Tech events in paris

with Boris de Wit (Codex Ambassador, Hexa) · Oleksandr Tsepukh (Codex Ambassador, Codex Community)

A community hackathon and demo night run ahead of OpenAI's official DevDay Exchange, hosted by the Paris startup studio Hexa with Codex Ambassadors Boris de Wit and Oleksandr Tsepukh. Teams build online from 24 to 26 October with Codex or the OpenAI API, starting from a kickoff call on the Saturday morning, then present in person on the Monday evening. Doors 18:00, demos and Q&A from 19:00, winners at 20:30, close at 22:00. Ten tickets to the official DevDay Exchange on 28 October go to the winners. Two free ticket types, hackathon participant or demo-night visitor, both approval-gated, with the exact address shared on registration. Why go: the demos are projects built over that weekend rather than slideware, and the prize puts the winners in the official OpenAI room two days later. Best for developers shipping with Codex and anyone who wants to see what the Paris build crowd is actually making.

with Anis Ayari (Speaker, AI Meetup Paris) · Jonathan (Speaker, Independent)

The first edition of a new Paris AI community meetup, and the theme is the one most agent builders are stuck on: how agentic behaviour actually works and how to simulate it, rather than how to wire up another harness. Three short technical talks with live demos — Anis Ayari on the three principles of building a real-world simulation with AI NPCs, Jonathan on what sits behind the Pokemon benchmark used at OpenAI, and a third slot still to be confirmed — then an hour and a half of networking. Approval-gated and already oversubscribed; the exact address in the 2nd arrondissement is sent on acceptance. Free, run in French or English depending on the room. Why go: a first edition draws the people who go looking for rooms like this, and the talks are engineering detail rather than strategy. Best for people building agents and evaluating them.

with Guillaume Oreckin (, ) · Philippe Silberzahn (, )

A lunch debate at the Collège des Bernardins on whether climate change, granular data and AI-driven pricing are quietly dismantling the risk pooling that insurance rests on — and whether whole regions and residential property could end up uninsurable. Guillaume Oreckin, deputy CEO of Crédit Agricole Assurances and CEO of Pacifica, takes insurability across territories and the tension between individualised pricing and collective solidarity. Philippe Silberzahn, professor at emlyon and lecturer at HEC, takes what AI does to forecasting, mental models and decision-making. Gilles Martin and Alkéos Michaïl of 4ème Révolution moderate. Debate 12:30 to 14:00, lunch included. Paid, limited seats, registration closed 23 October. Why go: a real disagreement between an operator and a strategy academic about where AI pricing breaks a two-hundred-year-old business model. Best for insurtech and fintech founders, risk and data people in insurance, and anyone pricing climate exposure.

with Maxime Appé (Technical Product Manager, Dataiku) · Thierry Gengler (Engineering Manager, Dataiku) · Harizo Rajaona (Developer Relations Expert, Mistral AI)

Two talks on what breaks when LLM agents go into production, at Dataiku's Paris office. From 18:30, Maxime Appé, Technical Product Manager, and Thierry Gengler, Engineering Manager, both at Dataiku, on closing the agent reliability gap: agents that drift, loop, lose context, ignore constraints or add latency, and how structured visual agents put control back around them. From 19:15, Harizo Rajaona, Developer Relations Expert at Mistral AI, on serving a text-to-speech model at scale, covering tokenising audio without losing information, pairing a decoder with flow-matching transformers and streaming in real time, with Mistral's Voxtral TTS as the case. Open discussion and drinks after, to 21:30. Why go: agent reliability is the problem everyone running agents has and almost nobody writes up straight. Two teams shipping it will. Best for AI and platform engineers already in production.

Pennylane's engineering, data and product teams walk through how AI actually shows up in their day-to-day work — what they adopted, what they dropped, and where the tooling genuinely helps versus where it costs more than it saves. Hosted at Le Wagon's Villa Gaudelet campus in the 11th, free, from 18:30. Pennylane is one of the larger French fintech scale-ups, so the examples come from a real codebase under real delivery pressure rather than a demo repository. Why go: a company that has been all the way through the adoption cycle talking about the parts that did not work, which is the half nobody puts in a conference talk. A concrete counterweight to the abstract AI-productivity conversation. Best for engineers, data people and product managers weighing the same decisions, and for anyone tired of hearing only the wins.

