Throughout my career, I have been talking at more than eighty international conferences & public speaking engagements in more countries than I have fingers and on all continents except South America and Asia. As you can imagine, I love going to conferences, not only to learn but also to share knowledge. Here is a non-exhaustive list of public conferences I attended as a speaker and gave lectures. The list also includes some podcasts (starting in 2022).
| 10/2023 | Epitech (Strasbourg, France): “HubTalk – Le Modern Data Engineering.“ | |
| 10/2023 | 110 | All Things Open 2023 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Let’s Talk Data Contracts, Data Products, Data Mesh, and Open-Source.“ |
| 9/2023 | IBM Community (online): “Building your First Data Contract using Open Source Tools.“ | |
| 9/2023 | IBM TechXchange (Las Vegas, NV, USA): “Put to work the eight sections of a data contract.“ | |
| 5/2023 | Podcast with Andy Petrella (Kensu): “Les Sept erreurs à éviter lorsque vous implémentez Data Mesh.“ | |
| 5/2023 | Podcast with Bart Vandekerckhove (Raito): “How Data Mesh, Data Contracts, and Data Access interact at PayPal.“ | |
| 4/2023 | 105 | Bruno Aziza, Google (online): “Ask the Expert: Data, AI, and Analytics Journey Edition.” |
| 4/2023 | Data Mesh Learning (online): “Implementing Data Mesh at PayPal.” | |
| 3/2023 | Data Mesh Learning (online): “Towards a Practical Data Mesh Roadmap.“ | |
| 3/2023 | AIDA User Group‘s AI on Pi Day (online): “Discussions with Rob Thomas and Bill Higgins.“ | |
| 3/2023 | Technical 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 are on this blog. | |
| 2/2023 | 100 | Data Mesh Learning (online): “Topology of Data Product Teams.“ |
| 2/2023 | Data Engineering Podcast with Tobias Macey (podcast): “Building A Data Mesh Platform at PayPal.“ | |
| 1/2023 | Data Mesh Learning (online): “Operating Model for Data Mesh.“ | |
| 11/2022 | AIDA 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. | |
| 11/2022 | Big Data Conference Europe 2022 (online): “Expert Interview – One Year in a Data Mesh at PayPal.“ | |
| 11/2022 | 95 | IBM TV 2022 (online): “The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh (v2.3.3).“ |
| 11/2022 | All Things Open 2022 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Building a Data Mesh With Open Source Technologies.“ | |
| 9/2022 | Data Mesh Radio with Scott Hirleman (podcast): “Making the Data Quantum Leap – Starting from the Data Quantum at PayPal.“ | |
| 4/2022 | The Select Group (online): “The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh (v1.2.0).“ | |
| 3/2022 | AIDA User Group‘s first AI on Pi Day conference (online): “What is AIDA User Group?” with Ralf Roeber. | |
| 11/2021 | 90 | AIDA 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. |
| 10/2021 | All Things Open 2021 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “The Lay of the Land for Data in 2021.“ | |
| 9/2021 | All Things Open Meetup (Raleigh, NC, USA): “It’s painful how much data rules the world.” | |
| 6/2021 | University of Zagreb, Department of Mathematics (Zagreb, Croatia – online): “Putovanje do Sparka u akciji, 2. izdanje (The Journey to Spark in Action).“ | |
| 6/2021 | The Select Group (online): “Ten tips to help IT & Business understand each other.” | |
| 3/2021 | 85 | Illinois Tech (online): “The Journey to Spark in Action, 2nd edition.“ |
| 1/2021 | The Select Group (online): “Building Enterprise Software Today.“ | |
| 10/2020 | All Things Open 2020 (online): “Advance Auto Parts and Open Source,” with Adolfo Rodriguez. | |
| 10/2020 | All Things Open 2020 (online): “Big Data made easy with a Spark (3.0)” (Extended Session). | |
| 10/2020 | FAISE (online): “North Carolina is an unknown gem for French entrepreneurs.“ | |
| 9/2020 | 80 | Northern VA Codecamp (online): “Spark 3 is here to unify Big Data.” |
| 8/2020 | SQL Data Partners‘ podcast: “Episode 203: Spark in Action.“ | |
| 7/2020 | Open Source 101 (online): “Big Data – Apache Spark 3.0 in 45 minutes.“ | |
| 7/2020 | The Select Group (online): “From Data to AI: Transforming Your Enterprise for the Digital Age.” | |
| 7/2020 | French-American Chamber of Commerce of the Carolinas (online): “From Data to AI: Transforming Your Enterprise for the Digital Age.” | |
| 10/2019 | 75 | All Things Open 2019 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Big Data made easy with a Spark” (Extended Session). |
