# François Forest

> François Forest is the founder and CEO of Feedier, a customer intelligence software company. His background spans WordPress product development and support, software engineering in Canada, and engineering and business studies at ITEEM. His work focuses on helping organisations turn scattered customer feedback into practical decisions.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Feedier
- **Organizations:** Feedier, Alkaweb, Manana Juntos
- **Education:** Engineering and business programme; LinkedIn describes master-level study, ITEEM, a partnership between Centrale Lille and SKEMA Business School
- **Known for:** Founded and leads Feedier., Helped build WordPress themes and plugins; his 2019 WordCamp biography reports more than 15,000 installs across those products., Built Feedier into a company backed by LocalGlobe and Kima Ventures, as identified on its official about page.

## Career timeline

- **2013–2014** — Volunteered with Manana Juntos on a school facilities project in Arequipa, Peru; his LinkedIn profile describes fundraising and a three-week construction effort.
- **2014–2019** — Listed studies at ITEEM combining engineering and business.
- **2015** — LinkedIn lists the beginning of his lead developer role at Alkaweb in June.
- **2018** — Feedier’s early gamified survey work began, according to the company’s founder Q&A.
- **2019** — Listed as a WordCamp Dhaka speaker on building products through a feedback culture; his biography describes prior software engineering work in Canada.
- **2020** — Launched the customer intelligence platform described in Feedier’s current company history; Forest identifies Heppner as the formative customer.
- **2023** — Feedier’s company history records its first venture capital round.
- **2025** — Appeared on Marine Deck’s Le Client podcast and Baptiste Hingre’s Transformation Heroes; Feedier unveiled version 4.0 in December.
- **2026** — Listed as a speaker alongside Marine Deck for the March 25 All4Customer session on customer experience and financial outcomes, and at Google Cloud’s October 1 Startup Day France.

## Achievements

- Founded and leads Feedier.
- Helped build WordPress themes and plugins; his 2019 WordCamp biography reports more than 15,000 installs across those products.
- Built Feedier into a company backed by LocalGlobe and Kima Ventures, as identified on its official about page.
- Public speaker at WordCamp Dhaka 2019 and listed speaker at Google Cloud Startup Day France 2026.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Returned to Le Client to discuss connecting customer intelligence to AI assistants through MCP.
- **2026-10** — Google Cloud listed Forest as a speaker for Startup Day France at STATION F on October 1; colleague Alexis Riot described their joint presentation on production AI at Feedier.
- **2026-03** — The All4Customer programme listed a March 25 session with Forest and Marine Deck on translating customer insights into financial arguments.
- **2026-01** — AI Experience listed Forest as an episode guest discussing AI, customer feedback and organisational decision-making.
- **2025-12** — Feedier unveiled version 4.0 on December 11, with an AI analyst and a rollout planned from Q1 2026.

## Links

- Website: https://www.feedier.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fran%C3%A7ois-forest-47046412a/

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Last updated: 2026-10-16