Speakers
Patrick Arminio
Job title: Backend Engineer, Verve
Bio: I’ll update this later
Fereshteh Asgari
Job title: Dr., IRT SystemX
Bio: I am a data scientist at IRT-Systemx, PhD in computer science with focus on geospatial data analysis. Before joining irt-systemx I worked as postdoc researcher at Telecom ParisTech on Machine learning applications on localisation data.
Lionel Auroux
Job title: Mr, LSE EPITA
Bio: CS Teacher at EPITA and researcher at LSE (lse.epita.fr).
Jean-Baptiste Aviat
Job title: CTO, Sqreen
Bio: Jean-Baptiste Aviat is CTO & co-founder at Sqreen. He spent half a decade hunting vulnerabilities at Apple, helping developers solve them, and developing security software.
Marco Bonzanini
Job title: Director, Bonzanini Consulting Ltd
Bio: I’m a freelance Data Scientist based in London, UK, where I help co-organising the local PyData London meetup, and I currently chair our annual PyData London conference. I published a Python book and video courses with Packt Publishing. I like speaking about Natural Language Processing, Data Science and Data Engineering at PyData/PyCon events and local meetups.
Philippe Boulanger
Job title: Manager d’expertise C/C++ Python, INVIVOO
Bio: I ran into Computer science when I was eleven after reading an article “Turing computer” and buying a programmable calculator. When I was 15, I sold my first programs to other students and I acted that « from a passion I will do my job ». After being graduated in engineering school ENSEEIHT with a DEA in “fundamental computer science and parallel computing”, open-minded, I always questioned myself without hesitation to exit from my comfort area to discover new functional worlds and learn new skills: from CAD programming, to numeric simulation (car crash-test) then in embedded software, until 2007 where I joined the financial companies. Some crisis after, I’m always working in that domain which allows him to work with the last tools, having technical challenges with the opportunity to provide innovating solutions. I joined Invivoo in 2017 to develop the two expertises « Python programming » and « C/C++ programming ». My objective consists to integrate a quant team in the not so distant future….
Maarten Breddels
Job title: Dr, Independant / Maarten Breddels
Bio: Maarten is a freelance developer / consultant / data scientist working mostly with Python, C++, and Javascript in the Jupyter ecosystem. His expertise ranges from fast numerical computation, API design, to 3d visualization. He has a Bachelor in ICT, a Master and Ph.D. in Astronomy and likes to code and solve problems.
Michael Bright
Job title: Mr, @mjbright Consulting
Bio: Michael recently left his corporate sponsor to become an independent trainer/consultant on Cloud Native technologies based in Grenoble France.
He has Kubernetes (CKAS, 2017), RHCE and SDN certifications and has presented or led tutorials at many conferences (https://mjbright.github.io/Talks) on Cloud Native subjects including containers, micro-services, serverless, unikernels.
Michael Bright
Job title: Mr, @mjbright Consulting
Bio: Michael recently left his corporate sponsor to become an independent trainer/consultant on Cloud Native technologies based in Grenoble France. He has Kubernetes (CKAS, 2017), RHCE and SDN certifications and has presented or led tutorials at many conferences (https://mjbright.github.io/Talks) on Cloud Native subjects including containers, micro-services, serverless, unikernels.
Chloe Brillatz
Job title: Research Engineer, CNRS/St Gobain Research Paris
Bio: After higher studies in math, physics and geosciences, I worked as a geophysicist in data processing. I started to use Python when doing satellite images processing and I continue to use it for material image processing at St Gobain Research.
Olivier Courtin
Job title: DataScientist & Founder , DataPink
Bio: GIS expert RoboSat core contributor DataScientist DataPink Founder
Pierre-Yves David
Job title: Mercurial Consultant, Octobus.net
Bio: I’m a Python afficionado, a Mercurial and Performance expert and a quality nerd. You can find my other presentations https://speakerdeck.com/lothiraldan.
Raphaël Delhome
Job title: Data Scientist / AI Engineer, Oslandia
Bio: After getting a civil engineering PhD., I became an Oslandia teammate as a Data Scientist a year and a half ago. Within this company, I am focusing on R&D tasks, and more specifically on developing new machine learning algorithms for automatic geospatial data analysis.
Romain Dorgueil
Job title: Maker, Makersquad
Bio: Developer, sysadmin, technical team builder, founder, advisor.
