OpenLLM Builders Day – FOST: first day of a united Europe for open, sovereign and eco-responsible AI 

Today, Paris becomes the rallying point for everyone building the European OpenLLM.

At LINAGORA, we have been championing a truly open, sovereign, and sustainable AI for years. That is why we are proud to take part in the OpenLLM Builders Day FOST (Apidays), a day dedicated to our digital commons community and to the builders who advance Open‑Source AI.

Here is the complete line‑up for the day: a unique overview of the technological breakthroughs in Open‑Source LLMs:

• 11:00 - 11:25 • Building open‑source AI with a French twist
  Michel‑Marie MAUDET & Julie Hunter - LINAGORA
   
• 11:30 - 11:55 • NVIDIA hashtag
  Nemotron: Family of Open Models and Datasets
  Meriem Bendris - NVIDIA
   
• 12:00 - 12:25 • How to build your own AI with Hugging Face
  Violette Lepercq - Hugging Face
   
• 12:30 - 12:55 • Aligning open‑source LLMs, from general use to educational use‑cases – State of the art 2025
  Clément Bénesse - opsci.ai
   
• 14:00 - 14:25 • From research to industry‑level AI: how the #P16 program shapes a sovereign and open‑source stack for data science
  Selma Souihel, PhD - Inria
   
• 14:30 - 14:55 • Developing LLMs on an academic budget – Are we building the next Maginot Line? (GAPeron)
  Djamé Seddah - Inria
   
• 15:00 - 15:25 • Cost is key: Towards accessible LLMs
  Christophe Cerisara - LORIA (CNRS)
   
• 15:30 - 15:55 • New perspectives & new tools for in‑context learning (FOR Program)
  Nicholas Asher & Benjamin Deporte - ANITI Toulouse - IRT AESE – Saint‑Exupéry
   
• 16:30 - 16:55 • What About Environmental Impact of OpenLLM?
  Marc Leobet - Mens Data
   
• 17:00 - 17:25 • Countering Anglo-centricity: Training LLMs for Education in France
  Charlotte NOEL & Matteo Van Ypersele - LINAGORA
   
• 17:30 - 17:55 • Teaching Data Science & AI with Open Source Tools: the Insee Path
  Frédéric Comte

Engage with our teams, our researchers, our engineers, and with everyone who is building a truly open AI, alongside many other partners from the open‑source ecosystem.

We will be present all day, as well as tomorrow and the day after, for FOST.

CNIT – Stand C10
Come chat with us!

And don’t miss the talk by Michel‑Marie MAUDET on December 10, from 16:30 to 16:55, in the amphitheater:
“Resilience & Sovereignty: Building an Autonomous and Sustainable AI”, together with Caroline Chopinaud and Noé Achache.

We keep building. Together.