MAD30 AI Backbone: 30 Builders Shaping French AI

The MAD30 AI Backbone highlights 30 profiles that structure French AI beyond spectacular demonstrations. The organizers of Big Data & AI Paris describe a complete value chain, from data to infrastructure, as a prerequisite for scaling up. Five families of roles and critical technical components are gathered, supported by the event organized by RX France.

Big Data & AI Paris describes a France-oriented value chain

Emilie Pierre-Desmonde, Event Director of Big Data & AI Paris, presents a collective of entrepreneurs, researchers, tech leaders, CDAO, public actors, and industrial players highlighted by the rankings. According to her, these stakeholders share the goal of transforming technology into a competitive advantage for France. She believes that the most visible models and uses are not enough and emphasizes the need for controlled data, computing infrastructures, cloud, cybersecurity, robust platforms, and organizations capable of scaling up. She also states that this value chain is structured within Big Data & AI Paris.

Five families and critical components form the foundation

French technological acceleration relies on a complete chain where each link conditions success. This chain brings together five complementary groups: entrepreneurs introducing new software standards and industrial visions, researchers and scientists advancing machine learning and algorithms, technical experts responsible for feasibility, scalability, and security, infrastructure specialists (cloud, HPC, storage, hardware optimization), and Data & AI leaders ensuring cultural adaptation, governance, and scaling in complex organizations.
This chain is based on critical elements: efficient data pipelines, optimized computing infrastructures, specialized models, cybersecurity solutions protecting assets, and quantum architectures anticipating future disruptions. The selected profiles stand out for tangible achievements, such as a model that has surpassed the prototype stage, an infrastructure capable of supporting large-scale loads, a protocol ensuring the protection of strategic data, or a use case impacting the daily operations of a large organization.

MAD30 AI Backbone highlights 30 profiles, with Big Data & AI Paris

The MAD30 AI Backbone rankings showcase 30 personalities. It is produced in partnership with Big Data & AI Paris, an event organized by RX France. The initiative contrasts highly publicized AI—demonstrations, exceptional fundraising, announcements from Silicon Valley—with a more discreet AI considered essential. It highlights the solutions that ensure the functioning of models, adjust cloud resources, modulate computing power, protect sensitive data, and enable the industrialization of uses in organizations with tens of thousands of employees.