| 7/2019 | The Weekly Squeak podcast: “Apache Spark with Jean-Georges Perrin, Twine, Alexa, and the NHS.“ | |
| 6/2019 | Call for Code virtual hackathon: “Building a solid data platform that can scale: best practices you can use right away.“ | |
| 5/2019 | Roaring Elephant with Jhon Masschelein (podcast): “Spark in Action with author Jean-Georges Perrin.” Listen to part 1 and part 2. | |
| 4/2019 | Making Data Simple with Al Martin (podcast): “Spark, Hadoop and more with Jean-Georges Perrin.“ | |
| 4/2019 | 70 | Open Source 101 (Columbia, SC, USA): “Big Data made easy with Spark.” |
| 3/2019 | Triangle Apache Spark Meetup (RTP, NC, USA): “An intro to Spark, why is Spark an Operating System?” | |
| 3/2019 | Veracity Solutions (Salt Lake City, UT, USA): “Latest trends in AI from IBM Think.” | |
| 2/2019 | IBM Think (San Francisco, CA, USA): “Why I love Spark (and all it does for IBM products).” | |
| 12/2018 | Data Engineering Podcast with Tobias Macey (podcast): “Putting Apache Spark Into Action with Jean Georges Perrin – Episode 60.“ | |
| 12/2018 | 65 | Veracity Solutions (Salt Lake City, UT, USA): “The road to AI is paved with pragmatic intentions, Christmas Edition.” |
| 11/2018 | Converge 2018 (Park City, Utah, USA): “Future of data, what are the trends for 2019?” | |
| 10/2018 | All Things Open 2018 (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Big Data made easy with a Spark.” | |
| 8/2018 | NC Tech Association and Veracity Solutions (Raleigh, NC, USA): “The road to AI is paved with pragmatic intentions.” | |
| 3/2018 | IBM Think (Las Vegas, NV, USA): “Spark in 10 minutes.“ | |
| 12/2017 | 60 | Triangle Apache Spark Meetup (RTP, NC, USA): “Key takeaways from Spark Summit Europe 2017.” |
| 10/2017 | Spark Summit Europe 2017 (Dublin, Ireland): “Extending Apache Spark’s ingestion: building your own Java data source.” | |
| 10/2017 | All Things Open 2017 (Raleigh, NC, USA). | |
| 10/2017 | NCDevCon (Raleigh, NC, USA): “Big Data made easy thanks to Spark.” | |
| 6/2017 | Triangle Apache Spark Meetup (RTP, NC, USA): “Key takeaways from Spark Summit 2017.” | |
| 6/2017 | 55 | Spark Summit 2017 (San Francisco, CA, USA): “The key to Machine Learning is prepping the right data.” You can also read the related article. |
| 3/2016 | Grey Culbreth Middle School (Chapel Hill, NC, USA): “HTML: Or how the web got started…” | |
| 7/2015 | ISC 2015 (Frankfurt, Germany): “When High-Performance Storage meets High-Performance Computing.” | |
| 6/2015 | Clusir Est (Strasbourg, France): “Understanding IoT.” | |
| 4/2015 | IIUG 2015 (San Diego, California, USA): “Programming with Java & Informix: using JDBC.” | |
| 4/2015 | 50 | IIUG 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. |
| 11/2014 | Informix 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. | |
| 5/2014 | Adria IUG 2014 (Zagreb, Croatia): “Understanding why you need NoSQL.” | |
| 4/2014 | IIUG 2014 (Miami, Florida, USA): “JSON in your engine – what does that mean?” | |
| 11/2013 | La Presse au Futur – Press’future (Paris, France): “Vision of publishing in 2013: focus on needs.” | |
| 7/2013 | 45 | AmCham monthly meeting (Strasbourg, France): “Entrepreneurship in the USA: a French perspective.” |
| 6/2013 | Bureau Mobile (Strasbourg, France): “Marketing + Technology = Magic.” | |
| 6/2012 | Rhenatic ThemaTechnique (Strasbourg, France): “Strategic vision of Open Data in the enterprise.” | |
| 5/2012 | Organization of “Developer Forum & Informix TechDay 2012,” at the University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France), with IBM and IIUG. | |
| 5/2012 | DeveloperForum (Strasbourg, France): “Thoughts for standardizing PaaS.” | |
| 5/2012 | 40 | Adria IUG Conference (Zagreb, Croatia): “Informix is not for Legacy Applications,” this is an updated version from 4/2010. |
| 1/2012 | Sandlach Business Club (Haguenau, France): “What is moving on the web?” | |
| 1/2012 | Ad’mission (Strasbourg, France): “Intelligence or how to stay competitive with the web.” | |
| 12/2011 | Chamber of Commerce (Strasbourg, France): “Increase and measure your performance on the Internet.” | |
| 12/2011 | M Systems International, Inc. (Durham, NC, USA): “Schools facing the 21st Century.” | |
| 11/2011 | 35 | DCF (Sales Manager of France) (Colmar, France): “Sell more on the web.” |
| 6/2011 | Reseau Entreprendre (Strasbourg, France): “Build your web strategy without getting screwed.” | |
