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Forward Data Conference 2026
Nov 16, 2026 · Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France Announced
- Conference
- Forward Data Conference Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Nov 16, 2026
- Venue
- Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
- Place
- Paris, France
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Announced
- Attendance
- 650Organiser's site: '650 expected attendees' (pre-event).
- Website
- forward-data-conference.com
- Recorded
- 8 sponsors · 43 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Third edition, branded FWDC 2026. 3 stages, 4 themes, 42 speakers announced as of 2026-11-08 (lineup revealed weekly). Organised by Hymaïa, Modern Data Network and Christophe Blefari. Ticket prices from the Billetweb shop (EUR, as displayed).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evening Pass (networking evening only, no conference) | €45 | — | billetweb.fr | |
| Super Early Bird | €99 | — | Sold out by 2026-11-08 | billetweb.fr |
| Early Bird | €199 | — | Sold out by 2026-11-08 | billetweb.fr |
| Regular | €299 | — | Sales over by 2026-11-08 | billetweb.fr |
| Late Bird | €399 | — | On sale 2026-11-08 | billetweb.fr |
Sponsors 8
Speakers and talks 43
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christophe Blefari | nao Labs | Keynote | Everyone's an analyst (and that's great) | — |
| Virginie Cornu | — | Keynote | When work fragments between humans and AI: the continuity challenge | — |
| Adrien Morvan | Mirakl | Speaker | Why Ship an AI You Can't Measure? Building an LLM Judge You Can Actually Trust, at the Scale of Millions of Products | — |
| Alexis Blandin | Jolimoi | Speaker | AI will make your organization obsolete. If you have one | — |
| Aloÿs Augustin | Cassis | Speaker | Rules vs example queries: what context helps your analytics agent the most? | — |
| Benjamin Joyen-Conseil | Decathlon | Speaker | From the Gold layer to a federated Context: Decathlon's journey | — |
| Céline To | Leboncoin | Speaker | Towards self-serve analytics: a year of data transformation at leboncoin | — |
| Charles André | Qonto | Speaker | How a Small Data Platform Team Serves 2,000 People — with Self-Service and AI | — |
| Charlotte Ledoux | Maketools | Speaker | The future of data governance in the age of AI agents | — |
| Claire Gouze | nao Labs | Speaker | Context engineering for analytics agents that actually work | — |
| Emma Wagner | Gorgias | Speaker | How to build a context factory for analytical agents | — |
| Gaël Varoquaux | Probabl | Speaker | What to expect of a data-science agent? | — |
| Guillaume Gondé | Theodo | Speaker | LLM inference : What actually happens in the 2 seconds after you hit enter on Claude | — |
| Hugo Palmer | Decathlon | Speaker | From the Gold layer to a federated Context: Decathlon's journey | — |
| Irad Cohen | monday.com | Speaker | One Agent Is a Feature. Three Agents Are a Platform. | — |
| Jeremy Chia | Vinted | Speaker | What do Job Descriptions tell us about Analytics Engineering in 2026? | — |
| Joe Reis | Deeplearning.ai | Speaker | Respect My Ontology: Why the Data and Knowledge Camps are Doing a "W.T.F." | — |
| Jules Guillot | Gorgias | Speaker | How to build a context factory for analytical agents | — |
| Julien Aubert | Malt | Speaker | Malt field report: from experimentation to production, adapting your observability infrastructure for generative AI | — |
| Juliette Duizabo | Photoroom | Speaker | How we use agents to 10x our data team | — |
| Karim Cadi | LumApps | Speaker | Building a Forward Deployed Engineering team inside a software vendor: LumApps' lessons | — |
| Luc Legardeur | WeScale & Solario | Speaker | Recipes for the AI-augmented SDLC | — |
| Marco Saetta | Doctolib | Speaker | Building the AI factory: the operating-model shifts behind Doctolib's AI products | — |
| Matthieu Serek | LumApps | Speaker | Building a Forward Deployed Engineering team inside a software vendor: LumApps' lessons | — |
| Maxime Rosina | BlaBlaCar | Speaker | (Re)Building an AI-Ready data universe | — |
| Mehdi Ouazza | MotherDuck | Speaker | The Next Data Stack Has No UI: Building End-to-End Analytics with Agents and Ducks | — |
| Mehdi Ouazza | MotherDuck | Speaker | Speedrunning Analytics in 60 seconds, no cuts | — |
| Michael Ourch | Qonto | Speaker | How a Small Data Platform Team Serves 2,000 People — with Self-Service and AI | — |
| Nicolas Martignole | Back Market | Speaker | How Back Market moved into agentic AI in 12 months, and everything is fine, thank you. | — |
| Nicolas Mauti | Malt | Speaker | Malt field report: from experimentation to production, adapting your observability infrastructure for generative AI | — |
| Noé Achache | Weflayr | Speaker | The AI FinOps levers that actually move your LLM bill | — |
| Olga Petrova | Criteo | Speaker | Context Engineering for Large-Scale Product Search | — |
| Oussama Taki Amrani | Mirakl | Speaker | Why Ship an AI You Can't Measure? Building an LLM Judge You Can Actually Trust, at the Scale of Millions of Products | — |
| Patrice Chaperon | — | Speaker | Towards self-serve analytics: a year of data transformation at leboncoin | — |
| Paul Marcombes | Optic 2000 | Speaker | Analytics that builds the platform: say goodbye to Ticketing 2.0 with agents in the git repo | — |
| Pierre Courvoisier | Sopht | Speaker | Data Quality at Scale: Building a Robust Framework for Complex data Models | — |
| Samir Akarioh | Scalingo | Speaker | MCP in production: the security pitfalls to avoid | — |
| Steve Buckingham | Back Market | Speaker | Everyone has an analyst in their pocket now. What's left for the data team? | — |
| Sylvain Utard | Altertable.ai | Speaker | DuckDB, dbt, and the Death of Pipeline Glue | — |
| Taha Le Bras | Supabase | Speaker | The Agent OS: a harness to survive a $100M to $400M year | — |
| Vincent Jolivet | ClickHouse | Speaker | Are data stacks ready for agents? | — |
| Winfried Adalbert Etzel | Winfried Etzel AS | Speaker | From Handover to Hangover: How Organizations Delegate Decisions to Machines and Lose Accountability on the Way | — |
| Yochan Khoi | Gorgias | Speaker | How to build a context factory for analytical agents | — |
Sources
- https://www.forward-data-conference.com/en/
- https://www.forward-data-conference.com/en/program/talks/2026
- https://www.forward-data-conference.com/en/program/speakers/2026
- https://www.forward-data-conference.com/en/program/program-2026
- https://www.billetweb.fr/forward-data-conference-2026
- https://motherduck.com/events/forward-data-conference-2026-2026/