Culture & Community
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Are tech speakers still relevant in the AI era?
Public orators have played a major role in spreading knowledge and driving progress since the early days of oratory in Ancient Greece. I’ve always been fascinated by speakers’ unique ability to catch an entire audience’s attention and how they turn messages into valuable takeaways that stick with you long after their speech is done. If…
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AdTech, culture, diversity, and AI: Notes from our latest Women In Tech Meetup
On a weeknight in Bucharest, Criteo opened the doors of its new tech hub for a Women in Tech meetup under a simple but clear theme: Driving Change in Tech. The agenda moved from a deep‑dive keynote on ad tech at scale to a panel about culture, diversity, and AI, and finally, networking. The result…
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Driving Change: Women in Tech Perspectives
Our team at Criteo Toronto partnered with the WomenTech Network Toronto chapter to curate an event titled “Driving Change in Tech” with a focus on “People, Technology, and Leadership”. The event had a technical keynote followed by a panel discussion, both of which were quite engaging and full of insight! Here’s a brief recap: The…
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Creating a Culture of Learning Inside Your Company
I’ve been working in tech for more than fifteen years now, and when I first started building software, books were one of my main ways to learn. I would carry them everywhere, reading on commutes, during lunch breaks, and late at night. That’s why, for me, everything started with a book. Titles like The Pragmatic…
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🏆R&D Community Awards 2025
Our annual ceremony, where we celebrate achievements together. For the third consecutive year, we gathered to celebrate our achievements within the R&D community and recognize the contributions of all our R&D Ambassadors. At Criteo, expressing gratitude to our teammates is a consistent practice throughout the entire company. In our R&D department, our expert community embraces…
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Why And How We Organize Coding Dojos
If you are looking for a way to both have fun and improve your coding skills (or those of your team), I have some good news: we have open-sourced a repo that contains material to organize coding dojos! 🎉 👇 GitHub – criteo/coding-dojo: Some content to organize some coding dojos Some content to organize some…
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Advent of Code 2024 — Sharing our experiences
At Criteo, we were founded on technology, and technology is our passion. We enjoy challenges, so we were ready to participate in Advent of Code once again this year. Additionally, as we did in 2023, we decided to support the initiative by becoming a sponsor. Community building is at the core of our mission, so…
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R&D Community Awards 2024
Another year has passed, and we came together to celebrate our accomplishments and honor the Criteo R&D Ambassadors who contributed to our success. At Criteo R&D, we are a welcoming community of experts connected by our passion for tech. Sharing knowledge helps us build bigger and better together, which is the primary motivation for the R&D…
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Empowering Voices: The Women Do Tech Too Conference
On October 2, the WomenDoTechToo initiative at Criteo reached a significant milestone. After successfully hosting local meetups across various locations for several years, we felt it was time to take a bold step forward by organizing a half-day conference at our headquarters in Paris. In this article, we invite you to enjoy and explore the…
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Empowering Women in Tech: Our Presence at European Women in Technology 2024
Last June, we were honored to once again participate in the European Women in Tech conference held in Amsterdam. This renowned event brought together thousands of developers and engineers from around the globe with a shared mission: to champion and empower women in the technology industry. The focal point of the 2024 edition was “Human…