Paris AI

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Description:
The 2026 Semantic Layer Summit is the must-attend virtual event for AI, data, and business intelligence professionals. Explore how semantic layers deliver the context AI needs to power agentic analytics, governed decisions, and trusted enterprise intelligence.

What to Expect:

• Enterprise Case Studies: Hear directly from Papa Johns, Carrefour, Blue Yonder, Vodafone, SlickDeals, and TELUS on how they're building AI-ready semantic foundations.
• Expert Panels & Roundtables: Explore the future of open semantics, agentic AI, and analytics modernization with leaders from Snowflake, Omni, and dbt.
• Keynote & Product Vision: Dave Mariani, Co-Founder and CTO of AtScale, shares what's next for the semantic layer as the context layer for enterprise AI.

Speakers:

• André Balleyguier, Anthropic
• Cornell Lee, Telus
• Dave Marianim AtScale
• Jamie Davidson, Omni
• Josh Klahr, The Snowflake Data Cloud
• Juan Sequeda, ServiceNow
• Justin Lo, Chevron
• Ken Wong, Databricks
• Ted Kwartler, Accenture
• and 20+ more

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Description:
Welcome to the AI meetup in Paris, in collaboration with Lenstra. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and Agent, hands-on experiences on code labs, workshops, and networking with speakers and fellow developers.
Agenda:
- 6:00pm~6:40pm: Checkin, food and networking
- 6:40pm~6:45pm: Welcome, Community update
- 6:45pm~8:15pm: Tech talks and Q&A
- 8:15pm~9:00pm: Open discussion, Mixer and Closing.

Tech Talk: AI Regulation in Practice: Impact on Your Projects and Development Workflow
Speaker: Thomas Mattone - AI Adoption Lead at Lenstra
Abstract: The EU AI Act was released in June 2024. Despite the risk of fines of up to 7% of global revenue, many companies are still unaware of it and have yet to comply with its rules on AI systems. The AI Act places concrete obligations on the models you integrate, the systems you build on top of them, and the features you ship. We will walk through the European AI regulatory landscape and the rules around AI models, transparency, data governance, and human oversight. We will then turn to a shift the AI Act barely anticipated: the rapid rise of AI agents in organizations. The global adoption of vibe coding raises new risks, from data leakage to unvetted generated code. Discover how regulation impacts your AI projects, and how to build compliant workflows.

Tech Talk: GitHub Copilot CLI and SDK
Speaker: Romain Boudet, CTO Hexagone AI
Abstract: Most AI product starts with an API call. From the start we realized that at scale, that model simply does not work. In this talk, we will share how we rebuilt our pipeline from the ground up using only local models on limited GPU hardware. We will walk through the architectural decisions that made it possible: multi-model orchestration, context window management across pipeline stages, VRAM-aware concurrency, and LoRA fine-tuning for task-specific performance. This is a talk about the engineering reality of owning your stack, what it cost and what it buys you.

Speakers/Topics:
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules.
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Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will have the chance to speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, and gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 10,000+ Paris and 500K+ developers worldwide.