Speakers
The line-up
The first speakers of Build It Summit. More join as they confirm.
Barbara Delacroix
CEO and Co-founder
Bruno Soulez
Podcast host
Caroline Charra
Head of Product
Cédric Giorgi
Head of Content
Frode Ettesvoll
CEO
Hugo Mercier
Founder and CEO
Jeff Bandet
CEO
Julien Mottet
Founder
Mariam Hakobyan
Co-Founder and CEO
Mehdi Houas
President
Mehdi Medjaoui
Founder and Chairman
Quentin Adam
CEO
Raphael Amorim
Software Engineer
Thibaut de la Grand’rive
Founder and CEO
Timothée Le Borgne
Founder and CEO
Valériane Venance
Builder
CEO and co-founder of Devana, a French company building sovereign, human-centred AI for critical European environments. Devana orchestrates AI models into a co-pilot for knowledge work, designed to comply with EU regulation.
Bruno Soulez hosts If This Then Dev (IFTTD), the French-language podcast for developers. He has been coding since the age of 12 and has 30 years of software development behind him, including CTO roles at startups such as Auction.fr.
Caroline Charra leads product at H Company, the Paris-based company building AI agents that use computers the way people do.
Frode Ettesvoll is the CEO of Compose Software, the Oslo-based low-code platform for building forms, automating workflows, managing cases and connecting systems. Compose serves business and IT teams, including public sector and legal organizations.
Founder and CEO of Twin, a French startup building AI agents that carry out business tasks inside the software teams already use, and browse the web when no API exists. Twin’s first agent went live with Qonto in 2025.
Jeff Bandet runs BO&MIE, a creative bakery brand founded in 2017 that now has more than 25 shops, from Paris to Seoul and Riyadh. He builds the company’s own tools in-house with AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex, an ERP and a Marketing Studio, with no dedicated developer team.
Founder of Elbatria Solutions, a consultancy that designs pragmatic tools to streamline companies’ internal processes, from custom apps to automation. An Airtable expert, he has run more than 200 projects for over 50 clients since 2020.
Mariam Hakobyan is the co-founder and CEO of Softr, the leading AI app builder for business operations. A former engineer turned entrepreneur, she has spent more than a decade building products and leading product and engineering teams, and is passionate about making software accessible to everyone.
President of Numeum, the French digital industry association, since July 2026. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Talan, an international technology consulting group with over 6,200 employees in 22 countries.
Founder and Chairman of apidays, the conference series on the API economy running since 2012, and host of FOST Paris, the week Build It Summit joins. Founder of OAuth.io, acquired. He speaks and writes on APIs, the programmable society and open ecosystems.
Founder and CEO of Clever Cloud, a French platform as a service that runs, automates and secures IT environments on its own datacenters in France. He speaks regularly on cloud infrastructure, digital sovereignty and how AI changes software development.
Software engineer at Lovable, creator of the Rio terminal emulator and the Jam programming language. He previously worked at Spotify, at Viaplay, where he led the adoption of Rust, and at Charm, GoDaddy and Globo.com.
CEO and co-founder of Delos, the French company behind AI Workers, autonomous digital employees embedded in business processes. He leads enterprise relations, helping companies define their GenAI roadmap and development needs, and drives strategic partnerships and Delos’s growth with mid-size and large companies.
Timothée Le Borgne founded OhMyUnicorn, an AI app builder that turns one sentence into a web app ready to take payments. He previously led product as CPO of RATP Group, then at Jellysmack and Moments Lab, after being one of Doctolib’s first product directors.
Builder. After 42 and Le Wagon, she worked as a freelance Ruby and Python developer, then in developer relations at Clever Cloud and Twilio, and has served on the board of Duchess France. She speaks about building products and communities, and becoming a Builder without a computer science degree.
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