Creator of Bonobo ETL and a bunch of other python libraries.
Sometimes, I play go and make music, but not at the same time.
Romain Dorgueil
Job title: Maker, Makersquad
Bio: Developer, sysadmin, technical team builder, founder, advisor. Creator of Bonobo ETL and a bunch of other python libraries. Sometimes, I play go and make music, but not at the same time.
Xavier Dupré
Job title: Senior Data Scientist / Professor, Microsoft
Bio: Graduated in 1999 from the ENSAE and doctor in 2004, Xavier Dupré began his career at A2iA, a company specialized in automatic reading of cheques and handwriting recognition. After a short passage in finance, he joined Yahoo in 2008 to work on search query rewriting problems by implementing statistical algorithms designed for all languages. In 2010, Xavier joined Microsoft to participate in the local search engine. He contributed to the partnership between PagesJaunes and Bing. Xavier continues to work on very large scale problems for Microsoft’s search engine and contributes to Microsoft open sources projects (ML.net, onnxmltools). Meanwhile, Xavier Dupré have been teaching programming since 2001 at the ENSAE. The courses have expanded in 2014 to machine learning and technologies associated to big data. More recently, Xavier started to leverage student’s work about machine learning through hackathons and academical projects with non-profitable organizations.
Tom Dupré la Tour
Job title: PhD Student, Telecom Paristech
Bio: I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Image, Data, Signal department at Telecom ParisTech in France, supervised by Alexandre Gramfort and Yves Grenier. I graduated from Ecole polytechnique in 2013 and EPFL in 2015. My work focuses on neuronal oscillations (ECoG, LFP), signal processing and machine learning.
I am also a core developer of scikit-learn.
Sheer El Showk
Job title: Cofounder, Lore Ai
Bio: After over a decade as a researcher in String Theory and Statistical Physics, I’ve recently become very interested in Artificial Intelligence and its applications . My background combines strong academic credentials (PhD from strongest European string group, prestigious grants & awards, highly cited papers) with over a decade of software development experience, both in industry and academia. This including lead roles developing and deploying enterprise software in mission critical settings as wall as large scale numerical work. In my academic career, I engaged in highly visible and influential research in both String Theory and Critical Phenomena at the most pre-eminent European research institutes (CERN, CEA and Amsterdam). In recent years my interests have veered towards machine learning and artificial intelligence culminating in my role as co-founder of Lore Ai, an artificial intelligence focused startup.
If you’re interested in my physics research you can find the list of my publications in at here (https://inspirehep.net/search?ln=en&p=a+el-showk&of=hb&action_search=Search&sf=earliestdate&so=d).
If you would like to learn more about my work at Lore you can visit our website (https://www.lore.ai), checkout our product Salient (https://www.lore.ai/salient) or watch a talk I gave at PyParis 2017 (https://youtu.be/9T7-C-XSwkA). If you’re interested, come join us! We’re hiring!
Philippe Entzmann
Job title: Consultant, Aon France
Bio: Néant
Robert Erra
Job title: Directeur du LSE, EPITA
Bio: Robert Erra est Directeur du Laboratoire Sécurité & Systèmes (LSE) à EPITA depuis 5 ans. Docteur en Informatique. A créé et géré 3 mastères spécialisés et deux badges (CGE) en sécurité du numérique depuis 2004. Ses recherches portent sur les algorithmes (au sens large) de la sécurité et plus particulièrement les algorithmes du Machine Learning appliqués à la sécurité du numérique avec une attention particulière sur les problèmes de passage à l’échelle (scalability). Il publie régulièrement, des papiers tant scientifiques que de vulgarisation, ainsi, fin octobre 2018 sera publié un Hors Série MISC sur “Machine Learning et Sécurité”, il a été responsable du dossier central et a écrit deux papiers dans ce HS . ps: Robert Erra n’est pas très réseau social …
Loïc Estève
Job title: Dr, Inria
Bio: Loïc has a background in Particle Physics, which is how he discovered Python towards the end of his PhD. After a few year stint in an investment fund of writing mostly C++ and as much Python as possible, he was lured back to an academic environment. Loïc is a scikit-learn and joblib core developer and has been involved in a few other Python open-source projects in the past few years, amongst which dask, sphinx-gallery and nilearn.
