Build, connect, and celebrate in Paris
From strategy to celebration, it all happens in Paris this October.
Join us in Paris on 8–9 October for EVOLVE // Upsun Partner Summit 2025—two energizing days of hands-on sessions, partner insights, and connection. Discover what’s next for your business, then toast your wins at the rooftop Partner Awards celebration at La Perruche.
08–09 October // Cloud Business Center // 10 bis Rue du 4 septembre, Paris
- Unlock real growth opportunities with expert-led sessions, practical takeaways, and product insights tailored to your needs.
- Build lasting connections with peers, partners, and our team in an energizing, collaborative space designed for open dialogue.
- Celebrate standout success at the Partner Program Awards—recognizing the impact of our partners driving innovation across the ecosystem.

What to expect at EVOLVE // Upsun Partner Summit Paris 2025
Deep-dive into partner-led sessions, explore real strategies to grow your business, and connect with peers shaping the future. Gain actionable insights, uncover new opportunities, and celebrate standout success at an unforgettable Paris rooftop event.
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Agenda 2025
EVOLVE Summit // Paris 2025 kicks off on 8 October. Arriving on 7 October? Join us at 19:00 for Happy Hour at the stunning Delaville.
Day 1
9:00–9:20 am // Setting the vision: why we’re relaunching as Upsun and how this helps you
Speaker: Frederic Plais, CEO
Platform.sh is now Upsun: same team, same bias towards partnerships with an enhanced product and a bigger vision.
9:20–9:45 am // Our DNA: why your partnerships are core to our business
Speaker: Gauthier Garnier, GM DACH and Channels
Celebrating the historic growth of our Partner Program and sharing the vision for the Upsun partner ecosystem, with key priorities and focus areas guiding us toward 2027.
9:45–10:10 am // Upsun: the cloud application platform humans and robots love
Speaker: Nigel Kersten, CPO
An overview of the Upsun product, covering the user experience across Fixed and Flex projects, and our future roadmap.
10:10–10:35 am // Coming soon - Customize Upsun with plugins!
Speakers: Guillaume Moigneu, Field CTO, Augustin Delaporte, VP, Product Management
Checkout a live demo of how to build a plugin app for the console.
11:00 am–11:25 am // Focusing Our Sales Engine: ICP, Commitments, and Competitive Advantage
Speakers: Josh Bradbury CRO, Chris Cairns, GM Western Europe
This session is dedicated to our sales strategy and how we can win together. Josh will outline our Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and the reorganization of our sales team to sharpen our focus. Chris will then detail our new commitment-based discounts, explaining how to leverage monthly and yearly spending commitments to offer competitive pricing and maximize benefits for our customers.
11:25–11:50 am // Built with you in mind: A New Agency Partner Program and Our “Better Together” Initiative
Speakers: Chantal Auguste-Lorquet VP Agency Partners, Gauthier Garnier, GM DACH and Channels
This session will focus on our valued agency partners. Chantal will present the new and improved partner program, highlighting the enhanced benefits. Gauthier will then introduce the “Better Together” initiative, a program designed to foster closer collaboration and create new opportunities for our partners.
11:50–12:15 am // Scaling your business with Upsun: platform features that drive growth and operational excellence
Speaker: Fabien Potencier, CTO
See how new key Upsun features can help you grow on the platform, streamline operations through intelligent automation, and gain actionable insights from comprehensive monitoring tools.
12:15–12:40 pm // Platform.sh becomes Upsun: what is on the horizon
Speakers: Tara Condon, SVP Marketing, Nigel Kersten, CPO
Highlighting key product pillars and new capabilities for partners and their clients.
12:40–2:00 pm // Lunch break
1:30-1:50 pm // Shopware Session: Breaking the Box: How Open Commerce Gives Agencies an Advantage with David Rosemeier, Director Integration Partnerships Shopware
2:00–4:30 pm // Tech track 🚀
- 2:00–2:20 pm // Upsun Fixed and Upsun Flex: what is what? A practical guide with Jonas Kröger and Sawssen Bardaoui
Upsun Flex introduces a more dynamic model without disrupting existing architecture or workflows. This session walks through the key differences, clarifies the operational mindset shift, and demonstrates why moving to Flex is simpler and more powerful than it may seem. - 2:20–2:40 pm // Containers unleashed: power, flexibility, and savings with Sophie Oliveira and Matthias Van Woensel
Discover how container-level resources unlock new possibilities for developers. From custom builds to custom-sized preview environments, and even pausing environments to optimize costs and carbon footprint. - 2:40–3:00 pm // Scaling unleashed: bigger, faster, smarter with Patrick Boest and Robert Hubinak
Learn how Upsun’s new scaling capabilities make performance effortless. With autoscaling and larger containers, handling bigger workloads has never been easier or more dynamic. - 3:00–3:25 pm // Coffee break
- 3:25–3:45 pm // Pricing unleashed: mastering Upsun sizing without the guesswork with Julien Khamis
No more “it depends.” Learn how to use Upsun’s sizing recommendations and calculator to answer the classic project manager question “What will it cost?” with confidence and precision. - 3:45–4:05 pm // Performance and outages: a step-by-step troubleshooting guide with Andoni Auzmendi and Robert Hubinak
Walk through common performance and outage issues. Learn how to interpret log files to pinpoint root causes, prevent outages, improve performance, and lower costs. - 4:05–4:30 pm // Closing on a high note: AI in action with Upsun Flex with Guillaume Moigneu
See AI in action with Upsun Flex in this closing technical keynote.