The eighth afterwork run by FIA - Femmes dans l'IA, the French women-in-AI network, held at La Felicità inside Station F. There is no programme and that is the point: the evening is built for meeting people, comparing notes on AI projects and finding collaborators, and the network's own framing is that these are first of all encounters. Open to founders, professionals, researchers, engineers, students and investors — and, despite the name, the listing welcomes anyone interested in the field. Entry is free; drinks are on you. Why go: eight editions in, this is one of the few regular Paris AI rooms where the default conversation is career and collaboration rather than a vendor demo, and Station F's own bar makes it easy to stay. Best for people who want contacts in French AI rather than another talk.

with Nigel Morris (Co-founder, QED Investors) · Paul Mizrahi (Co-founder, BlackFin Capital Partners)

QED Investors and BlackFin Capital Partners are hosting a small dinner for fintech founders and investors. Nigel Morris, who co-founded Capital One and then QED, and Paul Mizrahi, who co-founded Fortuneo and then BlackFin, are both at the table alongside their teams. The framing is deliberately light: no decks, no pitch slots, just dinner and conversation. QED brings a global fintech book and BlackFin deep European financial-services operating experience, which is an unusual pairing to have in one room. Registration is by approval and the exact address goes to confirmed guests. Free. Why go: two people who each built a bank and then a fund that backs them, at a dinner table rather than on a stage. Worth the application if you are building or investing in European fintech and want the conversation a conference does not produce.

with Charles Lottmann (Founder, Nous Anti Gaspi)

Charles Lottmann, founder of Nous Anti Gaspi, on building his anti-waste grocery chain: how an impact model and ambitious growth targets hold together, and what that means for physical retail and for fundraising. Short format, an hour of story and questions, 9:30 to 10:30, at Journey, 44 rue des Petits Carreaux. The host is Eiffel Founders, the Paris hacker house founded by ten students of the X-HEC Entrepreneurs programme, which brings together founders, VCs and operators. Free, approval-gated registration, limited places. Why go: a ground-level account of physical commerce, a subject Paris meetups rarely cover next to software. Best for founders building an impact business with retail sites.

OpenAI is taking DevDay to eight cities this autumn and Paris is the fifth stop, after Bengaluru, Tokyo, Seoul and Berlin, with London, Sao Paulo and Mexico City to follow. The format across editions is technical sessions with OpenAI product and engineering teams, walkthroughs of real projects and Codex workflows, hands-on guidance on what attendees are building, and open conversation with OpenAI staff and other builders. The Paris programme was not published at the time of writing. Starts 14:00 on Wednesday 28 October. Attendance is by application at events.openai.com, and the venue goes to applicants once approved. No price is listed. Why go: this is the one afternoon this year that OpenAI's engineering team is in a Paris room taking questions, and the application gate keeps the audience builders rather than spectators. Best for developers and technical founders already shipping on the OpenAI stack.

with Mehdi Desmartin (Speaker, SignBridge) · Raphaël Bournhonesque (Speaker, Open Food Facts) · Lê Nguyên Hoang (Speaker, Tournesol) + 1 more

Four working products built on AI, demonstrated by the people who built them, then argued over: sign language with Mehdi Desmartin of SignBridge, food transparency with Raphaël Bournhonesque of Open Food Facts, content recommendation with Lê Nguyên Hoang of Tournesol, and water-leak detection with Hubert Baya Toda of Leakmited. Run by the Impact & Governance team at 42AI, the student AI association at École 42. Four fifteen-minute demo and Q&A slots, a forty-five-minute panel comparing what actually worked, then open questions. Damogran room, third floor, 96 boulevard Bessières. Free. In French, with English questions welcome. Why go: the demos are of shipped systems with real users, and the panel is explicitly about limitations rather than promise. Best for engineers and product people who want to see impact claims tested in the room.

with Emmanuel Orozco (Speaker and host, Hold My Club)

The fourth edition of Hold My Club's AI builders night, this one on automating the work nobody wants: the reports, the follow-ups, the copy-pasting between tools, how to spot what is worth automating, and how to keep it running when nobody is watching. Emmanuel Orozco opens with an audit of his own daily tasks, which ones he handed to tools, and how he measured the result. A second talk was still to be confirmed. After the talks come structured one-to-one rounds on what people are automating and what they are still doing by hand, then a team quiz. 19:00 to 22:00 at Villa Gypsy, 126 Rue Legendre in the 17th. Free, around 97 registered. Why go: the collaboration rounds make this one of the few AI evenings you leave having actually spoken to people rather than watched slides. Best for founders, developers and ops people drowning in repetitive work.

