Paris, France · Event Grassroots networking meetup in Paris for early-stage AI founders, angels, and local builders. Smaller format designed for candid conversations, quick pitches, and co-founder or talent discovery in the pre-seed ecosystem.
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Paris, France · Event A one-day technical AI conference organised by cloud provider Scaleway at Station F in Paris, dedicated to AI breakthroughs, research and product demonstrations for leaders and engineers. The event spotlights frontier models, infrastructure and applied AI for the European ecosystem.
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Paris, France · Event Organised by RX France, Big Data & AI Paris is one of Europe's largest data and AI gatherings, held 15–16 September 2026 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. The two-day event combines 220+ exhibitors with the 'Innovative Minds' conference programme spanning tech, governance, and business tracks, drawing around 15,000 professionals.
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Paris, France · Event Leading European construction-tech and PropTech event focused on BIM, digital twins, and smart buildings, drawing 10,000+ professionals to Paris. The expo is free with registration; conference passes cost about EUR 450. A strong launchpad for startups in energy-efficient design, AI-driven site management, and real estate digitalization.
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Nantes, France · Event Specialized bioeconomy and bioenergy event covering biomass, waste-to-energy, and carbon capture. Price: free for verified professionals or about EUR 50-100. Includes startup pitches and B2B matchmaking for industrial pilots.
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Marseille, France · Event Europe's leading partnering event for early-stage life-sciences innovation and technology transfer, in its 15th edition at Parc Chanot in Marseille. Built around one-on-one partnering meetings, it is ideal for biotech and medtech founders seeking licensing deals, academic collaborations, and early investors.
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Paris, France · Event BIG (Bpifrance Inno Génération) 2026, billed as Europe's largest business gathering, takes place on Thursday 8 October 2026 at the Accor Arena in Paris under the theme 'place au culot' (audacity). Organized by Bpifrance, France's public investment bank, it brings tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, SME and corporate leaders, researchers and investors together for hundreds of conferences, masterclasses, expert clinics and networking, free to attend.
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Paris, France · Event Global climate and impact summit under the Grand Palais roof connecting founders with investors, corporates, and public-sector decision-makers. High-value platform for climate startups seeking B2B/B2G pilots, procurement pathways, and scale partnerships in sustainability and transition infrastructure.
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Paris, France · Event ChangeNOW 2027 returns to the iconic Grand Palais in Paris for three days dedicated to accelerating solutions for the planet. The summit convenes impact-driven startups, investors, policymakers, and corporations around climate, biodiversity, social innovation, and the energy transition. The 2027 edition dates are officially announced on the event website with pre-registration open.
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Paris, France · Event Community-led cloud conference at CENTQUATRE-PARIS focused on practical engineering sessions over vendor marketing. Strong match for infrastructure startups and DevOps-first teams working on Kubernetes, platform tooling, and secure cloud operations.
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Nantes, France · Event One of France's largest community developer conferences, two days of technical talks and workshops at the H Arena. Strong for developers and dev-tooling founders wanting depth and access to a large French developer audience.
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Toulouse, France · Event A one-day community developer conference run by the Google Developer Group at the Diagora congress centre in Labège. For developers and technical founders in the Occitanie ecosystem it offers practical talks across cloud, AI, web, and mobile, plus regional networking.
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Paris, France · Event Developer-first conference centered on software architecture, cloud systems, and modern engineering practices. Strong channel for DevTools and infrastructure startups building technical communities with senior engineers and CTOs.
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Paris, France · Event A single-track, builder-focused AI conference at the Folies Bergère for around 1,500 AI engineers and researchers, with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, NVIDIA, and Databricks. Best for technical founders and AI developers who want deep content over expo-floor noise.
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Paris, France · Event Specialist cardiology congress in Paris focused on heart rhythm disorders, arrhythmia management, and electrophysiology innovation. Attracts 5,000+ clinicians, device manufacturers, and researchers. Registration costs about EUR 600-1000. Particularly relevant for ECG AI, cardiac monitoring, and implantable device startups seeking clinical validation and distribution partners.
