What's happening: Week of 15 June 2026
VivaTech's 10th edition runs 17-20 June at Porte de Versailles. The continent's largest startup-meets-VC stage: 180,000+ attendees, 14,000+ startups, 3,600+ investors, 450 speakers across four tracks - AI & Productivity,…
Morning briefing at STATION F's Founder's Cafe on the practical impact of the EU Cyber Resilience Act for connected-device makers. Covers the scope of the regulation, the core technical requirements (SBOM, vulnerability handling, update obligations), the rollout timeline and the product trade-offs hardware/firmware teams now need to make. Aimed at IoT founders, security leads and product managers.
France's annual quantum technologies conference, hosted at STATION F's Open Platform. Brings together quantum researchers, deeptech founders, hardware engineers and investors covering quantum computing, communication, sensing and the European quantum industrial roadmap. A good day for anyone tracking deep-tech infrastructure or weighing how quantum intersects with AI, security and HPC.
VivaTech's 10th edition runs 17-20 June at Porte de Versailles. The continent's largest startup-meets-VC stage: 180,000+ attendees, 14,000+ startups, 3,600+ investors, 450 speakers across four tracks - AI & Productivity, Cybersecurity & Defence, Greentech & Energy, Deeptech. Nvidia's GTC Paris keynote anchors day one. Days 17-19 are pro-only; Saturday 20 opens to the public as the VivaTech Festival. The week to be in Paris if tech is your patch - pavilions, side events, investor matchmaking, hiring fairs, demos.
with Amine Saboni (MLOps Engineer, Pruna AI) · Yann Leger (Co-founder, Koyeb) · Soren Dreano (ML Engineer, Numind AI) + 1 more
AI developers' meetup hosted by Koyeb at STATION F, on the VivaTech wrap-day. Practitioner-grade talks on production AI inference: Amine Saboni (Pruna AI) on quantization mechanics, Yann Leger (Koyeb) on optimising inference for production, Soren Dreano (Numind AI) on benchmarking NuExtract 2.0 72B, and Samir Akarioh (Gatling) on load-testing LLM APIs. Right room for ML engineers, MLOps and infra folk working on AI in production.
Nicolas Dessaigne (Y Combinator)
YC comes to Paris for a one-day, in-person Startup School at STATION F. Founders of Datadog, Supabase, PostHog, AMI and others share the unvarnished stories behind their companies, alongside YC…
with Alexandra Andre (Director, La French Tech Grand Paris)
Two days in Paris on European digital sovereignty: sovereign cloud, trusted AI, cybersecurity, critical data, infrastructure. La French Tech Grand Paris has a booth (E14) and its director Alexandra Andre speaks on 30 June at 4pm on the panel 'SouvTech: which levers to make tomorrow's European champions emerge?' A solid stop for deeptech / cyber founders, public-sector buyers and investors leaning into sovereignty themes.