Every AI event in Paris
Major shows, conferences, meetups and workshops across Île-de-France, each described in three lines: for whom, what happens, why go. Events nAIvigate attends are flagged, with a report afterwards.
Not to miss
GenerationAI Conference Paris 2026
For developers, architects and product leads. Three days at the CNIT, co-located with apidays: 4,000+ attendees, 500 companies, 150 speakers on enterprise generative AI. Why go: LLMs in production through APIs, tooling, agents and integration questions, with an audience of architects who have already deployed and are comparing vendors.
Adopt AI — Grand Palais 2026
For executives, CIOs and transformation leads. Second edition of Artefact's summit under the Grand Palais glass roof, billed as the "Davos of AI": sector summits (health, finance, industry, retail, planet), several stages, exhibitors and top-level networking, after a first edition with 20,000 attendees and 1,300 CEOs. Why go: this is where large-account AI adoption and budget decisions are made and where vendors pitch their enterprise offers; prepare with the governance and cost questions from our model cards.
Devoxx France 2027
For developers and architects. 15th edition: 240 talks, 80 exhibitors, about 4,500 people a day at the Palais des Congrès, with an "AI & Agentic Systems" track (LLMs, agents, MLOps, governance). Why go: three days of developers explaining how they put AI into real applications, in French.
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Agentforce World Tour Paris 2026
For sales, marketing and customer-service leaders and the CIOs who equip them. Vendor tour: Salesforce's Paris stop on Agentforce, its agents inside the CRM, with customer stories and demos. Why go: the largest "business agent" rollout on the market, to examine on cost per conversation and underlying models.
Red Hat Summit : Connect Paris 2026
For architects and infrastructure leads. Vendor tour: Red Hat's French day, with a growing share devoted to open-source AI (inference servers, open models on OpenShift). Why go: the "self-hosted on your own platform" path, the one that 119 open-weight models in our database make possible.
Data & AI Leaders Summit — Tech Show Paris 2026
For CDOs, CTOs, CIOs and innovation leads. The data and AI summit inside Tech Show Paris (10th edition), next to its Cloud and Cyber shows: executive talks, deployment case studies, exhibitors and side-by-side comparison of enterprise offerings. Why go: two days to survey enterprise AI vendors and ask them the governance, cost and data-residency questions we track in the Trust Index.
VivaTech 2027
For decision-makers, startups and the general public on the last day. Europe's largest tech event (record 180,000 visitors in 2025): Mistral, Hugging Face, Anthropic and the hyperscalers announce products and partnerships there. Why go: less for technical depth than to take the market's temperature and meet every vendor at once.
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Forum TERATEC 2026
For compute, infrastructure and research leads. The forum of the French HPC and AI ecosystem: supercomputers, GPUs, simulation, compute sovereignty. Why go: the infrastructure under the models, which decides what can be trained and hosted in France; complements ai-PULSE a week earlier.
Snowflake World Tour Paris 2026
For data leads and architects. Vendor tour: Snowflake's Paris stop, with its AI features (models hosted inside the data cloud, agents on data). Why go: understand the "models come to the data" approach, and ask about data and model residency, which we track in the Trust Index.
ai-PULSE 2026
For executives, engineers and researchers. Fourth edition of Scaleway's summit: one day, three stages, 70+ speakers and 2,000 expected attendees on frontier models, European compute, MCP and sovereignty. Why go: the event where European model hosting and infrastructure are actually discussed — the residency and self-hosting criteria we score in the Trust Index. Free but by application.
Dev With AI Conference
For developers and tech leads. One-day conference on AI-assisted development: coding agents, review, testing, team integration. Why go: the fastest-moving topic in dev teams, with field reports on what holds at team scale, not just in demos.
Builders & Brews : Hack Edition
For AI builders. A coworking and hack session from 3 pm to 9 pm: workshops, ideation, team-finding and technical support from sponsors. Why go: the AI Tinkerers rule — show running code, not pitches — makes it one of the best places in Paris to prototype fast and see what others are really building.
Dataiku Summit Paris 2026
For data and AI leads and their teams. Vendor tour: the Paris summit of Dataiku, the French data-science and agent platform, with large-account customer stories and product demos. Why go: a platform widely deployed in French enterprises, and a chance to compare its agent and governance approach with what we score.
