Forward Data Conference 2026

The French data and AI conference, back for 2026 at the Maison Internationale on the Cité Internationale Universitaire campus in the 14th. One day, three stages, more than thirty talks and about 650 practitioners. This edition is built around what AI is doing to the way data teams actually work. Joe Reis speaks, alongside Mehdi Ouazza on what comes after the modern data stack, Claire Gouze, Nicolas Martignole on Back Market and Marco Saetta on Doctolib's AI products. Field reports from Decathlon, Malt and leboncoin are also on the programme. Doors from 08:30, first talks at 10:00, running late with a 17:30 keynote. Paid; the organisers had not published prices when this went up, and groups of five or more get 20 percent off. Why go: the one Paris date where French data engineering talks about its own production systems rather than a vendor roadmap. Best for data and analytics engineers, platform leads and heads of data.