Tech events in paris

The closing night of Generathon #3, a 24-hour hackathon for AI content creation run by Le Motif and roland.builds during Paris Creator Week. Teams have spent the weekend building, and the best of them present on stage in two categories: Three Minutes to Scare, a short horror film format, and Sell the Fear, an ad format. Doors at 16:00, kick-off at 16:30, live screenings from 17:30, winners at 18:30, then food and networking until 20:00. Hosted by the startup studio Hexa at La Cristallerie in the 10th. Free, waitlist running. The content is deliberately horror-themed. Why go: it is the clearest read available on what frontier video and image models can be pushed to in a single weekend, with the makers in the room to ask. Best for filmmakers, creative directors and anyone building tools for them.

with Laura Savino (Speaker, Adobe) · Daniel Steinberg (Speaker, Dim Sum Thinking) · Antoine van der Lee (Speaker, RocketSim) + 2 more

The tenth edition of the French conference for iOS, Swift and Apple platform work, formerly FrenchKit. Two days of talks at the Théâtre de Paris for developers building on Swift, iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS. Speaking: Laura Savino (Adobe), Daniel Steinberg (Dim Sum Thinking), Antoine van der Lee (RocketSim), Matt Massicotte, Soroush Khanlou (Square), Chris Eidhof (objc.io) and Lucy Galik (Monzo). Tickets cover talks, catering and the social events; Late Bird passes at 499 EUR are the remaining tier. Doors from 09:00 on 2 November, 15 rue Blanche, 75009. Why go: ten years in, this is still the one room in France where the people writing Swift tooling and the people shipping large Apple apps spend two days together. Best for iOS and macOS engineers, and teams deciding how to structure a Swift codebase.

with Fariha Shah (Co-founder, programme patron, Cominty) · Laetitia Pfeiffer (Jury, Publicis Media) · Chloé Guilfoyle (Founder, Jury, Avalon) + 2 more

The demo day closing the first cohort of Entreprendre dans l'IA, FIA's accelerator programme for women founders building in AI. After several months of support the participants pitch what they have built — the idea, the first traction, the ambition — in front of a jury of Fariha Shah of Cominty, who is the programme's patron, Laetitia Pfeiffer of Publicis Media, Avalon founder Chloé Guilfoyle, Raphaëlla Levesque of Concentrix and Vanina Goncalves of Siemens Mobility. Le Comptoir Avalon in the 19th, two hours, free, open registration and explicitly open to outsiders. Why go: a first-cohort demo day is where you see French AI companies before anyone has written about them, and the jury is corporate buyers rather than only investors. Best for investors, partners and anyone scouting early French AI teams.

with Diana Ravelomanantsoa (, ) · Fatou Sourang (, ) · Nikina Zinsou (, ) + 1 more

Quelqu'UNE and Skemafrica host a meetup on the journeys, challenges and opportunities of women of the African diaspora in tech, on 2 November at SKEMA Paris – Salle Agora, in Suresnes. Four speakers share their experience: Diana Ravelomanantsoa, Fatou Sourang, Nikina Zinsou and Yousra A. The format mixes first-hand accounts with open discussion, and it's open to students, professionals and anyone curious about the topic. Free, registration required. Why go: few Paris tech events put these journeys at the centre rather than the margin. For anyone who wants concrete role models, a network, and a frank conversation about what helps — and what holds back — these careers in tech.

with Timothy Currie (, )

Dîner Machine is a weekly, bilingual (French/English) tech dinner for people building things who keep asking where AI is heading — safety, alignment, generative AI, LLMs and governance included. You eat, you talk about what you're making and what intrigues or worries you. This week's special guest is Timothy Currie, presenting his paper on the race between AI labs. The question: should we pause AI? Almost everyone is a little scared of how fast it's moving, so why not hit pause — does 'pause' even mean anything, and could it work? Timothy walks through his model of when a lab race can, or can't, stop. Dinner is at Veggie Lovers in the 4th. Free. Why go: a small, candid room where AI-safety arguments get tested over dinner, not slides. Best for builders and researchers who want the real debate.

with Alexandre Laforge (Global Category Manager, ENGIE) · Imène Kabouya (Partner, AI leadership team, Wavestone) · Alfred El Murr (Senior Director Business Value Services, Salesforce) + 1 more

