# Startup & founder events in Paris

Curated by [foundercal.com](https://foundercal.com/). Only events worth a founder's time: conferences, demo days, founder dinners, meetups and workshops. Generic networking filler is filtered out. Updated daily.

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32 upcoming events as of 31 August 2026.

## Meet Your Cofounder #3

- Date: Tuesday 1 September 2026, 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: Hexa (eFounders), 12 Rue Martel, 75010 Paris, France
- Organizer: [Hexa](https://foundercal.com/organizers/hexa)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/meet-your-cofounder-3-HvAEsvrhS5nqMA9
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/6693?p=md

Une soirée pensée pour 50 personnes qui partagent la même question : avec qui je pourrais lancer ma boîte ? Après le succès de nos deux premières édition, Hexa réouvre ses portes pour une deuxième soirée pleine de sérendipité et de rencontres. Le concept est simple : trois heures, entre founders et…

## OpenAI AI Privacy Hackathon · Paris

- Date: Thursday 3 September 2026, 09:30 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Hackathon
- Price: Free
- Venue: STATION F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris
- Organizer: [OpenAI](https://foundercal.com/organizers/openai)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/openai-ai-privacy-hackathon-paris-2026-09-03
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8115?p=md

A one-day build day run by OpenAI on Station F's open platform, aimed at the hard part of shipping AI in Europe: doing it without leaking data. You build something real between 9:30 and 20:00 rather than sit through panels, with OpenAI staff on hand. Registration is gated, so apply early. The draw…

## Startups-évents pour réseauter et entreprendre

- Date: Thursday 3 September 2026, 19:30 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Dinner
- Venue: Bistrot Romain Clichy, 181 Avenue de Clichy, Paris
- Organizer: [startups-évents](https://foundercal.com/organizers/startups-events)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/startups-events-pour-reseauter-et-entreprendre-316315965
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9584?p=md

Nous relançons une série d'événements qui avait débuté en 2020 avec un grand succès ! mais cette fois ci ce sera également des événements preparatifs pour nos prochaines conférences de dîners réseautages à venir en lien avec la thématique inscrite ci-dessous. Donc après une pause bien méritée, nous…

## Founders Running Club :: Paris

- Date: Saturday 5 September 2026, 09:30 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: Bassin Octogonal, Paris
- Organizer: [Founders Running Club :: Paris](https://foundercal.com/organizers/founders-running-club-paris)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/founders-running-club-paris-316119931
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9623?p=md

Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer, pets, friends, family, are welcome.…

## GTM World Tour · Paris

- Date: Thursday 10 September 2026, 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Workshop
- Organizer: [GTM World Tour](https://foundercal.com/organizers/gtm-world-tour)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/gtm-world-tour-paris-ZDh4NLb0M8Gh9C5
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9771?p=md

The best revenue operators in Paris, in one room for one night. We build working GTM automations live on stage with the actual tools, and every play that landed in the rooms before this one comes with us. That's stop six of the GTM World Tour. Ten cities in one month, Berlin to San Francisco.…

## AI Marketing Night #9

- Date: Thursday 10 September 2026, 19:30 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Meetup
- Organizer: [Dust](https://foundercal.com/organizers/dust)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ai-marketing-night-9-fwIVQDUpohpkt3a
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/6394?p=md

🍋AI Marketing Night in Paris 🇫🇷Expect : • Practical content (no high-level fun) • Hands-on insights from people crafting the next campaign with AI • Free pizza 🍕 and drinks 🍷 When : Sept 10th Where : NEW Dust HQ, Paris We'll dive straight concrete business challenges, from scaling marketing…

## AI Tinkerers Paris: Agents Everywhere Global Hackathon

- Date: Saturday 12 September 2026, 10:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Hackathon
- Price: Free
- Organizer: [AI Tinkerers Paris](https://foundercal.com/organizers/ai-tinkerers-paris)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ai-tinkerers-paris-agents-everywhere-global-hackathon-2026-09-12
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9260?p=md

