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Forward Data Conference 2025
Nov 24, 2025 · Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France
- Conference
- Forward Data Conference Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Nov 24, 2025
- Venue
- Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
- Place
- Paris, France
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- forward-data-conference.com
- Recorded
- 8 sponsors · 61 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Second edition. Originally announced for 20 Nov 2025 on Billetweb (Apr 2025 snapshot), held 24 Nov 2025. Organised by Hymaïa, Modern Data Network and Christophe Blefari. Ticket prices not recoverable. Talks/videos from the current site's 2025 talks page plus talks only shown in the archived 2025 programme; affiliations from the archived programme (as of the event) where given, else from the current speakers page. Databricks ran a co-located Open Lakehouse + AI meetup the same evening.
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 8
Platinum 1
- Omni · Platinum sponsor
Gold 1
- Sifflet · Golden sponsor
Silver 5
- Mirakl · Silver sponsors
- nao Labs · Silver sponsors
- Starlake.ai · Silver sponsors
- Synq · Silver sponsors
- Tangram · Silver sponsors
Bronze 1
- ClickHouse · Bronze sponsor
Speakers and talks 61
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexis Cruveiller | Carbonfact | Speaker | Row level lineage at Carbonfact | Video |
| Andrea Gioia | Quantyca | Speaker | From Monolith to Mesh: How to Model Data in the Age of Data Products and AI Agents | — |
| Arthur Delpierre Coudert | Doctolib | Speaker | Our path to implement a product approach to data (at Doctolib) | Video |
| Boris Dorado | KPMG | Speaker | Governance that pays back: rethinking value in data strategy | — |
| Chloé Duteil | Stlar | Speaker | L'impact des assistants IA conversationnels dans les décisions d'achat : résultat d'étude et benchmark des solutions GEO du marché | Video |
| Christelle Marfaing | — | Speaker | Entre FOMO, obsolescence et paralysie stratégique : comment construire des produits data à l'ère des GenAI ? | Video |
| Christophe Blefari | nao Labs | Speaker | We have been automated, what to do in 2026? | Video |
| Claire Genoux | — | Speaker | Governance that pays back: rethinking value in data strategy | — |
| Colin Zima | Omni | Speaker | Building differentiation with AI‑powered data products | — |
| Colin Zima | Omni | Speaker | Building differentiation with AI‑powered data products - Panel Omni | Video |
| Cyril Vlaminck | Sopht | Speaker | Exploiter la puissance de DuckDB : Un an de production avec des dizaines de To de données | Video |
| Eevamaija Virtanen | — | Speaker | The Nervous System of Work | Video |
| Emmanuel Martin-Chave | DataGuard | Speaker | Building your Internal AI Academy | — |
| Franck Cussac | Hymaïa | Speaker | Polars : la fin de Spark ? | Video |
| Gaëlle Seret | Clean Data Architecture | Speaker | Governance that pays back: rethinking value in data strategy | — |
| Gaëlle Seret | Clean Data Architecture | Speaker | Organisations hallucinate as well: 5-min to reflect on organisational dysfunctions | Video |
| Giada Pistilli | Hugging Face | Speaker | AI Ethics Across Borders: Values, Data, and Cultural Context | — |
| Guillaume Gondé | Theodo | Speaker | Sustainable GenAI: Balancing Innovation with Impact | — |
| Herve Froc | AB Tasty | Speaker | Powering User-Facing Analytics at Scale: How AB Tasty Serves Thousands of Experiments Daily | — |
| Hugo Hauraix | Decathlon | Speaker | Empowering a large scale analytics organization with an Analytics Center of Excellence | Video |
| Hugo Palmer | Decathlon | Speaker | Empowering a large scale analytics organization with an Analytics Center of Excellence | Video |
| Ioana Creux Tocmag | Hivebrite | Speaker | Building differentiation with AI‑powered data products - Panel Omni | Video |
| Ioana Creux Tocmag | Hivebrite | Speaker | Building differentiation with AI‑powered data products | — |
| Isaure Lagon | Getaround | Speaker | What's Next After Data & AI? | Video |
| Jean Castaing | Ogury | Speaker | Building differentiation with AI‑powered data products | — |
| Jean Castaing | Ogury | Speaker | Building differentiation with AI‑powered data products - Panel Omni | Video |
| Jean-Matthieu Saponaro | Datadog | Speaker | From Analytics to AI: Evolving a Data Platform to Power Machine Learning at Scale | Video |
| Jeanine Harb | Mirakl | Speaker | From Product Images to Structured Data: VLMs at Marketplace Scale | Video |
