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Third edition of the Paris meetup dedicated to physical AI — robotics, embodied agents, simulation and the models that move things in the real world. Short talks from builders working on hardware-in-the-loop systems, followed by demos and open networking at La Cristallerie. The series has grown fast and this edition is already on a waitlist, so register early. Relevant to robotics and ML engineers, deeptech founders and investors tracking the space.

The unofficial closing party for dotAI, hosted by Paris agent lab H Company at Albert School in the 10th. An evening for the conference crowd to keep talking once the main stage goes dark — researchers, agent builders, founders and the people who spent the day in the dotAI hall. Expect informal demos and a lot of cross-pollination rather than a formal programme. Free, and one of the better-connected AI rooms in Paris that week; over 200 guests already registered.

dotConferences brings its single-track, theatre-staged format to AI, filling the Folies Bergère with around 1,500 engineers for a day of talks aimed squarely at people building with models rather than reading about them. The dot series has a long record of booking speakers before they are obvious choices, and the staging — one stage, no breakout tracks, no exhibition hall to escape to — makes for an unusually attentive room. Pairs with dotJS the following day at the same venue, and tickets are often sold as a two-day combination.

The Paris chapter of AFUP returns from the summer break at Datadog in the 9th. Two topics: what code review becomes when part of the work is written or checked by a model, and building a coding agent in PHP — how it fits an existing codebase and where it falls short. Aimed at PHP developers and tech leads who want honest field reports rather than polished demos. Free, held in French, with time to talk after the talks.

A morning session in Cap Digital's Paris offices on conversational AI and the information ecosystem — how assistants reshape what audiences read, how synthetic content moves through media supply chains, and what detection and provenance tooling can realistically do. Cap Digital convenes researchers, media companies and startups from its 900-member cluster, and the Cap & Coffee format keeps the room small enough for genuine discussion. Free, in French, and one of the better-run regular fixtures in the Paris innovation calendar.

Europe's largest prospecting event turns STATION F's Open Platform into a competitive cold-calling arena for a day: 400 teams, more than 1,000 participants, and calls scored live on quality, qualification and meetings booked. Around the competition sit keynotes from international sales operators, vendor demos of the outbound tooling stack, and an evening afterparty. Unapologetically about sales craft rather than strategy — if your job involves building pipeline, few days in the calendar are this concentrated. Capacity is nearly gone, with roughly 142 places left of 1,000.

Europe's largest JavaScript conference returns to the Folies Bergère the day after dotAI, keeping the same single-track theatre format that has made the dot series distinctive. Around 1,500 developers spend the day on language direction, runtimes, framework architecture and the parts of the front-end stack that are quietly being rewritten. Speakers are drawn from the standards bodies, framework core teams and companies operating JavaScript at scale. Combination tickets with dotAI make the pair a strong two-day block for engineering teams travelling in.

An evening on agentic AI hosted at École 42 with Google, aimed at people actually shipping agents rather than reading about them. Expect walkthroughs of agent frameworks and tooling, what breaks when agents meet real systems, and how teams are handling evaluation and guardrails. Open to developers, ML engineers and technical product people. Free, with time for questions and networking afterwards. Co-promoted across two of the city's larger AI developer communities.

Eighth edition of this monthly gathering for AI builders, in the more relaxed setting of the Empire Hotel bar on Rue de l'Arbre Sec. The format favours concrete accounts from people working with models day to day: what holds up in production, what gets expensive, and what gets dropped after three months. A mix of founders, developers and product managers. Free, and deliberately kept small so conversation actually happens.

OpenAI's EMEA team brings its Builder Lounge to Paris — an evening for developers and founders building on the platform to meet the people behind it. Expect short product walkthroughs, practical guidance on moving from prototype to production, and direct access to OpenAI staff for the questions that documentation does not answer. These lounges fill quickly in every city they visit and are among the few chances to get a first-party read on where the tooling is heading. Free; venue is shared with registered attendees.

Cap Digital and 3DVF host the annual debrief from SIGGRAPH, the computer graphics and interactive techniques conference, at the CNC on Boulevard Raspail. French delegates who attended in Los Angeles present what actually mattered from the technical papers and the show floor: real-time rendering, generative pipelines in production VFX, neural reconstruction and the tooling shifts studios are budgeting for. A rare chance to get the substance of a major American conference in one evening in Paris, with the people who were in the room.

Hexa (formerly eFounders) hosts a working session on what a design system needs to become before AI tooling can use it well — token structure, naming, documentation and the machine-readable layer most systems never got round to building. Led by practitioners who have done it on live products, with time to compare notes on your own setup. Aimed at designers, design engineers and front-end leads. Free, at Hexa's Rue Martel studio in the 10th.

A focused late-afternoon session with Databricks at Patchwork Montholon, covering how data platforms and AI workloads are converging in practice — governance, feature and vector storage, and getting models close enough to the data to be useful. Short, technical and pitched at data engineers, analytics engineers and ML practitioners who already run something in production. Free, in the 9th, with time to talk afterwards.

The AI Engineer conference series lands in Paris for two days at STATION F, bringing together more than 1,000 AI engineers, founders and technical leaders with Mistral as anchor partner. The billing is talks from engineers who ship — evaluation, retrieval, agent architectures, inference cost and the unglamorous work of running models in production — alongside sixteen hands-on workshops and an expo of AI developer tooling. The series has become the reference gathering for people who build with models professionally, and this is its first European edition at this scale.

Node.js Paris opens its fourteenth season at Algolia's offices on Rue d'Amsterdam. Technical talks on the server-side JavaScript ecosystem: performance, tooling, and the runtime changes that actually alter how teams work. The usual format — two talks, then drinks and conversation — remains one of the best ways into the Paris back-end JavaScript community. Free and open to all levels.

