Our company France Labs was established in 2011. Its founders come from SAP Research in Sophia-Antipolis, and they love open source and innovation. France Labs is the only startup that was accepted at the two incubators of Sophia Antipolis. We aim at creating the best enterprise search solution with Datafari, as well as being the recognised leader in France on Apache Lucene/Solr and Elasticsearch expertise.

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  • Cédric Ulmer President – cofounder Cedric manages the company, leads the strategy, the marking and customer experience. He is a member of The Search Network, an international network of search experts. He has a deep knowledge on innovation and industrial research.

    Cedric spent ten years at SAP Research. He holds a "French engineer degree" from the Grande Ecole Telecom SudParis. Learn more about him on his Linkedin profile.     Linkedin
  • Olivier Tavard Vice President - Cofounder Olivier is an expert in search, specialised in Apache Lucene/Solr, and Datafari.

    He holds an IT expert degree from SupInfo Paris, and a certificate in management and markerting in IT from the Dominican University in California. Learn more about him on his Linkedin profile.



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  • Guylaine Bassette Director Product Development Guylaine is responsible for the technological stack of Datafari. She is a search expert, specialised in Datafari and ManifoldCF.

    Shes has been working as a software developer for Société Générale and ProBTP. She holds a MsC from the ESME SUDRIA.




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  • Émeric Bernet-Rollande Datafari Technical Expert Emeric is a technical expert on Datafari Enterprise Search, with a focus on Java. He also has expertise on customers' Datafari installations and configurations, adaptaed to their needs

    He joined France Labs after spending six years at Sopra Steria as an R&D Engineer. He has a Mastère "Manager en Ingéniérie Numérique" from the Institut de l'Internet et du Multimédia.     Linkedin

Our ecosystem

Telecom Valley

Giving life to the local digital ecosystem

Telecom Valley is an association focused on the riviera, in the IT domain. It gathers companies, labs and public services around topical groups, managed by volunteers. France Labs takes care of the Open Source groupe, that regularly organises lunches, IT workshops and use cases presentations, and since 2015 we take care of SophiaConf, the largest IT conference on the riviera.

French Tech Côte d'Azur

To scale up the local startups

French Tech Côte d’Azur is a concept, supported by enterpreneurs and by all the associations that promote the creation and growth of IT startupse. France Labs is part of this movement.