---
title: "Maxime Rivest"
category: "people"
role: "Core Contributor"
company: "DSPy"
linkedin: "https://linkedin.com/in/maximerivest"
twitter: "https://x.com/MaximeRivest"
website: "https://maximerivest.com"
blog: "https://maximerivest.com"
sourceLabels: ["Official speaker roster", "Official conference schedule"]
---
# Maxime Rivest

## Profile
Core Contributor at [[dspy|DSPy]].

- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/maximerivest)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/MaximeRivest)
- [Website](https://maximerivest.com)
- [Blog](https://maximerivest.com)

## Biography
Maxime builds tools and create content that make LLMs more accessible and powerful for everyone. He is a core contributor to [[dspy|DSPy]] and has built numerous open-source Python libraries to advance the ecosystem, including attachments, functai, ovllm, dspy-lm-auth, dspy-template-adapter, and mcp2py. Previously, he worked at Elsevier, building AI infrastructure and compound AI programs to cost effectively run on 100 million records weekly.

## Conference Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-maxime-rivest-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-separating-the-task-from-the-model]] — The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Separating the Task from the Model (2026-07-01, 9:40am-10:00am)

## Evidence Graph
This evidence graph summarizes how this person appears across the conference source graph: scheduled sessions, linked videos, transcripts, and slide-derived evidence.

### Linked Sessions
- [[2026-07-01-maxime-rivest-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-separating-the-task-from-the-model|The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Separating the Task from the Model]]

### Media Signals
- `youtube-I2cbIws9j10` — 91,792 transcript words; 7 slide-derived text signals
- Transcript signals for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: code, model, back, system, well, first, today, even.
- Slide-derived themes for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: context, window, selects, response, facts, retry, coerce, rollback.
- Evidence links for `youtube-I2cbIws9j10`: [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-transcript]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-slides]], [[youtube-I2cbIws9j10-dense-slides]]

## Livestream Appearances
- [[2026-07-01-maxime-rivest-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-separating-the-task-from-the-model|The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Separating the Task from the Model]] — [watch at 00:53:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cbIws9j10&t=3216s) in WF26: Harness Engineering & Startup Battlefield (Day 3).