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Changer de perspective en venant travailler votre prise de parole en publique dans une ambiance conviviale au club Agora 75 ! [Site internet du club](https://www.toastmasters.agora75.com/) Réunion hybride (sur place et sur Zoom--nous contacter pour recevoir le lien) [Formulaire de contact](https://tinyurl.com/yuy4nxth) Bienvenue à Agora 75 Toastmasters ! Notre club francophone est un groupe dynamique de membres passionnés. Nous nous réunissons les 1e, 3e et 5e lundis du mois pour améliorer nos compétences en prise de parole en public, en communication et en leadership. Que vous soyez orateur expérimenté ou débutant, l'ambiance amicale et bienveillante de notre club vous aidera à renforcer votre confiance et à vous exprimer en toute simplicité. Vous aurez également l’occasion d‘improviser sur des sujets variés et d’apprendre grâce au retour constructif des membres. Ainsi vous développerez vos talents d’orateur et de leadership.

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We are very glad to host our first meetup of 2026 with **Confidence** by **Spotify** ! **18h30 - Doors Open** **19h00 - Talks** * REX on the implementation of Confidence at leboncoin by [Patrice Chaperon](https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricechaperon/), Product Director and [Alexis Mauzé](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-mauze/), Technical Program Manager from [leboncoin](linkedin.com/company/leboncoin/) * Experimentation in the AI era and demo of Confidence by [Sebastian Ankargren](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianankargren/), PhD Statistics and Senior Data Scientist from [Spotify Confidence](https://confidence.spotify.com/) **20h30 - Networking** Join us for an informal networking session with food and drinks 🍕 📅 Tuesday, 31 March 2026 📍 5-7 Rue Saint-Fiacre - 75002 Paris ⏰ Doors open at 6:30 PM, event starts at 7:00 PM.

# 📚 Poetry & Language Club, First Gathering **Read. Write. Speak. Feel language.** Welcome to the first session of the **Poetry & Language Club in Paris**. This is a relaxed space for people who love **poetry, literature and languages**. Together we explore words through reading, conversation and short writing exercises. No academic pressure, no performance, just curiosity and the pleasure of language. ### Theme: “Élévation” by Charles Baudelaire For our first gathering, we will explore the poem **“Élévation”** by Charles Baudelaire. A poem about rising above the noise of the world and reconnecting with a higher state of mind. Together we will read the poem, reflect on its imagery, and use it as inspiration for writing and conversation. *** ## 🌿 What we will do 1️⃣ **Poetry reading** We read *Élévation* together (in French and English translation). 2️⃣ **Discussion** We explore themes of the poem: * elevation of the mind * nature and imagination * escaping the noise of the world Conversation can happen in **French, English or Italian**. 3️⃣ **Creative writing** Short writing prompt inspired by the poem. Example: *“If your mind could rise above the city, what would you see?”* 4️⃣ **Optional sharing** Participants can read their text if they wish. *** ## 🌍 Languages French / English / Italian No need to speak perfectly — the goal is to enjoy language and expression. *** ## 👥 Who this event is for • lovers of poetry and literature • language enthusiasts • writers and creative minds • curious people who enjoy thoughtful conversations No experience required. *** ## ⏰ Duration 1h15 *** ## ✨ What to bring • a notebook • a pen • curiosity *** ## ☕ Atmosphere A small circle of people exploring language, poetry and ideas together. First event is free, you just need to pay your drink in the café ;)

