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Industry Group (French)

Animateurs for the group Industry Group (French)

Franck Avedissian (1995 CIV) - Delegate

Emmanuel Bergerot (1995 CIV) - Delegate

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Upcoming events

  1. Monday 18 November at 18:30 - Paris
    Conference with Yves Bréchet: Politics and nuclear power: a history of time...

    Le groupe professionnel Nucléaire Arts et Métiers, en partenariat avec le groupe Ponts Industrie, vous propose une conférence qui se tiendra le lundi 18 novembre 2024 à la...

  1. Monday 18 November at 19:00 - Paris
    Conference with Christophe de Charentenay on retrofitting electric vehicles

    Groupe Ponts Ecological Transition conference on November 18, October at 7pm at the Maison des Ponts in face-to-face or distance learning format. on the subject of...

  1. Thursday 05 December at 18:30 - Paris
    Nuclear conference with Luc Rémont, EDF CEO

    ENSTA Alumni, in partnership with the Ponts Industrie group, is organizing a major conference on nuclear power with Luc Rémont, PDF EDF, on Thursday December 5, starting at...

Previous events

  1. Thursday 03 October at 10:00 - Palaiseau
    Visit the Siemens Digital Experience Center (Industrie 4.0)

    The Siemens Digital Experience Center is an experimentation and demonstration laboratory for the industry of the future, located in Saclay and set up in collaboration with CEA...

  1. Monday 23 September at 18:30 - Paris
    Conference: Nuclear power plants in operation: the challenge of major...

    The Nucléaire Arts et Métiers professional group, in partnership with the Ponts Industrie group, invites you to a conference to be held on Monday September 23 at the Maison...

  1. Monday 16 September at 19:00 - Paris
    Ponts Industrie conference: towards a revival of the metallurgical and mining...

    On September 16 at 7pm, we'll be delighted to welcome Bruno Jacquemin, General Delegate of the Association des Minerais, Minéraux et Métaux, and Maxime Lazard, Deputy General...

  1. Monday 26 February at 19:00 - Paris
    Ponts Industrie: Benoît d'Iribarne, SVP Manufacturing, Performance & Technology...

    On February 26, we're delighted to welcome Benoît d'Iribarne, SVP Manufacturing, Performance & Technology at Saint-Gobain. The topics we'll be discussing with Mr. d'Iribarne...

  1. 13 December 2023 at 19:00 - Paris
    Ponts Industrie Conference: Airbus, a European industrial giant

    On December 13, we'll be holding another group meeting, focusing on Airbus and the aeronautics sector in general. On this occasion, we'll be welcoming Julien Puyou, an alumnus of the Ecole...

  1. 16 October 2023 at 19:00 - Paris
    Ponts Industrie Conference "Jean-Baptiste Fayet, CEO France of Terreal, an...

    On October 16, Ponts Industrie will welcome Jean-Baptiste Fayet, Terreal's Managing Director for France. Terreal is a specialist manufacturer of roofing, structural, solar and facade-decoration...

  1. 17 April 2023 at 19:00 - Paris
    Ponts Industrie conference with Jérôme Christin, VP of R&D of the Air Liquide...

    On April 17, we invite Jérôme Christin, VP of R&D for the Air Liquide Group. Ingénieur des Ponts (2001), Jérôme will present Air Liquide's strategy for the next ten years: New products and sectors ...

  1. 06 February 2023 at 19:00 - Paris
    Ponts Industrie Conference: "France's Hydrogen Program for Industry

    On February 6, Mr Lionel Prévors, head of the Hydrogen project at the French Ministry of Energy's Directorate General for Energy and Climate, will address our Ponts Industrie group. What is France's...

  1. 25 January 2023 at 10:30 - le havre france
    Haropa Ports : day of conference and visit

    Meetings, exchanges and visits

  1. 19 September 2022 at 18:30 - Paris
    The Spring odyssey: history and lessons of an impossible project

    Strategy, project management, reverse innovation, industrial policy, entrepreneurship

  1. 07 September 2022 at 19:00 - Paris
    Bridges Industry Evening

    Dear friends from Ponts Industrie, Over the past two years, you've had the opportunity to attend a number of interesting and varied conferences, led by people with a strong commitment to French...

  1. 06 April 2022 at 19:00
    Videoconference with Nicolas Meilhan: "What are the prospects for electric...

    organized by the Ponts Industrie and Ponts Transition Ecologique trade groups

  1. 27 January 2022 at 19:00
    Ponts Industrie conference: "ArcelorMittal and the steel industry face the...

    On January 27, between 7 and 8 p.m., by video conference, we will have the pleasure of welcoming Matthieu Jehl, General Manager of ArcelorMittal France:- What are the Group's main plants in France?...

  1. 01 December 2021 at 19:00
    Ponts Industrie conference: Alexandre Saubot, President of France Industrie, CEO...

