Speaking

Highlights

• 2026

  • Vibe coding is still a belief system, yet many things have changed in 3 months
    Several claims we made at Azur Tech Winter 2025 are now simply false — this is what we came back to debate.
    26/03/2026 OESW Expert Bootcamp 2026 15 attendees 30min Orange
  • Test and create sub-agents for GitHub Copilot, OpenCode and Claude Code
    Workshop with Jean-Louis Ferey and Qiao Zhang — building Orange-compliant sub-agents across Claude Code, Copilot, OpenCode.
    24/03/2026 OESW Expert Bootcamp 2026 30 attendees 2h Orange

• 2025

  • Vibe coding is a belief system. Apologia of a perplexed duo
    A conversation with Thomas Chappe: traditionalists, rebels, heretics — past the noise, what actually changes for developers, architects, and CIOs.
    02/12/2025 Azur Tech Winter 2025 50 attendees 30min Conferences
  • A pragmatic field report: 3 years coding with AI
    When I started, GitHub Copilot Inline was king. Today, half a million Cursor-edited lines later — what's real, what's noise.
    28/09/2025 Good Morning Communities 300 attendees Orange
  • Vibe-coder or zombie? Watch out for cognitive decline!
    Opening keynote for 250 students on what an engineer actually loses when they stop thinking — and what to keep doing on purpose.
    05/09/2025 EUR DS4H 250 attendees 1h Academic
  • The art of mastering the unpredictable: shaping a GenAI solution
    The same keynote at Epitech Summit — same talk, sharper engineering slant for the audience.
    04/02/2025 Epitech Summit 75 attendees 1h Academic
  • Under the hood of generative AI for HR
    Under-the-hood GenAI for the Orange Avenir RH cohort — bridging business language and architect language.
    10/01/2025 Orange Avenir 45 attendees 30min Orange
  • End-to-end generative AI
    Three sessions for HR-track BUT GEA L3 students — from "what is a token" to deploying a real assistant.
    09/01/2025 IUT Nice Fabron - HR 20 attendees 3h Academic
  • What is GenAI? Followed by Orange marketing use cases
    What the buzzwords mean for marketers, and what Orange actually ships — for an IAE Nice Master 2 Marketing cohort.
    06/01/2025 IAE Nice - Marketing 25 attendees 1h Academic

• 2024

  • Build an AI with foam balls that wins the stick game
    Stage de 3e workshop with Guillermo Wauquier at Terra Numerica — Nim strategy as a way into AI reasoning.
    19/12/2024 Middle School 15 attendees 2h Academic
  • The art of mastering the unpredictable: shaping a GenAI solution
    The keynote at scale — what we built at Orange Business, what broke, and why "unpredictable" is the architecture problem.
    28/11/2024 Google Dev Fest 2024 150 attendees 30min Conferences
  • Workshop: collective intelligence through a RETEX on GenAI solutions
    2-hour collaborative session co-hosted with Florence Tressols, mining lessons across the room.
    26/11/2024 Azur Tech Winter 30 attendees 2h Conferences
  • The art of mastering the unpredictable: shaping a GenAI solution
    Shipping a GenAI product when the model itself is the source of uncertainty.
    26/11/2024 Azur Tech Winter 50 attendees 30min Conferences
  • Masterclass: collective intelligence on shaping a GenAI solution
    Co-hosted with Florence Tressols at the SophI.A Master Class — pooling production GenAI lessons across the room.
    26/11/2024 SophI.A Summit 25 attendees 2h Conferences
  • LLMs: time to stop coding blindly? TDD to the rescue!
    Same TDD-for-LLMs talk, replayed for testing specialists at the Soirée du Test Logiciel.
    07/11/2024 Evening of Software Testing 20 attendees 30min Conferences
  • LLMs: time to stop coding blindly? TDD to the rescue!
    First public outing of the TDD-for-LLMs talk — RETEX from a real Orange Business chatbot project.
    01/10/2024 Dev&Test Day 40 attendees 30min Orange
  • GenAI: from inner workings to prompt engineering
    What's under the hood before you touch the prompt — for HR-track L3 students at IUT Nice Fabron.
    20/05/2024 IUT Nice Fabron - HR 20 attendees 2h Academic
  • Build your own RAG in 1 hour
    Build a working RAG system in 60 minutes — hands-on session for Orange Sophia engineers.
    15/04/2024 The Ephemeral Lab 15 attendees 1h30 Orange
  • Introduction to prompt engineering
    Hands-on follow-up to the GenAI primer: learning to use the tool, not just name it.
    09/04/2024 The Ephemeral Lab 40 attendees 1h30 Orange
  • Introduction to generative AI
    Demystifying LLM, RAG, token, transformer for Orange Sophia colleagues — plain language, no jargon stack.
    05/04/2024 The Ephemeral Lab 15 attendees 1h Orange