Arnaud Fouchet
Job title: Head of Science, Dolead
Bio: Head of Science @Dolead / Data Scientist; MVA in Machine learning @Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan; Master in Financiar Mathematics @Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées;
Philippe Fremy
Job title: Software Developer, IDEMIA
Bio: I am software developer living in Bordeaux, in love with the Python language for more than 15 years. I like to follow the language evolution and its new capabilities to share them with a wider community. I have for example interviewed Guido van Rossum in 2002, interviewed 3 french Python core developers in 2011 and wrote a few articles about Python for the french news site LinuxFR.org
Alessandro Giassi
Job title: Head of Datalab, Saint-Gobain Recherche Paris
Bio: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-giassi-7322a619/
Emmanuelle Gouillart
Job title: Dr., Joint Unit CNRS / Saint-Gobain
Bio: Emmanuelle is a researcher in materials science, working at the intersection between industrial and academic research. She has been a core contributor of scikit-image for several years, and her interest in image processing was triggered by her frequent use of in-situ tomographic imaging of materials, especially glass at high temperature. In software development, besides image processing she is interested in documentation and teaching scientific Python. She has been a co-organizer of the Euroscipy conference for several years.
Garance Gourdel
Job title: Student, ENS Paris Saclay
Bio: Garance Gourdel is a student in second year of the MPRI master and a third year student at the ENS Paris-Saclay, she intends to continue in public research. She has first helped Prologin organizing the Girls Can Code! summer camps before joining the organization, she is currently the vice president.
Paul Guenezan
Job title: Student, EPITA / Association Prologin
Bio:
Alexander Hendorf
Job title: Partner, KÖNIGSWEG
Bio: Alexander’ professional career was always about digitalisation: starting from vinyl records in the nineties to to advanced data analytics nowadays. He’s program chair of Europe’s main Python conference EuroPython, EuroSciPy, one of the 25 mongoDB masters, organiser of PyConDE & PyData & PyData Frankfurt and a regular contributor to the tech community. He has spoken at many international conferences in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Florence or Paris. He’s a partner at Königsweg consultancy for digitalisation, high-tech and data science.
Rémy Hubscher
Job title: Software architect, ChefClub
Bio: Sailor, Biker, Aircraft pilot in training, Python developer and Django enthusiast from 2005, Rémy has been working for Mozilla for the last four years, he joined Chefclub.tv in March 2018 to build scalable backends and handle the 50 millions fans of the Chefclub community around the globe.
Tanuj Jain
Job title: Data Scientist, Idealo
Bio: Tanuj is currently working as a Data Scientist at idealo internet GmbH which is located in Berlin. His primary interest lies with building machine learning models and solving real-world problems using machine learning. His attention is currently centred on deploying machine learning solutions to production. He completed his M.Sc. in Electrical Systems Engineering from Paderborn University in the year 2015 with a focus on statistical pattern recognition and signal processing.
Syrine Krichene
Job title: Data Scientist, Criteo
Bio: Syrine Krichene is a Machine Learning Software Engineer. She joined Criteo in 2015, having graduated the same year with a Master’s Degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from ENSIMAG.
Guillaume Lemaitre
Job title: M., INRIA
Bio: Guillaume Lemaître is a research engineer. He has a PhD in computer science and is a scikit-learn core developer since 2017.
Éric Lemoine
Job title: Senior software developer, Oslandia
Bio: Éric Lemoine is a senior software engineer at Oslandia. Before Oslandia Éric worked for Sun Microsystems, Camptocamp and Mirantis. He’s been using PostgreSQL, PostGIS and Python since 2007, mainly for the development of web mapping applications. Éric is the main author of the GeoAlchemy library.
Christopher Lennan
Job title: Senior Data Scientist, idealo.de
Bio: Christopher is a Senior Data Scientist at idealo.de where he works on computer vision problems to improve the product search experience. In previous positions he applied machine learning methods to fMRI as well as financial data. Christopher holds a Master’s degree in statistics from Humboldt Universität Berlin.
David Louapre
Job title: Chief Scientist, Science étonnante & Ubisoft
Bio: Creator of the YouTube channel “Science Etonnante” and Chief Scientist at Ubisoft
Arthur Lutz
Job title: Devops @ Logilab, Logilab
Bio: Arthur has been working with Python for more than 10 years at Logilab. He is active in the SaltStack community and is the organizer of the Nantes Python Meetup and the SaltStack Paris Meetup.
