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I have a passion for sharing knowledge. Throughout my career, I have been talking at more than 175 international conferences & public speaking engagements in more countries than I have fingers on all continents except, for now, South America and Asia.

As you can imagine, I love going to conferences, not only to learn but also to share knowledge and meet new people. Here is a non-exhaustive list of public conferences I attended as a speaker and gave talks/lectures. The list also includes some podcasts, starting in 2022.

12/2025CDAO Dallas (Dallas, TX).
10/2025175CDAO Fall (Boston, MA).
10/2025Big Data Paris (Paris, France).
9/2025Big Data London (London, UK).
9/2025Actian US Open (New York, NY).
8/2025Purdue University (Online): “At the Tipping Point: Redefining Data Engineering and Management for AI.”
8/2025170Linux Foundation AI & Data TAC: “Bitol Project: Status & Healthcheck.”
8/2025Private conference with a major British university. Contact me if you want me to talk to your team!
8/2025Leit Data Podcast with Chris Tabb: “Product-Oriented Data Engineering and Management.”
7/2025IBM TechXChange day on Intelligence Platforms, presentation of Bitol.
7/2025Bitol (Online): “Bitol ODPS v0.9.0.”
7/2025165Datanosco by Stéphane Heckel (Online): “Du Data Contract au Data Product” (in French).
7/2025Private conference with a major French retailer. Contact me if you want me to talk to your team!
2/2025Intel’s Code and Deploy (Online): “Data Contracts, Ensuring Reliable and Usable Data Products.”
2/2025Expedia Group (Online): “Navigating the Data Frontier, A Journey Through Open Standards and Innovation.”
2/2025Private conference with a major French company. Contact me if you want me to talk to your team!
1/2025160Data Day Texas (Austin, TX, USA), the Data Mesh Keynote: “Data Mesh is the Grail, Bitol is your Journey.”
1/2025Cosmodata Summit (Online): “The Exciting New World Opened by Data Contracts.”
12/2024Bitol (Online): “Bitol Winter Party.”
11/2024Linux Foundation AI & Data TAC: “Bitol Project: Status & Graduation.”
11/2024Philippe Nieuwbourg’s podcast: “Discussion avec Jean-Georges Perrin, le Pape du Data Mesh et des Data Contracts.”
11/2024155Data Mesh Learning (Online): “Establishing a roadmap for data products, data contracts, and Data Mesh.”
11/2024Data Mesh Learning (Online): “Radically Transforming Data Governance with Data Mesh.”
11/2024Hubadviser (Online): “Data Mesh: de la théorie à la pratique.”
11/2024Private conference with a major Swiss retailer. Contact me if you want me to talk to your team!
10/2024Linux Foundation AI & Dev (Tokyo, Japan): “Data Contracts Are Good for AI.”
10/2024150Private conference with a major American company. Contact me if you want me to talk to your team!
10/2024Software Engineering Radio (Podcast): “SE Radio 638: Nick Tune and Jean-Georges Perrin on Architecture Modernization.”
10/2024Data Mesh Learning (Online): “Implementing Data Mesh At-Scale.”
10/2024Data Mesh Learning (Online): “Data Mesh: Making Data Agile.”
9/2024Zooom (Brussels, Belgium): forum on openness in the European Union, sponsored by the European Commission, focusing on open standards.
9/2024145Joint IBM & AIDA User Group event (Berlin, Germany): “Data Contract is Good for AI.”
9/2024JADS (Den Bosch, The Nethwerlands): “Data contracts: building & designing the future of data engineering.“
7/2024Straight Data Talk podcast with Yuliia Tkachova and Scott Hirleman: “Make Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) Work.“
6/2024PayPal Developer Day (San Jose, CA, USA): “From Data Chaos to Data Nirvana, Modern Data Engineering to Jumpstart Big Data for Better AI.“
6/2024Private conference with a major German company. Contact me if you want me to talk to your team!
6/2024140KM0 (Mulhouse, France): “State of the AI-rt.”
6/2024OCTO Technologies (Lille, France): “Afterwork Data Contract.”