Open Lakehouse + AI Meetup — Paris
For data engineers and architects. Meetup at La Fondation on open lakehouse architectures and their AI integration: table formats, catalogs, retrieval on enterprise data. Why go: the data layer under agents and RAG, which drives answer quality far more than model choice.
AI Engineer Paris 2026
For AI engineers, CTOs, VPs of AI and founders. Two days at Station F, about 1,000 attendees, 65+ technical talks across four tracks, hands-on workshops and an expo area, modelled on the AI Engineer World's Fair. Why go: the conference closest to the real practice of teams shipping agents and open-weight models to production, with the numbers you never get in keynotes.
Meetup GAIN #15 — AI Analytics et context engineering pour la self-BI
For data and BI leads. 15th GAIN meetup: how context engineering determines a reliable self-service BI model, with Hex and Omni demos. Why go: getting from "ask your data a question" to "get a correct answer", in French, from practitioners.
Monetizing AI Agents
For founders and product leads. Meetup on business models for AI agents: usage-, outcome- or subscription-based pricing, token costs, margins. Why go: the topic everyone dodges, with real numbers from people already selling agents, to set against our Cost Engine.
Narrative Coders — Projection IA
For the curious general public. Screening at Le Grand Action cinema organised by Narrative Coders, around AI and creation. Why go: a cultural rather than technical entry point. Programme and pricing on the registration page.
AI Tech & Startup Night — Paris
For founders, developers and the curious. Networking night at Pub St Germain, no talk programme: come to meet people building with AI. Why go: the simplest way into the Paris ecosystem during AI Engineer week.
OpenAI Builder Lounge Paris
For developers building on the OpenAI API. Builder session hosted by OpenAI alongside AI Engineer Paris: demos of the latest API and agent features, Q&A with the team. Why go: hear the roadmap first-hand and check the promises against the pricing and terms we track on the GPT model cards.
Advances in ASR — Doctolib
For speech and health researchers and engineers. Doctolib's first seminar on speech recognition: state of the art in ASR models, healthcare constraints, talks then networking. Why go: a real, regulated use case for the speech-to-text models we list, with the confidentiality questions that come with it.
FIA Afterwork #7 — La rentrée de l'écosystème IA
For founders, investors and AI leads. Back-to-school afterwork of the French AI ecosystem at La Felicità: short talks and networking. Why go: take the pulse of French AI startups and funding in one evening, in French.
Context is King #6 — Building AI Agents on Real Data
For agent builders. Sixth Context is King meetup by Flow AI and Aiven: implementation stories and demos on context engineering, MCP, memory, retrieval and tool use, on real data. Why go: this is what decides whether an agent survives production, covered by teams who did it, not by slides.
AI Engineer Warmup — H Company, Modal & Black Forest Labs
For AI engineers. AI Engineer Paris warm-up night with three labs: H Company (agents), Modal (serverless inference infrastructure) and Black Forest Labs (the FLUX models). Why go: three layers of the stack in one evening, including the publisher of the best-ranked open-weight image models in our database.
Make your Design System AI-ready
For designers and front-end developers. Hexa meetup on adapting a design system to AI interface-generation tools: tokens, components, agent-readable documentation. Why go: a concrete topic for product teams starting to let coding agents touch the UI.
Doctolib × Dust — Build AI Agents for Talent Acquisition
For HR leaders, recruiters and business AI leads. Doctolib's experience building recruiting agents with Dust: use cases, what worked, what was dropped. Why go: a real agent deployment in a support function, with the personal-data questions that come with it.
SAP NOW AI Tour France
For CIOs, CFOs and business leads on SAP. Vendor tour: SAP's French day on its AI features (Joule assistant, agents inside the ERP), demos, customer stories, partners. Why go: if your IS runs on SAP, this is where you see what the vendor is pushing and at what price.
AI Builders Paris — Daytona, Neo4j, Mistral & SGLang
For LLM builders. Side event the evening before AI Engineer Paris: agent, inference (SGLang, by LMSYS) and graph (Neo4j) demos with the Daytona and Mistral teams, then networking. Why go: meet the Mistral team directly and ask the inference and deployment questions you can't ask at a conference.
AI Engineer Kids Day — Paris (9-15 ans)
For children aged 9 to 15, with a parent. An afternoon of workshops to build a small game or connected object with AI, run by the AI Tinkerers Paris community and Neo4j. Why go: a serious, free introduction for kids to actually make something with a model.