One shared build day across AI Tinkerers chapters worldwide, run locally in Paris with OpenAI, CopilotKit and OpenRouter backing it. The brief: ship a working agent inside a tool people already use, then submit a repo, a two-minute video and a written description by the end of the day. The Paris…

## Growth Breakfast Club: Build the Product, Buy the Trust

- Date: Tuesday 15 September 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Dinner
- Venue: Miiro Le Grand Hôtel Cayré, 4 Bd Raspail, 75007 Paris, France
- Organizer: [Vanta Events](https://foundercal.com/organizers/vanta-events)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/growth-breakfast-club-build-the-product-buy-the-trust-wqS17hGBno7tMiR
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/6707?p=md

Growth Breakfast Club: Build the Product, Buy the Trust Every early-stage team faces the same fork: what do you build, and what do you buy? Get it wrong, and your best engineers spend their time stitching together compliance instead of shipping product. Get it right, and trust becomes something you…

## No-Code Communities Meetup #4

- Date: Tuesday 15 September 2026, 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Dinner
- Venue: TiTi Palacio, 17 Bd Morland, 75004 Paris, France
- Organizer: Personal
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/no-code-communities-meetup-4-CwXrXK65gTyiFno
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9489?p=md

Save the date! 🗓️ The No-Code Communities Meetup is back for a 4th edition, September 15th, 2026 at 7PM at Titi Palacio! After three amazing editions bringing together No-Code and AI communities from all over Europe and beyond, we're doing it again. Same vibe: a casual drink night to meet and…

## France Digitale Day (FDDay) 2026

- Date: Wednesday 16 September 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Musée des Arts Forains, 53 Avenue des Terroirs de France, 75012 Paris
- Organizer: [France Digitale](https://foundercal.com/organizers/france-digitale)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/france-digitale-day-fdday-2026-2026-09-16
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2473?p=md

The flagship of the French tech ecosystem: France Digitale's annual "startup family reunion," now in its 14th edition, with 4,500+ founders, investors and innovation leaders packed into the Musée des Arts Forains, a private fairground-museum in Bercy. Startup–corporate matchmaking, curated investor…

## Physical AI Paris Meetup #3

- Date: Wednesday 16 September 2026, 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: La Cristallerie, 12 rue Martel, Paris
- Organizer: [Physical AI Paris Meetup](https://foundercal.com/organizers/physical-ai-paris-meetup)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/physical-ai-paris-meetup-3-316167314
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9273?p=md

​Physical AI Paris Meetup #3 ​We're gathering engineers, researchers, and builders who believe the next wave of AI won't stay on a screen. ​Physical AI Paris is a meetup for anyone working on or curious about robots, embodied agents, autonomous systems, and the LLM-powered tools making them…

## Physical AI Paris Meetup #3

- Date: Wednesday 16 September 2026, 19:30 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Meetup
- Organizer: Personal
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/physical-ai-paris-meetup-3-bvBBUWQC3BNoQ9b
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9490?p=md

Physical AI Paris Meetup #3 We're gathering engineers, researchers, and builders who believe the next wave of AI won't stay on a screen. Physical AI Paris is a meetup for anyone working on or curious about robots, embodied agents, autonomous systems, and the LLM-powered tools making them…

## dotAI 2026

- Date: Thursday 17 September 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Folies Bergère, 32 Rue Richer, 75009 Paris
- Organizer: [dotConferences](https://foundercal.com/organizers/dotconferences)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/dotai-2026-2026-09-17
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2476?p=md

The AI edition of the cult dotConferences series, staged in the gilded Folies Bergère theatre for ~1,500 AI builders, ML engineers and CTOs. Single-track, no booths, deeply technical: speakers come from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA and Databricks to talk shipping real systems, not slideware.…

## Outbound Cup 2026

- Date: Friday 18 September 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: STATION F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris
- Organizer: [HATMADA x Scalability](https://foundercal.com/organizers/hatmada-x-scalability)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/outbound-cup-2026-2026-09-18
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9259?p=md