A breakfast panel from the INSEAD AI & Digital Transformation Club, hosted with Wavestone at Tour Franklin in La Défense, on what happens to consulting when clients have the same AI tools as their consultants. Will agents replace juniors, does billing by time survive, and what is an RFP when agents answer it? Three seats rarely at the same table: Alexandre Laforge, Global Category Manager at ENGIE, who runs the group's professional-services buying; Imène Kabouya, Partner at Wavestone and on its AI leadership team; and Alfred El Murr, Senior Director Business Value Services at Salesforce, ex-McKinsey. Moderated by Meryem Belqziz, co-author of the Conseil^IA white paper. Capacity is limited and ID is checked at reception. Why go: the buy side, the sell side and the vendor arguing about the same fee line, in public. Best for consultants, ESN leaders and the people who procure them.

The second of three monthly morning workshops in Systematic's Club Scale-up Deep Tech, capped at twenty people, at Village by CA-Paris in the 8th, 09:00 to 14:00. Two sessions. Justine Langer, business law consultant at Bignon Lebray, on adapting a shareholders' agreement as you grow: exit terms, anti-dilution, liquidation preference, good and bad leaver clauses, and how decision-making actually shifts when investors take board seats and veto rights. Then Etienne Portais, founder of Curiosity and Maddyness, on communicating critical deep tech on trust rather than novelty, including what to say when the detail is confidential, and which stakeholders and spokespeople matter. Open to leaders of Systematic member companies who meet at least two eligibility criteria, with priority to Systematic champions and hi-France alumni. Why go: twenty people and a lawyer walking through the clauses that bite at the next round beats a hundred-person panel. Best for deep tech founders between a seed and a Series A.

with Emily Lincoln-Gordon (Startups, Lovable) · Jonathan Chemouny (GTM, Global, ElevenLabs) · Stefany Ludeña (Head of Iberia, Italy, Benelux, Nordics, HubSpot for Startups)

AWS and HubSpot for Startups put Lovable and ElevenLabs on a panel about how AI-native companies actually win their first customers and then scale. The stated ground: product-led growth and letting the product drive adoption, going global across both developer and enterprise buyers, and building a sales and marketing engine that repeats. Emily Lincoln-Gordon runs Startups at Lovable, Jonathan Chemouny leads global GTM at ElevenLabs, and Stefany Ludeña heads Iberia, Italy, Benelux and the Nordics for HubSpot for Startups. Doors 17:00, welcome from AWS and HubSpot 17:15, panel 17:25, audience Q&A from 18:00, then networking and drinks. At Station F. Free, registration by approval. Why go: two of Europe's fastest-growing AI companies sending the people who own the revenue number rather than the brand team. Best for founders and early GTM hires who need the mechanics, not the narrative.

with Nathan Benaich (Founder & General Partner, Air Street Capital)

Air Street Capital brings the Paris launch of the 2026 State of AI Report, the annual survey of research, industry, safety and politics in artificial intelligence. Nathan Benaich, the report's author, presents the headline findings, followed by one or two fireside conversations on the year's key topics and refreshments. Registration is by approval and the exact address is shared with confirmed guests. Valid physical government ID is required on the door. Free. Why go: the State of AI Report is the one annual document most of the European AI industry actually reads, and hearing Benaich walk through it in a room that can push back beats skimming the deck. Best for investors, founders and research leads who want the year's arguments before everyone else starts quoting them.

Brave1 is Ukraine's government-backed defence technology cluster, and it is bringing a cohort of its startups to Paris during European Defence Week 2026. The companies pitching are actively raising and their products have been through battlefield feedback loops: Ukraine has gone from around ten defence and dual-use startups to more than 2,500 in a few years, with prototypes reaching the front line in weeks. The room is built for direct contact — European and international investors, defence industry leaders and institutional partners on one side, founders on the other. Doors 18:00, welcome and opening remarks 18:30, keynote 18:50, company pitches from 19:00, then an hour of networking and matchmaking. At the KOLO community space in the 20th. Free, registration by approval. Why go: the shortest route in Paris to Ukrainian defence tech founders who are raising right now. For investors, corporate development and anyone working in dual-use hardware.