Hervé Mignot
Job title: Chief Scientist Officer, Equancy
Bio: Hervé Mignot est en charge des activités de data science, d’infrastructures big data et de recherche au sein du cabinet de conseil Equancy. Après une thèse de doctorat en machine learning à l’Université Paris-Sud Orsay, Hervé a rejoint une startup d’édition de logiciels de data mining rachetée par SPSS puis IBM. Il s’est orienté ensuite vers le conseil en data science au sein d’Equancy qu’il a rejoint en 2008. Il est intervenu sur de nombreux sujets de valorisation des données par la data science et affectionne tout particulièrement l’environnement PyData. Hervé enseigne l’usage de Python pour la data science, du machine learning, et de Spark dans plusieurs écoles, en formation initiale et continue. Il est professeur associé de l’Université Aix-Marseille.
Frederic Peschanski
Job title: Prof., Sorbonne Université - LIP6
Bio: Frederic is a computer science professor and researcher at the Sorbonne Université in Paris. Instead of making his students program for him, he programs for his students who can then (surprisingly) focus on the core science.
Frederic Peschanski
Job title: Prof., Sorbonne Université - LIP6
Bio: Frederic is a computer science professor and researcher at the Sorbonne Université in Paris. Instead of making his students program for him, he programs for his students who can then (surprisingly) focus on the core science.
Georges Racinet
Job title: Anyblok Wms, a stock and logistics core engine in Python, Anybox SAS
Bio: Been developing Python applications for businesses and administration since 2005 Cofounder of Anybox (2010), a free software service company specialized in end customer adaptation of business applications (ERP etc.)
Martin Renou
Job title: Scientific Software Developer, QuantStack
Bio: Martin Renou is a Scientific Software Developer at QuantStack. Prior to joining QuantStack, Martin also worked as a Software developer at Enthought. He studied at the French Aerospace Engineering School ISAE-Supaero, with major in autonomous systems and programming.
As an open source developer, Martin has worked on a variety of projects, such as SciviJS (a JavaScript 3-D mesh visualization library) and simphony-remote (a web-service allowing to run desktop applications like Mayavi on the browser).
Passionate about 3-D rendering, Martin has also developed an open source 3-D Chess GUI based on OpenGL during his spare time.
Martin is the main author of xleaflet and is currently working on xtensor.
Pierre Alexandre Schembri
Job title: CEO, NETSACH
Bio: CEO of Netsach, Automation and Bridging technologies
Mayank Sharma
Job title: Mr., CERN
Bio: Mayank is a software engineer working at CERN on the SIMPLE Grid Framework. He is also a big advocate of Open Source Software and has been a Google Summer of Code mentor or student over the past 4 years. Having worked as a developer, release manager, and ITSM manager for open source organizations in the past, he has transformed his primary job at CERN into his first open source project. During his free time, he works on multiple side projects like a massage robot and a blockchain based insurance system.
Jean-Paul Smets
Job title: Dr, Nexedi
Bio: Founder of Nexedi and initial author of ERP5, Jean-Paul is currently in charge of Nexedi international development, investment relations and technology partnerships. Jean-Paul graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure with a PhD in computer science and from Ecole des Mines de Paris with a Master in Public Administration. He gained industrial experience in Apparel Industry, Oil industry, Non Profit Organizations and Lorraine Region Public Administration. He is an active member of Free Software associations and has played in key role in the Eurolinux campaign which succeeded in protecting innovation from software patents.
Nicolas Thiery
Job title: Prof., Université Paris Sud
Bio: Professor, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris Sud
Anne-Marie Tousch
Job title: Dr, Criteo
Bio: Anne-Marie Tousch is a senior research scientist at Criteo since 2014. She obtained her PhD in Applied Mathematics, specializing in Computer Vision, in 2010.
Gael Varoquaux
Job title: Dr, Inria
Bio: Gaël Varoquaux is an Inria faculty researcher working on data science and brain imaging. He has a joint position at Inria (French Computer Science National research) and in the Neurospin brain research institute. His research focuses on using data and machine learning for scientific inference, applying it to brain-imaging data to understand cognition, as well as developing tools that make it easier for non-specialists to use machine learning. Years before the NSA, he was hoping to make bleeding-edge data processing available across new fields, and he has been working on a mastermind plan building easy-to-use open-source software in Python. He is a core developer of scikit-learn, joblib, Mayavi and nilearn, a nominated member of the PSF, and often teaches scientific computing with Python using the scipy lecture notes.
