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The second edition of Product Builder Night, an evening built for senior product people thinking about where their career goes next. Co-organised by Le Ticket and Pennylane, it takes place at the offices of the all-in-one financial management unicorn for SMEs on Rue Jules Lefebvre in the 9th. The question is a blunt one: what will actually be expected of a Senior Product Manager in 2027, as AI absorbs a share of execution work and pushes the value toward framing and judgement. Doors from 18:15, programme from 18:30. Conducted in French.

A meetup on a topic only just emerging from R&D labs: wiring the Model Context Protocol (MCP) directly into a design system, so AI agents work from a single up-to-date source of truth instead of guessing. Carrefour's in-house MCP provides the through-line, starting from a concrete problem rather than a theoretical demo. Unusually practical material for designers, design ops people and front-end developers who are starting to make design systems and agents coexist. Hosted by Thiga on Rue Taitbout in the 9th. Conducted in French.

How do you move from experimentation to genuinely effective AI deployment inside an organisation? For this meetup the Tech.Rocks and Dev With AI communities bring together a Tech leader and an AI Champion to share an unfiltered account of what worked, what failed, and what it cost in both time and team buy-in. Tech.Rocks has spent years convening France's CTOs and engineering leaders, which keeps the level of discussion operational rather than promotional. Registration through the dedicated form is required. Conducted in French.

The ninth AI Marketing Night in Paris, hosted at Dust's new headquarters. The stated promise is practical content rather than high-level futurism: hands-on insights from people actually building the next campaign with AI, working through concrete business problems from scaling marketing systems outward. Free pizza and drinks. Useful for growth and marketing operators who have moved past the question of whether to use AI and are now stuck on making it work reliably at volume.

The Paris stop of the GTM World Tour, hosted at Hexa and built for people who own revenue: sales leaders, growth, RevOps and founders doing their own selling. The evening runs live teardowns of outbound infrastructure, targeting and email deliverability, a session from a Paris-based founder on how their pipeline actually got built, and roundtables on the problems attendees bring. Nothing is recorded, which keeps the numbers and the failures on the table. Practical and specific rather than strategic.

The Paris chapter of AI Tinkerers hosts its leg of a global hackathon on context-aware agents, run simultaneously across the network's 231 cities with support from OpenAI and other sponsors. Teams build agents that operate across bots, channels and messaging surfaces, with mentors on hand and demos judged at the end of the day. Over 200 participants are expected in Paris alone. AI Tinkerers events are builder-first — expect working code and live demos rather than panels. The venue is confirmed to registrants rather than published in advance.

initClub takes over Algolia's Paris offices for an evening on what search optimisation becomes when the reader is a model rather than a person. Three talks cover generative engine optimisation in practice, how retrieval and citation behaviour differs across assistants, and what to change in content architecture now. Speakers include Théo from initWeb, Camille Di Vincenzo, Roland and Franck Livolant. The room is close to full — 97 registered with a handful of places left — which is a fair signal of how live the topic is for Paris marketing teams.

France's flagship data and AI trade show fills Porte de Versailles for two days, and it remains the single densest gathering of French data leadership in the calendar. Expect several hundred exhibitors across the cloud, data platform, MLOps and applied-AI stack, a multi-track conference programme running in French and English, and a floor where practically every CDO and head of data in the country turns up at some point. The 2026 edition leans heavily on agentic systems in production, data sovereignty and the economics of inference. Go for the corridors as much as the keynotes.

WAN-IFRA's AI forum for the media and publishing industry, held in the Les Echos-Le Parisien auditorium. Two days on how newsrooms and publishers are moving from AI experiments to industrial-scale deployment: licensing and rights, traffic collapse from AI answers, newsroom tooling, and the commercial models publishers are testing in response. The audience is international publishing executives and product leads rather than researchers. Relevant well beyond media for anyone building products whose distribution depends on search and referral traffic.

The eighth edition of the C# .NET Paris meetup, run jointly with AWS and hosted in the AWS space at STATION F. Expect talks on building and running .NET workloads on AWS — deployment, tooling and the trade-offs teams hit in production — followed by open discussion over food and drinks. Useful for .NET developers, architects and platform engineers who want a practical view of the cloud side of the stack rather than a vendor pitch. Free to attend.

Two practical talks for platform and SRE teams, hosted by Brevo in the 17th. The first shows how to manage backup policies as code — versioned and repeatable — rather than by hand in a console. The second covers how one engineering team folded AI into its daily work without losing quality or control. One of the best-attended cloud native meetups in Paris, with 120+ signed up. Free, held in French, with time to talk afterwards.

France Digitale's annual gathering, held in the improbable setting of the Musée des Arts Forains, brings together roughly 4,500 founders, investors and policymakers for the association's set-piece day of the year. France Digitale is Europe's largest startup and investor association, and FDDay is where its policy positions, funding data and the year's cohort of scale-ups get aired in public. Programming runs across investment, deeptech, AI regulation and European sovereignty, with a deliberately high founder-to-investor ratio and an evening that runs long. One of the two or three Paris dates most worth blocking out.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.