A full day at Station F built around one thing: outbound. The centrepiece is a live cold-call competition, 400 teams making real calls with coaches and a public scoreboard, wrapped in talks from French, British and American outbound operators. Useful for an early B2B founder who still runs…

## Founders & Operators Tech Run - Hexa x FRC Paris

- Date: Saturday 19 September 2026, 09:30 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Dinner
- Venue: Bassin Octogonal, 75001 Paris, France
- Organizer: [Hexa](https://foundercal.com/organizers/hexa)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/founders-and-operators-tech-run-hexa-x-frc-paris-eCeHbDt1tydUs8Q
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/7765?p=md

Start your Saturday with an easy 5K run through Paris, then stick around for coffee, croissants, conversation, and a proper Paris morning vibe. 👟 Hexa and FRC Paris are bringing together founders, operators, and friends of the tech world for a run that’s as much about the energy afterward as the…

## OpenAI Builder Lounge Paris

- Date: Tuesday 22 September 2026, 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Meetup
- Organizer: [OpenAI EMEA](https://foundercal.com/organizers/openai-emea)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/openai-builder-lounge-paris-ksGkcxxpv88i3kd
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8729?p=md

Join OpenAI for an evening of hands-on building, live demos, and discussion in Paris co-hosted with Photoroom. Hear how top teams approach building useful agents, see what is new with Codex, and work alongside local founders, CTOs, and engineers. What to expect: • Hands-on building with founders…

## AI Engineer Warmup w/ H Company, Modal and Black Forest Labs

- Date: Tuesday 22 September 2026, 18:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Meetup
- Venue: Quai de la Photo, 9 Quai de la Gare, 75013 Paris, France
- Organizer: [H Company](https://foundercal.com/organizers/h-company)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ai-engineer-warmup-w-h-company-modal-and-black-forest-labs-zg1SAExzQU0njEo
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9657?p=md

H Company, Modal and Black Forest Labs are teaming up to host a AI Engineer warmup! Come to meet some of the folks attending the AI Engineer Conference beforehand! What's one the menu? Just chill vibes by the Seine! Share some food, drinks and informal chats with your peers ahead of the conf!

## AI Engineer Paris 2026

- Date: 23 September 2026 – 24 September 2026
- Type: Conference
- Venue: STATION F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris
- Organizer: [AI Engineer](https://foundercal.com/organizers/ai-engineer)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ai-engineer-paris-2026-2026-09-23
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8111?p=md

The AI Engineer conference, the series that named the job title, brings its European edition to Station F for two days. It is deliberately practitioner-grade: people who ship agents, evals and RAG systems in production talking about what broke, not vendors talking about transformation. The room is…

## 🚀 Find a Cofounder – Third Meetup (Paris)

- Date: Monday 28 September 2026, 19:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Meetup
- Organizer: [Find a cofounder FR](https://foundercal.com/organizers/find-a-cofounder-fr)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/find-a-cofounder-third-meetup-paris-316265489
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8739?p=md

Vous cherchez quelqu’un avec qui construire votre startup ? Voici le troisieme meetup Find a Cofounder, une rencontre simple entre builders qui recherchent activement le bon partenaire. Pas de panels. Pas de pitchs. Pas de speed dating forcé. Juste des fondateurs, aspirants cofondateurs,…

## Startup Day France 2026 · Google for Startups & Google DeepMind

- Date: Thursday 1 October 2026, 13:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Price: Free
- Venue: STATION F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris
- Organizer: [Google for Startups](https://foundercal.com/organizers/google-for-startups)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/startup-day-france-2026-google-for-startups-and-google-deepmind-2026-10-01
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8110?p=md

First French edition of Google's Startup Day, run jointly by Google for Startups, Google Cloud and Google DeepMind on Station F's open platform. The afternoon is founder war stories and VC conversations: the announced plenary has the CEOs of Alice & