That's a wrap for our first time at FOST!

Three intense days, sometimes a bit bewildering given how vast the event was. At the heart of this immense mosaic imagined by apidays, our OpenLLM Builders Day managed to find its full place.

We won’t hide it: for a first participation we didn’t know exactly what to expect. Then you arrived, many of you, both at the talks and at our booth, with concrete questions, legitimate doubts and, above all, the same desire to build a better digital future. Tech professionals, researchers, students, CTOs, foundations, freelancers, CEOs, associations, start‑ups… Between two technical debates we also talked partnerships and even recruitments.

You wanted to understand what we are building, and many told us:
“Open source today is more than necessary, and what you’re doing interests us.”

That is exactly the space we wanted to create: a sharing place where we discuss data, compute, bias, costs, metrics, responsibility, without posture, without marketing, just concrete matters.

THANK YOU
A huge thank you to the teams of FOST / apidays
Oriane Durand, Mehdi Medjaoui, Guillaume (Ivan) Druet Mojica, and all the teams present, for offering the OpenLLM community this exceptionally high‑quality exchange space.

Thanks also to our speakers for their commitment:
Michel-Marie MAUDET & Julie Hunter - LINAGORA
Meriem Bendris - NVIDIA
Violette Lepercq - Hugging Face
Clément Bénesse - opsci.ai
Selma Souihel, PhD - Inria
Djamé Seddah - Inria
Christophe Cerisara - Loria / CNRS
Nicholas Asher & Benjamin Deporte - ANITI Toulouse / IRT AESE - Saint Exupéry
Marc Leobet - Mens Data
Charlotte NOEL & Matteo Van Ypersele - LINAGORA
Frédéric Comte - Insee

Special mention to Benjamin Bellamy, who handled all the day‑long live transcriptions and translations with LinTO, enabling us to publish the complete summary in less than 24 hours.

And a big thank you to Jean‑Pierre LORRE, who collected all the presentations for an upcoming publication.

And our collaborators: Zoe Genestie, Andrzej Neugebauer, Yassin Benhaddou, Elie Allaf, Julie Verrier, Gaël Lago.

We also salute Arno Pons and the Digital New Deal, on the occasion of the Digital Resilience Day, where the work on the Digital Resilience Index was presented.

A round‑table in which our CEO Michel‑Marie Maudet participated, alongside Caroline Chopinaud, CEO of Hub FranceIA, and Noé Achache, Group Associate Partner and Head of AI Engineering at Theodo.

And now?
Next step: our flagship event, Paris Open Source AI Summit 2nd edition (POSAIS)

A more strategic day aimed at decision‑makers… but still 100 % dedicated to open, transparent and sovereign AI.