    On December1st, from 7pm to 8:30pm, we'll be delighted to welcome Alexandre Saubot, President of France Industrie, CEO of Haulotte Group and member of the MEDEF Executive Council. Haulotte Group is a...

  1. 13 October 2021 at 19:00 - Paris
    Ponts industrie conference: "Hyperpowered companies, giants and titans, with...

    Over the past few decades, giants with colossal sales and capitalizations have spun their webs all over the world: Google, Ikea, Toyota, Tesla, Huawei, Airbus... They have spread up and down the value...

  1. 03 May 2021 at 18:30
    Ponts Industrie : On-line conference : Presentation of the Industrial...

    Industry 4.0, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, remote manufacturing, mechanics of future materials, industrial flow management... Would you like to know what Les Ponts engineers in the Industrial...

  1. 26 April 2021 at 19:00
    Ponts Industrie: what new models for industry?

    --Visio-conference on April 12 postponed to April 26 at 7pm We continue our industry rendez-vous, with a videoconference with OPEO partner Michaël Valentin: How are industrial models changing? Is...

  1. 14 October 2020 at 19:00 - Paris
    Ponts Industrie: "Sauvons l'industrie!" web and face-to-face conference with...

    As part of the Ponts Industrie lecture series, Pierre Veltz, a graduate of theÉcole polytechnique and a Corps des Ponts engineerdes Ponts (class of 1969), will be kind enough to share with us his...

  1. 16 September 2020 at 19:00 - Paris
    Conference by Antoine Frérot, CEO of Veolia (video and face-to-face)

    Industry Rendezvous

  1. 01 July 2020 at 16:00
    Industry group web conference: industry in the next world, proposals from Michel...

    How can we reindustrialize France?

News

05/10/2023 - October, events galore

Ponts Alumni professional groups are back in session!No fewer than 7 conferences are scheduled for October, some of them in conjunction with other alumni associations of grandes écoles and/or Ponts pour le Climat label holders:*-*-*🏗"Les galeries urbaines multiréseaux" with Michel GERARD and...

03/04/2023 -

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Presentation

Cars, cakes, medicines, toys, locks, airplanes, furniture, telephones...the list is endless. Industrial products are everywhere in our daily lives, without us even realizing it.

Over the last century, industry has generated some of the most incredible innovations, and has always played a leading role in the development of new technologies and their dissemination throughout society.

At Les Ponts, we are fortunate to have a large number of comrades active in the various branches of industry, in France, Europe and the rest of the world, as far afield as Asia and America. If you consult our directory, you'll find that some of our comrades work in research, others in production, purchasing and engineering, and still others in marketing and sales of industrial products. Certainly, few sectors of the economy offer such a wide range of opportunities and such exciting and varied careers.

Like the rest of the economy and the world, industry is nevertheless undergoing significant change, and is in the process of adapting to the transformations of our times. Take sustainable development, for example: our sector has realized that it needs to revisit its consumption of resources and energy; it needs to invent new modes of production, undoubtedly closer to the end consumer, and sometimes substituting recycling for total manufacturing. Studies show that customers want products that are more sustainable, yet still affordable, without compromising quality. This new squaring of the circle is a real headache, a real challenge for the industry. It will have to learn to do better, with less. Another upheaval, perhaps the most significant since Fordism, is what is known as Industry 4.0: a set of new ways of organizing the industrial workshop, technologies (3D printing, robotization, sensors, the Internet of Things...) and artificial intelligence enabling customized manufacturing, in smaller series and closer to demand...in any case, that's the ideal goal set by this industrial movement. Thanks to its flexibility and high degree of automation, it's a safe bet that it will help relocate certain industrial activities in France! In 1970, industry accounted for nearly a quarter of our country's GDP. Today, it accounts for just 11%... By way of hope, we can note that the decline has been halted in recent years. This is all the more crucial if we consider the following fact: do you know that one industrial job creates 4.5 indirect or induced jobs in the rest of the economy? Let's hope for a rebound of industry in France very soon!

At Les Ponts, the Industry Club is one of the largest in France, with around 2,675 members. It's a wonderful breeding ground and a remarkable collection of talents and points of view for exchanging ideas and contacts, and helping industry move forward. In addition to our alumni, we hope that the school's students, particularly those in the Industrial Engineering stream, will also be interested in our discussions and events. What would you like to see happen? Here's the list of meetings and conferences we'll be striving to organize on a regular basis (if health conditions give us a break!):

  • Evening discussions with experts and academics
  • Conferences with "captains of industry
  • Plant tours
  • Networking events

We hope to see many of you at future meetings, and of course welcome your suggestions for enriching the program.

Franck Avedissian (95), Emmanuel Bergerot (95), Ponts Industrie animators

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tel: 06 74 59 65 17