6/2024Data Science Leuven (Leuven, Belgium): “Data Products in Practice: An Expert Panel Discussion” with Wannes Rosiers, Jean-Georges Perrin, Nikki Bueno de and Mesquita, moderated by Jules de Bruin.
6/2024Leolo Mastermind Conference (Telfs-Buchen, Austria): “Modern Data Engineering Masterclass.”
6/2024Data Mesh Belgium Meetup (Brussels, Belgium): “We built a Data Mesh at PayPal, then discovered that Data Contracts were essential.”
5/2024135IBM Think (Boston, MA, USA). I’m not an official speaker, but I had a few fireside chats around Modern Data Engineering.
5/2024TechDay Expo (NYC, NY, USA).
4/2024ODSC (Boston, MA, USA): “Building Data Contracts with Open Source Tools.”
4/2024New York MeasureCamp at NJIT (Newark, NJ, USA): “Data contracts, better data.”
3/2024Webcast with Mohammad Fozouni, faculty at GKU: “A Love Journey with Apache Spark.”
3/2024130Private conference: “Starting with Data Contracts at [redacted company name],” held in a private setting within a department or company. Contact me if you want me to talk to your team!
3/2024AIDA User Group Pi Day 2024 (online): “Data contracts are good for AI.“
3/3024Data Mesh Learning Community (online): “Next Generation Data Governance,” panel discussion led by Eric Broda, with Charlote Ledoux and Jean-Georges Perrin.
2/2024Monday Morning Data Chat with Joe Reis & Matt Housley (podcast): “Data Mesh, Data Contracts, Modern Data Engineering Standards, Bitol, and More.“
2/2024Google C2C conference (online): “Starting with Data Contracts, Initial Steps and Key Pitfalls,” a discussion between Yuliia Tkachova and Jean-Georges Perrin.
1/2024125OCTO Technologies (Accenture): “Partager la donnée analytique en toute confiance grâce aux Data Contracts,” panel with Christian Fauré, Charlotte Ledoux, Olivier Wulveryck, Olivier Acar, and Jean-Georges Perrin.
1/2024Glovo meetup (Barcelona, Spain): “Data Mesh Roundtable,” led by Scott Hirleman, with Yuliia Tkachova, Ryan Dolley, Juan Carlos Vázquezi, Marta Diaz, and Jean-Georges Perrin as speakers.
1/2024Data Mesh Learning Community (online): “Next Generation Data Mesh Catalogs,” panel discussion led by Eric Broda, with Ole Olesen-Bagneux and Jean-Georges Perrin.
1/2024IBM TechXchange (Barcelona, Spain): “Learning through volunteering,” panel led by Jean-Georges Perrin, with Salomé Valéro, Atanas Iliev, and Paul Cortellesi.
1/2024IBM TechXchange (Barcelona, Spain): “Why is the Linux Foundation supporting Data Contracts?“
1/2024120IBM TechXchange (Barcelona, Spain): “Five tips for building data contracts.“
1/2024IBM TechXchange (Barcelona, Spain): “The data mesh panel,” led by Scott Hirleman, Yuliia Tkachova, Ryan Dolley, and Jean-Georges Perrin.
1/2024IBM Technology (online): “What is a Data Contract?“
12/2023IBM watsonx Day #2 (online): “Why Are Data Contracts Good for AI?“
12/2023LRE Consulting (Montpellier, France – online): “Data Mesh, cette nouvelle génération de plateforme de données.“
10/2023115Epitech (Strasbourg, France): “HubTalk – Le Modern Data Engineering.“
10/2023All Things Open 2023 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Let’s Talk Data Contracts, Data Products, Data Mesh, and Open-Source.“
9/2023IBM Community (online): “Building your First Data Contract using Open Source Tools.“
9/2023IBM TechXchange (Las Vegas, NV, USA): “Put to work the eight sections of a data contract.“
5/2023Podcast with Andy Petrella (Kensu): “Les Sept erreurs à éviter lorsque vous implémentez Data Mesh.“
5/2023110Podcast with Bart Vandekerckhove (Raito): “How Data Mesh, Data Contracts, and Data Access interact at PayPal.“
4/2023Bruno Aziza, Google (online): “Ask the Expert: Data, AI, and Analytics Journey Edition.”
4/2023Data Mesh Learning (online): “Implementing Data Mesh at PayPal.”
3/2023Data Mesh Learning (online): “Towards a Practical Data Mesh Roadmap.“
3/2023AIDA User Group‘s AI on Pi Day (online): “Discussions with Rob Thomas and Bill Higgins.“
3/2023105Technical Meetup Group hosted by IBM (online): “10 Lessons Learned from Building a Data Mesh at PayPal.” The Q&A was intense and resulted in two articles: part 1 and part 2, which are on this blog.
2/2023Data Mesh Learning (online): “Topology of Data Product Teams.“
2/2023Data Engineering Podcast with Tobias Macey (podcast): “Building A Data Mesh Platform at PayPal.“
1/2023Data Mesh Learning (online): “Operating Model for Data Mesh.“
11/2022AIDA User Group and Data Mesh Learning (online): “Data Contracts – Are they the future of data management?“, a panel discussion with Charlotte Ledoux, Amy Raygada, and Eric Broda.
11/2022100Big Data Conference Europe 2022 (online): “Expert Interview – One Year in a Data Mesh at PayPal.“
11/2022IBM TV 2022 (online): “The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh (v2.3.3).“
11/2022All Things Open 2022 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Building a Data Mesh With Open Source Technologies.“
9/2022Data Mesh Radio with Scott Hirleman (podcast): “Making the Data Quantum Leap – Starting from the Data Quantum at PayPal.“
4/2022The Select Group (online): “The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh (v1.2.0).“
3/202295AIDA User Group‘s first AI on Pi Day conference (online): “What is AIDA User Group?” with Ralf Roeber.
11/2021AIDA User Group and La French Tech Raleigh-Research Triangle (Raleigh, NC, USA): “AI in 2022, what’s to be expected?“, a panel discussion with Seth Dobrin, Shadi Shahin, and Christophe Bisson.
10/2021All Things Open 2021 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “The Lay of the Land for Data in 2021.“
9/2021All Things Open Meetup (Raleigh, NC, USA): “It’s painful how much data rules the world.”
6/2021University of Zagreb, Department of Mathematics (Zagreb, Croatia – online): “Putovanje do Sparka u akciji, 2. izdanje (The Journey to Spark in Action).“
6/202190The Select Group (online): “Ten tips to help IT & Business understand each other.”
3/2021Illinois Tech (online): “The Journey to Spark in Action, 2nd edition.“
1/2021 The Select Group (online): “Building Enterprise Software Today.“
10/2020All Things Open 2020 (online): “Advance Auto Parts and Open Source,” with Adolfo Rodriguez.
10/2020All Things Open 2020 (online): “Big Data made easy with a Spark (3.0)” (Extended Session).
10/202085FAISE (online): “North Carolina is an unknown gem for French entrepreneurs.“
9/2020Northern VA Codecamp (online): “Spark 3 is here to unify Big Data.”
8/2020SQL Data Partners‘ podcast: “Episode 203: Spark in Action.“
7/2020Open Source 101 (online): “Big Data – Apache Spark 3.0 in 45 minutes.“
7/2020The Select Group (online): “From Data to AI: Transforming Your Enterprise for the Digital Age.”
7/202080French-American Chamber of Commerce of the Carolinas (online): “From Data to AI: Transforming Your Enterprise for the Digital Age.”
10/2019All Things Open 2019 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Big Data made easy with a Spark” (Extended Session).
7/2019The Weekly Squeak podcast: “Apache Spark with Jean-Georges Perrin, Twine, Alexa, and the NHS.“
6/2019Call for Code virtual hackathon: “Building a solid data platform that can scale: best practices you can use right away.“
5/2019Roaring Elephant with Jhon Masschelein (podcast): “Spark in Action with author Jean-Georges Perrin.” Listen to part 1 and part 2.
4/201975Making Data Simple with Al Martin (podcast): “Spark, Hadoop and more with Jean-Georges Perrin.“
4/2019Open Source 101 (Columbia, SC, USA): “Big Data made easy with Spark.”
