Nicolas Sadirac and Florian Bucher came right from Paris to attend the 2 years of while42 birthday in San Francisco. Nicolas introduced 42 to our guests. 42 is a private French computer programming school created and funded by Xavier Niel (Founder of Illiad) with several partners including Nicolas Sadirac (previous General Director of Epitech),[1] Kwame Yamgnane and Florian Bucher (previous executives of Epitech).[2]

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2. GENERAL SITUATION
- 5th world economic power1
- 20th in digital technology 2
- 70% of IT businesses have a hard time
finding suitable applicants3
- Growth represented by the digital economy:
25% (USA: 40%) 4
1 Source: Institut Montaigne, Défi Numérique 2011
2 Source: Business Software Alliance, 2011
3 Source: APEC-SYNTEC Barometer 2012
4 Source: McKinsey&Company report, mars 2011

3. FRENCH EDUCATION SYSTEM
- Current curriculums are « standard »
- Evolution of society – Transmission of
deprecated knowledge
- 200 000 people get out of the system each
year
- France = Second to last in terms of social
acceleration

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5. RESULTS

6. THE « PISCINE »

7. QUESTIONS?