Technical Talks

Christophe Blefari

Co-Founder | Nao

Claire Gouze

Co-Founder & CEO | Nao

AI Launchpad 2025: Nao

Nao is an AI code editor specifically designed for data teams. While analytics engineering has emerged as a crucial discipline, professionals still struggle with fragmented workflows across multiple tools—IDEs built for software engineers, CLIs, data warehouse UIs, documentation sites, and BI platforms. This constant context switching hampers productivity. Nao streamlines this experience, creating a unified environment tailored to the unique needs of data professionals working on modeling tasks.

Co-Founder

Christophe Blefari

Nao

Christophe Blefari is Co-founder of nao Labs, developing an AI code editor specifically designed for data teams. An experienced data and software engineer, he shares industry insights through his popular blog at blef.fr, reaching over 14,000 followers. As a lecturer at ENSAI and co-founder of Forward Data Conference, Christophe actively contributes to the data community. With an engineering degree from TELECOM Nancy, he has worked with companies like Qonto and BlaBlaCar, and now invests in startups through blef.ventures.

Co-Founder & CEO

Claire Gouze

Nao

Claire Gouze is the Co-founder & CEO of nao Labs, creating an AI code editor to reinvent the analytics engineering experience. With a background at BCG as a Data Scientist and as Head of Data at Sunday. In her transition from data scientist turned entrepreneur, Claire brings technical expertise and business acumen to data challenges. She is an ESSEC Business School graduate with a focus on Strategic Business Analytics, she's passionate about empowering non-technical people in data roles. Claire advocates for women in tech through mentorship and community involvement, and was recently selected for STATION F's Female Founders Fellowship.