** Important RSVP HERE (Due to room capacity and venue security, it is required to pre-register at the link for admission)

Description: Welcome to the AI meetup in Paris, in collaboration with AWS. 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: - 6:30pm\~7:00pm: Checkin\, food and networking - 7:00pm\~9:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A - 9:00pm: Open discussion\, Mixer and Closing.

Topics/Speakers: Check the event website for speakers and topics. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

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+ AI developers in Paris and 500K+ worldwide.

​This AI Alliance event is sponsored by Ekimetrics & IBM.

​The Paris AI Agent Meetup is a community for AI Agent Developers, Engineers, UX, Ops, and Applied Researchers exploring and leading the evolution of AI agents. Whether you're building autonomous systems, experimenting with LLM-powered assistants, or integrating AI agents into real-world applications, this meetup is the place to discover, share insights, and collaborate with your peers. Join us for talks, demos, discussions and networking with like-minded innovators shaping the next generation of AI.

Details and RSVP: https://luma.com/7hy1tn7j

Hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics in AI, ML, and computer vision!

Register for the event to reserve your seat.

When and Where

July 16 5:30-8:30 PM

Paris Marriott Opera Ambassador Vendôme Meeting Room 16 Bd Haussmann

Building and working with Small Language Models

This session focuses on practical techniques for using small open-source language models (SLMs) in enterprise settings. We'll explore modern workflows for adapting SLMs with domain-specific pre-training, instruction fine-tuning, and alignment. Along the way, we will introduce and demonstrate open-source tools such as DistillKit, Spectrum, and MergeKit, which implement advanced techniques crucial for achieving task-specific accuracy while optimizing computational costs. We'll also discuss some of the models and solutions built by Arcee AI. Join us to learn how small, efficient, and adaptable models can transform your AI applications.

About the Speaker

Julien Simon, the Chief Evangelist at Arcee.ai, is dedicated to helping enterprise clients develop top-notch and cost-efficient AI solutions using small language models. With over 30 years of tech experience, including more than a decade in cloud computing and machine learning, Julien is committed to daily learning and is passionate about sharing his expertise through code demos, blogs, and YouTube videos. Before joining Arcee.ai, he was Chief Evangelist at Hugging Face and Global AI Evangelist at Amazon Web Services. He also served as a CTO at prominent startups.

Accelerating sustainable inference with Pruna AI

This talk explores how to make AI faster and more sustainable. We’ll look at the high costs and carbon impact of fine-tuning and self deploying models, and show how optimization techniques available in the Pruna library can reduce size and latency with little to no quality loss.

About the Speaker

Gabriel Tregoat is the software lead at Pruna.ai, a specialist company on model inference optimisation with an open source library called “pruna”. He previously was a leader for AI in production at Ekimetrics, and started his career as a data scientist and ml-engineer at Shell Energy. He’s passionate about tech, code and new technologies.

Visual Agents: What it takes to build an agent that can navigate GUIs like humans

We’ll examine conceptual frameworks, potential applications, and future directions of technologies that can “see” and “act” with increasing independence. The discussion will touch on both current limitations and promising horizons in this evolving field.

About the Speaker

Harpreet Sahota is a hacker-in-residence and machine learning engineer with a passion for deep learning and generative AI. He’s got a deep interest in RAG, Agents, and Multimodal AI.

What I Learned About Systematic AI Improvement

Most AI teams go through the same story: fast early progress, and then suddenly things slow down. The AI isn’t broken, but new changes don’t seem to help, and it’s not even clear how to tell if things are getting better. I’ve faced this plateau myself—both in my own work and while helping other teams. In this talk, I’ll share what I’ve learned about getting unstuck: how to build genuine confidence in your AI, what “trust” really means in practice, and practical steps to move from “it kind of works” to “this is actually improving.” My goal is to give you real-world ideas you can use when you hit the same wall.

About the Speaker

Louis Dupont is an AI engineer with over eight years of experience developing AI solutions across multiple industries. Currently, he work directly with companies to build and deploy AI internally, and as a consultant specializing in helping teams overcome common roadblocks in AI development.