2:00–4:30 pm // Business track 🎯
- 2:00–2:20 pm // Faster launch = faster cash-flow for agencies and their customers with Amy Williams, Upsun
- 2:20–2:40 pm // Fewer moving parts, happier devs, happier customers with Paul Gatoux, Upsun
- 2:40–3:00 pm // Clone, test, scale on demand with Chris Cairns, Upsun
- 3:00–3:25 pm // Coffee break
- 3:25–3:45 pm // Enterprise-grade guard-rails with Greg Qualls, Upsun
- 3:45-4:05 pm //RFP: From Headache to Victory – Rules and Tips to Boost Your Chances of Success! Ludovic Andrieux, Nysis CEO and Pierre Marchès, PRIMEConseil Consultant | Strategy & Contract Management, moderated by Patricia Poncy, Upsun
- 4:10 to 4:30pm // Make your partner happy with scalable PaaS architecture with David Rosemeier, Sandor Akszenovics, and Jonas Dambacher, Shopware: How Fleurop is utilizing Upsum in combination with Shopware as their scaling solution for high traffic peaks and complex business rules. A discussion about how basecom built and operates this solution in collaboration with the customer.
2:00–4:00 pm // Pimcore track ⚡️
- 2:00–2:20 pm // What is Pimcore PaaS, the value proposition with Andrew Melck and Gauthier Garnier (What Upsun brings to agency and customers) "What do you have to do without the PaaS" => Compliance, security
- 2:20–2:40 pm // Pimcore PaaS: Plans and tuning in details with Bernd Dultinger and Gauthier Garnier
- 2:40–3:00 pm // Learnings in terms sizing and architecture with Vincent Robert and David Bonachera
- 3:00–3:25 pm // Coffee break
- 3:25–3:45 pm // Key learnings / Pitfalls with Nebojsa Ilic (Tear down a project from Sales to Run)
- 3:45–4:05 pm // How to be successful with Pimcore PaaS with Bernd Dultinger
(Support Process, asking for help, understanding the RACI) - 4:05–4:30 pm // Q&A Session: How to improve experience and plans
Day 2
9:00 am–12:30 pm // Tech track: Flash talks 🚀
- 9:00–9:20 am // Mailoscope and Upsun: Perfectly aligned! with Pascal Cescon, Degetel
- 9:20–9:40 am // Migration to Upsun using functionalities developed by Activation team with Alexis Cassan, Epickone
- 9:40–10:00 am // Generative AI: Feedback on its use in digital projects with Julien Oger, Globalis
- 10:00–10:20 am // From Partnership to Success : Degetel & Activation Team Upsun in action with Pascal Cescon, Degetel, Duncan Naves & Mickael Gaillard, Upsun
- 10:20–10:50 am // Coffee break
- 10:50–11:10 am // Compose your own sovereign digital solution with Jean-Claude Pitcho, Ibexa
- 11:10–11:30 am // Decoupled infrastructure with 5 different applications, headless CMS and headless e-commerce setup with Julien Grossio, Vanksen
- 11:30–11:50 am // Deployment strategy with Inéris and how we moved from a multi-site factory to several sites on Platform.sh with Thierry Hung, Klee
- 11:50 am–12:10 pm // Blending AI and Human Creativity: Crafting a Distinct Visual Identity with Chris Richards, Gain
- 12:10 - 12:30 pm // Be safe with Fastly and Upsun with Jean Fenouil, Axess
9:00 am–12:30 pm // Business track: Flash talks 🎯
- 9:00–9:20 am // The impact of AI on the digital world with Marine Soroko, Adimeo
- 9:20–9:40 am // Launch Big, Run Lean: An ideal tech stack on PaaS with Shopware and Pimcore with Yann Karl, Strix
- 9:40–10:00 am // Eco-design : origin and use case with Xavier Dagassan, Yogarik
- 10:00–10:20 am // AI in Maps Tools help customer like Easypara with Romain Le Grouvellec, Maps System
- 10:20–10:50 am // Coffee break
- 10:50–11:10 am // The Digital Accessibility of Your Websites: Where Do We Stand? with Sylvain Moreau, Ecedi-Ctrla
- 11:10–11:30 am // Today's market barometer with Frédéric Hovart, Globalis
- 11:30 am–11:50 pm // Digital sustainability with Will Davies, Gain
- 11:50-12:10 pm //Moving Product Discovery from SaaS to PaaS with Romain Ruaud, Smile
- 12:10-12:30 pm // Why Digital Sovereignty matters more than ever and what you need to do with Sebastian Henne, Format H
2:00–4:00 pm // Sponsored: BNPP/IBM track ✨
- 2:00–2:30 pm // A Partnership to Address the Challenges of the Banking Sector with Paul-Henri Charrier, Upsun, Nicolas Jaure, Upsun, and Damien Lassalle, BNP Paribas: Presentation of the three-way collaboration between BNP Paribas, Upsun, and IBM Cloud. Discussion on the major industry challenges (security, compliance, agility) and how our alliance addresses them.
