Our speaker for April’s business lunch was Frédéric Crouzet, founder and creator of This is Lyon This is Lyon is the Lyon website which is 100% English, so this attracts two main personas….expats and tourists! Frédéric explained his professional background as a journalist as well as some of the tips and tricks of setting up […]
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, […]
FIBA Special Event – Curling Night 23 Jan 2018
To start the New Year, we began with something a little different. Joanna Kelly, one of our members, is Broadcast manager for the World Curling Federation and came up with a great idea! With the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games about to get underway in South Korea, FIBA members were invited to ‘Come & Try’ the […]
New Year International Cocktail
This year’s International cocktail took on a Chocolate theme, as we decided, along with the Presidents from EACC (American), BBC (Belgian), CEE6 (6th district), DBRA (Dutch) business clubs to hold our event at the NewTree Café a new business started by Bernard Goret from the Belgian business club. Over 80 business club members assembled and enjoyed […]
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 […]