DESIGN, with a capital D! As well as being a designer, Thomas’ background offered us a great perspective of how design adds value across business and […]
March Business Lunch – Consumer Trends
March’s Business lunch was held at the Reine Astrid. Our speaker was Philip Last, FIBA president, who shared his thoughts on major consumer trends and opened up the presentation to an interactive discussion. This led to some rich discussions on the environment, artificial intelligence and digital change! If you would like to relive the presentation, […]
The Christmas Lunch
At the Christmas lunch this year we wanted to pay tribute to Nigel Gore, one of FIBA’s founding fathers, who passed away in July. We invited Gillian, Nigel’s wife as our special guest and Peter Watson, FIBA’s first president spoke, as did his successor, Tim Hughes. James, one of Nigel’s sons and FIBA stalwart and […]
FIBA GOLF DAY
October 12th was FIBA’s annual golf day and 2017’s event, the 8th edition in all was played again at the Gouverneur, along with our good friends from the Club des Entrepreneurs. The weather was extraordinary, transforming an already beautiful golf course on what turned out to be a gorgeous Indian summer’s day (stunning photos) eating […]
LES VOISINS – river cruise
This year’s Cocktail de la Rentrée, our traditional flagship event, was a little out of the ordinary! 2017’s event was co-organised by DIT (Department of International Trade) in Lyon, the Ambassador’s team in Paris and of course the FIBA committee. Guests from Lyon and the region were invited to the Embarcadère and embarked on the […]