[RSVP Link (Obligatoire - Waitlist)](https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-paris-presents-soiree-ia-recursive-language-models-amp-native-kotlin-ai-agent-for-android-koog/) Rejoignez-nous le 31 Mars chez eXalt pour une immersion totale dans l'IA ! 🚀 De la théorie à la pratique, nous explorerons les frontières du possible avec : Recherche : La gestion du contexte via les Recursive Language Models. Implémentation : Créer des Agents IA natifs sur Android avec le framework Koog. Un grand merci à eXalt IT qui nous accueille et sponsorise cette soirée. On finit bien sûr par une session networking ! 🕒 Agenda 18h30 : Accueil & Networking 👋 19h00 : Talk 1 : Recursive Language Models + Q&A 19h40 : Talk 2 : Koog - Intégrer nativement des Agents IA sur Android + Q&A 20h30 : Buffet & Échanges 🧀 🎤 Talk 1 : Recursive Language Models (RLMs) 🧠 [FR] 🇫🇷 Même les modèles les plus avancés comme GPT-5 souffrent de la « dégradation contextuelle » (context rot) : les performances s’effondrent dès que les entrées s’allongent et que les tâches gagnent en complexité. Dans cette présentation, j'introduirai les Recursive Language Models (RLM), un nouveau paradigme d'inférence révolutionnaire qui permet aux LLM de traiter des volumes de données dépassant largement les limites de leur fenêtre contextuelle native. Inspirés des algorithmes « out-of-core » (hors mémoire vive), les RLM traitent le prompt comme un objet résidant dans un environnement externe — une boucle REPL Python. Le modèle écrit alors du code pour explorer, décomposer et s'auto-invoquer de manière récursive sur des segments gérables de l'entrée. Les résultats sont impressionnants : les RLM gèrent des entrées jusqu'à deux ordres de grandeur supérieurs à la fenêtre contextuelle de base. Ils surpassent systématiquement l'inférence directe, la compression de contexte, les agents RAG (retrieval) et les agents de génération de code — souvent avec des écarts à deux chiffres — sur des tâches allant du « needle-in-a-haystack » (l’aiguille dans la botte de foin) au raisonnement par paires à complexité quadratique. Plan de l'intervention Le problème de la dégradation contextuelle (context-rot) Le paradigme RLM : comment la récursion et un environnement d'exécution de code changent la donne Passage à l'échelle sur les tâches à long contexte Résultats clés : benchmarks, modèles de référence et domaines de prédilection des RLM Limites, questions ouvertes et perspectives de recherche 👤 Speaker : Sonny Mupfuni (AI Engineer & PyTorch Ambassador) 🎤 Talk 2 : Koog : Intégrer nativement des Agents IA dans votre application Android 🤖📱 [FR]🇫🇷 Dans cette session, vous découvrirez les bases de Koog, le nouveau framework Kotlin open source permettant de créer facilement des agents d'IA directement sur la JVM. Nous aborderons les points suivants : Comment configurer Koog pour l'intégrer dans un projet Android. Comment écrire un agent simple, exécuté une seule fois, qui communique avec une API tierce. Comment connecter l'agent à un modèle de langage (tel qu'OpenAI ou Google Gemini). Comment afficher les résultats dans une interface utilisateur Compose basique. 👤 Speaker : Loic Vyncke (Développeur Android Sénior, eXalt IT) ⚠️ Inscription obligatoire. ‼️ Pour ne manquer aucune notification concernant nos invitations et nos événements, inscrivez-vous sur Bevy. Notre compte Meetup sera abandonné dans les prochains mois.‼️ Agenda 6:30 PM: Accueil & Networking 👋 7:00 PM: Recursive Language Models + Q&A 7:40 PM: Koog: Intégrer nativement des Agents IA sur Android 8:30 PM: Buffet & Échanges 🧀🥤 *** Speakers Sonny Mupfuni Sonny Mupfuni is an AI Engineer based in Paris. As a member of the inaugural 2025 PyTorch Ambassador cohort, he is an active community leader in the Python and machine learning ecosystems, with a focus on reinforcement learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. He is driven by a commitment to knowledge sharing and making AI accessible to all. Loic Vyncke - eXalt IT (Développeur Android Sénior) Développeur Android depuis 10 ans, je suis actuellement consultant sénior et également Employee Success Manager en charge de l'animation des communautés chez eXalt IT. Hosted By Jihene Mejri, Chapter Lead Embedded Systems Engineer with a strong passion for mobile development, automation, and engineering workflow optimization. As an Engineering Manager at BforBank, I work on improving the efficiency of tech teams and integrating best development practices. As a speaker, I regularly share insights on mobile performance, developer productivity tools, and engineering culture. WTM Ambassador and GDG organizer, I am committed to building a more inclusive, accessible, and collaborative tech ecosystem. 🌱 Houssem Mahmoud, Software Engineer *** Partner eXalt IT (https://www.exalt-company.com/fr-fr/) eXalt IT : là où l'expertise du Software Engineering rencontre l'audace, pour donner vie à chaque projet. Notre engagement envers des implémentations efficaces, qualitatives et maintenables redéfinit les standards de l'excellence technique. Avec passion et rigueur, nous repoussons les frontières de la technologie pour créer des solutions durables. *** Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-paris-presents-soiree-ia-recursive-language-models-amp-native-kotlin-ai-agent-for-android-koog/.