STATION F — AI & Fintech Leaders Meetup
For fintech and banking executives and product leads. Station F meetup on AI applied to financial services: deployment stories, compliance, fraud, customer experience. Why go: a regulated sector where data residency, auditability and model vendor questions arise exactly as they do for a CIO.
Closing dotAI × H Company
For dotAI attendees and the builder community. Closing party hosted by French lab H Company at Albert School: drinks, food and networking after the conference. Why go: meet the teams of French AI labs and startups in an informal setting.
dotAI 2026
For AI engineers, data scientists and CTOs. Fifth edition of dotAI: a single track of 20-minute talks selected on merit, no sponsored slots, about 1,500 attendees at the Folies Bergère. Why go: the technical density and speaker calibre (Anthropic and Google DeepMind spoke in 2025) — the best place to hear what the labs are preparing for the next six months.
L'IA dans les collectivités : servir les agents et les citoyens
For CIOs and directors of local authorities and public bodies. A day on AI in local public service: citizen relations, tooling for staff, legal framework. Why go: the public sector has even stricter sovereignty and hosting constraints than the private sector, a good test of "sovereign AI" offers.
Les Apéros de l'IA × 40 ans de CB News
For marketing, media and communications leaders. Special edition of Les Apéros de l'IA at Stade Jean-Bouin for CB News' 40th anniversary: talks and networking on AI in media and communications. Why go: the business and adoption side of AI as seen by agencies and advertisers, a rare angle among technical meetups.
The Agentic Data Stack — Paris
For data and AI engineers. Talks and live demos: real-time analytics for agentic systems, the ClickHouse MCP server, LLM observability with Langfuse, then Q&A. Why go: see how agents are traced, measured and debugged in production, with real tooling.
Qoder × Qwen — Paris Night : From Weights to Production
For builders and CIOs curious about the Chinese stack. Qoder's first evening in France, the night before dotAI: live demo, talk and panel on "the model layer and the tooling layer in the same room", with Qwen. Why it matters: Qoder (Alibaba's agentic IDE and CLI) plus Qwen form a complete alternative to Claude Code or Cursor that teams will have to position against US offerings, governance included.
Big Data & AI Paris 2026
15th edition of France’s reference event for data and AI decision-makers: 15,000 expected participants, 200 exhibitors, 350 talks and workshops. The 2026 edition focuses on industrialising AI in the enterprise, with three rooms covering the data value chain: technical foundation, governance, business. Under the high patronage of the President of the Republic.
Paris AI Forum 2026
For executives and decision-makers. Conference organised by Les Echos alongside Big Data & AI Paris: adoption strategy, regulation, large-company case studies. Why it matters: the executive and economic angle on AI, in French.
Paris Open Source AI Summit 2026
For open AI practitioners and decision-makers. A summit dedicated to open-source models and tools, at the Maison de la Radio. Why it matters: the only Paris event centred on open-weight models, which make up 119 of the models we score.
RAISE Summit 2026
For executives, investors and researchers. International AI summit at the Carrousel du Louvre: thousands of attendees, lab and corporate leaders, keynotes and meetings. Why it matters: Paris's international AI showcase in early summer, useful to spot model and partnership announcements.
Machina 2026
For practitioners, product managers and data teams. A Station F day on applied AI: case studies, demos and networking for people putting AI into production. Why it matters: a concrete, implementation-oriented format rather than foresight.
Luxe Intelligenc.AI 2026
For luxury, fashion and premium-retail leaders. Conference on AI in luxury: customer experience, creation, supply chain, anti-counterfeiting. Why it matters: a rare vertical, with brand and confidentiality constraints that weigh on model choice.
Mistral AI Now Summit 2026
For Mistral customers and partners. Mistral AI's first flagship event: strategy, product workshops, demo stations. Why it matters: the roadmap of Europe's leading model publisher, to cross-check with its model cards and Trust Index.
Devoxx France 2026
For developers. France's reference developer conference, with a full AI track: LLMs, agents, MLOps, governance. Why it matters: the view from dev teams, not from vendors.
France Digitale AI Day 2026
For startup leaders and investors. Tenth AI Day, merged with the NoCode Summit: 2,000 attendees, talks, expo, workshops and business matchmaking. Why it matters: the early-year barometer of the French AI startup ecosystem.
We list AI-related shows, conferences, meetups and workshops in Île-de-France, updated every two weeks. No listing is sold; events where we are accredited or sponsored are flagged.
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