| Jeremy Chia | Vinted | Speaker | Test Smarter, Not Harder: Risk-Based Data Quality Without Pipeline Paralysis | Video |
| Jessica Talisman | — | Speaker | The Ontology Pipeline | — |
| Jian TANG | Tangram | Speaker | Data OS for the AI Age: One System to Run Your Infra, Data & Apps | Video |
| Joe Reis | Deeplearning.ai | Speaker | The Great Data Engineering Reset: From Pipelines to Agents and Beyond | — |
| Julien Jouhault | Leboncoin | Speaker | Innover discrètement, impacter massivement: faire de l’IA un moteur d’entreprise | Video |
| Juliette Duizabo | Photoroom | Speaker | How AI is changing the standard for BI: Making data accessible, actionable, aligned | Video |
| Justina Šakalytė | Vinted | Speaker | Test Smarter, Not Harder: Risk-Based Data Quality Without Pipeline Paralysis | Video |
| Maria Vechtomova | Marvelous MLOps | Speaker | 7 Steps to Level Up Your MLOps (and LLMOps) Maturity | Video |
| Marie-Laure Lecompt | Dailymotion | Speaker | Building an AI agentic platform to empower marketers & advertisers | Video |
| Marie-Laure Lecompt | Dailymotion | Speaker | From the modern data platform to product culture: How Dailymotion put data at the center of the game | Video |
| Max Halford | Carbonfact | Speaker | Row level lineage at Carbonfact | Video |
| Mehdi Ouazza | MotherDuck | Speaker | From Postgres to a Minimalist Lakehouse: The Next Step with DuckLake | Video |
| Naim Kosayyer | Selfr | Speaker | AI for Self-Service BI: The Good, the Bad, the Misunderstood – Lessons from the Field | — |
| Natalia Solina | BlaBlaCar | Speaker | I replaced myself with AI | Video |
| Nicolas Maurice | — | Speaker | Building an AI agentic platform to empower marketers & advertisers | Video |
| Olga Petrova | Criteo | Speaker | Not a sign from the Universe, just a retargeted ad: how Criteo uses Deep Learning to power its predictive bidding engine | Video |
| Paul Marcombes | Nickel | Speaker | What's Next After Data & AI? | Video |
| Pierre Courvoisier | Sopht | Speaker | Exploiter la puissance de DuckDB : Un an de production avec des dizaines de To de données | Video |
| Robert Pack | Databricks | Speaker | Designing Data Infrastructure in the Age of Generative AI | Video |
| Robin Conquet | DataGen | Speaker | What's Next After Data & AI? | Video |
| Samuel Baker | Mirakl | Speaker | Beyond the Dashboard: Architecting the Agentic Future of Analytics | Video |
| Sergey Chernyakov | AB Tasty | Speaker | Powering User-Facing Analytics at Scale: How AB Tasty Serves Thousands of Experiments Daily | — |
| Sihem Kime | Meetic | Speaker | Fusion de produits, fusion de modèles : comment unifier les intelligences d’apps différentes | Video |
| Simone Civetta | Hymaïa | Speaker | LLMs in Production: Observability, Monitoring, and Evaluation | Video |
| Taha Le Bras | Brevo | Speaker | Building differentiation with AI‑powered data products - Panel Omni | Video |
| Taha Le Bras | Brevo | Speaker | Building differentiation with AI‑powered data products | — |
| Tanguy Le Floch | Veesion | Speaker | Organisations hallucinate as well: 5-min to reflect on organisational dysfunctions | Video |
| Tiankai Feng | ThoughWorks | Speaker | Getting ready for AI - from excitement to value | Video |
| Valentin Marek | — | Speaker | Enabling self-service analytics with dbt and Apache Superset | Video |
| Willis Nana | Founder | Speaker | Livrer vite, scaler proprement : les 7 commandements de l'efficacité en Data Engineering | Video |
| Xuan-Son Nguyen | BNP Paribas Personal Finance | Speaker | Governance that pays back: rethinking value in data strategy | — |
| Xuan-Son Nguyen | BNP Paribas Personal Finance | Speaker | Sovereign LLM Inference at scale | — |
| Yann Jouanin | TheFork | Speaker | MCP At Scale : Why Every Organization Needs a MCP Strategy | Video |
Sources
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251113213000/https://www.forward-data-conference.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251113211233/https://www.forward-data-conference.com/programme/program-2025
- https://web.archive.org/web/20260616154332/https://forward-data-conference.com/archive/
- https://www.forward-data-conference.com/en/program/talks/2025
- https://www.forward-data-conference.com/en/program/speakers/2025
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251109135426/https://www.billetweb.fr/forward-data-conference-2025
- https://web.archive.org/web/20250425095554/https://www.billetweb.fr/forward-data-conference-2025
- https://community.databricks.com/t5/paris/join-the-open-lakehouse-ai-community-in-paris-nov-24-6-30-10pm/td-p/137606