Staff42's second special event, hosted and organised by Padoa at its office on Avenue de Wagram in the 17th, 18:30 to 21:30. The group's first one was on AI; this one is on development environments. The announced talk asks how you work on one component of a system without standing up the whole system, covering tooling, reproducibility and what actually makes a team faster. A second talk is listed as incoming and not yet announced. Q&A between the talks, then drinks and pizza. Hosted by Theotime L. Speakers are not named on the page yet. Why go: dev environments are what every engineering team quietly loses days to, and this is a small room where people compare what they actually run rather than what they would recommend. Best for backend and platform engineers, and tech leads picking tooling for a team.

with Paul Pouyanne (Vice President, Cathay Innovation) · Natacha Brami (Principal, SISTAFUND) · Anne-Sophie Saint-Martin (Partner, New Fund) + 4 more

A working lunch at BioLabs Paris on where biotech, techbio, medtech and healthtech money goes in 2027. Three panels, then a lunch reception and a tour of the site. The panels cover dilutive versus non-dilutive financing for post-seed, Series A and Series B companies; scaling organisation and culture as a team moves from R&D into clinical and regulatory work; and whether lab infrastructure can extend a runway. Speaking: Paul Pouyanne (Cathay Innovation), Natacha Brami (SISTAFUND), Anne-Sophie Saint-Martin (New Fund), Estelle Salomon (Speedinvest), Guilhem de Vregille (XAnge), Sarah Pedroza (Fly the Nest) and Alexandre Parlarrieu (ABF Décisions). Hosted by BioLabs and Christophe Tallec, 12:00 to 14:00. Free, registration required. Why go: seven active health investors in one room saying what they will fund next year. Best for life-science founders raising in 2027.

with Marek Pikulski (Senior AI Developer Technology Engineer, NVIDIA) · Zakaria Ouzarf (Software Development Engineer, Criteo) · Marius Alonso (Machine Learning Engineer, Criteo)

NVIDIA and Criteo take LLM-powered recommendations from prototype to production in one evening. Criteo's Zakaria Ouzarf and Marius Alonso explain how they built a product relevance classifier on open-weight models that runs entirely on-premises, covering fine-tuning, distillation, quantization and inference tuning, with the dead ends and the hard numbers. NVIDIA's Marek Pikulski covers the inference stack behind generative recommendation, including beam search and multi-item scoring in TensorRT LLM. Doors 18:00, talks from 18:30, a panel, then food and drinks. Free, but registration needs host approval and the exact address is shared only once you are accepted. It is in Paris. Why go: a rare chance to hear production numbers on running LLM recommendation systems on your own hardware. Best for ML and inference engineers.

with Juliette Duizabo (Head of Data, Photoroom) · Yochan Khoi (Staff Context Engineer, Gorgias) · Florian Drouet (Lead Data Engineer, Qare) + 1 more

Six data teams pitch the analytics agent they actually built, five minutes each, and then a panel pulls it apart on reliability, adoption, governance and cost. The judges are Juliette Duizabo, head of data at Photoroom, Yochan Khoi, staff context engineer at Gorgias, Florian Drouet, lead data engineer at Qare, and Christophe Blefari, co-founder and CTO of nao. Build stack is open — nao, Hex, Cortex, Dust, Omni, Claude or in-house — and the call for pitches is still live. Qare hosts at 46 rue Notre Dame des Victoires in the 2nd. Pitches 19:00 to 20:00, drinks until 22:00. Free, waitlist running, 75 registered. Why go: the adversarial format is the point — these are the cost and governance questions that kill analytics agents in production, asked in public. Best for data engineers, analytics leads and heads of data.

A Euronaval side event on whether Europe can build its own AI for defence, from the battlefield back through the supply chain. Hexa opens, then two panels: European AI for defence autonomy as a France-Ukraine case study, and European sovereignty in AI along the supply chain. Networking reception with Georgian food after. Hosted by Hexa with Eastern Circles at La Cristallerie on Rue Martel in the 10th, 18:30 to 22:30. Free, seats are limited and registration goes through approval. Speakers are not named on the page yet. The room is aimed at defence tech founders, primes and industrials, armed forces and government, and investors in the sector. Why go: Ukraine's iteration speed and France's industrial base are the two halves of the European defence tech argument, and this puts people from both sides of it in one room during Euronaval week. Best for founders and investors in dual-use.