3/2019Triangle Apache Spark Meetup (RTP, NC, USA): “An intro to Spark, why is Spark an Operating System?”
3/2019Veracity Solutions (Salt Lake City, UT, USA): “Latest trends in AI from IBM Think.”
2/2019IBM Think (San Francisco, CA, USA): “Why I love Spark (and all it does for IBM products).”
12/201870Data Engineering Podcast with Tobias Macey (podcast): “Putting Apache Spark Into Action with Jean Georges Perrin – Episode 60.“
12/2018Veracity Solutions (Salt Lake City, UT, USA): “The road to AI is paved with pragmatic intentions, Christmas Edition.”
11/2018Converge 2018 (Park City, Utah, USA): “Future of data, what are the trends for 2019?”
10/2018All Things Open 2018 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Big Data made easy with a Spark.”
8/2018NC Tech Association and Veracity Solutions (Raleigh, NC, USA): “The road to AI is paved with pragmatic intentions.”
3/201865IBM Think (Las Vegas, NV, USA): “Spark in 10 minutes.“
12/2017Triangle Apache Spark Meetup (RTP, NC, USA): “Key takeaways from Spark Summit Europe 2017.”
10/2017Spark Summit Europe 2017 (Dublin, Ireland): “Extending Apache Spark’s ingestion: building your own Java data source.”
10/2017All Things Open 2017 (Raleigh, NC, USA).
10/2017NCDevCon (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Big Data made easy thanks to Spark.”
6/201760Triangle Apache Spark Meetup (RTP, NC, USA): “Key takeaways from Spark Summit 2017.”
6/2017Spark Summit 2017 (San Francisco, CA, USA): “The key to Machine Learning is prepping the right data.” You can also read the related article.
3/2016Grey Culbreth Middle School (Chapel Hill, NC, USA): “HTML: Or how the web got started…”
7/2015ISC 2015 (Frankfurt, Germany): “When High-Performance Storage meets High-Performance Computing.”
6/2015Clusir Est (Strasbourg, France): “Understanding IoT.”
4/201555IIUG 2015 (San Diego, California, USA): “Programming with Java & Informix: using JDBC.”
4/2015IIUG 2015 (San Diego, California, USA): “Best practices in Informix application development,” a panel discussion where I was the moderator, my panel included Tom Beebe, Gary Ben-Israel, Art Kagel, Shawn Moe, and Yunming Wang.
11/2014Informix conference (Montpellier, France – video conference from North Carolina): “Why do businesses need NoSQL?” (Pourquoi les entreprises ont besoin de NoSQL ?) – this conference was actually canceled on the organization side.
5/2014Adria IUG 2014 (Zagreb, Croatia): “Understanding why you need NoSQL.”
4/2014IIUG 2014 (Miami, Florida, USA): “JSON in your engine – what does that mean?”
11/201350La Presse au Futur – Press’future (Paris, France): “Vision of publishing in 2013: focus on needs.”
7/2013AmCham monthly meeting (Strasbourg, France): “Entrepreneurship in the USA: a French perspective.”
6/2013Bureau Mobile (Strasbourg, France): “Marketing + Technology = Magic.”
6/2012Rhenatic ThemaTechnique (Strasbourg, France): “Strategic vision of Open Data in the enterprise.”
5/2012Organization of “Developer Forum & Informix TechDay 2012,” at the University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France), with IBM and IIUG.
5/201245DeveloperForum (Strasbourg, France): “Thoughts for standardizing PaaS.”
5/2012Adria IUG Conference (Zagreb, Croatia): “Informix is not for Legacy Applications,” this is an updated version from 4/2010.
1/2012Sandlach Business Club (Haguenau, France): “What is moving on the web?”
1/2012Ad’mission (Strasbourg, France): “Intelligence or how to stay competitive with the web.”
12/2011Chamber of Commerce (Strasbourg, France): “Increase and measure your performance on the Internet.”
12/201140M Systems International, Inc. (Durham, NC, USA): “Schools facing the 21st Century.”