Our 1st AI Alliance event is sponsored by Neo4j, Ekimetrics & Convex.

​The Paris AI Agent Meetup is a new community for AI Agent Developers, Engineers, UX, Ops, and Applied Researchers exploring and leading the evolution of AI agents. Whether you're building autonomous systems, experimenting with LLM-powered assistants, or integrating AI agents into real-world applications, this meetup is the place to discover, share insights, and collaborate with your peers. Join us for talks, demos, discussions and networking with like-minded innovators shaping the next generation of AI.

• ​7:00 pm – Check-in & Networking
• ​​7:30 pm – Introductions & Welcome - Agata Ferretti of The AI Alliance
• ​7:40 pm - Graph-based RAG Agent for scientific publications Jean Lelong & Annabelle Blangero - Ekimetrics
• ​8:00 pm - Agentic GraphRAG with MCP - Tomaz Bratanic of Neo4j
• ​​8:20 pm – Agentic Workflows with Mistral Agents API - Diogo Costa, Mistral
• ​​8:40 pm - ​TBD by Joe Olson of The AI Alliance
• ​9:00 pm - Open Networking
• ​10:30 pm – Close

We look forward to building Paris's AI Agent community together! 🚀 ​Food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!

Our 1st AI Alliance event is sponsored by Neo4j, Ekimetrics & Convex. ​ Why join? This is your chance to dive deep into the world of AI agents, connect with a new and emerging developer community. This event is designed for experienced developers, and those who are curious about agents. ​​​ Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. We appreciate your application and are looking forward to seeing you at a future even!

​​*Code of Conduct: We expect our members to treat each other like family, so please click here to read our Code of Conduct. If you see someone violating it, please speak with your event organizer or reach out to [email protected].*

​​​​The AI Alliance is a non-profit, grassroots community of 150+ companies, startups, researchers, and individuals. Through world-class events, online events, and workshops, members leverage their diverse perspectives and innovative minds to foster meaningful relationships, solve challenging problems, and define the future of AI.

We are very excited to collaborate with the AI Alliance, Ekimetrics, Mistral, and Comet to bring you the AI Agent Meetup in Paris on June 12!

Please Register on the Luma Event Page

The Paris AI Agent Meetup is designed for AI Agent Developers, Engineers, UX, Ops, and Applied Researchers exploring and leading the evolution of AI agents. Whether you're building autonomous systems, experimenting with LLM-powered assistants, or integrating AI agents into real-world applications, this meetup is the place to discover, share insights, and collaborate with your peers. Join us for talks, demos, discussions, and networking with like-minded innovators shaping the next generation of AI.

​​📆 Agenda

• ​​7:00 p.m. – Checking & Networking
• ​​7:30 p.m. – Introductions & Welcome - Agata Ferretti of The AI Alliance
• ​7:40 p.m. - Graph-Based RAG Agent for Scientific Publications Jean Lelong & Annabelle Blangero - Ekimetrics
• ​8:00 p.m. - Agentic GraphRAG with MCP - Tomaz Bratanic of Neo4j
• ​​8:20 p.m. – Agentic Workflows with Mistral Agents API - Diogo Costa, Mistral
• ​​8:40 p.m. - TBD
• ​9:00 p.m. - Open Networking
• ​10:30 p.m. – Close

​​We look forward to building Paris's AI Agent community together! 🚀 ​Food and drink, engaging conversation, and incredible company will all be provided!

The Women in Machine Learning & Data Science (WiMLDS) Meetup aims to inspire, educate, regardless of gender, and support women and gender minorities in the field.

We are back for our 53rd edition !

All genders may attend our meetups.

Agenda

18:50 - arrival Please be on time. To respect our speakers, the doors will close once the talks have started.

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19:00 - Launch of the evening by Paris WiMLDS meetup team & EDF

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19:15 - Online Convex Reinforcement Learning and Applications to Energy Management Problems, by Bianca Marin Moreno, PhD student in Applied Mathematics. Abstract: This presentation investigates online reinforcement learning algorithms for controlling large multi-agent systems in non-stationary environments with unknown dynamics. Our framework is motivated by a demand-side management problem of controlling a large number of thermal electrical appliances in real time so that their average consumption matches a target consumption profile to help balance energy supply and demand. Although motivated by the electricity sector, the proposed algorithms are general and applicable to many fields, such as logistics, economics and ecology.

