Meeting Nicolas Gaume

Thanks to the CEDRIC lab, we had the opportunity to hold this meeting in an impressive place : the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers founded in 1794.

We had approximatly fifty attendees for this meeting. A large audience, a nice place, an audio/video system.. The Paris Chapter is growing up !

Interwiew

In a two hours long interview, along with the audience questions, Nicolas Gaume talked about the Kalisto Adventure, from the very beginnings in the Bordeaux country when he was 19 to the successful game studio it became in the late 90’s. Nicolas did not eluded the end of Kalisto, in 2002, a few months after the failure of an badly-advised IPO right in the midst of the dot com bubble burst.

It took Nicolas several years to rebuild himself, and after working with Ubisoft, Codemasters and others, he is now in charge of the mobile entertainement division of Lagardère Active.

You can read the whole interview translated by Google (be aware that it will be an automated translation, not always very accurate, and this is an understatement ! ).