The first apéro from Hive, a private Paris community for women founders and professionals working in tech. No talks and no pitches: it is a drink built so that new members and longtime ones actually meet each other. At The Green Goose, 19 rue des Boulets in the 11th, from 19:00. The happy-hour menu runs to 20:00, with food and non-alcoholic options. Hosted by Mishar, Isabel Gardocki and Alexandra Ames. Free, registration through the page. Why go: Hive runs small curated gatherings rather than large mixers, and this is the first one, so the room is still forming. Best for women in Paris tech looking for a peer group rather than a stage.

with Thomas Paul Mann (CEO and Co-founder, Raycast) · Tuomas Artman (CTO and Co-founder, Linear) · Théo Carrive (VP Engineering, Mistral) + 1 more

Three people who ship widely used software talking about what AI actually changed in how they build it: Thomas Paul Mann, CEO and co-founder of Raycast, Tuomas Artman, CTO and co-founder of Linear, and Théo Carrive, VP Engineering at Mistral, moderated by Tanguy Le Stradic, CPO at Evy. The stated questions are the awkward ones: how to use AI in an architecture without becoming dependent on it, what happens to testing and maintainability when iteration cycles compress, and how to hire and structure engineering teams when the work itself is changing. Doors at 18:00, conversation at 18:30, Galerie Au Roi in the 11th. Free, approval required, 215 already registered. Why go: engineering leaders of this seniority rarely compare notes publicly, and the framing is failures as well as wins. Best for engineering managers, CTOs and senior builders.

with Chine Labbé (, NewsGuard) · Nadia Guerouaou (Neuroscientifique, )

A live public recording of the annual all-star episode of Trench Tech, the French tech-criticism podcast hosted by Cyrille Chaudoit and Mick Levy, on AI and disinformation ahead of the 2027 presidential election. The question on the table is whether AI is already in the voting booth. Guests are Chine Labbe of NewsGuard, which rates news sites for reliability, the neuroscientist Nadia Guerouaou, and Romane Maltnoy, the person behind the aqua-poney viral hoax. The show bills itself as neither technophile nor technophobe, and runs a guest expert plus short counterpoint columns each episode. Thursday 29 October at Cap Digital in the 10th. Free, registration through Eventbrite. Why go: the guest mix — a disinformation rater, a neuroscientist and someone who actually built a viral fake — is a sharper panel than the standard AI-ethics line-up, and you are in the room while it is recorded. Best for people working on content, trust and safety, or civic tech.

with Gerald Crescione (Lead, AI Security Engineers community, Snyk)

An AI Security Engineers meetup on what autonomous agents do to an attack surface. The first talk, from Gerald Crescione, who runs Snyk's AI Security Engineers community across more than thirty chapters, argues that software has become autonomous while security teams have not, and looks at where traditional AppSec models stop working against probabilistic systems. The second goes concrete: how a prompt injection hidden in an MCP tool description or a GitHub issue can hijack an agent, and why a container was never a security boundary — through to cluster control. Hosted by WeScale at 34 boulevard Haussmann. Free, in French, open registration. Why go: this is the specific attack surface most teams shipping agents have not yet threat-modelled, treated by practitioners rather than vendors. Best for security engineers and anyone putting agents near real systems.

An invitation-reviewed evening for startup and scaleup founders alongside a selected circle of actively deploying investors, at Flâneur Coffee Club in the 1st. Founders Mesh started in Amsterdam and runs editions in Los Angeles; this Paris edition is hosted with bunq, the Amsterdam-born digital bank for cross-border businesses, which is joining the Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin dates. Format: conversation first, with optional beer-crate pitches capped at two minutes, no decks and no judges. First drink included, wine and music after. The room is capped and attendance reviewed to keep the founder–investor balance; the organisers are explicit that the ticket is paid to filter for commitment rather than to cover entry. The price is not published on the listing. Why go: a vetted, deliberately small founder–investor room in a city where most of the alternative is a 200-person mixer. Best for founders raising soon and investors who want fewer, better conversations.

