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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.

Paris&Co's sportstech showcase: an evening of startup pitches, demos and networking around technology applied to sport, from performance data and wearables to fan experience and venue operations. Paris&Co is the city's innovation agency and runs one of the better-connected sportstech programmes in Europe, so the room tends to mix founders with federations, clubs and corporate sponsors. Free, and a rare concentration of the French sportstech ecosystem in one place.

Hexagon UX France brings a France Design Week session to Le Laptop on how product and tech working practices grind people down — and what designers, PMs and engineering leads can actually change about it. Expect an honest practitioner conversation about process, deadlines and organisational design rather than wellness platitudes. Relevant to anyone leading a product or design team, and free.

Paris AI Developers Group hosts the premiere screening of a documentary on AI agent security, followed by discussion with the community. Agent security is exactly where the practical conversation is right now — prompt injection, tool permissions, what happens when an agent holds credentials — and a screening plus Q&A is a better format for it than another slide deck. For engineers, security leads and anyone shipping agents into production.

The Paris AI community's monthly apéro goes large for one night: Les Apéros de l'IA take over Stade Jean-Bouin for CB News' 40th anniversary. Expect the usual crowd of AI founders, agency strategists, media operators and adtech people, at roughly ten times the usual scale. Less a conference than the best room in Paris for anyone working where AI meets media, marketing and communications — come for the conversations, not the slides.

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.

Blockchain for Good opens its Paris season with an informal apéro at Le Relais du Vin. The community sits at the intersection of Web3 and impact — public-good infrastructure, traceability, decentralised identity — and the format is deliberately low-key: no panel, just the people building in it. A good entry point if you want to meet the French Web3-for-good crowd without sitting through a conference.

AI Tinkerers Paris reopens the season at HETIC with a double bill: a beginner-friendly AI Builder Day for adults running alongside an AI Engineer Kids Day for 9-15 year-olds. The kids' tracks build a video game with Mistral, Godot and MCP, and a sensor project on breadboard with an Arduino Nano; the adult track is the usual Tinkerers format of building something that works in an afternoon. Cross-listed on Luma and the AI Tinkerers chapter page, and part of a 231-city global network. Bring a laptop.

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.

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.

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.

The warmup night for AI Engineer Paris 2026, co-hosted by H Company, Modal and Black Forest Labs. Three of the more interesting names in European and US AI infrastructure and image generation in one room the night before the conference proper — agent labs, serverless GPU, and open-weight image models. If you are in town for AI Engineer, this is where the conference actually starts.

The sixth edition of Context is King, hosted in the AWS office at STATION F, on the unglamorous half of agent engineering: getting real production data into an agent's context window without it falling over. Retrieval, context assembly, evaluation, and what breaks at scale. A recurring series with a technical audience, held on the world's largest startup campus — one of the more substantive AI engineering meetups in Paris.

Dust and Doctolib walk through how agents are actually being used inside a large European scale-up's recruiting function — what got automated, what did not, and what the team learned building it. Concrete internal-tooling detail from a company at real scale is rarer than it should be, and useful well beyond HR: this is a case study in shipping agents into a live business process.

A founder showcase run by five degrees: a short set of company presentations followed by open networking with investors and operators. Smaller and more curated than the open-invite pitch nights, which usually means better conversations per hour. Worth a look if you are raising, angel-investing, or simply want to see what is being built in Paris right now.

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.

Reasoning Project hosts a session on the commercial question nobody has settled: how you actually charge for an agent. Usage-based, outcome-based, seat-based, and what happens to gross margin when inference is your cost of goods. Relevant to founders, product leads and anyone pricing an AI product — and a rarer topic than the engineering talks that dominate the Paris AI calendar.

Hexa (formerly eFounders) runs a Founder Members session on what it is actually like to join a startup as one of its first hires — equity, scope, risk, and how to judge whether the company is worth it. Hexa has built a long list of B2B SaaS companies from its Paris studio, so the perspective is first-hand. Useful for anyone weighing a move out of a bigger company.

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.

A breakfast keynote from LA CABRIK on what AI changes for executive decision-making and governance — how boards and management teams should actually organise around it, rather than another tour of the technology. Short, senior-facing format in the 8th arrondissement; free.

An evening at The Westin Paris Vendôme on where autonomous driving actually stands in France — regulation, infrastructure, and what a robotaxi rollout would require here. Organised by Tesla Magazine, so expect an enthusiast slant, but the venue is serious and the topic is genuinely live for anyone in mobility, sensors or transport policy.