Gael Varoquaux
Job title: Pr, Inria
Bio: Gaël Varoquaux is an Inria faculty researcher working on data science and brain imaging. He has a joint position at Inria (French Computer Science National research) and in the Neurospin brain research institute. His research focuses on using data and machine learning for scientific inference, applying it to brain-imaging data to understand cognition, as well as developing tools that make it easier for non-specialists to use machine learning. Years before the NSA, he was hoping to make bleeding-edge data processing available across new fields, and he has been working on a mastermind plan building easy-to-use open-source software in Python. He is a core developer of scikit-learn, joblib, Mayavi and nilearn, a nominated member of the PSF, and often teaches scientific computing with Python using the scipy lecture notes.
Jovan Veljanoski
Job title: Data Scientist, XebiaLabs
Bio: Jovan is a data scientist specializing in the rapid developement of pipelines for fast delivery of predictive models. Working mostly with Python in the Jupyter environment, he has considerable experience in clustering analysis and predictive modelling. He has a PhD in Astrophysics and is interested in novel machine learning applications.
Wolf Vollprecht
Job title: Mr, QuantStack
Bio: Wolf is a Scientific Software developer at QuantStack in Paris. He finished his Master in Robotics, Systems and Controls at ETH Zurich in 2017 with a specialization in AI and Deep Learning.
During his thesis work at Stanford University he was involved in developing fast machine learning algorithms on Tensorflow to anticipate human driver behavior.
His current work focuses on making xtensor faster, and more useful in the context of Robotics and Machine Learning.
During internships and student work he was involved in a multitude of robotics projects, such as quadrotor control and optimization, path planning for coverage or building the worlds first sand drawing robot, the BeachBot.
Arthur Vuillard
Job title: Mr, hashbang.coop
Bio: I am the founder and CEO of HashBang, an Information Technology developer cooperative. I have been working with Python for 15 years, along with various free softwares, such as GNU/Linux (specifically Archlinux), Gnome, and other infrastructure tools (SaltStack, Docker). As I am very enthusiastic about Python, I have been involved for 6 years in the French Python Association as a Treasurer, President and PyConFr organizer. I also organized Python Meetups in Lyon from 2011 to 2016.
Francis Wolinski
Job title: Dr., Yotta Conseil
Bio: My name is Francis Wolinski. I have been a Computer Scientist for more than 25 years. I have been using Python for more than 12 years having acquired vast experience in various fields: banking and insurance, auditing and accounting, bioinformatics and natural language processing. Currently, I am managing consulting activities in information technology and data science in France and abroad in Europe. I am also training and teaching the Python Ecosystem for Data Science in prestigious institutions such as the “Banque de France”, the “Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.” and “EM Lyon Business School”.
Marc Wouts
Job title: Research Manager, Capital Fund Management
Bio: Following a PhD in Probability Theory, Marc started his career in academia. His paper on renormalization techniques for the dilute Ising model was awarded the Itô price in 2009. In 2012 he joined CFM and helped renewing the execution algorithms on futures and the transation cost analysis framework. He his now working on Alternative Beta strategies. Marc codes in SQL, C++, Python and R.
Roman Yurchak
Job title: Data Scientist,
Bio: Independent data scientist, former physicist, scikit-learn maintainer
Nina Zakharenko
Job title: Developer Advocate, Microsoft
Bio: Nina Zakharenko is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, focusing on Python. Before joining Microsoft, she was a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience writing software for companies like Reddit, Meetup, and HBO. In her spare time, she enjoys snowboarding, hiking, and tinkering with wearable electronics from her home base in Portland, OR.
Serge sans Paille
Job title: peasant, Namek
Bio: Serge is an « high performance Python » hobbyist, developer of the Pythran compiler.
Miroslav Šedivý
Job title: Senior Software Architect, UBIMET GmbH
Bio: Born in Czechoslovakia, studied in France, living in Germany. Senior Software Architect at UBIMET GmbH. Using Python to make the sun shine and the wind blow. hjkl juggler and languages enthusiast. Living in the Europe/Berlin timezone, saving text files as UTF-8, typing on a standard US keyboard layout with a Compose key.
