French Proxmox Community Day
France’s 100% Proxmox day.
A half-day of talks dedicated to Proxmox VE, Proxmox Backup Server and the wider ecosystem, with 7 speakers — at the CNIT in Paris, as part of FOST. A first for France: a unique event, organized by FactorFX, Proxmox Gold Partner, and backed by Proxmox itself, the software's publisher.
A day to evaluate, deploy and grow with Proxmox
The French Proxmox Community Day brings together the people who deploy, run and grow Proxmox every day: IT teams, CIOs, hosting providers, integrators, and contributors from the open source community.
Real-world experience
Real production case studies of Proxmox VE clusters — migration, high availability and storage.
Extended ecosystem
PBS, PMG, Ceph, SDN networking, backup and security: everything that revolves around the hypervisor.
Backed by a Gold Partner
Organized by FactorFX, Proxmox Gold Partner, with hands-on expertise deploying and running these infrastructures every day.
Part of FOST
The French Proxmox Community Day takes place within Future of Software Technologies, at the CNIT — one badge, two worlds.
Schedule
The schedule is built in 25-minute slots (20 minutes of talk + 5 minutes of Q&A); some sessions may be merged into longer slots. Speakers will be announced as they're confirmed. All talks are given in English.
| Time | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Breakfast | |
| 09:15 – 09:40 | Proxmox overview 2026-27 Proxmox VE |
Arthur Bied-Charreton Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH ● Remote |
| 09:45 – 10:10 | From VMware to Proxmox, what a trip! Migration & virtualization |
François-Xavier Guidet FactorFX |
| 10:15 – 10:40 | From 100 to 10,000 VMs: 15 Years of Proxmox in Production at Scale Training & technical contribution |
Alexandre Derumier Cyllene |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | ☕ Coffee break, networking & partners expo | |
| 11:00 – 11:25 | Bekane: the Open Source VDI for Proxmox VDI use case |
Gilles Dubois FactorFX |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Technical REX Proxmox Technical feedback |
Laurent Guerby Solulibre |
| 12:00 – 12:25 | 2CRSI natively integrates Proxmox into its server lineup Hardware & vendor integration |
Hayate El Idrissi 2CRSI |
| 12:30 – 12:55 | Veeam & Proxmox Storage & backup vendor |
Speaker TBD Veeam |
| 13:00 | End of the Proxmox track | |
⚠️ Draft schedule — the 25-minute slots and breaks are fixed; speakers and titles will be updated as they are confirmed.
Arthur Bied-Charreton
A software engineer, Arthur Bied-Charreton works at Proxmox Server Solutions, the publisher of Proxmox VE. Passionate about low-level development and open source, he contributes daily to the evolution of the open virtualization platform that now powers countless enterprise infrastructures.
François-Xavier Guidet
A telecoms and networks engineer by training, François-Xavier cut his teeth in the US in the 2000s. Back in France, he ventured into open source by founding FactorFX, a hybrid integrator/publisher of open source solutions. Describing himself as an “open source enthusiast,” he's involved in numerous community projects. With his team, he works daily on OCS Inventory and Bekane, a solution built around Proxmox, and helps companies integrate BlueMind and their Proxmox virtualization infrastructures.
Alexandre Derumier
Official Proxmox trainer in France and long-time core contributor (SDN, storage, clustering). Reprising his talk “From 100 to 10,000 VMs: 15 Years of Proxmox in Production at Scale,” previously given at the Dutch Proxmox Day.
Gilles Dubois
Head of Development at FactorFX, Gilles Dubois has contributed to the OCS Inventory project since 2015 and is one of its lead developers. A technology enthusiast, he loves testing and exploring new tools, guided by a simple conviction: “Open Source Rocks!” That curiosity recently led him to build the Proxmox integration for Plakar, as well as Bekane, the VDI solution built on Proxmox.
Laurent Guerby
A systems and network engineer at IMT Mines Albi, a public engineering school within the IMT Institut Mines-Télécom group, Laurent Guerby also serves as the school's part-time CISO. In recent years, Proxmox VE with Ceph and Proxmox Backup Server have been deployed there to replace proprietary solutions. He is also a member of the Proxmox and ZFS working groups, a free-software developer, and a former vice-president of the APRIL association.
Hayate El Idrissi
Representing 2CRSI to present how the company natively integrates Proxmox into its server lineup.
Speaker TBD
Why Veeam joined the Proxmox ecosystem — speaker to be confirmed on Veeam's side.
Practical info
Join the cluster on December 3.
Limited seats — your ticket gives access to the French Proxmox Community Day, at the CNIT in Paris. The FactorFX team, Proxmox Gold Partner, will be on site all day.