Forward Data Conference

[SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT] We're thrilled to announce that Anne-Claire BASCHET from Mirakl will be speaking at the Forward Data Conference! Anne-Claire is the Chief Data & AI Officer of Mirakl, and will talk about how they put GenAI at the Heart of Mirakl's Product: From Inception to Deployment of the Mirakl Catalog Transformer. We are so happy to have you among the speakers Anne-Claire BASCHET! Get the full description of her talk here: https://lnkd.in/e8M4GFRg All talks are now available on our website: https://lnkd.in/eyndp6CW A huge thanks to our amazing sponsors for this conference: CastorDoc, Mirakl, SYNQ, nibble.ai, Sparkline, Omni and Corail Analytics ❤️ The Forward Data Conference is now sold out! Reach us if you want to be informed as soon as the replays are available!

GET READY: Starting tomorrow, we'll publish the replays of the talks of the Forward Data Conference one by one, starting with Joe Reis! Because we know you can't wait anymore, here's the replay of the piano introduction of Joe's talk, performed by the one and only Tiankai Feng! Enjoy, and see you tomorrow for the first replay on our Youtube Channel.

Last week was the Forward Data Conference, and what a day it was! It was organized by Hymaïa, Modern Data Network and Christophe Blefari and the conference embodied everything I love about these three : data expertise, humanity and a strong sense of community. I was invited to talk about the future of the CDO (yeah, nothing less 😅) alongside the brilliant Claire Lebarz! And because it was a conference like no other, we did it in the form of a live podcast animated by the incomparable Robin Conquet 🎙️ You could tell it was a different kind of event right from the start: François Laurain kicked off the day with a collective eyes-closed breathing session (now a signature of Hymaïa meetups 🧘🏼♀️), and Tiankai Feng introduced us speakers on stage with a grand piano and even a customized song about our talks! 🎹🎶🤯 The day was full of great presentations, and I attended every single one! Here are a few highlights that particularly stood out for me: ➡️ Hannes Mühleisen began with a dive into the powerful tool that is DuckDB and its impressive performances. ➡️ Joe Reis gave us a keynote drawing parralels between MMA 🥊 and combining different styles of data modeling. Don’t miss his upcoming book on the topic! ➡️ Anne-Claire BASCHET presented their implementation of (Gen)AI at Mirakl. As always, Anne-Claire delivered a very clear and insightful presentation! 🔥 ➡️ Paul Marcombes presented the promising project he's been working on for a couple of years : BigFunctions or how to supercharge your data-warehouse and empower your data analysts! I’ve been following him for a few years and I’m excited to see where it goes! ➡️ Naim Kosayyer gave an eye-opening talk about how to prevent models from hallucinating, with a very promising conclusion. Keep an eye on him, he might be onto something big! 💥 ➡️ Adrien Sedeaud : As a fan of both data and sports, I was thrilled to learn how data is helping make our athletes some of the best in the world at INSEP - Institut National du Sport, de l'Expertise et de la Performance. Truly inspiring! ➡️ last but not least! Tiankai Feng was not only the pianist filling the room with smiles before each talk with his voice and piano but he also closed the conference with a deeply inspiring talk on humanizing data strategy. That’s a much-needed topic in the tech/data space! Needless to say, wether it was the speakers or the audience, they weren’t just experts in their domains but they were also incredibly approachable and fun to chat with during the breaks and after the sessions. That’s the sense of community I was looking for ! Big thank you to François Laurain, Yoann Benoit, the whole Hymaïa crew, Emmanuel Martin-Chave, Edouard Flouriot from the MDN and Christophe Blefari, you did it! 👏 See you next year!

Retrouvez le support du talk "Comment le Conseil départemental du Gard conjugue #ModernDataStack et #Géomatique ?" présenté lors de la Forward Data Conference sur GitHub. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dQdjzcmQ

Pour ce premier post qui brise 7 années de silence, je souhaite remercier toutes les personnes présentes lors de mon "talk" traitant du non déterminisme de certains calculs sur GPU lors de la Forward Data Conference (il y a bien d'autres personnes à remercier, mais on me fait signe que ce n'est pas les Oscars). J'en profite également pour partager une version (légèrement plus lisible) du morceau de code abordé https://lnkd.in/eqGeJEJW

Incroyable 🤩, cette Forward Data Conference a vraiment été incroyable ! 1️⃣ Rencontrer plusieurs Hymaïains au repas des speakers et faire la connaissance de Paul-Guillaume Déjardin dont j'apprends qu'il a vécu plusieurs années dans le village #Gardois juste à côté de là où j'habite. 2️⃣ Replonger 20 ans en arrière et me revoir sur les bancs de Polytech Montpellier alors que Hannes Mühleisen nous réexplique les principes ACID et Joe Reis nous dit l'importance de la modélisation. 3️⃣ Brancher mon PC pour préparer mon talk et reconnaitre Willis Nana dans l'assistance...puis le voir prendre des photos des slides que je présente. 4️⃣ Être remercié pour mon talk et continuer la conversation avec Antoine Verhulst, Paul L (encore un ex-Gardois), Mathieu Soul (qui a lui même fait un super Lightning Talk), Franck CUSSAC et d'autres... 5️⃣ Assister à des conférences de qualité dont : - What’s Next After SQL? par Benoit Pimpaud - One Thousands and One dbt Models: How BlaBlaCar Moved to dbt in 12 months par Thibault Ambard et TUSHAR BHASIN - Comment le sport de haut niveau s’est emparé des données pour les Jeux de Paris et après par Adrien Sedeaud - AI on Data - snake oil or actually useful? par David Jayatillake Merci à tous pour les échanges et félicitations 👏 aux organisateurs : Hymaïa / François Laurain, Christophe Blefari (alias DuckBlef) et le Modern Data Network. #ForeverFirst #AJamaisLesPremiers

Can we do "conference as a product"? I was at the Forward Data Conference presenting the Data Product Manager role and its complexities. I loved the organization Christophe Blefari François Laurain Yoann Benoit and thoughtful music Tiankai Feng ! Waiting for the replay, here are my notes, as a MVP 🤩

Aujourd’hui, j’ai envie de profiter Mais pas sans vous 🔥 Malgré un RER B capricieux, un temps pluvieux, vous êtes tous là ! J’ai quand même bien des bug à gérer, les sous-titres, le son du live. Mais je m’amuse et je veux prendre le temps de profiter de cette journée. Merci à tous d’être là et merci à la folle équipe d’Hymaïa, au Modern Data Network et Christophe Blefari d’avoir rendu cette journée possible.

[FORWARD DATA CONFERENCE] C’est parti 🏄♂️🔥 Salle comble pour cette Keynote d’introduction pour démarrer la 1ere édition de la Forward Data Conférence François Laurain débute par sa désormais traditionnelle séance de méditation 🧘♀️ Tiankai Feng à donner le rythme avec sa touche musicale. Et on le retrouvera tout au long de cette journée au piano ! Meet My Mama nous régale avec leur petit déjeuner

See you in a few minutes 🔥