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Cannes, France · Event Europe's largest annual Ethereum conference, organized by the non-profit Ethereum France team and rotating between Paris and Brussels. The 9th edition draws 6,000+ developers, protocol researchers, DeFi founders, and L2 engineers for four days of deep-technical talks, core-dev working groups, and a packed satellite-event calendar of side meetups and hackathons. EthCC is the default summer checkpoint for the European crypto ecosystem — if you're building on Ethereum, this is where the conversations happen. Tickets EUR 600-1,500.
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Paris, France · Event Week-long deep-tech programming across Paris with major sessions at Station F and Bpifrance-linked venues, designed to connect science-based founders with industrial buyers and patient capital. Includes deep-tech summit programming across SpaceTech, quantum, robotics, and advanced manufacturing.
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Paris, France · Event The flagship summit of the French quantum ecosystem, held at Station F for its 5th edition. For deeptech founders and researchers it concentrates the country's quantum hardware and software players, corporates, and specialist investors into one day of conferences and demos.
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Bordeaux, France · Event The flagship showcase of the Bordeaux and Nouvelle-Aquitaine tech ecosystem at Stade Atlantique, in its 5th edition with 50 startup stands and 700+ decision-makers. For regional founders it is the key local visibility and networking event with investors and corporate leaders.
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Lille, France · Event France's main annual gathering of video game professionals, in its 8th edition, organised by Game IN and the SNJV at the Université Catholique de Lille. For game-studio founders and developers it is two days of industry talks, workshops, and B2B networking.
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Paris, France · Event France's massive industrial gathering with a startup village and Industry 4.0 showcases. Price: free for professionals with badge. Strong for industrial IoT and smart manufacturing startups.
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Lyon, France · Event The major entrepreneurship event for the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region at La Sucrière in Lyon, expecting around 10,000 founders, freelancers and business leaders. With roughly 300 speakers and 120 conferences across a main stage and eight stages, it features pitch battles, expert panels and networking.
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Paris, France · Event The leading French event on responsible and sustainable digital technology, held at Station F with around 2,500 participants. For climate and greentech founders it offers conferences, workshops, and an exhibition focused on concrete tools for sustainable digital transition.
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Paris, France · Event Flagship global personal care ingredients trade fair at Paris Porte de Versailles with 10,000+ formulators and brand buyers and 700+ exhibitors. Free with pre-registration or about EUR 100 on-site. Ideal for biotech, green chemistry, and sustainable cosmetics startups seeking ingredient adoption and multinational brand partnerships.
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Paris, France · Event One-day insurtech and digital finance conference in Paris focused on insurance transformation, cybersecurity, and AI-driven underwriting. Brings together insurance executives, brokers, and technology providers. Valuable for insurtech startups building claims automation, risk analytics, and digital distribution platforms for the French insurance market.
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Laval, France · Event One of Europe's longest-running immersive technology events, focused on practical XR deployment across healthcare, manufacturing, and defense. Strong venue for spatial-computing founders building B2B hardware and software products.
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Cannes, France · Event Premier real estate conference with a dedicated PropTech hub. Price: about EUR 2500+. Strong for startups pitching to developers and real estate investors.
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Paris, France · Event European-wide open-source business and technical conference in Brussels, bringing together 5,000+ OSS contributors, European corporate users of open source, and public-sector decision-makers. Program covers enterprise OSS strategy, supply-chain security, European digital sovereignty, and sustainable OSS funding models. Tickets EUR 200-500.
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Paris, France · Event Premier European gathering for institutional Web3 and digital assets at Carrousel du Louvre. Strong concentration of founders, C-suite decision-makers, and liquidity providers. Startup competition applications close close to event week, with finalists pitching live on stage to investors and industry operators.
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Paris, France · Event Invite-only fintech conference hosted at the Palais Brongniart, gathering 2,500+ senior executives, regulators, and investors from the global financial-services and fintech ecosystem. Content spans open banking, embedded finance, crypto regulation, payments innovation, and insurtech. Tickets EUR 1,500+.
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Paris, France · Event Paris Retail Week, held as NRF Retail's Big Show Europe at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, is a major gathering for the future of retail in Europe. Organised by the National Retail Federation with Comexposium, it brings retailers, brands and technology partners together around retail innovation and commerce tech.