The Paris chapter of Out in Tech takes over L'Audièrnes café in the 13th for its monthly drinks. Out in Tech is the largest non-profit community of LGBTQ+ tech professionals, with more than 50,000 members and chapters in over 30 cities, and the Paris evening pulls in founders, freelancers, startup and scale-up staff, corporate innovation people and investors. No programme and no talks — it is an informal evening built for meeting people. Anyone queer working in tech or innovation is welcome, and the organisers actively ask attendees to pass the invitation on. Free, no approval needed, and the invitation runs in both French and English. Why go: the standing Paris room where the LGBTQ+ tech network is the point rather than a side track. A good first stop if you have just moved here or are working solo.

Two days at Station F on making digital infrastructure and AI less environmentally and socially costly, run by Formule Magique since 2021 and now under the patronage of Anne Le Hénanff, France's minister for AI and digital affairs. Around 2,500 people attend, with 50 conference sessions and workshops, more than 150 speakers and 70 exhibitors. The programme mixes talks with case studies, feedback sessions and an exhibition floor, and the organisers' framing is deliberately practical: turning stated intent into things organisations actually do. Free registration. Runs 5 and 6 November. Why go: it is the one French event where responsible-AI and sustainable-IT commitments get examined as procurement and engineering decisions rather than as positioning. Best for CTOs, CSR leads and anyone who has to put numbers behind a sustainability claim.

A breakfast for banking and insurance people on AI as a distribution channel. Customers now ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini which online bank, home insurance or mortgage to pick, and increasingly want to simulate, compare and subscribe inside the conversation. Running order: coffee at 9:00; at 9:30 GetMint on how AI decides which institutions to recommend, with GetMint Research figures; at 9:50 Alpic on apps inside ChatGPT and Claude, with feedback from insurance and financial services; discussion at 10:10, networking at 10:30, close at 11:00. At Morning, 21 rue de Cléry, 75002. Limited seats, registration subject to approval. Why go: it takes on compliance and duty of advice in a channel nobody controls, with real cases rather than slideware. Best for distribution, product and compliance teams in banking and insurance.

with Serge Vatine (CEO & Partner, lawyer at the Paris Bar, BOLD)

A legal masterclass for founders at the Cegid Innovation Hub inside STATION F. Serge Vatine, CEO and partner at BOLD and a lawyer at the Paris Bar, works through the things that get expensive when you find them out too late. Covered: partner relationships and governance, intellectual property and patents, commercial contracts, how fundraising is structured, employment contracts with confidentiality and non-compete clauses, GDPR compliance, and the usual traps. Format is a 60-minute presentation, then 15 minutes of group questions. Serge stays on afterwards for individual questions. 10:00 to 12:00, 5 parvis Alan Turing, 75013. Free, registration subject to approval. Why go: a practising lawyer going down the list, rather than a panel skating over it. Best for seed-stage founders who do not yet have counsel.

An evening on impact entrepreneurship co-organised by Impactus and the investment house RAISE, at RAISE's Paris offices. Six people — founders, investors and incubator heads — sit on a panel about what actually made their ventures work, followed by the Grand Prix Impactus award and a cocktail. The format is built around the audience's questions rather than set talks, and the stated aim is to put people building impact-led companies in front of the investors and programmes that back them. Free, 18:30 to 21:30. Eventbrite has been reporting the event as sold out since mid-October, so expect a waitlist rather than a ticket. Why go: impact founders and the capital behind them rarely share a room this small, and the award gives the evening a genuine shortlist to argue about. Best for founders raising with an impact thesis.

An afterwork on the Digital Product Passport, co-organised by Crystalchain and the firm Findle. The European registry under Article 13 of the ESPR is open and the battery passport will be the first mandatory one in February 2027, but implementation is harder than the timeline suggests. Three questions on the table: how granular a passport should be, at model, batch or item level; collecting data from tier 2 to tier 4 suppliers; and building an architecture before the EU technical specifications are final. Deliberately small and peer-to-peer rather than a webinar: feedback from live projects, mistakes to avoid, ways to structure supplier data collection. Arrivals 18:30, 15/17 rue Auber, 75009. Limited places, registration subject to approval. Why go: most DPP sessions explain the text; this one is about what breaks in production. Best for product compliance, data and supply chain teams.

with Guillaume Lerouge (Defense cohort, Hexa Sprint)