11/2011DCF (Sales Manager of France) (Colmar, France): “Sell more on the web.”
6/2011Reseau Entreprendre (Strasbourg, France): “Build your web strategy without getting screwed.”
5/2011Chamber of Commerce (Mulhouse, France): “The new trends of the web.”
5/2011In conjunction with Activis (Strasbourg, France): “Boost your website.”
4/201135Rotary Haguenau (Haguenau, France): “The web in 2011, where are we?”
4/2011International Space University (Strasbourg, France): “The new trends of the web.”
4/2011IBM / UGIF (Paris, France): “Informix is not only for Point of Sales.”
4/2011Nord IT Days (Lille, France): “Content is growth. We can prove it.”
10/2010Alsace IT Days (Strasbourg, France): “What is moving on the web?”
10/201030TEDxAlsace (Mulhouse, France): “The Humans and the Machines.”
5/2010CogiFactory (Mulhouse, France): “10 new things I learned at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.”
4/2010IIUG Conference 2010 (Kansas City, KS, USA): “Informix is not for Legacy Applications.”
3/2010SF New Tech (San Francisco, CA, USA): “Don’t give up your brand.”
3/2010Ignite (Casablanca, Morocco).
2/201025Organization and presenter of Ignite Strasbourg #2 (Strasbourg, France).
12/2009J3D (Strasbourg, France): “Telecommuting: an efficient, durable and economic way to work.”
10/2009Organization of “DeveloperForum5”, fifth edition of a software engineering conference, jointly with the University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France).
9/2009Organization and presenter of Ignite Strasbourg #1 (Strasbourg, France): “How I fell into IT.”
6/2009Last Thursday (Strasbourg, France): “Java: it’s not ugly, it’s not slow and it compiles.”
4/200920IIUG Conference 2009 (Overland Park, KS, USA): “Web 2.0 – Understand it. Develop for it.”
3/2009Technopole (Mulhouse, France): “What can you do with social networks.” Coverage by Le Periscope.
12/2008Rhenatic (Mulhouse, France): “Future of Workgroup Tools.”
9/2008Jointly with the University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France), organization of “DeveloperForum4,” fourth edition of a software engineering conference. Keynote & Introduction.
4/20082008 IIUG Conference (Overland Park, KS, USA): “IDS Does Hibernate in the Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall,” a tutorial on ORM technologies and “Applied SOA” a pragmatic introduction to Software Oriented Architecture.
2/2008152008 IBM Premium Support Conference (Paris, France): “Pragmatic SOA,” a pragmatic introduction to Software Oriented Architecture with examples using IBM DataStudio and IDS.
5/2007IDUG 2007 – North America Conference (San Jose, CA, USA):
“Introduction to Java Development with IDS,”
“IDS purifies XML,” and
“Introduction to EJB3 development with IDS and Viper.”
12/2006Lecture on “Introduction to Java development with IDS,” at Forum 2006 (Annandale, VA, USA).
10/200610IDUG 2006 – Europe Conference (Vienna, Austria):
“Informix 4GL to EGL, Hype or Reality?”,
“Introduction to Java development with IDS,” and
“Introduction to PHP development with IDS.”
9/2006Lecture on “Converting Excel to XML using POI and Xerces,” at the Strasbourg Java Users Group meeting. Organization of the second “Club Java” meeting.
5/2006IDUG 2006 – North America Conference (Tampa, FL, USA): “Introduction to Java development with IDS.”
6/20055Organization of the first “Club Java” meeting in Strasbourg, France.
9/2004Talk on “J2EE and EGL Essentials for 4GL Developers,” at the IBM DB2 Information Management Technical Conference (Las Vegas, NV, USA).
4/2004Informix User Forum (Annandale, VA, USA): “WebSphere / J2EE Implementation Made (Very) Easy.”
10/2001Four J’s User Conference (Sydney, Australia): “Building HTML apps with 4GL.”
20001Four J’s User Conference (Germany): “Building HTML apps with 4GL.”

Unfortunately, I barely kept track of the talks I gave before April 2004. If you have any recollection, please send it my way.

Please see the list of publications I have been published in. More about me.

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