On Friday 17th May, our guest speaker was Arnaud Lamy. Arnaud is Research & Development director for Application des Gaz, owner and distributor of brands including Campingaz, Coleman (planchas & barbecues), Sevylor, Marmot, which is part of the Newell Brands group. Arnaud’s presentation focused on exploding the myths of European Union product development. This wasn’t […]
March Business Lunch “The Expatriate’s Financial journey”
March’s business lunch featured a presentation from one of our more recent members, Alan Watson, entitled “The Expatriate’s Financial journey”. Alan has a truly international background, born and brought up in the UK, whose work experience has covered EMEA over 30 years or so, covering Holland, Germany, France as well as Bahrain, Saudi and Dubai. […]
May Business Lunch – what is Design ?
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 […]