Stephen Batifol
Employers on the program
- 2026Black Forest Labs1 talk
- 2024–2025Milvus / Zilliz2 talks
The year around now
Talks in the past 12 months and announced talks ahead, one row per conference, January to December. Hover a mark for the talk.
Appearances by year
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)
- Haystack
- QCon
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2026 | AI Engineer Europe 2026 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | keynote | Black Forest Labs: FLUX, Open Research, and the Future of Visual AI as Black Forest Labs | Video |
| Sep 23, 2025 | AI Engineer Paris 2025 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Fireside Chat with Black Forest LabsJoin us for a conversation with Black Forest Labs' Developer Advocate Stephen Batifol. We will dive into design innovations and decisions, AI models and art,…Show lessJoin us for a conversation with Black Forest Labs' Developer Advocate Stephen Batifol. We will dive into design innovations and decisions, AI models and art, and the developer community. | |
| Sep 23, 2025 | AI Engineer Paris 2025 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Inside FLUX, How It Really WorksImage generation is amazing, but editing? Most approaches either sacrifice quality for speed, or you get inconsistent results when users make iterative edits.…Show lessImage generation is amazing, but editing? Most approaches either sacrifice quality for speed, or you get inconsistent results when users make iterative edits. Inference times is also a major bottleneck for real-world applications. In this talk, Andreas will share how Black Forest Labs solve these challenges with FLUX.1 Kontext. | |
| Sep 23, 2025 | AI Engineer Paris 2025 | AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions) | speaker | Lunch & Learn - Inside FLUX: From Open-Weights to Advanced ModelsStep inside the FLUX family - from open-weights you can fine-tune and customize, to advanced models built for high-quality results out of the box. In this…Show lessStep inside the FLUX family - from open-weights you can fine-tune and customize, to advanced models built for high-quality results out of the box. In this interactive workshop, we’ll break down the differences between FLUX [dev], FLUX [pro], and FLUX Kontext, and explore where each shines. | |
| Apr 7, 2025 | QCon London 2025 | QCon | speaker | Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM as Milvus / Black Forest Labs While text-based RAG systems have been everywhere in the last year and a half, there is so much more than text data. Images, audio, and documents often need to…Show lessWhile text-based RAG systems have been everywhere in the last year and a half, there is so much more than text data. Images, audio, and documents often need to be processed together to provide meaningful insights, yet most RAG implementations focus solely on text. | |
| Sep 30, 2024 | Haystack EU 2024 | Haystack | speaker | Exploring Vector Search at Scale as Milvus / Zilliz Milvus is an open-source vector database built to power Gen AI solutions. 80% of the data in the world is unstructured data, and vector databases are the…Show lessMilvus is an open-source vector database built to power Gen AI solutions. 80% of the data in the world is unstructured data, and vector databases are the databases that help you get valuable insights from unstructured data. | SlidesVideo |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Andreas Kollegger | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Bertrand Charpentier | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Guillaume Vernade | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Hervé Bredin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Marlene Mhangami | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Neil Zeghidour | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Paige Bailey | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Paul Iusztin | 2 | — | 2026 |
| Vaibhav Srivastav | 2 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.