Tech events in paris

Weekend hackathon on computer-use agents: AI that operates real websites, desktop apps and software interfaces to finish a task. H Company supplies its Agents API and models. 42 Artificial Intelligence co-hosts, with Cognition (Devin), Gladia, Linkup, Stripe and Morning backing it. Saturday 7 November: check-in 09:00, kickoff 09:45, hacking from 10:30. Submissions close Sunday 8 November at 14:00, then judging. €13,000 in prizes (€5,000, €3,000 and €2,000 for the top three teams), API credits, mentoring from H Company engineers, meals included. Free; registration is approval-gated and the exact address is shared once you're accepted. Why go: you build with a frontier agent lab's own team on hand. Best for engineers who want a working demo by Sunday afternoon.

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 Thomas Humeau (Full Stack Data Scientist, Alan) · Romaric Philogène (CEO & Co-founder, Qovery) · Charline Boulie (Senior Solutions Architect, Startups, AWS)

Second Opinion is Alan's tech event series, and this second edition is about agents that survive production. Three talks, then Q&A: Thomas Humeau (Full Stack Data Scientist, Alan) on keeping LLM health answers safe; Romaric Philogène (CEO and co-founder, Qovery) on who should be allowed to write to production, with a live demo; Charline Boulie (Senior Solutions Architect for Startups, AWS) on treating context as a budget for cost, quality and privacy. Doors 18:00, talks 18:30, drinks and networking from 20:00, at 117 quai de Valmy, Paris 10e. Free; registration is approval-gated. Why go: practitioners who run agents in a regulated product, not another demo reel. Best for AI engineers and CTOs shipping agents this year.

Hands-on workshop on going from discovering Claude to using it for real work. Expect worked use cases in sales and go-to-market, marketing and communication, physical AI and research, with time for questions. Anyone who has already built something with Claude can say so at registration and get a few minutes to demo it. Thursday 12 November, 18:30 to 21:00, hosted by swanbase, the early-stage startup accelerator in Paris. The session is in French. Free; registration is approval-gated and the address is shared once you're accepted. Why go: a workshop with demos from the room beats another talk. Best for founders and teams who want concrete Claude workflows, not theory.

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.

with Bertrand Braunschweig (Scientific Coordinator, Be SOVEREIGN)

The first edition of Be SOVEREIGN, a B2B congress on digital resilience and sovereignty held at the Pullman Paris Montparnasse under the patronage of Anne Le Hénanff, Minister Delegate for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs. The programme addresses regulatory pressure from NIS2, DORA and the Cyber Resilience Act, dependence on non-European technology, the security of critical infrastructure, and rising cyber and information threats, with an emphasis on moving from principle to implementation. Bertrand Braunschweig is announced as scientific coordinator.

with Guillaume Laffont (Head of the Systems and Photonics for Monitoring Laboratory, CEA) · Jean-François Vinchant (President, Optics & Photonics Hub, Systematic Paris-Region) · Sébastien Daveau (CEO, Xfab) + 1 more

The seventh edition of Systematic Paris-Region's photonics day, co-organised with Sorbonne Université in Amphi 25 at Jussieu. Four strategic themes across the day: photonics and nuclear, photonics and decarbonisation, a round table on photonics as a lever of technological sovereignty, and photonics for AI. Around 100 professionals — SMEs, large industrials, researchers and students. Named speakers include Guillaume Laffont (CEA), Christian Simon (Sorbonne Université FabLab), Ronald Berger-Lefébure (Iumtek), Frédéric Delbos (Vaisala), Isabelle Bouessay (IPVF), Karl Durocher (Horiba France), Sébastien Daveau (Xfab), Thomas Antoni (CentraleSupélec) and the founders of Ncodin, Icon Photonics, h-nu and LumiAIres. The programme is provisional and more speakers are being added. Free for members in good standing, €89 otherwise. Why go: the only Paris room this autumn where photonics meets nuclear, energy and AI compute in one agenda. Best for deeptech founders, hardware engineers and investors looking at the optical layer.