The closing night of Generathon #3, a 24-hour hackathon for AI content creation run by Le Motif and roland.builds during Paris Creator Week. Teams have spent the weekend building, and the best of them present on stage in two categories: Three Minutes to Scare, a short horror film format, and Sell the Fear, an ad format. Doors at 16:00, kick-off at 16:30, live screenings from 17:30, winners at 18:30, then food and networking until 20:00. Hosted by the startup studio Hexa at La Cristallerie in the 10th. Free, waitlist running. The content is deliberately horror-themed. Why go: it is the clearest read available on what frontier video and image models can be pushed to in a single weekend, with the makers in the room to ask. Best for filmmakers, creative directors and anyone building tools for them.

with Laura Savino (Speaker, Adobe) · Daniel Steinberg (Speaker, Dim Sum Thinking) · Antoine van der Lee (Speaker, RocketSim) + 2 more

The tenth edition of the French conference for iOS, Swift and Apple platform work, formerly FrenchKit. Two days of talks at the Théâtre de Paris for developers building on Swift, iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS. Speaking: Laura Savino (Adobe), Daniel Steinberg (Dim Sum Thinking), Antoine van der Lee (RocketSim), Matt Massicotte, Soroush Khanlou (Square), Chris Eidhof (objc.io) and Lucy Galik (Monzo). Tickets cover talks, catering and the social events; Late Bird passes at 499 EUR are the remaining tier. Doors from 09:00 on 2 November, 15 rue Blanche, 75009. Why go: ten years in, this is still the one room in France where the people writing Swift tooling and the people shipping large Apple apps spend two days together. Best for iOS and macOS engineers, and teams deciding how to structure a Swift codebase.

with Fariha Shah (Co-founder, programme patron, Cominty) · Laetitia Pfeiffer (Jury, Publicis Media) · Chloé Guilfoyle (Founder, Jury, Avalon) + 2 more

The demo day closing the first cohort of Entreprendre dans l'IA, FIA's accelerator programme for women founders building in AI. After several months of support the participants pitch what they have built — the idea, the first traction, the ambition — in front of a jury of Fariha Shah of Cominty, who is the programme's patron, Laetitia Pfeiffer of Publicis Media, Avalon founder Chloé Guilfoyle, Raphaëlla Levesque of Concentrix and Vanina Goncalves of Siemens Mobility. Le Comptoir Avalon in the 19th, two hours, free, open registration and explicitly open to outsiders. Why go: a first-cohort demo day is where you see French AI companies before anyone has written about them, and the jury is corporate buyers rather than only investors. Best for investors, partners and anyone scouting early French AI teams.

with Alexandre Laforge (Global Category Manager, ENGIE) · Imène Kabouya (Partner, AI leadership team, Wavestone) · Alfred El Murr (Senior Director Business Value Services, Salesforce) + 1 more

A breakfast panel from the INSEAD AI & Digital Transformation Club, hosted with Wavestone at Tour Franklin in La Défense, on what happens to consulting when clients have the same AI tools as their consultants. Will agents replace juniors, does billing by time survive, and what is an RFP when agents answer it? Three seats rarely at the same table: Alexandre Laforge, Global Category Manager at ENGIE, who runs the group's professional-services buying; Imène Kabouya, Partner at Wavestone and on its AI leadership team; and Alfred El Murr, Senior Director Business Value Services at Salesforce, ex-McKinsey. Moderated by Meryem Belqziz, co-author of the Conseil^IA white paper. Capacity is limited and ID is checked at reception. Why go: the buy side, the sell side and the vendor arguing about the same fee line, in public. Best for consultants, ESN leaders and the people who procure them.