19:45 - AI Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Business, by Alina Krasnobrizha, Maître de Conférences Paris Nanterre and CTO in AI startups. Abstract : In this talk, I will share key insights from my book "La Révolution IA" on how AI is transforming businesses. Drawing from exclusive insights gathered in Silicon Valley, I will bring you passionate stories of its impact on 10 professions and 8 industries. Together, we will explore the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in this new AI-driven world.

20:15 - Welcome to the Broligarchy, by Mathilde Saliou, Tech journalist and writer Abstract : Led by Donald Trump and a few tech billionaires such as Elon Musk, the United States has fallen into a new era, and could sweep part of the Western world in its wake. In this keynote, we'll try and grasp how we ended up here, and what it means for women and diversity within and outside the tech industry.

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20:45 - Cocktail & Networking The cocktail is sponsored by EDF.

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After the meet-up, a summary be available on our Medium page : https://wimlds-paris.medium.com/

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Code of Conduct WiMLDS is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate. Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down others. Behave professionally. Remember that harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary jokes are not appropriate. Thank you for helping make this a welcoming, friendly community for all. All attendees should read the full Code of Conduct before participating: https://github.com/WiMLDS/starter-kit/wiki/Code-of-conduct

A l'occasion d'ElasticON Tour Paris le 21/01/2025, nous organisons la veille, le 20/01, une rencontre de la communauté ElasticFR avec pas moins de 7 sessions techniques et la présence exceptionnelle de Shay Banon.

Merci de penser à libérer vos places minimum la veille de l'évènement, si vous ne pouvez pas venir.

Agenda (application mobile)

• 15:45: Ouverture des portes
• 16:00 Talk 1: Data Lake for Operations at Stellantis par Alexandre Fricker (25 minutes)
• 16:30 Talk 2: Billion Vector Baby par Benjamin Dauvissat et Pietro Mele (25 minutes)
• 17:00 Talk 3: Vector Embeddings: révolutionner la recherche en e-Commerce par Philippe Bouzaglou (25 minutes)
• 17:30 Talk 4: Cartographie des transports publics avec Maps par Géraud Dugé de Bernonville (25 minutes)
• 18:00 Break
• 18:30 Welcome words from Carl Azoury (Zenika)
• 18:35 Ask Me Anything with Shay Banon / Baha (Elastic) (50 minutes)
• 19:30 Talk 5: Modern Search Engines: Tackling Multi-Modal Data Challenges par Jim Ferenczi (25 minutes)
• 20:00 Talk 6: AutoOps, rassemblement ! par Valentin Crettaz (25 minutes)
• 20:30 Catering/Drinks/Socializing

Agenda détaillé Data Lake for Operations at Stellantis par Alexandre Fricker, Big Data Architecte, Stellantis

How Elasticsearch usage at Stellantis evolved. Starting from a simple PoC of Log Processing in 2014, we grow and scale the full Elastic Stack usage to provide a complete monitoring experience for Stellantis Ops. We call it Data Lake for Operation.

Billion Vector Baby par Benjamin Dauvissat et Pietro Mele, Software Engineers, Adelean

La recherche sémantique est souvent présentée comme une solution miracle. La promesse ? Quelques vecteurs, et votre moteur serait pertinent et prêt à conquérir l’univers. Mais que se passe-t-il lorsque vous devez gérer plus d’un milliard d’embeddings ?

Cette présentation explorera la recherche vectorielle à grande échelle. À travers un scénario réel, nous partagerons des conseils et des stratégies pratiques pour vous aider à maîtriser une base de données d’un milliard de vecteurs, tout en garantissant évolutivité, rapidité et économies substantielles.