A one-day AI gaming hackathon from {Tech: Europe}, the pan-European builder community that has been running some of the better-attended hack days on the continent. Teams build playable AI-driven game prototypes in a day, with demos at the end. Good for engineers and technical founders who would rather build than listen, and one of the few hackathon slots in the Paris window.

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.

Cercle Europe IA & Finance presents its European digital-sovereignty programme for 2026-2030: cloud and AI independence, procurement, and what it would take for European infrastructure to be a real option for regulated industries. A morning briefing with a policy and finance audience — the sovereignty argument is shaping French procurement right now, so worth hearing directly.

The annual day of FHU MOSAIC², the university hospital federation for research, at the Bichat site of Université Paris Cité. Clinical research meets data and AI methodology — a more academic room than most of the Paris calendar, and a good one if you work on health data, biostatistics or clinical-grade ML.

A joint session from the Agence du Numérique en Santé and Inria on natural language processing applied to health data, at PariSanté Campus. Two of the most credible public research and digital-health bodies in France in one room — expect real method and real datasets rather than a vendor pitch. For data scientists, clinicians and healthtech builders.

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.

Flutter Paris restarts with a session on edge AI in mobile apps — running models on-device, what that costs in battery and binary size, and where it beats a round trip to the server. Hosted at Ippon Technologies. A smaller group than the big AI meetups, which usually means you actually get to talk to the speakers.

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.

with Dominique Vidal (Investor, Eurazeo)

STATION F hosts Dominique Vidal for an hour on how an investor actually reads a company — what gets a second meeting, what kills a deal, and how his own judgement has changed. Vidal has been one of the more consistently candid voices in French venture, and a one-hour format with a named investor on the record is worth more than most panels. Free, in the Creativity Room.

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.

Women Techmakers Paris and Google host an evening on AI applied to health and medicine — clinical decision support, imaging, and the regulatory reality of deploying any of it in Europe. WTM Paris consistently programmes better speaker line-ups than its size suggests, and the health-AI angle is one of the strongest threads in the French ecosystem right now.

The Temporal community's Paris meetup, hosted by ScorePlay, on making AI workflows durable — retries, long-running agent state, and what happens when a multi-step pipeline fails halfway through. A genuinely engineering-first session on a problem most AI teams hit in their second quarter of production.

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.

Cerebras brings its Cafe Compute meetup to Paris — a practitioner evening on inference speed, wafer-scale hardware and what changes when a model runs an order of magnitude faster. Hardware-adjacent AI events are thin on the ground in Paris, which makes this a useful one for anyone whose bottleneck is inference rather than model quality.

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.

AI Tinkerers Paris runs a hands-on build afternoon alongside the Nebius Global AI Hackathon with NVIDIA: open-source AI, workshops, mentorship and focused build time, with $50,000+ in prizes across the global event including a $500 city winner. No submission required to attend, which makes it a rare low-friction way to spend an afternoon building with other engineers.

Mistral hosts the second edition of its LLM x Law hackathon: a full day building legal-AI prototypes with teams of engineers and lawyers. Legaltech is one of the clearest near-term commercial applications of language models, and a Mistral-run hackathon is about as good an entry point into the French legal-AI scene as exists. Free, full day, teams formed on site.

A full-day strategy lab at EDHEC Business School run by its Management in Innovative Health chair, working through what AI in oncology plausibly looks like by 2030 — evidence, reimbursement, deployment and the gap between trial and clinic. Structured working format rather than a talks programme; for people in healthtech, pharma, clinical research or health policy.

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 evening debate at EDHEC on whether Europe can actually fund, regulate and deploy AI in cancer care at the scale it talks about. The evening companion to the same chair's daytime strategy lab, and a sharper, more argumentative format. Free.

AWS Startups and Stripe run a morning session in the AWS office at STATION F on the infrastructure and payments decisions early-stage companies get wrong — architecture, credits, billing models and international expansion. Two of the most-used building blocks in any SaaS stack, explained by the people who run them, on campus. Free.

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.

The Agence du Numérique en Santé's second Rencontres, at PariSanté Campus: the national digital-health agency setting out where France's health-data and interoperability programmes actually stand. If you build anything that has to connect to French health infrastructure, this is the room where the rules get explained by the people who write them.

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.