The second of three monthly morning workshops in Systematic's Club Scale-up Deep Tech, capped at twenty people, at Village by CA-Paris in the 8th, 09:00 to 14:00. Two sessions. Justine Langer, business law consultant at Bignon Lebray, on adapting a shareholders' agreement as you grow: exit terms, anti-dilution, liquidation preference, good and bad leaver clauses, and how decision-making actually shifts when investors take board seats and veto rights. Then Etienne Portais, founder of Curiosity and Maddyness, on communicating critical deep tech on trust rather than novelty, including what to say when the detail is confidential, and which stakeholders and spokespeople matter. Open to leaders of Systematic member companies who meet at least two eligibility criteria, with priority to Systematic champions and hi-France alumni. Why go: twenty people and a lawyer walking through the clauses that bite at the next round beats a hundred-person panel. Best for deep tech founders between a seed and a Series A.

with Emily Lincoln-Gordon (Startups, Lovable) · Jonathan Chemouny (GTM, Global, ElevenLabs) · Stefany Ludeña (Head of Iberia, Italy, Benelux, Nordics, HubSpot for Startups)

AWS and HubSpot for Startups put Lovable and ElevenLabs on a panel about how AI-native companies actually win their first customers and then scale. The stated ground: product-led growth and letting the product drive adoption, going global across both developer and enterprise buyers, and building a sales and marketing engine that repeats. Emily Lincoln-Gordon runs Startups at Lovable, Jonathan Chemouny leads global GTM at ElevenLabs, and Stefany Ludeña heads Iberia, Italy, Benelux and the Nordics for HubSpot for Startups. Doors 17:00, welcome from AWS and HubSpot 17:15, panel 17:25, audience Q&A from 18:00, then networking and drinks. At Station F. Free, registration by approval. Why go: two of Europe's fastest-growing AI companies sending the people who own the revenue number rather than the brand team. Best for founders and early GTM hires who need the mechanics, not the narrative.

with Nathan Benaich (Founder & General Partner, Air Street Capital)

Air Street Capital brings the Paris launch of the 2026 State of AI Report, the annual survey of research, industry, safety and politics in artificial intelligence. Nathan Benaich, the report's author, presents the headline findings, followed by one or two fireside conversations on the year's key topics and refreshments. Registration is by approval and the exact address is shared with confirmed guests. Valid physical government ID is required on the door. Free. Why go: the State of AI Report is the one annual document most of the European AI industry actually reads, and hearing Benaich walk through it in a room that can push back beats skimming the deck. Best for investors, founders and research leads who want the year's arguments before everyone else starts quoting them.

Brave1 is Ukraine's government-backed defence technology cluster, and it is bringing a cohort of its startups to Paris during European Defence Week 2026. The companies pitching are actively raising and their products have been through battlefield feedback loops: Ukraine has gone from around ten defence and dual-use startups to more than 2,500 in a few years, with prototypes reaching the front line in weeks. The room is built for direct contact — European and international investors, defence industry leaders and institutional partners on one side, founders on the other. Doors 18:00, welcome and opening remarks 18:30, keynote 18:50, company pitches from 19:00, then an hour of networking and matchmaking. At the KOLO community space in the 20th. Free, registration by approval. Why go: the shortest route in Paris to Ukrainian defence tech founders who are raising right now. For investors, corporate development and anyone working in dual-use hardware.

Staff42's second special event, hosted and organised by Padoa at its office on Avenue de Wagram in the 17th, 18:30 to 21:30. The group's first one was on AI; this one is on development environments. The announced talk asks how you work on one component of a system without standing up the whole system, covering tooling, reproducibility and what actually makes a team faster. A second talk is listed as incoming and not yet announced. Q&A between the talks, then drinks and pizza. Hosted by Theotime L. Speakers are not named on the page yet. Why go: dev environments are what every engineering team quietly loses days to, and this is a small room where people compare what they actually run rather than what they would recommend. Best for backend and platform engineers, and tech leads picking tooling for a team.

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 Guillaume Huart (Deputy Director, Institut Imagine)

The pitch evening for the new Biolaunchpad cohort, the acceleration programme run out of Institut Imagine. This intake's project leaders pitch their health innovations to the room. Running order: welcome at 17:30, opening at 18:00 by Guillaume Huart, Deputy Director of Imagine, a run of pitches until 19:15, then a networking cocktail. At 24 boulevard du Montparnasse, 75015. Free, registration subject to approval by hosts Pauline Seiter and Chloé Sourisseau. Why go: this is where you see a health deeptech cohort before it raises, with the project leaders in the room to talk it through. Best for health investors, corporates and researchers who want to source early.

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 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.

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.

A recurring open-registration networking evening at Tennessee - Paris in the 6th, run by Progressive Entrepreneur. No programme, no speakers; a long-running series that rolls forward continuously.

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 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.