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Lyon, France · Event Europe's leading environmental and energy technologies trade show at Eurexpo Lyon, organised by RX. Pollutec covers waste, water, energy, contaminated sites, air quality, risk prevention and the bioeconomy, connecting cleantech and greentech startups with industry, utilities and public buyers.
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Paris, France · Event A large-scale AI leadership summit at the Carrousel du Louvre with 9,000+ attendees, 350+ speakers, and 2,000+ companies, centred on enterprise AI adoption and ROI. Useful for AI and SaaS founders targeting enterprise buyers and seeking visibility with corporate innovation teams and investors.
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Sophia Antipolis, France · Event Developer conference on the French Riviera at SKEMA Business School in Sophia Antipolis: one Deep Dive day plus two conference days, 50 talks and 30 workshops for around 700 attendees across web, cloud, DevOps and AI tracks.
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Paris, France · Event France's leading govtech and public-sector trade show under the theme 'Boldness is local', drawing roughly 65,000 visitors and 1,380 exhibitors at Porte de Versailles across digital, energy, mobility, safety and urban-development solutions for local authorities.
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Paris, France · Event The 19th edition of PRODURABLE at the Palais des Congrès in Paris is the largest European meeting for the sustainable economy, with around 15,000 visitors, 800 speakers and 350 partners. It convenes decision-makers, impact startups and investors around sustainability and ecological transition.
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Paris, France · Event Major French healthcare and hospital innovation expo with a large innovation village for digital health ventures. High-value event for founders targeting public-hospital procurement and clinical pilot partnerships.
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Lyon, France · Event SIDO Lyon is Europe's leading B2B show for IoT, AI, robotics, and XR, organised by Infopro Digital Trade Shows at the Cité Internationale de Lyon on 16–17 September 2026. The 2026 edition gathers 300+ exhibitors and around 210 speakers across some 70 conference sessions, with dedicated zones for sustainable tech (Impact by SIDO) and collaborative robotics (Innorobo by SIDO).
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Montpellier, France · Event A two-day developer and product conference in Montpellier in its 7th edition, with around 85 sessions across five tracks. Aimed at developers, product people, and designers — a solid mid-sized event for technical founders building in the south of France.
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Paris, France · Event First edition of an Industry 4.0 trade show at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, with 100+ exhibitors, 4,000+ visitors and 40+ conferences on industrial software, IT/OT convergence, AI, connected robotics and supply chain 4.0.
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Paris, France · Event An enterprise-tech mega-event at Porte de Versailles bundling five co-located shows covering cloud and AI infrastructure, DevOps, cloud and cyber security, data and AI leadership, and data centres. For infrastructure, devtools, and security startups it is a single badge to reach enterprise IT buyers across the whole stack.
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Paris, France · Event France's flagship B2B innovation matchmaking day at Parc Floral de Paris, organized around pre-scheduled 20-minute meetings between startups and industrial buyers. Designed for high meeting density and fast enterprise business development in Industry 4.0 and industrial transformation.
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Toulouse, France · Event An international space-industry summit in Toulouse, Europe's space capital, organised by Novaspace with the Occitanie region. For spacetech and deeptech founders it is a focused venue to meet space agencies, primes, and investors shaping the resilient-space agenda.
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Paris, France · Event The world's leading HR and workforce technology conference and expo, organized by UNLEASH Group at the Paris Convention Center on 20-22 October 2026. Three days across seven conference stages, summits, an exhibition and startup showcases covering AI, skills, workforce strategy, reward, people analytics and the future of work, drawing thousands of senior HR leaders and HR-tech buyers.
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Paris, France · Event Europe's largest startup and technology event at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, marking its 10th anniversary in 2026. Core value for founders is open-innovation deal flow with corporates and investors. Startup Challenge applications typically run on rolling tracks and often close in late March to early April 2026 depending on partner challenge.
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Cannes, France · Event Large-scale AI conference at the Palais des Festivals with 10,000+ attendees, 320 speakers, and 220+ exhibitors expected for 2026. Program tracks include AI for Business, AI Governance, and Health AI, making it a high-value venue for founders seeking enterprise pilots and investor visibility.
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