Vector Embeddings: révolutionner la recherche en e-Commerce par Philippe Bouzaglou, Founder, Stealth AI Startup

Nous aborderons tout ce que vous devez savoir pour utiliser les vector embeddings dans les applications de recherche, avec des exemples spécifiques axés sur la recherche en e-commerce. Ajouter des vector embeddings est la méthode la plus simple et la plus efficace pour transformer votre configuration Elasticsearch existante en une recherche propulsée par l'IA. En ajoutant simplement les bons embeddings à vos documents, vous obtenez :

• La Recherche Sémantique
• La Recherche par Similarité
• La Recherche Approximative
• La fonction More Like This

Nous présenterons également divers embeddings génériques et spécialisés pour vous aider à choisir les plus adaptés à votre cas d’utilisation, ainsi que des frameworks et outils pour vous aider à évaluer leurs performances.

Cartographie des transports publics avec Maps par Géraud Dugé de Bernonville, Consultant Elastic, Zenika

Découvrez comment Elasticsearch et Kibana, deux piliers de la suite Elastic Stack, peuvent être exploités pour capturer, stocker et visualiser les données de l'activité des transports publics. Nous mettrons en lumière l'utilisation de la fonctionnalité de visualisation Maps de Kibana pour une expérience immersive. Au cours de cette présentation 🧐, nous verrons comment mettre en place la collecte des données d'un web service via l'Elastic Agent et la visualisation de ces données sur une carte 🌍 à l'aide de la fonctionnalité Kibana Maps.

Ask Me Anything! par Shay Banon, CTO et Baha Azarmi, VP Global Customer Engineering

Venez poser vos questions en direct à Shay et Baha sur Elastic, les projets, la roadmap, ...

Modern Search Engines: Tackling Multi-Modal Data Challenges par Jim Ferenczi, Tech Lead, Elastic

Modern search engines must handle diverse data types while delivering fast and relevant results. This talk explores the evolution of Elasticsearch, built on Lucene, to address these challenges. Through real-world examples, we’ll dive into key design decisions and optimizations that enable efficient multi-modal search, offering insights into scaling and performance tuning for today’s data-driven applications.

AutoOps, rassemblement ! par Valentin Crettaz, Product Manager, Elastic

AutoOps simplifie la gestion d'Elasticsearch, que ce soit sur le cloud ou on premise. En analysant des centaines de mesures et de paramètres en temps réel et en vous alertant avec des recommandations d'experts chaque fois que des seuils critiques sont franchis, AutoOps vous libère d'une charge de surveillance substantielle, vous permettant de vous concentrer sur votre entreprise et vos clients. Nous ferons un tour rapide d'AutoOps et de la manière dont il peut vous aider à gérer vos clusters.

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer notre second Meetups AWS User Group Paris de la rentrée ! 🚀

🗓️ Quand ? Mardi 22 octobre, à partir de 18h30 📍 Où ? STATION F, 5 Parv. Alan Turing, 75013 Paris

Au programme: *** 🎤 Talk 1 - 19h00 : “Deep Dive: Building AI Agents to automate your work with Amazon Bedrock” par Viktoria Semaan, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS et Tiffany Souterre, Senior Developer Advocate, AWS

Building complex cloud solutions can be daunting. In this session, discover how generative AI can simplify the process by creating AI agents to automate tasks and execute multi-step workflows. Learn to build a generative AI agent that extracts insights from enterprise systems, generates infrastructure code, and estimates cloud solution costs. The session features practical demos where our AI agent streamlines tasks, reducing manual effort and errors. Gain actionable insights and the skills to build generative AI agents that solve similar challenges.

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🍕 Buffet et networking ! - 20h30 On a hâte de vous y retrouver ! L’équipe AWS User Group Paris

** Important RSVP HERE (Due to room capacity and venue security, it is required to pre-register at the link for admission)

Description: Welcome to the monthly AI meetup in Paris. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda: - 6:30pm\~7:00pm: Checkin\, food and networking - 7:00pm\~9:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A - 9:00pm: Open discussion\, Mixer and Closing.

Tech Talk: From RAGs to Multi-Agents Systems Speaker: Andrzej Neugebauer (Linagora) Abstract: This conference will explore the evolution from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models to sophisticated Multi-Agent Systems . It examines how this can enhance information retrieval and generation capabilities, and their integration into adaptive systems capable of better decision-making.