| 5/2011 | Chamber of Commerce (Mulhouse, France): “The new trends of the web.” | |
| 5/2011 | In conjunction with Activis (Strasbourg, France): “Boost your website.” | |
| 4/2011 | Rotary Haguenau (Haguenau, France): “The web in 2011, where are we?” | |
| 4/2011 | 30 | International Space University (Strasbourg, France): “The new trends of the web.” |
| 4/2011 | IBM / UGIF (Paris, France): “Informix is not only for Point of Sales.” | |
| 4/2011 | Nord IT Days (Lille, France): “Content is growth. We can prove it.” | |
| 10/2010 | Alsace IT Days (Strasbourg, France): “What is moving on the web?” | |
| 10/2010 | TEDxAlsace (Mulhouse, France): “The Humans and the Machines.” | |
| 5/2010 | 25 | CogiFactory (Mulhouse, France): “10 new things I learned at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.” |
| 4/2010 | IIUG Conference 2010 (Kansas City, KS, USA): “Informix is not for Legacy Applications.” | |
| 3/2010 | SF New Tech (San Francisco, CA, USA): “Don’t give up your brand.” | |
| 3/2010 | Ignite (Casablanca, Morocco). | |
| 2/2010 | Organization and presenter of Ignite Strasbourg #2 (Strasbourg, France). | |
| 12/2009 | 20 | J3D (Strasbourg, France): “Telecommuting: an efficient, durable and economic way to work.” |
| 10/2009 | Organization of “DeveloperForum5”, fifth edition of a software engineering conference, jointly with the University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France). | |
| 9/2009 | Organization and presenter of Ignite Strasbourg #1 (Strasbourg, France): “How I fell into IT.” | |
| 6/2009 | Last Thursday (Strasbourg, France): “Java: it’s not ugly, it’s not slow and it compiles.” | |
| 4/2009 | IIUG Conference 2009 (Overland Park, KS, USA): “Web 2.0 – Understand it. Develop for it.” | |
| 3/2009 | 15 | Technopole (Mulhouse, France): “What can you do with social networks.” Coverage by Le Periscope. |
| 12/2008 | Rhenatic (Mulhouse, France): “Future of Workgroup Tools.” | |
| 9/2008 | Organization of “DeveloperForum4,” fourth edition of a software engineering conference, jointly with the University of Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France). | |
| 4/2008 | 2008 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. | |
| 2/2008 | 2008 IBM Premium Support Conference (Paris, France): “Pragmatic SOA,” a pragmatic introduction to Software Oriented Architecture with examples using IBM DataStudio and IDS. | |
| 8/2007 | 10 | Publication of “IDS Purifies XML,” an article explaining in details how to use the new XML features built in IDS Cheetah in IBM DB2 Magazine (CMP, Q3 20007) and DB2mag.com. |
| 6/2007 | Organization of “European Developer Forum,” a conference and gathering of developers around software engineering. Brainstorming around management of source code (Illkirch Graffenstaden, France). It replaces the Java days and became the DeveloperForum. | |
| 5/2007 | Several lectures and educational seminar on Java: “Introduction to Java Development with IDS,” “IDS purifies XML,” and “Introduction to EJB3 development with IDS and Viper,” at IDUG 2007 – North America Conference (San Jose, CA, USA). | |
| 12/2006 | Lecture on “Introduction to Java development with IDS,” at Forum 2006 (Annandale, VA, USA). | |
| 10/2006 | Lecture on “Informix 4GL to EGL, Hype or Reality?”, “Introduction to Java development with IDS,” and “Introduction to PHP development with IDS,” at the IDUG 2006 – Europe Conference (Vienna, Austria). | |
| 9/2006 | 5 | Lecture on “Converting Excel to XML using POI and Xerces,” at the Strasbourg Java Users Group meeting. Organization of the second “Club Java” meeting. |
| 5/2006 | Lecture on “Introduction to Java development with IDS,” at the IDUG 2006 – North America Conference (Tampa, FL, USA). | |
| 6/2005 | Organization of the first “Club Java” meeting in Strasbourg, France. | |
| 9/2004 | . | Lecture on “J2EE and EGL Essentials for 4GL Developers,” at the IBM DB2 Information Management Technical Conference (Las Vegas, NV, USA). |
| 4/2004 | Lecture on “WebSphere / J2EE Implementation Made (Very) Easy,” at the Informix User Forum (Annandale, VA, USA). |
Unfortunately, I did not keep track of the talks I gave before April 2004. If you have any, please send them my way.
Please see the list of publications I have been published in. More about me.
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