Tech events in paris

Bpifrance fills the Accor Arena for BIG, Europe's largest single-day business gathering and comfortably the biggest date in the French entrepreneurial calendar — tens of thousands of founders, executives, investors and public-sector figures across hundreds of sessions from early morning to late evening. The 2026 edition runs under the banner of nerve and daring. Tracks span financing, industry, AI, decarbonisation, international expansion and recruitment, and the scale means the value lies in planning a route through it rather than wandering. Free to attend, and registration goes fast.

Klee Group's client-facing experience day on the Open Platform at STATION F, built around an immersive International Space Station theme and structured sessions on AI, digital sovereignty and security for large French organisations. The staging is ambitious and the topics are current, but the day is an agency showcase aimed at existing and prospective clients rather than an open industry conference. Listed for its venue and organiser record; expect the programme to route towards Klee's own capabilities.

Tech.Rocks is the main peer community for French engineering leaders, and this afterwork with Fastly is one of its regular Paris gatherings — engineering management, platform and infrastructure decisions, and the problems that only surface at the CTO and VP level. The venue is not published on the listing; it is confirmed to registrants. For CTOs, VPs of Engineering and senior engineering managers.

CriteoTech's Paris meetup hands the evening to women building and researching AI — technical talks on the work itself rather than a panel about representation, followed by networking at Criteo's 9th-arrondissement office. Open to everyone. For ML engineers, researchers and data scientists, and for anyone tracking who is actually shipping AI in Paris.

Product orgs are investing heavily in AI; the return is often unclear. This We.Talk session looks at turning AI adoption into measurable strategic impact rather than faster output for its own sake.

Wivoo's Inspi'Her evening at La Cristallerie, built around the women building in tech, product and AI in France — talks, then extended networking. Good programming and a venue that suits a real conversation; one of the stronger community events in the first half of October.

An evening of networking between entrepreneurs and company directors at Gatsby in the 7th.

A small-format dinner at STATION F connecting women building companies and careers in tech. Deliberately capped so the conversation stays one table rather than a room of business cards. For founders, operators and senior individual contributors.

WordPress Paris looks at putting AI directly inside WordPress hosting via the Faaaster MCP server — what it can automate, where it should not be trusted, and how the integration works in practice.

The Conservatoire national du jeu vidéo's 8th colloquium, at the Forum des images, on music and sound design in video games — composition, production and the craft behind game audio.

An immersive mock-trial workshop putting generative AI in the dock, designed to surface the real issues at stake. Open from age 14.

A participatory workshop at the 13th arrondissement town hall on AI, social media and how to protect ourselves — built as a debate exercise, open from age 14.

LadyRise's monthly gathering for women founders, freelancers and project leads — a space to connect and open up options.

Edition #38 of FlexUp's curated startup networking workshop at STATION F: short presentations followed by open networking for founders and ecosystem partners.

A two-hour beginner workshop: build and publish a working website using AI tools in one sitting, and leave with the code even though the demo address expires.

A beginners' evening workshop: build your first website this evening using AI, with no prior technical experience.

The Design Impro Crew returns to Le Laptop with a workshop on a core product skill: recruiting and actually meeting your users, and what improvisation technique brings to the interview.

Scaleway's applied-AI conference has grown into one of the largest AI dates in the French calendar, taking over the whole Open Platform at STATION F for a full day and evening. Previous editions have drawn thousands and have been where European model labs, infrastructure providers and applied teams put their year's work on stage — compute economics, sovereign infrastructure, open-weight models and production deployments. It is run by a cloud provider, but the programme has consistently been ecosystem-wide rather than a product showcase, and it is free.

with Yann Lechelle (Chief Executive Officer, Probabl)

A board-level breakfast briefing at the Cercle de l'Union Interalliée with Yann Lechelle, one of the more direct voices in French tech, under the title "the AI that pays does not say a word" — an argument against the generative-AI myth as it is sold inside large companies. Aimed at directors, board members and executives who have to judge AI investment cases rather than build them, but worth the early start for anyone who has sat through a generative-AI business case they did not believe.

with Jean-Luc Trullemans (Head of the European Space Security and Education Centre, ESA - ESEC) · Julien Jamaux (Programme Officer for Space, DG DEFIS, European Commission) · Luc Delpha (Strategy and Offerings Director, Almond) + 2 more

A full day at ECE in the 15th on the cybersecurity of space infrastructure, run by Systematic's Cyber & Security Hub. The morning brings institutional and governance voices — ESA, the European Commission's DG DEFIS, private operators — onto the dual-use question: more satellites and more services mean more attack surface, and the regulatory and normative picture is still moving. Sessions cover new threats to space infrastructure, the Space Data Space, and technology for service resilience. The afternoon is given to Systematic's Defence Programme meetings on innovation and collaboration opportunities. Free, with a cocktail close.

HUSTLE's Paris entrepreneur networking evening at Pub Saint-Michel.

The thirty-seventh edition of FlexUp's curated networking session at STATION F: short focused presentations from startups and ecosystem partners, then open networking. Small deliberately, and recurring roughly fortnightly. Free.

The seventh Effect Paris, the local community around the Effect TypeScript ecosystem. Talks from engineers using it in production — error handling, dependency injection, concurrency, and the migration cost of adopting a functional runtime in an existing codebase. Small and technical. For TypeScript and functional-programming developers.

with Sylvain Merle (CTO, BCE (RTL Group)) · Inès Besbes (CEO, Seedext) · Thierry Pierre (Principal AI & Machine Learning Specialist, AWS)

A Paris meetup on securing AI systems, run by TrackIt with AWS on a barge moored by the Hôtel de Ville. The programme covers the security risks specific to large language models, a hands-on Capture The Flag workshop, practical strategies for protecting AI applications in production, and an expert panel with Sylvain Merle (CTO, BCE/RTL Group), Inès Besbes (CEO, Seedext) and Thierry Pierre (Principal AI & ML Specialist, AWS). Bring a laptop for the workshop. The evening closes with a cocktail. Registration is subject to host approval.

Future4care runs a Fresque-format workshop on AI in healthcare — the collaborative card-based method used for climate literacy, applied to how AI actually works and where it lands in clinical practice. Three hours, hands-on, at Future4care's digital-health campus in the 13th. Good for teams who need a shared vocabulary rather than another keynote.

A practical workshop on financing a new business and building a working relationship with your bank, run by Les Canaux on the Bassin de la Villette.

An English-language networking morning for founders, entrepreneurs and business builders at La Felicità, on the STATION F campus.

The 8th Paris Angular meetup, hosted by Upfast — talks for front-end developers working with Angular, followed by food and drinks.

A workshop at Le Cargo on persuasion and credibility when speaking — beyond the pitch deck, combining technique, practice and rhetoric.

Bouygues' central innovation directorate hosts the 2026 MIT Paris Symposium at the Auditorium Bouygues — MIT research brought to a French corporate-innovation audience, across AI, materials and industrial technology. A serious morning programme with an unusually good speaker pipeline for a free corporate-hosted event.

A keynote for executives on what separates organisations that land their AI transformation from those that stall — structured as a ten-step route.

A monthly entrepreneurs' breakfast in the 17th built around one concrete topic — prospecting, communication, financing or work-life balance.

with Valentin Cheneau (, )

A Paris meetup for users of the Wazuh open-source security platform, with a presentation from Valentin Cheneau, hosted at La Cordée Gare de Lyon.

with Julien Mansuy (Speaker, Gemba Engineering)

Lean Tech Paris runs a gemba session at Theodo in the 17th with Julien Mansuy — the lean practice of going to where the work actually happens, applied to software engineering. Less theory than most engineering-management evenings; the format is built around examining real work and real problems in front of the group. For engineering managers, tech leads and anyone trying to improve how a team actually delivers.

The French AWS user group meets on the Champs-Élysées for an evening on the least glamorous and most load-bearing part of agentic AI: who the agent is acting as, what it is allowed to touch, and how any of that survives an audit. Practitioner talks on identity, permissions and compliance for AI agents on AWS. For cloud architects, platform engineers and security teams.

Edition 17 of Enchanted Tools' Robot Drinks at the Café Enchanté — an evening among the Mirokaï robots with the team that builds them.

The Cercle Produit's first AI Dojo, rescheduled — a hands-on session for product people working with AI tooling, hosted at eXalt.

A monthly in-person networking evening for entrepreneurs in the 12th, run on a deliberately low-pressure format.

