Stephen Batifol

Stephen Batifol is leading Developer & Creative Growth at Black Forest Labs, the company behind the FLUX image models used by millions of developers and integrated into Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft products, to what comes next: real-time generation and world models that understand and simulate the physical world for creative tools, interactive applications, and robotics. Stephen helps developers build with these models, from open checkpoints to production. Previously he was Milvus's first EMEA Developer Advocate and built Wolt's ML platform as its first MLOps engineer.