One long table for the people building European deep tech. EuroTech Federation hosts the second Paris edition of its monthly dinner series with the Defense & Space Association: a welcome drink, then a full-course family-style dinner with wine or soft drinks, and conversation kept off the record. The guest is Guillaume Lerouge, who works on the defense cohort at Hexa Sprint. The first edition seated people from Mistral, Serena, Hexa, Langdock and Foxglove. The EUR 35 ticket covers the whole evening and the organisers say they make no profit on it. It is approval-gated and kept small, and the address is shared only on registration. It is in Paris. Why go: the closest thing Paris has to a dinner party for deep tech founders. Best for founders, operators and investors in deep tech and defense who prefer a small room to a big one.

with Nadim Kobeissi (Organiser, Real World Cryptography Paris)

The fifth edition of the Real World Cryptography Paris meetup, this time at EPITA in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, in a bigger and better-suited room than the previous ones. Five talks are on the published programme, with catering and a long networking stretch either side. The series exists to put working cryptographers, software engineers and academics in the same room, and the organisers are explicit that you do not need to be a cryptographer to get something from it. Nadim Kobeissi runs it; the full schedule is on cryptography.paris. Entry is a suggested 10 EUR contribution, flexible from zero, and all of it goes to catering and the venue on top of sponsor funding. 194 places were still open at the time of writing. Why go: five real cryptography talks in one evening is not something Paris offers often. For security engineers, protocol people and anyone shipping crypto they did not write themselves.

A mini-hackathon for people who want to build with AI rather than listen to talks about it. AI FIRST runs this edition with the 42AI student association at École 42 Paris. Everyone gets the same brief on the night, then builds an app, tool or agent alone or in pairs using AI tools, and presents it at the end. The theme is set on the day. Doors 19:00, brief 19:15, building from 19:30, demos and networking from 21:30. Bring a laptop and your own Claude or ChatGPT subscription. Beginners are welcome, and the Meetup page lists no fee. The evening runs in French. Why go: it is a build night, not a lecture, so you leave with something working. Best for founders, freelancers and non-engineers who want to ship a prototype fast.

A Community Day meetup for people who run Home Assistant, ESPHome and Music Assistant. Attendees compare setups, show dashboards and automations, ask questions and swap tips, with long-time contributors and first-time users in the same room. At La Felicità, 5 parvis Alan Turing, 75013, from 15:00 to 18:00. Laptops and gadgets are welcome and there may be giveaways. Hosted by Timo and Paul Bottein. Free, registration through the page. The organisers say the venue may move somewhere cosier, so details are confirmed closer to the date and updates go out on their Discord. Why go: open-source home automation is one of the few places where hobby projects and production-grade engineering sit side by side, and this is the Paris room for it. Best for self-hosters and embedded or IoT engineers.

with Pierre Moulin (Speaker, ISG) · Pierre Matuchet (Speaker, The Adecco Group) · Général Dominique Trinquand (Speaker, DHT Conseil) + 5 more

Two days of enterprise AI at the Pullman Paris Tour Eiffel, run by the analyst firm ISG. Day one has registration at 9:00, the programme from 10:00, and an ISG Startup Challenge at 17:20. Day one's spine is sovereign AI and measurable value: Pierre Moulin (ISG) on what European companies must build to scale safely, Pierre Matuchet (The Adecco Group) on use cases and ROI, a sovereign-AI panel with Général Dominique Trinquand (DHT Conseil) and Marc Valès (Terrespace), Ramses Gallego (DXC Technology) on cybersecurity, and a business-value panel with Laurent Gallo (Arianegroup), Jessica Gold (Lagardère Travel Retail) and Erbin Lim (Pfizer). Enterprise pass 1,295 EUR, provider pass 3,495 EUR; some enterprise applicants qualify for a free ticket. Why go: the speakers are the people running AI inside large European organisations. Best for CIOs and enterprise architects, and the price rules it out for most founders.

with Patrick Pailloux (Délégué général pour l'armement, Direction générale de l'armement)

The INSEAD Alumni Association France Aero & Defence Club hosts Patrick Pailloux, France's Délégué général pour l'armement, for a talk followed by a cocktail at the Cercle de l'Union Interalliée. Pailloux is an unusual speaker for this subject. A Polytechnique and Télécom Paris engineer, he ran information systems posts at the defence ministry, became the first director general of ANSSI when France stood up its national cybersecurity agency in 2009, then served as technical director of the DGSE from 2014. He now heads French armament procurement. Paid, €60, 19:00. Why go: the person who decides what France buys, talking in a room where the questions come from operators rather than press. Best for defence-tech founders, investors in the sector and anyone selling into European defence procurement.

