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AI speakers in France, verified

62 people who demonstrably spoke at an event in France — most recently active first, every talk linked to its public agenda.

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Luca Baggi

ML Engineer @xtream

verified · 5 talks
“Inside the Mind of an LLM”·PyData Amsterdam 2026·source · pretalx.com

and 4 talks before it

Took a stage in
NL
GB
LT
FR
last spoke Sept 2026
MG
Marco Gorelli

Senior Software Engineer at Quansight Labs

verified · 5 talks
“The Polars vs SQL differences nobody is talking about”·PyData London 2026·source · pretalx.com

and 4 talks before it

Took a stage in
GB
DE
FR
last spoke Jun 2026
GO
Gabriele Orlandi

Data Scientist @ xtream

verified · 3 talks
“Reading the Mind of an LLM”·PyCon Lithuania 2026·source · pretalx.com

and 2 talks before it

Took a stage in
LT
NL
FR
last spoke Apr 2026
AA
verified · 1 talk
“Move beyond academia: Introducing an industry-first tabular benchmark”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
AG
verified · 1 talk
“Building Data Science Tools for Sustainable Transformation”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
CC
verified · 1 talk
“torchFastText: Modernizing Text Classification at Insee with PyTorch-based models”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
EC
verified · 1 talk
“Balancing Privacy and Utility: Efficient PII Detection and Replacement in Textual Data”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
GL
Guillaume Lemaitre

I have a PhD in computer science and have been a scikit-learn and imbalanced-learn core developer since 2017. I am curre

verified · 5 talks
“Skrub: machine learning for dataframes”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com

and 4 talks before it

Took a stage in
FR
PL
DE
last spoke Oct 2025
JD
verified · 2 talks
“Skrub: machine learning for dataframes”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com

and 1 talk before it

Took a stage in
FR
PL
last spoke Oct 2025
JB
verified · 1 talk
“Balancing Privacy and Utility: Efficient PII Detection and Replacement in Textual Data”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
LA
verified · 2 talks
“Building Resilient (ML) Pipelines for MLOps”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com

and 1 talk before it

Took a stage in
FR
GB
last spoke Oct 2025
LL
verified · 1 talk
“Move beyond academia: Introducing an industry-first tabular benchmark”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
MT
verified · 1 talk
“torchFastText: Modernizing Text Classification at Insee with PyTorch-based models”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
ME
verified · 1 talk
“Documents Meet LLMs: Tales from the Trenches”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
NE
Nour El Mawass

Nour leads the Generative AI technical group at Modus Create. She has a PhD in Machine Learning. and has worked on Machi

verified · 2 talks
“Documents Meet LLMs: Tales from the Trenches”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com

and 1 talk before it

Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
OG
Olivier Grisel

Olivier is an Open Source Fellow at probabl and a core contributor to the scikit-learn machine learning library.

verified · 3 talks
“Probabilistic regression models: let's compare different modeling strategies and discuss how to evaluate them”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com

and 2 talks before it

Took a stage in
FR
PL
last spoke Oct 2025
PP
verified · 1 talk
“Architecting Scalable Multi-Modal Video Search”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
RT
verified · 1 talk
“CodeCommons: Towards transparent, richer and sustainable datasets for code generation model training”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
RC
verified · 2 talks
“Skrub: machine learning for dataframes”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com

and 1 talk before it

Took a stage in
FR
PL
last spoke Oct 2025
RC
verified · 1 talk
“Machine Learning in the Browser: Fast Iteration with ONNX & WebAssembly”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
SS
verified · 1 talk
“Advancements in optimizing ML Inference at CERN”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
SM
verified · 1 talk
“Architecting Scalable Multi-Modal Video Search”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
SC
verified · 1 talk
“CodeCommons: Towards transparent, richer and sustainable datasets for code generation model training”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
VZ
verified · 1 talk
“Repetita Non Iuvant: Why Generative AI Models Cannot Feed Themselves”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Oct 2025
AB
verified · 1 talk
“Unlock the full predictive power of your multi-table data”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
AC
verified · 1 talk
“Tackling Domain Shift with SKADA: A Hands-On Guide to Domain Adaptation”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
ES
verified · 1 talk
“ActiveTigger: A Collaborative Text Annotation Research Tool for Computational Social Sciences”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
JT
verified · 1 talk
“Browser-based AI workflows in Jupyter”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
JB
verified · 1 talk
“ActiveTigger: A Collaborative Text Annotation Research Tool for Computational Social Sciences”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
LG
verified · 1 talk
“Unlock the full predictive power of your multi-table data”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
NB
verified · 1 talk
“Browser-based AI workflows in Jupyter”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
PG
verified · 1 talk
“ActiveTigger: A Collaborative Text Annotation Research Tool for Computational Social Sciences”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
TG
verified · 1 talk
“Tackling Domain Shift with SKADA: A Hands-On Guide to Domain Adaptation”·PyData Paris 2025·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2025
AC
Alexandre Carton

I'm a data scientist and ML engineer at Renault, working on putting our ML models into production.

verified · 1 talk
“MLOps at Renault Group: A Generic Pipeline for Scalable Deployment”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
AT
Alix Tiran-Cappello

I have been working as a Data Scientist at Renault Digital for 3 years, focusing on applications for the industry and ma

verified · 1 talk
“MLOps at Renault Group: A Generic Pipeline for Scalable Deployment”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
AW
Alyssa Wright

Alyssa helps lead Bloomberg’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) in the Office of the CTO. Bloomberg's OSPO serves as the

verified · 1 talk
“Open Source Sustainability & Philanthropy: Building Contributor Communities”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
AS
Andro Sabashvili

Andro Sabashvili transitioned to a data science career after obtaining a PhD in theoretical physics. Andro's data scienc

verified · 1 talk
“Adaptive Prediction Intervals”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
BH
Benedikt Heidrich

