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Emmanuel Bernard
Emmanuel Bernard is a software engineer and open-source leader who created Hibernate ORM, Hibernate Search, and Hibernate Validator, three foundational frameworks in the Java enterprise ecosystem used by millions of developers worldwide. He served for many years as a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Expert Groups for the Java Persistence API and Bean Validation, directly shaping the standards that underpin Java enterprise application development. Previously a Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat, he now leads Hexactgon and remains an influential voice in the Java and open-source community.
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Eric Larchevêque
Co-founder and former CEO of Ledger, the crypto hardware-wallet maker he co-founded in 2014 and grew into a global security leader. A serial entrepreneur, he is also a well-known figure in French startup media.
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Fanny Moizant
Co-founder and president of Vestiaire Collective, the global resale marketplace for pre-owned luxury fashion she co-founded in 2009, helping pioneer the circular luxury economy.
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Florian Douetteau
Co-founder and CEO of Dataiku, the enterprise AI and data-science platform he co-founded in 2013. He grew it into a global leader valued in the billions, backed by ICONIQ, Tiger and a16z.
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Frédéric Mazzella
Founder and former CEO of BlaBlaCar, the long-distance carpooling platform he started in 2006 and grew into a global ride-sharing leader. A high-profile figure in French tech, he also co-founded the lobby group France Digitale.
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Frédéric Pascal
Frédéric Pascal is the Director of the DataIA Institute at Université Paris-Saclay and Vice-President for AI at Paris-Saclay University, one of France's leading research universities. DataIA is France's premier AI research and training institute, bringing together approximately 800 researchers across 47 laboratories and receiving official Cluster-IA certification from the French government in 2024. Pascal is a key figure in France's academic AI ecosystem and serves on the Advisory Board of Big Data & AI Paris 2026.
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Gabriel Hubert
Co-founder and CEO of Dust, building AI agents for the enterprise. A repeat founder, he previously co-founded the product studio Alkemics and worked at Stripe before starting Dust.
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Georges Hadziioannou
Georges Hadziioannou is a professor at the University of Bordeaux and a pioneer in organic and polymer electronics, conducting research on functional materials for energy, displays and flexible devices. He is a keynote speaker at NANOTEXNOLOGY 2026 in Thessaloniki.
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Guillaume Laforge
Guillaume Laforge is a Developer Advocate at Google and one of the most recognized figures in the Java and open-source software ecosystem. He is the creator of Apache Groovy, a widely adopted dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, and has contributed to numerous Java community standards and tooling efforts over more than two decades. Laforge is a prolific international conference speaker and a recognized thought leader in cloud-native Java development and generative AI tooling for developers.
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Guillaume Lample
Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Mistral AI, leading model research. He previously led the LLaMA project as a research scientist at Meta AI before co-founding Mistral.
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Hugo Lassiège
Co-founder and CTO of Malt, leading the technology behind the freelance marketplace he started with Vincent Huguet in 2013.
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Ivan Schneider
Co-founder of Doctolib, part of the founding team that built the medical-booking platform into a European health-tech leader alongside CEO Stanislas Niox-Chateau.
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Jason Warner
Co-founder and CEO of Poolside, the AI lab building frontier models for software development. He was previously CTO of GitHub and a managing director at Redpoint Ventures.
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Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve
Co-founder and CEO of Alan, the French digital health insurer he started in 2016 to rebuild health cover around a simple app and preventive care. Under him Alan became one of France's most valuable fintechs, backed by Index, Coatue and Temasek.
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Jean-Philippe Vert
Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer of Bioptimus, building foundation models for biology. A leading machine-learning researcher, he was previously a research lead at Google Brain and Owkin and a professor at Mines ParisTech.
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Julien Richard
Co-founder and CTO of Filigran, leading engineering for its open-source threat-intelligence and breach-and-attack-simulation platforms.
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Laurent Sifre
Co-founder and former CTO of H and a deep-learning researcher who previously worked at Google DeepMind on AlphaGo and AlphaZero, bringing frontier-model expertise to the Paris AI startup.
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Lionel Mora
Co-founder and CEO of Neoplants, bio-engineering houseplants to capture indoor air pollutants. A former Google strategist, he co-founded the deep-tech startup with biologist Patrick Torbey.
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Loïc Soubeyrand
Founder and CEO of Swile, the employee-benefits and meal-voucher super-app. He previously founded the adtech company Teads, one of France's biggest tech exits, before starting Swile in 2017.
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Maha Radhakrishnan
Maha Radhakrishnan, MD, is Executive Partner at Sofinnova Investments, one of Europe's leading dedicated life science venture capital firms. A physician-scientist by training, she brings deep expertise in biopharmaceuticals and drug development to evaluating and supporting therapeutic companies across oncology, rare diseases, and CNS disorders. She is a prominent investor and speaker in the European and global biotech ecosystem.