Romain Huet
23 Nov 2025etn. - LIVE from Slush
Live from Slush: OpenAI's Romain Huet on agentic coding & Europe's builder wave
Live from Slush in Helsinki, the show opens with Romain Huet, OpenAI's Head of Developer Experience, ahead of his Builder stage talk. He explains how his team supports the 4M+ developers building on OpenAI's platform across the API, Codex and the emerging ChatGPT apps ecosystem, and why taste and point of view matter now that anyone can build fast. He also credits French engineering talent, new capital and second-generation founders from unicorns for the momentum in Paris and across European tech.
OpenAI's Laura on backing startups and VCs across EMEA
Laura, who partners with VC funds, accelerators and startups across EMEA from OpenAI's London office, joins for her seventh Slush. She describes the startup team's expansion across London, Munich and Paris, the AI accelerator OpenAI runs with Endeavor in Greece, and argues Europe's STEM graduate base makes this a genuine moment for founders. Romain rejoins to share advice for young builders and preview what's next: new agentic coding models on top of GPT-5.1 and developers shipping apps inside ChatGPT via MCP.