Summary
Benoit Village is a founder and data strategy practitioner with 10 years’ experience helping French public and private organizations build and valorize territorial data platforms. He founded Cohecitiz in 2021 to drive cultural and organisational change from within, enabling data teams to become strategic partners for public policy actors. His background spans hands-on BI and integration work through consulting and product projects (ETL, reporting, Docker/Java stacks) and teaching master’s students about big data and smart territories. Benoit advocates for usage-driven data practices, democratic territorial data, university-civil service AI collaborations, and platform reversibility—signals of a pragmatic, civic-minded technologist. Based in Paris, he also co-founded Kalixys and contributes to communities supporting impact-driven entrepreneurship.
10 years of coding experience
DUT, Informatique et gestion, DUT, Informatique et gestion at IUT de Montpellier
Ingénieur, Informatique, Ingénieur, Informatique at Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lyon 1
English, German