**Welcome to the Paris Poetry Circle!** Now in its 30th year, our English-language poetry reading group continues to bring together lovers of verse and thought in the heart of Paris. 🎉 Join us this Wednesday evening for a gathering of minds and voices as we read and reflect on poems that move, challenge, and illuminate — all shared over a quiet cup of tea and biscuits. 🫖☕️🍪 We seek poems that are clear yet profound, sweet or serious — those that carry us forward and help us make sense of the world. We steer clear of the obscure or needlessly complex; we value clarity over cleverness, sincerity over show. Each poem is read anonymously to begin with, without revealing the author, allowing space for open, unbiased interpretation. We then explore it together — carefully, curiously — to uncover what lies beneath the surface. After the meeting, we write a letter of thanks to the living poets we have read at the group, to thank and congratulate them. We revere all the poets of this world. The group is small — usually six or seven thoughtful individuals, up to a maximum of ten. The conversation is warm, intelligent, and grounded. There is no performance, no pressure to contribute, and no cost. Only a shared pursuit of insight, beauty, and fellowship. If that resonates with you, we’d love to welcome you. Bring a poem, or simply bring yourself. 📚✨ \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* 65 rue Pascal, 75013 PARIS, courtyard chez Doctor Nagpal, in a pretty courtyard, ground floor left. Code on iron gate to courtyard 69A73 Phone: +33 686581272 E-mail: [parispoetrycircle@nip.com.fr](http://parispoetrycircle@nip.com.fr/) © Paris Poetry Circle