The first edition of a festival built around human rights in the age of AI, opening its international tour at the Forum des images before São Paulo, New York, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Mumbai, Quito and Geneva. An open international call drew more than 2,100 films from over 140 countries; 20 are screened here, with a Grand Prix, a Screenplay Prize and an Ethics Prize awarded on the night. Between the screenings, four hour-long conversations from 14:15: how image models learn and on whose data, who tells the story when machines enter the writers' room, and what crediting and paying authors looks like next. Speakers are still to be announced. Non-profit organiser, free entry, registration required and places limited. Why go: it treats generative AI as a question about authorship and consent rather than a product demo, and it is the one night this is argued in a cinema. Best for anyone building or using generative tools in media and design.

The first edition of Compute!, a new conference series on open-source data science, AI and scientific computing, held at Sorbonne Université's international conference centre at 4 place Jussieu. The keynote line-up is the reason to pay attention: Fernando Pérez, founder of Project Jupyter; Mackenzie Mathis, working at the intersection of neuroscience and AI; Inès Montani, co-founder of explosion.ai and creator of the NLP library spaCy; and Wolf Vollprecht, creator of Pixi and CEO of prefix.dev, rebuilding package management for scientific computing. Registration is through the organisers' own link rather than the Meetup page. Runs 25 and 26 November, from 08:30. Why go: four people whose tools are already installed on your machine, in one room, at a first edition small enough to talk to them. Best for data scientists, research engineers and maintainers.

with Cécile Schuster (EMEA Agentic AI GTM Lead, )

From sell-and-move-on to sell-and-manage: Cécile Schuster, EMEA Agentic AI GTM lead, on what AI actually changes for salespeople.

datacraft's meetup for people who design, test or deploy agentic AI systems. Short lightning talks on real experience, then open discussion: architecture choices (autonomous agents, orchestrated workflows), picking a model per task, evaluating quality and reliability, trade-offs between performance, cost and latency, measuring ROI, and what failed. No keynote and no announced speakers. Thursday 26 November, 18:00 to 20:00 at datacraft, 3 rue Rossini, 75009 Paris. The event is in French. Registration needs host approval. Why go: a peer room where people bring production failures as well as wins, which makes a change from demo-heavy agent talks. Best for AI engineers and data scientists shipping agents.

The closing night of the first VC Ready cohort, at 22 rue de Caumartin in the 9th. Twenty-five startups that have spent six months preparing to raise pitch to juries of funds, business angels and sector experts, organised by theme, followed by a final round between the shortlisted teams and a networking cocktail. VC Ready is a free six-month programme for founders from under-represented areas, unconventional backgrounds or outside the usual venture networks, run with a view to investment through the Time4 impact fund that Les Déterminés co-founded with Daphni, HEC Paris and Live for Good. Free, 18:30, three and a half hours. Why go: twenty-five raising teams you will not have seen on any other demo day, with the people who coached them in the room. Best for angels, fund associates and operators looking for early deal flow.

The eighth DevFest Paris, run by GDG Paris as an independent non-profit day, moved to La Fabrique de la Connaissance at Nanterre-Université: twelve private rooms, two terraces and the whole venue taken over for the day. Five tracks across conference talks, workshops, quick talks and a round table, covering AI, cloud, web, mobile and DevSecOps, with more than 30 local and international speakers for around 450 developers, engineers and data scientists. Standard tickets are €59. The eight editions together have drawn over 2,200 attendees. 27 November. Why go: community-run and non-profit means the programme is chosen by practitioners rather than sponsors, and at 450 people you can still reach every speaker. Best for working developers who want depth rather than keynotes — note the venue is in Nanterre, not central Paris.

Innovation Outre-Mer holds its eleventh Soirée Innovation Outre-Mer at STATION F — the awards night for founders and projects from France's overseas territories, followed by a dinner cocktail and open business networking. The laureates are announced and presented on the night; no speaker list is published in advance. 18:30 to 23:00. Tickets are 100 euros for a single entry, with blocks of seven, fifteen and twenty available, the largest including logo placement and a dedicated interview. Why go: the overseas French tech ecosystem gets almost no visibility in Paris, and this is the one evening a year where its founders, the funds that back them and the public bodies behind them are all in the same room. Best for founders working in or with the DOM-TOM, investors looking outside the Paris bubble, and anyone running an ecosystem programme that is supposed to cover the whole country.