About Paul Marcombes
Paul is Head of Data Platform at Optic 2000. He is also the founder of Unytics, through which he has supported data teams as a fractional Head of Data. His philosophy: simple tools for the many rather than advanced tools for the few, with a focus on serverless architectures and reusable platforms.
He previously led Nickel's Data function for 6 years, growing the team from 0 to 40 people and overseeing more than 100 developers, while supporting the company's growth from 300 to 900 employees and from 1 to 4.5 million customers.
Paul is a speaker at La Forward, the Forward Data Conference 2026 (November 16, 2026, Cité Universitaire, Paris).
Their talks
Forward Data Conference 2025
The Forward brought together 500+ Data & AI practitioners. This edition started from a reality the whole industry is living: AI is transforming what teams build, for whom, and how. The lines with software engineering, product and business have never been so thin.
Forward Data Conference 2024
The first edition of the Forward Data Conference brought together the Data & AI community in Paris around the foundations of data engineering, governance, and the first concrete uses of generative AI in production.
Hymaday - GenAI au coeur du Produit et du Business
A Hymaday organized in collaboration with Malt, featuring internal and external GenAI case studies from Mirakl, Pernod Ricard, Malt, Nickel and Hymaïa.