- 2:30–3:20 pm // What is “FS Cloud”? Challenges and Practical Application Challenges and Practical Application presented by Christophe SORRE, IBM Distinguished Engineer - CTO France for Financial Services: A deep dive into the certification. Explanation of the requirements, the benefits in terms of security and compliance, and the practical implementation for financial institutions.
- 3:20–3:35 pm // Coffee Break
- 3:35–3:45 pm // Customer Story: Echonet Project, from Orange to the dMZR with Paul-Henri Charrier, Upsun: An account of deploying a critical project in a secure banking environment, showcasing the power of the collaboration between BNP Paribas and Platform.sh.
- 3:45–4:00 pm // Strengthening our Partnership: Availability and Synergies with Paul-Henri Charrier, Upsun and El Mahdi Arafa, Data & IA Tech Sales Leader: Presentation of our offering’s integration into the IBM Marketplace and Grid. How our partners can leverage this collaboration starting today.
2:00-3:00 pm // Tech Track: Flash Talks 🚀
- 2:00-2:20 pm // Creating new services and routes to market: AI and PaaS enabling accelerated business with Bernd Dultinger, Pimcore
- 2:20-2:40 pm // Tech-Driven Creativity: Building Creative Momentum with AI with Philippe Just, Jung Von Matt Neckar
3:00–4:00 pm // Leadership team meetings
Take the opportunity to meet 1:1 and have a chat with our ExCo and Leadership team
Partner Program Award Winners 2025
FAQ
Quick answers to help you plan your experience
Who should attend?
The EVOLVE // Platform.sh Partner Summit is built for our partners—leaders, developers, and strategists—who want to sharpen their edge, explore what’s next, and connect with a forward-thinking community.
Where is the event taking place?
EVOLVE // Platform.sh Partner Summit Paris will be hosted at the Cloud Business Center, centrally located in the heart of the city. Expect a modern space designed for collaboration, insight, and energy.
What are the event dates and schedule?
Join us on 8–9 October 2025 for two full days of keynotes, business and technical sessions, networking, and partner-led talks.
Is there a cost to attend?
It’s 100% free for our partners who have a valid confirmed registration. Register early to secure your spot (space is limited!).
Is accommodation included?
Accommodation is not included, but we’re happy to suggest hotels within walking distance of the venue. Please reach out to your partner manager to learn more.
How should I plan my travel?
The Cloud Business Center is easily accessible by Metro and close to major train stations. We recommend arriving the day before the event to join the welcome reception and avoid any morning rush.
What if I have dietary restrictions?
We’ve got you covered. Whether you're vegetarian, gluten-free, or have specific allergies, let us know during registration and we’ll make sure your meals are safe and satisfying.
Will there be a social event?
The Platform.sh Partner Awards Ceremony and celebration will take place on the evening of 8 October at La Perruche, a rooftop venue with panoramic Paris views. Dress to impress and be ready to toast to community wins.
Can I bring a colleague?
Absolutely. Just be sure they are registered before registration closes. Please note spaces are limited per partner, please speak to your Partner Manager for more information.
What language will the sessions be in?
Most sessions will be in English as we aim to make the conference as accessible and inclusive as possible for all our partners across Europe.
Will sessions be recorded?
This event is built to be experienced in person. Select sessions may be captured, but we encourage live attendance for the full energy, interaction, and networking value.
Who do I contact with more questions?
Reach out to your partner manager if you have any questions or concerns.
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