Tech Talk: LLMs for Cybersecurity Speaker: Natasha Alkhatib (Bosh) Abstract: This conference explores how large language models are impacting cybersecurity, showcasing applications such as threat detection and automated incident response. We will discuss the advantages and challenges of integrating these models into various systems. Real-world examples will demonstrate their potential to enhance the resilience and security of digital infrastructures.

Topics/Speakers: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

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+ AI developers in Paris or 350K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (link is at the bottom of the page)

** Important RSVP HERE (Due to room capacity and venue security, it is required to pre-register at the link for admission)

Description: Welcome to the monthly AI meetup in Paris. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs and machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers and fellow developers.

Agenda: - 6:30pm\~7:00pm: Checkin\, food and networking - 7:00pm\~9:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A - 9:00pm: Open discussion\, Mixer and Closing.

Tech Talk: From RAGs to Multi-Agents Systems Speaker: Andrzej Neugebauer (Linagora) Abstract: This conference will explore the evolution from Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models to sophisticated Multi-Agent Systems . It examines how this can enhance information retrieval and generation capabilities, and their integration into adaptive systems capable of better decision-making.

Tech Talk: LLMs for Cybersecurity Speaker: Natasha Alkhatib (Bosh) Abstract: This conference explores how large language models are impacting cybersecurity, showcasing applications such as threat detection and automated incident response. We will discuss the advantages and challenges of integrating these models into various systems. Real-world examples will demonstrate their potential to enhance the resilience and security of digital infrastructures.

Topics/Speakers: Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

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+ AI developers in Paris or 350K+ worldwide.

Community on Slack/Discord

• Event chat: chat and connect with speakers and attendees
• Sharing blogs, events, job openings, projects collaborations
• Join Slack/Discord (link is at the bottom of the page)

ATTENTION: Pour assister à GenAI Days Paris, pensez à réserver votre place sur generativeai.paris

Après le succès de nos meet-ups réguliers, nous franchissons une nouvelle étape et sommes ravis de vous annoncer la tenue de notre toute première conférence d'une journée:

🚀 GEN AI DAYS PARIS 🚀

📅 Quand? Le 30 novembre 2023

📍 Où? Leboncoin, 85 rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, 75010 Paris

Thème: L'IA générative dans toutes ses dimensions, des outils open source aux cas d'usage réels en production.

Pour Qui? Entrepreneurs, Développeurs, Data Scientists, Product Manager, Chercheurs, et Passionnés d’IA.

Au programme:

• 👨‍💻 L'IA générative au service des développeurs - Tugdual Grall (Github)
• 🎮️ Génération d'assets dans l'univers du Gaming via la GenAI - Yassine Tahi et Minta Karlsson (Kinetix et Scenario)
• 🤖 Retour d'expérience sur la création d'un agent autonome, Maxime Thoonsen (Theodo Group)
• 🦙 Les dessous de la création de Llama 2 - Aurélien Rodriguez et Xavier Martinet (Meta)
• 👩‍🏫 Comment l'IA générative transforme la formation en ligne ? - Marie Douriez et Benoit Letournel (360Learning)
• 📽️ Les leçons du traitement vidéo par IA générative - Clément Baccar (Brut)
• 🖼️ L’IA générative au service des équipes Carrefour - Hélène Labaume (Carrefour)

🎟 Billets: Les places sont limitées! Pour participer à cette journée d’exception, rendez-vous sur notre site https://www.generativeai.paris/ pour acheter votre billet à partir de 349€.

🔥 Offre Spéciale pour notre Communauté: En tant que membres de notre communauté, nous avons le plaisir de vous offrir une réduction exclusive de 20% avec le code: MEETUP_20.

Nous sommes impatients de partager cette expérience unique avec vous. Que vous soyez un habitué de nos meet-ups ou nouveau dans la communauté, cette conférence promet d’être une source d’inspiration et d’enrichissement.

Gardez un œil sur nos canaux pour plus de détails à venir. En attendant, n'hésitez pas à échanger sur notre serveur Discord et à revoir nos anciens talks sur YouTube.

Explorons les horizons de l'IA Générative!

À très bientôt, Maxime, Damien, Maria et Nikolay