AWS Summit
Paris

Year by year

1. 2025

   9 April 2025

   Construisez tout ce que vous imaginez

   I led the AWS Summit Paris 2025 keynote, “Construisez tout ce que vous imaginez”, with nearly 11,000 people at the Palais des Congrès.

   Julien Groues and Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec were joined by Safran, Owkin, Qonto and Poolside. AWS announced a strategic collaboration with Safran, brought Mistral AI’s Pixtral Large to Amazon Bedrock, and set a goal of training 600,000 people in France by 2030.

   On stage

   Julien Groues, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

   Guests

   Safran, Owkin, Qonto, Poolside

2. 2024

   3 April 2024

   Generative AI, and the cloud beneath it

   I led the AWS Summit Paris 2024 keynote, the year generative AI took over the stage. Its line was that AI is the visible tip of the iceberg, and the cloud is what lies beneath.

   Julien Groues and Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec were joined by three of the people building the models: Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI, Thomas Wolf of Hugging Face, and Tom Brown of Anthropic. Air Liquide and TF1 showed it at work, and AWS brought Amazon Bedrock to its Paris Region, with Mistral Large on board.

   On stage

   Julien Groues, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

   Guests

   Arthur Mensch, Mistral AI, Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face, Tom Brown, Anthropic, Air Liquide, TF1

   ▶ Watch 2024 ↗ (opens on YouTube)

3. 2023

   4 April 2023

   Security, competitiveness and sustainability

   I led the keynote of the tenth AWS Summit Paris, built around security, competitiveness and sustainability, with close to 10,000 people at the Palais des Congrès.

   Julien Groues and Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, AWS Vice President of Technology, shared the stage with a long line of French customers, from Air Liquide and EDF to TF1, which fended off more than 30 million illegitimate requests during the World Cup final. AWS also announced a generative AI accelerator for start-ups.

   On stage

   Julien Groues, Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec

   Guests

   Air Liquide, Compagnie des Alpes, TF1, Swile, ManoMano, Hugging Face, Accor, EDF

   ▶ Watch 2023 ↗ (opens on YouTube) A segment of the keynote; the full keynote wasn’t published

4. 2022

   12 April 2022

   I led the opening keynote of AWS Summit Paris 2022 at the Palais des Congrès: the first Summit in France since 2019, opened by Julien Groues, head of AWS France, in front of more than 5,000 people.

   Stephan Hadinger and Sébastien Stormacq made the technology case, and four French companies told their own stories: TheFork on weathering the crises of the previous two years, CMA CGM on its net-zero goal, Airbus on serverless and IoT, and Stellantis on analysing 6.6 million electric-vehicle journeys to work out what its ideal electric car should be.

   On stage

   Julien Groues, Stephan Hadinger, Sébastien Stormacq

   Guests

   TheFork, CMA CGM, Airbus, Stellantis

   ▶ Watch 2022 ↗ (opens on YouTube)