**Complementary lessons from internal productivity to customer-facing AI** AI is transforming the travel industry, but turning ideas into reliable, measurable systems in production remains hard. In this meetup, engineers and leaders from BlaBlaCar and AMEX GBT Egencia will share practical lessons on how they structure AI efforts, ship real systems, and operationalize agentic workflows—from internal platforms to customer-facing travel products. While both companies tackle similar challenges, they’ll share perspectives from different starting points: * **BlaBlaCar** will discuss its focus on **internal productivity and developer enablement**. * **AMEX GBT Egencia** will share learnings from building **customer-facing, knowledge-grounded GenAI agents**. Together, we’ll cover: * how AI initiatives are structured and measured for impact, * how agentic AI is used for both internal productivity and external user experiences, * what it takes to evaluate, orchestrate, and operate agents reliably in production. Expect concrete examples, honest trade-offs, and shared lessons from teams approaching similar problems from different angles. **Format (Hybrid)** This will be a **hybrid meetup**. If you’re around the Paris area, we strongly encourage you to join in person for discussions, networking, and pizza. Remote attendance is also possible—**RSVP to receive the Zoom link.** **Practical Information** **Date**: March 31st, 2026 🕕 **Schedule**: * 6:00 pm – Welcome & networking * 6:30 pm – Talks start * ± 9:00 pm – Pizza & drinks **📍 Location:** AMEX GBT Egencia, 11 Chemin de Bretagne, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux (Agora conference room) **🎯 Audience:** (ML) engineers, data scientists, AI enthusiasts, AI practitioners, leaders **🗣️ Language:** English (questions welcome in English, French, and a few other languages) 👉 RSVP early — **in-person spots are limited.** **Agenda & Talks** **Part 1 — AI Strategy: Organizing for Impact** **BlaBlaCar — Yannick HOFFSESS** In the race to “AI-everything”, a lot of companies are burning cash on demos that never leave the lab. At BlaBlaCar, we took a different route: we are treating AI integration like our carpooling model — focused on efficiency and shared resources. In this talk I will go under the hood of BlaBlaCar AI strategy. This isn't about theoretical models. It is a blueprint of how we integrated AI in our practices. I’ll share our reality: the mindset that actually matters, the projects that delivered good ROI and the hurdles that are slowing down our journey. **AMEX GBT Egencia — Bernard CHEA, Véronique BLIN-ROYER** Great AI products don’t start with a model — they start with the fundamentals that make them reliable. We’ll share how we structured and evolved our AI initiatives to move from experimentation to sustained impact: building strong data and AI platform foundations, adapting our approach for GenAI without reinventing everything, and partnering closely with Product to define success criteria upfront. We’ll also cover the governance and prioritization choices that helped us — and the lessons from what slowed us down. **Part 2 — Agentic AI: Internal and Customer-Facing Use Cases** **BlaBlaCar — Mike BENOIT, Valentin FRIES** In this talk, we’ll first break down our journey in enabling engineering teams with a tailor-made multi-agent ecosystem. How to create an orchestrator agent? Are they good at introspection? How to get the most out of your trusty IDE plugin? We’ll share how we moved beyond standard Copilot usage to significantly increase developer experience. We’ll then demonstrate how agentic tools can be leveraged internally to lift operational bottlenecks, like solving the flakiness of external test systems, assisting customer support in investigating escalations, or optimizing the cost of profile picture moderation. We’ll showcase real-world implementations that directly improve our teams’ quality of life and share how we track the tools’ efficiency to provide measurable business value. **AMEX GBT Egencia — Mohamed HAMHOUM, Riham MANSRI** We’ll share a production-grounded journey of building customer-facing GenAI support, starting with a multilingual RAG-based FAQ system deployed in 10 languages. We’ll do a candid retro on what it really takes to keep a RAG experience healthy once it’s live: defining success criteria, putting the right guardrails in place, building an evaluation approach that works across languages, and maintaining quality over time through monitoring and iterative improvements—not just one-off demos. We’ll then show how those learnings informed our move from Q&A to our first Flight Exchange AI agent in production. Using insights from real chat and live-agent sessions, we’ll explain why flight changes were the right next step, what changed when we introduced an agentic workflow, and how we scoped an initial v1 to deliver value safely while creating a feedback loop to expand capabilities. **Speakers:** **Bernard CHEA** is initially a full-stack software developer since 2005 and joined Egencia back in 2012, building the booking platform, then led the data platform and lastly the AI engineering and AI platform teams. His objective has always been to have a full end-to-end view on all aspects of the business to better serve our customers, asking the same to the teams he’s managing. Outside of work, he likes spending time with friends, a former bachata dancer – connecting to humans and not only computers. **Mika BENOIT** works as a Software Engineer at BlaBlaCar since 2021. He joined the Booking squad, creating since then the backend serving the booking flow for all the buses and trains on the platform. During his free time, Mika likes to learn new maker skill, maintain a too complicated home automation setup and play Dungeon & Dragon. **Mohamed HAMHOUM** is a Machine Learning Engineer at Amex GBT since 2024 passioned by GenAI. He has worked on turning structured search systems into intelligent, agent-driven assistants using RAG and Agentic architectures. He has also led efforts in evaluating and strengthening these systems, ensuring performance, stability, and reliability in high-stakes enterprise settings. Outside of AI, he's a big fan of board games and traveling, though he ironically forgets the names of most of the games he plays, despite being able to design agentic ai systems cross teams. **Riham MANSRI** is a Machine Learning Engineer at Amex GBT, where she develops AI solutions and machine learning models across a range of use cases since her final year R&D internship back in 2022 at Egencia. She enjoys working with advanced ML technologies and applying them to real-world problems. Most recently, her work has centred on Generative AI, spanning the design and evaluation of RAG systems, agentic AI, and the use of A2A to improve agent-to-agent communication and coordination. Outside of work, Riham enjoys movies, especially horror and thrillers, has grown into an F1 fan over the past few years, and is an enthusiastic bootcamp workout devotee. **Valentin FRIES** joined BlaBlaCar as a Senior Software Engineer in 2022 and worked since then on bootstrapping and evolving the Global Distribution System enabling train sales on the platform. Prior to that, he worked for multiple years as Software Engineer in the travel industry, in education, and infrastructure. During his free time, Valentin practices Taï Chi Chuan and likes to start new hobbies — woodworking, bass guitar — that he won't be able to invest in since he has a newborn child. **Véronique BLIN-ROYER** has been working in product management for over 15 years. She started her journey when agile practices were beginning to take root — around 2012, when agile was becoming mainstream. Since then, she had the opportunity to work across different product development teams, from front-end to back-end, always refining her craft as a product leader. Product management has always been a passion for her: “not only do I practice it daily, but I also teach it in a business school and create internal training programs to help others grow in this discipline”. This background has shaped how I approach AI Product Management today — blending rigor, agility, and a deep curiosity for how AI can transform products. **Yannick HOFFSESS** is the Head of Bus and Train Engineering at BlaBlaCar, a company he joined 4 years ago, bringing over 15 years of tech leadership experience from roles in the travel industry at Amadeus. Yannick balances his professional life with a passion for sports, van-life adventures with his family and needles.