The monthly gathering of the Paris software craftsmanship community, hosted by Néosoft in the 13th. The evening runs as an open space: attendees propose the topics on the night and then work through them in small groups — design, testing, refactoring, code quality and team practice. Nothing commercial, no fixed agenda. Around forty developers, tech leads and architects turn up each month. Free; registration advised.

A Paris meetup for DuckDB users, hosted at Algolia on Rue d'Amsterdam. DuckDB has quietly become the default for local analytics and for the data layer under a lot of AI tooling, and this session covers how people are actually using it — in pipelines, in notebooks, and embedded in products. Talks from practitioners, then open discussion. Aimed at data and analytics engineers, and anyone tired of spinning up a warehouse to answer one question. Free.

ProductTank Paris tackles the gap every product org is currently sitting in: a board-level AI strategy on one side, a handful of stalled pilots on the other. Speakers walk through how they moved AI work from slideware into something customers actually use — scoping, measurement, and the organisational changes that had to happen first. For product managers, heads of product and the engineers who get handed these mandates. Free, with around sixty already registered.

A full-day hands-on hackathon at Databricks' STATION F office, built around Genie and financial-services data. Teams work on realistic problems — reconciliation, risk reporting, natural-language querying over regulated datasets — with Databricks engineers on hand throughout. Laptops required, no prior Genie experience assumed. Well suited to data engineers, analysts and ML practitioners in banking, insurance and fintech who want to test the tooling against their own kind of problem rather than a demo dataset.

The twenty-first edition of Paris XR, at Artifex Lab in the 11th, on smart glasses that combine augmented reality with AI. After years of promises the products are finally reaching people, and this session takes stock of what genuinely works, which hardware constraints remain, and which use cases are starting to find a market. Demos, field reports and open discussion with the Paris XR community. Free.

Closing night of the second Generathon, a hackathon on the future of content creation. Teams present what they built over the weekend using generative tooling — video, audio, image and text pipelines — and the room votes. Demo nights are the honest part of any hackathon: you see what shipped rather than what was promised. Open to anyone curious about where creative tooling is heading, and a good place to meet builders working on it. Free, at La Cristallerie in the 10th.

The ClickHouse France user group hosts an evening on where AI applications meet the database layer, at Equativ's offices in the 9th. Talks cover vector and analytical workloads side by side, what agent and RAG systems actually demand from storage, and the query patterns that fall over at scale. Speakers from the ClickHouse team and from teams running it in production. For data engineers, backend engineers and anyone whose AI feature is now a database problem. Free.

A free one-day summit at STATION F for SaaS founders and growth leaders on using AI across the go-to-market function — not model building, but the operational question of where AI actually shortens the path to revenue. Sessions cover AI-assisted outbound, product-led growth instrumentation, pricing experiments and the cost side of shipping AI features. Run by the Founderpath team, whose audience is bootstrapped and capital-efficient B2B SaaS, which gives the content a usefully unglamorous bias towards margin.

The twenty-second edition of PyLadies Paris tech talks, hosted by Criteo on Rue Blanche. PyLadies is an international community supporting women and gender minorities in the Python ecosystem, and the Paris chapter runs one of the more consistently good technical evenings in the city. Expect two or three talks spanning Python engineering, data and machine learning, followed by food and open networking. Everyone is welcome to attend regardless of gender; the speaker line-up is the point. Free.

Hexa's Storytime series brings in a founder to tell one story properly, without a pitch deck. This edition covers building a SaaS suite to $150M on the back of content — how the content engine actually worked, what it cost, when it stopped compounding, and how the product line was assembled around it. The format is a long conversation rather than a talk, with questions from the room. Useful for founders, growth leads and content marketers who have heard the theory and want the version with the numbers in it. Free, at Hexa in the 10th.

Google for Startups and Google DeepMind take over the Open Platform at STATION F for an afternoon and evening built around what French startups are actually shipping on top of frontier models. The programme mixes DeepMind research sessions, technical deep dives on Gemini and the Google Cloud AI stack, founder case studies and structured office hours with Google engineers and the startup programmes team. Free, heavily oversubscribed in previous editions, and the evening networking is where the value concentrates.

with Harrison Chase (Co-founder & CEO, LangChain)

LangChain co-founder and CEO Harrison Chase comes to Paris for an evening with the local agent-building community, hosted with Pigment. Expect a direct read on where the framework and LangGraph are heading, how teams are structuring agent systems that survive contact with production, and questions taken from the room. Harrison rarely does European dates, and the Paris LangChain community has grown substantially this year. For engineers and technical founders building on LLMs. Free; venue shared with registered attendees.

An early-morning working breakfast at STATION F on the unglamorous part of agentic AI: the data layer underneath it. Databricks, AWS and Cloud Combinator walk through what agents need from governance, lineage and retrieval before they can be trusted with anything consequential, and where teams typically discover their foundations are not ready. Two hours, small room, aimed at data leads, architects and technical founders. Free, but places are limited.

with Xavier Niel (Founder, STATION F) · Stanislas Niox-Chateau (Co-founder & CEO, Doctolib)

An hour of unscripted questions with Xavier Niel — founder of STATION F, Free and École 42 — and Stanislas Niox-Chateau, co-founder and CEO of Doctolib, one of France's few genuine scale-up successes. No panel, no moderator-led theme: the room asks, they answer. Sessions like this at STATION F fill fast and are among the most direct access founders get to either of them. Free, in the Founders Café. Worth arriving early.