The Design Impro Crew returns to Le Laptop with a workshop for Heads of Design and Lead Product Designers, built around improvisation theatre. No acting experience is expected; the method is scenario work in a room where getting it wrong is the point. The scenarios are the ones design leaders actually get stuck in: setting a clear direction, carrying a team through it, handling friction, and answering stakeholders while staying available and consistent. Ninety minutes, free, at 7 rue Geoffroy l'Angevin in the 4th, hosted by Le Meetup du Laptop. Why go: design leadership is usually discussed and almost never rehearsed, and this is one of the few Paris rooms that makes you practise the conversation instead of hearing about it. Best for design leads stepping up to managing other designers.

with Thibaud Eberwein (Head of Growth Studio & Creative, Proton) · Pierrick Thébault (VP of Product Design, Shine)

World Class Design's premise for the evening: AI can now produce the pixels, it cannot produce trust. The session is about what it takes to design AI products people actually rely on — the judgment that matters more than the tooling, how design teams are changing around it, and which skills are worth hiring for now. Thibaud Eberwein, Head of Growth Studio and Creative at Proton, and Pierrick Thébault, VP of Product Design at Shine, are the speakers. It runs at Station F and the group moves on to Riverside afterwards for the networking half. Free and by approval, with a QR code issued once you are accepted; the organisers ask you to arrive early. 72 places were open at the time of writing. Why go: two product-design leaders from companies whose whole proposition is trust, on the hardest current design problem. For founders, product leaders and design leads.

with Étienne Mineur (Designer and teacher, ) · Nadia Guerouaou (PhD in cognitive neuroscience, psychologist, ) · Axelle Arquié (Economist, IFE) + 1 more

Motion Plus Design's second AI Evening at the Grand Rex: ten speakers, enthusiasts and critics, on what AI is changing in creative work, jobs, emotions and society. Talks and debates, 20:00 to midnight. The line-up and their subjects are published: Étienne Mineur on vibe coding as the new craft for creatives, Olivier Reynaud (co-founder, Aive) on whether models that generate video can read it, Axelle Arquié (economist, IFE) on automation's coming shock to employment, Nadia Guerouaou (cognitive neuroscience) on how AI reshapes our emotions, Nicolas Saada on who really makes the images in cinema, plus Jean-Lou Fourquet, Christophe Pauly, Ninon IA, Shaïman Thürler and Le Futurologue. Paid; the price is not published on the listing. In French, in a 2,800-seat cinema. Why go: a designed line-up rather than a panel, and the rare AI night that puts an economist, a neuroscientist and a film director on the same stage. Best for designers, creative technologists and anyone whose craft the tools are rewriting.

with Joe Reis (Author and speaker, Ternary Data) · Mehdi Ouazza (Speaker, Forward Data Conference) · Claire Gouze (Speaker, Forward Data Conference) + 2 more

The French data and AI conference, back for 2026 at the Maison Internationale on the Cité Internationale Universitaire campus in the 14th. One day, three stages, more than thirty talks and about 650 practitioners. This edition is built around what AI is doing to the way data teams actually work. Joe Reis speaks, alongside Mehdi Ouazza on what comes after the modern data stack, Claire Gouze, Nicolas Martignole on Back Market and Marco Saetta on Doctolib's AI products. Field reports from Decathlon, Malt and leboncoin are also on the programme. Doors from 08:30, first talks at 10:00, running late with a 17:30 keynote. Paid; the organisers had not published prices when this went up, and groups of five or more get 20 percent off. Why go: the one Paris date where French data engineering talks about its own production systems rather than a vendor roadmap. Best for data and analytics engineers, platform leads and heads of data.

with Lisa Figas (Co-Founder, TelemetryDeck) · Maurizio Ghisolfi (R&D Product and Research Lead, MON5) · Mike Sax (Founder, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT))