Lyric writing weekly group practice. A few object writing rounds to start, get our reps in — a favorite from the canon, Write Better Lyrics by P. Pattinson.* Followed by other exercises. I adapt the program depending on who shows up. *Object writing : a noun picked through a random word generator, a 10 min timer to delve into our sensory imagination and free-flow with this prompt. We then take turn sharing.

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer notre prochain Meetup AWS User Group Paris, organisé en partenariat avec **TRAE** et **Amazon Web Services** — une soirée 100% hands-on dédiée au développement AI-native et aux applications agentiques ! 🚀 🗓️ Mardi 31 mars 2025, à partir de 18h30 📍 Amazon France — 67 Bd du Général Leclerc, 92110 Clichy **Qu'est-ce que TRAE ?** TRAE est un IDE AI-native. Contrairement aux éditeurs traditionnels qui greffent l'IA comme un simple plugin, TRAE a été conçu dès le départ avec l'intelligence artificielle au cœur de chaque étape du développement : génération de code, débogage, création de projets. *** **Programme de la soirée :** 🕡 18h30 – 19h00 \| Accueil & enregistrement *** 🎤 19h00 – 19h20 \| Introduction à TRAE — Développement AI\-Native & dernières nouveautés L'équipe TRAE vous présentera leur environnement et les dernières fonctionnalités de leur release. Vous découvrirez comment le **Vibe Coding** permet de passer d'une idée produit à une application fonctionnelle en utilisant uniquement le langage naturel et des workflows pilotés par l'IA — et pourquoi ça change fondamentalement la façon dont les développeurs travaillent. *** 🎤 19h20 – 19h40 \| AWS AI & Agents — Construire des applications intelligentes avec AWS par **Weibo Gu** et **Xiaowei Zhu**, Specialists, Amazon Web Services Les équipes AWS vous partageront leur vision du marché et des retours concrets sur la façon dont les clients construisent aujourd'hui des applications avancées avec **Amazon Bedrock** et **Amazon Bedrock Agents**. Une mise en contexte essentielle avant le workshop. *** 🍕 19h40 – 20h10 \| Dîner *** 🛠️ 20h10 – 21h30 \| Workshop Live — Coder une application iOS avec TRAE\, de zéro Le cœur de la soirée : un **live coding guidé** en temps réel par l'équipe TRAE. Vous suivrez et participerez à la construction d'une vraie application iOS en utilisant le **Solo Mode** de TRAE — de la spécification produit à l'application fonctionnelle, étape par étape. *** 🍕 21h30 – 22h00 \| Networking avec la communauté Builders \! *** 🎁 **Cadeaux pour tous les participants :** * Tokens TRAE offerts à tous les participants * T-shirt co-brandé TRAE × AWS + stickers exclusifs On a hâte de vous y retrouver ! L'équipe AWS User Group Paris

