We celebrated everything we achieved during the year and recognized the Criteo R&D Ambassadors involved.
The R&D Community is a key pillar for Criteo and represents our culture embracing Criteo’s values. To recognize that, we have celebrated our first Community Awards, where we reviewed everything we have achieved this year and witnessed the finalists and winners for 2023 🎉
As we bid farewell to another remarkable year within our vibrant R&D community, it’s only fitting to come together to celebrate the collective achievements, innovations, and unwavering passion that define us. Last December marked a pivotal moment as we hosted the R&D Community Awards ceremony, a grand occasion dedicated to acknowledging the exceptional contributions that have propelled us forward.
With a spirit of camaraderie and a sense of shared accomplishment, the ceremony aimed to recognize individual brilliance and honor the collaborative spirit that defines our community. From groundbreaking research to inspiring talks and open-source projects, the R&D Community Awards served as a platform to applaud the diverse talents and pursuits that make our community thrive.
2023 at a glance
Before we delve into the heart of the R&D Community Awards ceremony, let’s take a moment to reflect on the sheer magnitude of our collective accomplishments over the past year. These numbers not only tell a story of growth but also stand as a testament to the dedication and enthusiasm of our vibrant community.
Throughout the year, our community actively participated in a multitude of conferences and meetups. We’re proud to share that we had more than twenty speakers sharing their insights and knowledge at various events, solidifying our presence on the global stage.
Facilitating in-person connections, we hosted fifteen remarkable meetups and supported (attending/sponsoring) more than ten conferences throughout the year. These gatherings provided opportunities for networking, knowledge exchange, and fostering a sense of community that goes beyond digital interactions.
The pursuit of knowledge is at the core of our community, and this is reflected in the more than twenty-five papers we presented at different conferences. These papers, authored by our talented members, explored cutting-edge ideas, challenged conventions, and contributed to the ongoing dialogue in their respective fields.
Last but not least, our Medium publication has become a hub for sharing insights, research findings, and thought leadership within the community. In the past year, we published an impressive fifty articles on diverse topics, showcasing the depth and breadth of expertise within our ranks. The impact of our community extends beyond our immediate circles, as evidenced by the growing audience on our Medium publication.
As we celebrate the achievements of our community in the R&D Community Awards ceremony, let these numbers serve as a reminder of the collective strength and impact we’ve achieved together. Each statistic represents a story, an idea, and a contribution that has shaped the narrative of our community over the past year.
Awards Ceremony
The awards were presented in five categories: Best Speaker of the Year, Best Article of the Year, Best Paper of the Year, Best Community Builder of the Year, and Best Open Source Project of the Year. The tech leads voted for the winners among finalists, picked by Kini, our DevRel.
Best Speaker of the Year
The three finalists were selected considering their impact, internally and externally, because of the number of talks they had delivered, the conferences’ relevance, and their involvement in activities as R&D ambassadors.
- Henry presented at three big conferences this year: DevoxxUK, DevoxxBE, and DevoxxMA. He was also accepted for some other events. He is already applying for talks for 2024.
- Pooneh presented in several places this year (plus DevoxxBE last year) and was invited to RivieraDev (France) as a keynoter. She’s very involved in Women in Tech events/conferences, such as European Women In Tech 2023, where she was also a speaker.
- Sylvain is one of our most active speakers, has been accepted in conferences this year (VoxxedDays Luxemburgo, a few DevFest, etc.), and will keep applying for talks in 2024.
Best Article of the Year
The three finalists were selected by the number of reads they had. The three articles here are the ones that had the most significant impact this year, being boosted even for the Medium platform among its members.
How we compute data lineage at Criteo
Data lineage is the process of understanding how data flows from sources to consumption. Read how we have built this…
medium.com
Building better APIs with chatGPT
ChatGPT is here and it’s quite good at understanding API. So what does it mean for API developers?
medium.com
How we reduced our Prometheus infrastructure footprint by a third
Prometheus sharding crash course
medium.com
Best Paper of the Year
Our commitment to staying at the forefront of industry trends and innovations was evident as we presented many papers. Our research community is always eager to learn, share, and engage with the broader research and development landscape. These three papers were selected by Liva, our VP of Research, among all our outstanding contributions.
- Unifying GANs and Score-Based Diffusion as Generative Particle Models (Jean-Yves Franceschi, Mike Gartrell, Ludovic Dos Santos, Thibaut Issenhuth, Emmanuel de Bézenac, Mickaël Chen, Alain Rakotomamonjy), to appear at NeurIPS 2023.
- Exponential Smoothing for Off-Policy Learning (Imad Aouali, Victor-Emmanuel Brunel, David Rohde, Anna Korba), to appear at ICML 2023.
- Learning from Multiple Sources for Data-to-Text and Text-to-Data (Song Duong, Alberto Lumbreras, Mike Gartrell, Patrick Gallinari), to appear at AISTATS 2023.
Best Community Builder of the Year
Community building is key to success in our outreach activities. The finalists for this category were selected based on their implication, proactivity, energy, and impact. Each is involved in internal and external communities at different levels.
- Khanh is involved with our speakers’ community, both internally and externally. He’s constantly communicating about CFPs, helping speakers with their proposals, creating opportunities with external communities (such as ModernDataStack or ParisJUG), etc.
- Alejandra is the person behind the WomenDoTechToo initiative. Thanks to that, we have organized several meetups in different locations where we provide a safe space for our Woman at Tech in Criteo to share their expertise and technical knowledge.
- Sylvain joined Criteo recently, but he’s already making a significant impact in Grenoble. He is helping to restart Criteo Meetups there, contacting possible guest speakers, promoting the events among the tech community there, etc.
Best Open Source Project of the Year
Open Source is at the code of Criteo. We have built our products using many technologies supported by communities and open-source initiatives. It’s time to provide value and make some noise about our projects.
It is time to show more love to command-line tools
Introducing Command Launcher: a small footprint, rich feature CLI management tool for both enterprise and individual…
medium.com
Introducing OpenAPI Comparator: an open-source tool to detect breaking changes in your API
Let’s dive into Criteo’s built-in technology that protects its API from breaking changes.
medium.com
Do you probe your network?
5 years ago, we did not. Join us to discover our journey to probe our network and have useful metrics.
medium.com
And the winner is…
- Speaker of the Year: Pooneh Mokariasl.
- Article of the Year: How we reduced our Prometheus infrastructure footprint by a third.
- Community Builder of the Year: Alejandra Paredes.
- Paper of the Year: Unifying GANs and Score-Based Diffusion as Generative Particle Models.
- Open Source Project of the Year: OpenAPI Comparator.
The R&D Community Awards ceremony was a great success, and we are proud of all the finalists and winners. The ceremony was a testament to our community’s hard work and dedication, and we hope that this recognition will inspire everyone to continue their pursuit of innovation.
Congratulations to all the winners and finalists! 🏆
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