Florent Daudens
CEO & Co-Founder at Université de Montréal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorent Daudens is a media and AI leader who combines 15+ years of newsroom transformation with hands-on product and community-building experience. As CEO and Co‑Founder of Mizal AI and former Press Lead at Hugging Face, he helps news organizations turn AI research into practical newsroom tools while advocating for ethical, open-source approaches. He has led AI strategy and training at major broadcasters and newspapers (CBC/Radio‑Canada, Le Devoir), launched audience-facing digital products, and built a global community of journalists working with AI. A regular speaker and university instructor, he translates complex AI advances into usable workflows and curricula for journalists and creators. Less obvious: he bridges editorial instincts and engineering teams, having worked directly with ML engineers to ship tools adopted by hundreds of journalists. Based in Montreal, he blends entrepreneurial drive with deep sector knowledge to shape how trusted information adapts to AI.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s degree, Communications, Bachelor’s degree, Communications at UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal
French, English, German, Japanese, chinois (mandarin)
Github Skills (30)
editors10
active9
monitor9
webscraping8
sc7
machine-learning7
visuals7
image-editor7
ai6
css6
llm5
npr5
image5
deploying5
javascript5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fdaudens/_maps
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 37 pushes in 11 months
giscartographie
fdaudens/tarbell-big-read-template
Jun 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:32 pushes in 5 months
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