The Conference for Ethics and Diversity in Tech: MiXiT 2025

This year, things are evolving. My first conference experience was Devoxx France in 2023, and until now, I had never participated in a conference outside of Paris. However, traveling, meeting new people, discovering their passions, and sharing mine has always been something I wanted to pursue.

When the opportunity to speak at MiXiT arose, I promptly submitted several proposals. A few weeks later, I received an exciting email: I was selected to speak at the 2025 edition, delivering not one but two talks. I was thrilled to attend this conference and, for the first time, to connect with a new community.

Thank you, MiXiT, and everyone for this amazing conference! 🫶

MiXiT 2025 ​

I must confess that I didn't read or prepare anything for this conference until each morning. I chose to savor the moments without stressing, resulting in no real continuity in everything I watched—it was all based on intuition.

Here is the list of the talks I attended:

• Tuesday, April 29, 2025

  • Robustesse : une nouvelle culture Tech ? by Olivier Hamant
  • LLMs, toutes ces questions que vous n'avez jamais osé poser à leur sujet by Guillaume Laforge
  • Stimuler l'Innovation de Votre Entreprise Grâce à une Plateforme Basée sur l’IA Générative by Philippe Laumay
  • Nos manières de compter, périls économiques, démocratiques et écologiques. by Valérie Charolles
  • Quand le Terminal dévore la UI : TUI pour tout le monde ! by Thierry Chantier
  • Rendre transparents les changements des CGUs avec Open Terms Archive by Matti Schneider and Clément Biron
  • En JavaScript, il y a un paquet pour tout... et souvent pour rien. by Estéban Soubiran
  • Design : sabotage, hacking & politique. by Geoffrey Dorne

• Wednesday, April 30, 2025

  • Faut-il changer d'ère numérique pour préserver la démocratie ? by David Chavalarias
  • La réactivité et les signaux : démystifions la magie du frontend by Estéban Soubiran
  • Mapping the critical infrastructure sustaining our understanding of the Earth by Codrina Maria Illie
  • L’aventure d’une requête HTTP — ou le chemin de la vie des devs by Pascal Martin
  • Les super-pouvoirs méconnus de Docker Desktop by Guillaume Lours and Philippe Charrière

There were truly fascinating topics at the conference, and honestly, some of them blew my mind.

Attending a conference is also about networking, and with the speakers' dinner on Monday night and the cocktail party on Tuesday night, I had the chance to converse with many people about a wide range of topics—exactly what I love doing.

Talk Highlights ​

Some talks particularly grabbed my attention or resonated with me. Here are some highlights:

1. Stimuler l'Innovation de Votre Entreprise Grâce à une Plateforme Basée sur l’IA Générative by Philippe Laumay

   Integrating AI into your company is now absolutely essential. It's adapt or perish. During his 45-minute talk, Philippe Laumay outlined how his R&D department established a laboratory to allow every employee to experiment with generative AI. The aims were to educate the company about this inevitable technology and to enable them to uncover its potential for integrating it into workflows. It was genuinely impressive, showcasing years of work with numbers to support the effectiveness of this approach. If you plan on integrating AI into your business, this talk is a must-watch.

   

2. Rendre transparents les changements des CGUs avec Open Terms Archive by Matti Schneider and Clément Biron

   We've all received emails notifying us of changed terms of service. But who reads them? How do we verify actual changes? This talk covered an open-source project called Open Terms Archive, aimed at making big tech companies' terms of service transparent by publicly recording every version for democratic oversight. They showcased changes from Meta's latest terms, especially regarding free speech, and I was genuinely taken aback by their findings.

   

3. L’aventure d’une requête HTTP — ou le chemin de la vie des devs by Pascal Martin

   During this time slot, I was uncertain about which talk to attend. On a whim, I chose this one, not knowing the speaker and having briefly glanced at the abstract. It turned out to be an excellent choice. Pascal Martin opened with a question: "What happens when you press enter in your browser?" This led to a riveting 45-minute explanation of the intricacies of web development. It was enlightening, and I plan to share the video with anyone who thinks the web is merely HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

   

I highly recommend watching these talks. Enjoy!

Talking About Alien Signals in a Podcast ​

This year, MiXiT launched a podcast to interview speakers about their talks. From now until the 2026 edition, they'll release a new 30-minute episode every three weeks. It's a clever strategy to keep the community engaged and to continue learning from the conference. The podcast is called MiXiT On Air, and I highly recommend subscribing.

I had the honor of participating, discussing Alien Signals. It was a new yet wonderful experience; time flew by as I delved into a subject I love.

Initially, I was set to discuss Ecosystem Performance, but after the talk on reactivity and signals in the frontend, they asked me to cover that instead. I was delighted to do so.

My Talks ​

I was chosen to present two talks:

1. La réactivité et les signaux : démystifions la magie du frontend (French, "The Reactivity and Signals: Demystifying the Magic of Frontend" in English)

   This is my flagship talk, one that I've spent weeks preparing. Luckily, it was already prepared as I presented it recently. The aim was simple: explore and thoroughly understand the Alien Signals library through real code explanations. This talk is tailored for those seeking in-depth knowledge of JavaScript reactivity. The room was packed, which always amazes me given the technical depth of the subject.

2. En JavaScript, il y a un paquet pour tout... et souvent pour rien. (French, "In JavaScript, there is a package for everything... and often for nothing" in English)

   This talk focuses on Ecosystem Performance, an initiative to clean, speed up, and improve the JavaScript ecosystem, especially packages. I presented the project and tools to help anyone understand their node_modules and make enhancements. Preparing and delivering this 15-minute talk was a blast, and feedback indicates that attendees gained new insights.

Let's Continue ​

I love this lifestyle—traveling across France, meeting people, discovering their passions, and sharing mine. So, I've decided to submit proposals to six more conferences in 2025. It seems like a lot, but it energizes me and enriches my perspective. Every return from a conference fills my mind with new ideas, although there's rarely enough time to explore them all. 🫠

You might think that submitting my proposals will leave me with even less time due to preparation needs. However, I did it strategically. I proposed talks already prepared; when you spend months perfecting them, you want to present them more than once!

The first time is always the hardest, but everything becomes smoother afterward.

With this newfound time, perhaps I could resume streaming on Twitch (in French). Would you tune in? 🫣