Florian Pautot

Lead Blockchain Developer Air France – KLM

Florian is the Lead Blockchain Developer of the AFKL Blockchain Program. He has been working around innovations for several years. First as one of the finalists of the first hackathon organized by Air France, focusing on improving the travel experience in case of irregularity. As a follow up he became one of the first intrapreneurs at Air France to continue working on his project with his team. Passionate about new technologies and innovations, he discovered Blockchain and Bitcoin around 2011. He really started digging into it mid-2017. After several month of self-training and hours of research, he became Air France-KLM Blockchain Lead Developer in May 2018. His mission is to study, benchmmark, and analyze Blockchain protocols to support the Air France-KLM projects, and to create a Blockchain competence center to make the group a leader in the Blockchain space. He is involved in all aspects of the Blockchain: IT integration, Monitoring, Supervision, Delivery, Development, etc.