ACT brings its Developed: EU tour to STATION F for an evening on what Europe's founders are actually saying. The framing is the gap between Web Summit in Lisbon, just finished, and Slush in Helsinki, about to start: what came out of the first, what is queued up for the second, and what the mood is among people building here right now. The panel is founders who have built in the EU, scaled beyond it and exited: Lisa Figas, co-founder of TelemetryDeck; Maurizio Ghisolfi, R&D product and research lead at MON5 and co-founder of Profiter.ai; and Mike Sax, who founded ACT. More speakers were still to be announced. Hosted by Ivy Ide Reynolds and Bradley Simonich. Free, 17:00, approval-gated registration. Why go: ACT takes what it hears in these rooms into digital policy conversations in Brussels, so the complaining has somewhere to go. Best for founders of small tech companies, and for anyone who works on EU tech policy.

with Cecilia Rikap (Keynote speaker, author, The Rulers) · Tristan Coignon (Speaker, École normale supérieure - PSL) · Antonia Marcheva (Speaker, École normale supérieure - PSL) + 2 more

A half-day workshop at the École normale supérieure - PSL on the environmental cost of AI infrastructure as data centres expand across France and Europe, run with the AI and Society Institute and the Observatory on the Environmental Footprint of AI. The morning is open to the public. Cecilia Rikap, author of The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud, keynotes at 10:00. Tristan Coignon covers AI video generation's usage and impact, Antonia Marcheva the costs and benefits of generative AI in the global economy, Loup Cellard the barriers to reusing data-centre waste heat, and Clément Gasull grid connection regimes for French data centres. A panel at 11:40 looks at forecasting token consumption. 9:30 to 13:00, Salle Dussane, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75005. Free. Why go: numbers and grid mechanics rather than positions. Best for infrastructure engineers and researchers.

The Fédération des Tiers de Confiance du numérique turns 25 and marks it with an afternoon at Studio Gabriel that asks what digital trust will mean next rather than reviewing what it has meant. Four workshops structure the programme: tomorrow's cybersecurity and the shape of new threats, French and European digital sovereignty measured against what is actually happening, whether digital trust survives the arrival of quantum computing, and how far a thinking machine can be trusted at all. Technical experts, regulators, parliamentarians and executives take part. The Trophées de la Confiance numérique are awarded the same afternoon. Free, 14:00 to 19:00. Why go: regulators and the people who have to implement their rules are in the same room, which is rarer than it should be. Best for compliance, security and policy leads working on EU digital rules.

with Cédric O (Co-founder, Mistral AI) · Asma Mhalla (Political scientist and essayist, Independent)

Five co-located shows across two days at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles: Cloud & AI Infrastructure, DevOps Live, Cloud & Cyber Security Expo, the Data & AI Leaders Summit and Data Centre World. The audience it is built for is IT decision-makers, and the exhibition floor is the bulk of it. Alongside the halls there is a main stage run with La Tribune, a startups area, an immersive hub, a Women & Diversity in Tech strand and the Cybersecurity Awards. Free to attend with registration. 18 and 19 November. Why go: it is the one week in the Paris calendar when infrastructure, security and data vendors are all in one building, which makes it efficient if you are scoping a stack rather than looking for ideas. Best for IT directors, platform teams and anyone running a procurement cycle.

OVHcloud renames its annual summit the AI Summit and holds it at the Carrousel du Louvre: more than 1,500 attendees, 70-plus speakers, 60-plus thematic sessions and 30-plus partners and startups. The keynote runs 10:00 to 12:00 with founder, chairman and CEO Octave Klaba, chief product and technology officer Yaniv Fdida and corporate chief revenue officer Bruno Ronsse. The declared agenda is the argument OVHcloud has been making for years, now applied to AI: sovereignty, cost, cybersecurity, data, infrastructure, multicloud, environmental impact and quantum. Sessions run in French and English. Free with registration, 19 November. Why go: Europe's largest independent cloud provider setting out what it will and will not build for AI, with the people who decide it on stage. Best for infrastructure leads and anyone weighing a European alternative to the US hyperscalers.

with Florence Aretz (VP Operations, Alma) · Thomas Thieffry (Chief Product Officer, Bpifrance) · Marion Doucet (Chief Product Officer, Meilleurtaux) + 1 more