I completed my PhD in deep learning based time series forecasting in 2023 with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In

verified · 1 talk
“sktime - python toolbox for time series: next-generation AI – deep learning and foundation models”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
BC
Benoît Courty

Benoît Courty is a data scientist with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. He began his career as an insid

verified · 1 talk
“Track your code's C02 emissions with Code Carbon”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
DD
Devpriya Dave

Devpriya Dave is a software engineer on the FX Options team at Bloomberg. While at Georgia Tech obtaining her master's d

verified · 1 talk
“Open Source Sustainability & Philanthropy: Building Contributor Communities”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
FM
Francesc Martí Escofet

Francesc is a MSc Data Science student at ETH Zürich. Before that, he graduated in Maths & CS at the Polytechnic Univers

verified · 1 talk
“Catering Causal Inference: An Introduction to 'metalearners', a Flexible MetaLearner Library in Python”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
FK
verified · 1 talk
“sktime - python toolbox for time series: next-generation AI – deep learning and foundation models”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
GD
Guillaume Desforges

Senior Software Engineering at Modus Create with an academic background in mathematics, statistics and AI and profession

verified · 1 talk
“Processing medical images at scale on the cloud”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
KK
Kevin Klein

Kevin is a Data Scientist at QuantCo, where he's been working with insurances on fraud detection, risk modelling and pol

verified · 1 talk
“Catering Causal Inference: An Introduction to 'metalearners', a Flexible MetaLearner Library in Python”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
LL
Louis Lacombe

Louis Lacombe, Data Scientist at Capgemini Invent, France.

verified · 1 talk
“Boosting AI Reliability: Uncertainty Quantification with MAPIE”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
LB
Luis Blanche

I am a freelance Machine Learning Engineer

verified · 1 talk
“Track your code's C02 emissions with Code Carbon”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
MH
Max Halford

https://maxhalford.github.io/bio/

verified · 1 talk
“Unpack business metrics to explain their evolution”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
NA
Noé Achache

I am a Lead Data Scientist at Sicara, where I worked on a wide range of projects mostly related to vector databases, com

verified · 2 talks
“Towards a deeper understanding of retrieval and vector databases”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com

and 1 talk before it

Took a stage in
FR
DE
last spoke Sept 2024
PR
Pierre Raybaut

[Pierre Raybaut](https://pierreraybaut.github.io/) is a long-term advocate of Python in a scientific context, renowned a

verified · 1 talk
“DataLab: Bridging Scientific and Industrial Worlds for Advanced Signal and Image Processing”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
SY
Sophia Yang

Sophia Yang is the Head of Developer Relations at Mistral AI, where she leads developer education, developer ecosystem p

verified · 1 talk
“Keynote: Building with Mistral”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
SS
Stefanie Senger

Stefanie is an open source developer at :probabl. and a contributor to scikit-learn.

verified · 1 talk
“An update on the latest scikit-learn features”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
TC
Thibault Cordier

Thibault Cordier is a Data and Research Scientist at Capgemini Invent, where he is a member of the Lab Invent team in Fr

verified · 1 talk
“Boosting AI Reliability: Uncertainty Quantification with MAPIE”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
VL
Valentin Laurent

Senior Data Scientist @ Capgemini Invent

verified · 1 talk
“Boosting AI Reliability: Uncertainty Quantification with MAPIE”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
AS
Alonso Silva

Alonso Silva is currently a Researcher on Verifiable AI at Nokia Bell Labs in the Machine Learning and Systems Research

verified · 1 talk
“Enhancing RAG-based apps by constructing and leveraging knowledge graphs with open-weights LLMs”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
CC
Cérès Carton

Senior data scientist at HelloWork

verified · 1 talk
“Leveraging LLMs to build supervised datasets suitable for smaller models”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
DB
David Brochart

David Brochart is a Technical Director at QuantStack. David is a contributor to the Jupyter ecosystem. He focuses on the

verified · 1 talk
“Collaborative editing in Jupyter”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
JV
Joris Van den Bossche

I am a core contributor to pandas and Apache Arrow, and a maintainer of GeoPandas. I did a PhD at Ghent University and V

verified · 2 talks
“The expanding Apache Arrow universe - standardizing and accelerating tabular data access and interchange”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com

and 1 talk before it

Took a stage in
FR
DE
last spoke Sept 2024
JB
Justine BEL-LETOILE

Justine leads the data science team at HelloWork, a digital provider of employment, recruitment, and training solutions.

verified · 1 talk
“Leveraging LLMs to build supervised datasets suitable for smaller models”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
MK
Maria Knorps

Maria's professional goal is to improve the environment by understanding it first in

verified · 1 talk
“Evaluating the evaluator: RAG eval libraries under the loop”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024
NG
Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards

Nicolas is a Sr. ML Engineer at GitGuardian where he develops NLP-based technologies to detect vulnerabilities in code a

verified · 2 talks
“Would you rely on ChatGPT to dial 911? A talk on balancing determinism and probabilism in production machine learning systems”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com

and 1 talk before it

Took a stage in
FR
DE
last spoke Sept 2024
PH
Patrick Hoefler

Patrick Hoefler is a member of the pandas core team and a Dask maintainer. He is currently working at Coiled where he fo

verified · 2 talks
“Building Large Scale ETL Pipelines with Dask”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com

and 1 talk before it

Took a stage in
FR
DE
last spoke Sept 2024
Serge « sans » Paille

Sometimes a compiler engineer, sometimes a wood chopper, but also a retired wizard of the coast. Enjoy telling stories,

verified · 1 talk
“xsimd: from xtensor to firefox”·PyData Paris 2024·source · pretalx.com
Took a stage in
FR
last spoke Sept 2024

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