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# Stephen Batifol
Leads developer growth at Black Forest Labs, helping builders scale open AI models.

## About

Stephen Batifol leads developer and creative growth at Black Forest Labs, the team behind the FLUX image models. He focuses on helping developers build with these tools, taking them from open checkpoints straight to production. His work supports the shift toward real-time generation and world models for interactive applications and robotics.

Before his current role, Stephen worked as the first EMEA Developer Advocate at Milvus and built Wolt's machine learning platform as an MLOps engineer. He frequently speaks about the systems behind real AI deployment, breaking down what a localized open model stack actually looks like for builders in production.



## Past Sessions

### World Congress 2026 Europe · July 8, 2026
Berlin, Germany
- [Localized Open Models in Production: What Builders Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100270-localized-open-models-in-production-what-builders-need-to-know) · 30 min · 🎥 Watch recording



## Videos

- [Localized Open Models in Production: What Builders Need to Know](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100270-localized-open-models-in-production-what-builders-need-to-know) · Ankit Patel, Pierre-Louis Cedoz, Jamie Madden, Stephen Batifol


## Links

- [X](https://x.com/stephen_btl)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-batifol/)
- [Blog](https://bfl.ai/blog)