A structured working session for people stuck on a side project, launch, career change or training plan — designed to stop months disappearing on something that matters.

with Alexandra Roulet (Associate Professor of Economics, INSEAD)

A dinner with Alexandra Roulet, Associate Professor of Economics at INSEAD, on AI, employment and sovereignty — the questions behind the headlines, at the Yacht Club de France.

Tripo AI brings the Paris leg of its global 3D hackathon to Quartier Général on Saturday 17 October: a creative competition, a project showcase and an afternoon of industry networking, run as part of a wider programme spanning 15 September to 25 October. The brief, "A Gift for __", is open to videos, games and physical works made with Tripo and other tools. The prize pool across the hackathon is USD 80,000, of which USD 7,500 is reserved for Paris. Judging and awards happen on the day, alongside panels on AI and creativity and on taking AI tools to market. Confirmed guests include the German 3D artist Vincent Schwenk, Nicolas Barradeau, formerly artist-in-residence at the Google Arts and Culture Lab, and Jean-Rémy Chardonnet, professor and VR researcher at Arts et Métiers. Sponsors include World Labs, Jupiter, PICO, TapNow and HeyGears. Creators who missed the online deadline can still bring a project to Paris and enter on the day.

A full-day Mediapart event at the Espace Niemeyer on what the big technology companies are doing to the world — and the levers available to push back. Panels, reporting and debate.

Edition #39 of FlexUp's curated startup networking workshop at STATION F: short presentations followed by open networking for founders and ecosystem partners.

The annual Forum TERATEC — two days of conferences and exhibition at the Palais des Congrès covering high-performance computing, numerical simulation, AI and quantum computing. It has run for more than twenty years and draws roughly 2,000 decision-makers from aeronautics, defence, energy, logistics, health and finance alongside the HPC and simulation community. Registration and entry are free for both days. One of the few French events where industrial users of large-scale compute and the people who build it are in the same building.

A full day on the Open Platform at STATION F for the French greentech community — climate and environmental technology startups, the funds backing them, and the public bodies and industrial partners they sell to. The programme mixes pitch sessions from the Greentech Innovation cohort, panels on financing hardware-heavy climate businesses, and structured meetings between startups and corporate buyers. Free, and one of the few Paris dates where climate tech gets a room to itself rather than a track inside a general conference.

Awin brings affiliate-marketing practitioners together at its Paris office for a session on growth and innovation in the channel.

A pitch-and-networking night at the Café des Arts with live startup pitches, direct investor feedback and time to meet other founders.

Everybody says «AI agent»; almost nobody agrees what it means. Les Cercles de l'IA take the term apart, look at what is actually inside, and send you home able to use it precisely.

The first French edition of BSides ICS/OT, a one-day, non-profit, community-run conference on industrial control system and operational technology security. Two tracks of talks selected on merit, covering ICS/SCADA, industrial IoT and the IT/OT convergence problem — no vendor pitches, by and for practitioners. Relevant to security engineers, industrial automation staff, CISOs in manufacturing, energy and utilities, and anyone responsible for systems where a security failure has a physical consequence. In the 15th arrondissement.

Component Control's two-day European user conference for Quantum, its ERP platform for the aviation MRO and parts-distribution industry. Sessions cover product updates, customer implementations, operational workflows and roadmap discussion, alongside structured networking for European Quantum users. Note this is an enterprise software user conference for the aviation sector, not a quantum-computing event — worth knowing before you register. Aimed at existing users, aviation operations leads and IT staff supporting them.

The Interpreneurs Thursday gathering at Le Nelson's near the Louvre — an open floor to pitch your business and make connections that go beyond a business card.

CEFCYS holds its 16th colloquium at Le Village by CA as part of Cybermois 2026, the European cybersecurity awareness month — a day on the state of cyber practice and on women's careers in the field.

with Guillaume Oreckin (, ) · Philippe Silberzahn (, )

Is France still insurable? Guillaume Oreckin and Philippe Silberzahn debate the future of insurance against climate risk, AI and the limits of mutualisation, at the Collège des Bernardins.

A curated room at Pub St Germain for AI and tech founders, investors and operators, built around short pitches and introductions.

Pennylane's engineering, data and product teams walk through how AI actually shows up in their day-to-day work — what they adopted, what they dropped, and where the tooling helps versus where it costs more than it saves. Hosted at Le Wagon's Villa Gaudelet campus. A concrete counterweight to the abstract AI-productivity conversation, and useful for engineers and product people at any scale-up weighing the same decisions.