A private lunch talk from Wivoo, a Wavestone company, for product and operations decision-makers: CPOs, VPs of Operations, product and data leads. The subject is scaling AI: getting teams on board, proving value, then opening AI up to customers. Speaking: Florence Aretz (VP Operations, Alma), Thomas Thieffry (Chief Product Officer, Bpifrance) and Marion Doucet (Chief Product Officer, Meilleurtaux), moderated by Rémi Duflos. The programme covers team AI literacy and new roles such as the Product Builder, measuring value for a board, and moving from internal tools to customer-facing agents. Arrivals 11:30, talk and questions at noon, then a lunch cocktail and networking until 14:00. At Wivoo, 20 avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008. Free. The session is not recorded. Why go: three sitting CPOs on what they actually shipped, off the record. Best for product and operations leads who have to justify an AI budget.

with Franck Da Silva (Director Emerging Enterprise France, Databricks) · Clément Andre (GTM Leader EMEA Digital Natives, OpenAI) · Victoria Musatova (Head of Data Science, SESAMm)

The sixth edition of Databricks' meetup for startups and scaleups, hosted at Station F with OpenAI as partner. The subject is the gap between an LLM demo and a production system: governance and cost control, evaluating model quality, and migrating between models as older ones are deprecated. Doors at 18:00. Clément Andre (GTM Leader EMEA Digital Natives, OpenAI) on moving fast while keeping control; Victoria Musatova (Head of Data Science, SESAMm) on changing model without losing quality; Franck Da Silva (Director Emerging Enterprise France, Databricks) on the AI Gateway for centralising, governing and switching models. Q&A at 19:45, then networking and cocktails until 22:30. Free, run in French, registration required. Why go: it is a working session on the unglamorous part of shipping AI — cost, governance, model churn — with a customer who has actually done the migration. Best for data and ML engineers and the people who own the AI budget.

with Céline Etcheverry (R&D Software Development Director, Balyo) · Lise Delobel (Project Coordinator, Enchanted Tools) · Marine Petriaux (Head of Manipulation, Wandercraft)

Women in Robotics France hosts its Paris evening at Enchanted Tools, the company building expressive interactive robots, with Foxglove sponsoring. Three women leading robotics and software teams speak about building robotics products, navigating their careers and growing teams: Céline Etcheverry, R&D Software Development Director at Balyo; Lise Delobel, Project Coordinator at Enchanted Tools; and Marine Petriaux, Head of Manipulation at Wandercraft. Doors 19:00, opening words 19:30, talks 19:40, then drinks and networking from 20:40 until 22:00. Women in Robotics is a global non-profit with around 3,000 members and 24 chapters. Free, registration by approval, 90 places open at the time of writing. Why go: physical AI is where a lot of European engineering money is going, and this is the room with the people actually shipping it in France. Open to anyone working in or curious about robotics, not only women.

with Aurélien de Meaux (Co-founder & CEO, Electra) · Maxime Brousse (Partner, Hexa)

Aurélien de Meaux spent ten years on a photo-printing app, took Cheerz to around 50 million euros in revenue and sold it to CEWE. The day after the exit he started on ultra-fast EV charging. Five years on, Electra has raised over a billion euros, runs hundreds of stations and is aiming at 15,000 charging points by 2030. He is at Hexa to talk about what changes when you go from software to steel, concrete and grid connections: hiring into a sector you don't know yet, what moving fast means when a single site takes months, and why he wanted to play the game again. Maxime Brousse, Partner at Hexa, moderates. Doors 19:00, talk 19:15, open Q&A 20:00, drinks and pizza 20:30. Free, RSVP required. Why go: hardware founders rarely get a second-time operator this specific about the switch from software. Best for anyone building something physical.

A one-day colloquium from the Académie des sciences and the Académie nationale de médecine, in the Bettencourt auditorium at the Institut de France, marking 25 years since the human genome was first sequenced and asking what that pioneering work actually produced. The morning covers the unresolved gaps left by the first sequence, the mutation-and-selection dynamics behind sequence diversity, what spatial transcriptomics is revealing about the brain, and how the genome's three-dimensional structure and epigenetic landscape govern expression. The afternoon turns to medical applications in cancer, vascular disease and deafness. Bilingual French and English, 09:00 to 19:00, free, and aimed at a scientific or well-informed general audience. Why go: the clearest read available this year on where genomics actually got to, from the people who did the work rather than from a vendor deck. Best for anyone building in biotech, genomics or health data.

Femmes & Sciences gathers at the École normale supérieure on equality in scientific, technical and industrial careers, and on access to research professions.