The Fellowship of the Star Schema: Transforming OLTP Data for Power BI One does not simply build reports on OLTP data. Join us on an epic journey from the depths of raw, normalized tables to the shining halls of a well-modeled star schema fit for Power BI greatness. We will demystify the differences between OLTP and OLAP, walk through star schema vs snowflake (and why Power BI has a clear favorite), and show you the compression differences between normalized and columnar storage that will make you never look at an OLTP model the same way again. We will cover the different types of dimensions, when to use them, and how to handle Slowly Changing Dimensions without losing your mind. You will leave knowing exactly how to identify a bad model, how to convert OLTP data into a clean star schema, and how to forge relationships that rule them all. Whether you are a data wizard, a curious hobbit, or somewhere in between, your models will never be the same.

We meet to learn and practice American Sign Language and to grow our familiarity with Deaf culture. Facilitated by hearing folks (with a connection to a professional interpreter) using Deaf-created content. People of all ASL skill levels are welcome! As we learn, we hope to connect more with the Deaf community in Central Ohio. Join us as you're able! Come regularly or just once - whatever you're looking for! Each meetup will explore different topics related to ASL/Deaf culture, and will feature time to practice conversation with one another. Just bring yourself and a willingness to learn!

**The Data-Driven Brand: Using Analytics to Shape Perception** Can you use analytics to improve tacos? This being CBUSDAW, we think the answer is probably “yes”, but we’re not sure how to implement or test this theory. For our April meetup we’ve got Sara Kear, CMO of Condado Tacos, to investigate this delicious question. Sara will explore how she blends quantitative data and qualitative customer feedback to shape brand positioning and drive business decisions. We all know that marketing and analytics go way beyond attribution. Sara will show how Condado uses customer insights to inform product and pricing strategy. She’ll also highlight how Condado leverages customer feedback at scale to influence operational priorities, positioning marketing as the voice of the customer across the organization. In the last 12 years Condado has gone from one location in Columbus to 52 locations across 10 states, so we’re guessing there’s more to that growth than really good guac (though the guac probably helps). Ultimately, this talk focuses on the intersection of art and science—using data to inform creativity and build a brand that resonates with customers in a measurable way. **About Our Speaker** Sara Kear is Chief Marketing Officer at Condado Tacos, where she oversees brand, restaurant design, menu and pricing strategy, off-premise including catering, and customer data strategy. Since joining in 2021, she has helped grow the brand from 19 to 52 locations while building a data-driven marketing organization focused on loyalty and customer insights. Condado has since been named to the Inc. 5000, recognized as Breakout Retailer by Chain Store Age, and consistently ranked among FastCasual’s Top 100 Movers & Shakers. Thanks to our 2026 sponsors: [Clarivoy](https://www.clarivoy.com), [What Box Consulting Group](https://www.whatboxconsultinggroup.com), [Conductrics](https://www.conductrics.com), and [Piwik PRO](https://piwik.pro) More info at [cbusdaw.com](https://cbusdaw.com)

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**First meetup of the Columbus AI Engineering group.** We’ll kick things off with a practical, beginner-friendly discussion on: **How LLMs like ChatGPT actually work — and how to build real applications with them.** We’ll cover: * what’s actually happening under the hood (at a high level) * why LLMs behave the way they do (hallucinations, prompt sensitivity, etc.) * how people are building real systems with them today * where things break in practice This will be a **short, informal talk (\~15–20 min)** followed by open discussion and Q&A. Whether you’re an engineer, builder, or just curious about how modern AI systems work, you’re welcome to join. No slides, no fluff — just real conversation about real systems. We’ll hang out afterward and get to know each other.

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