Tech events in paris

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.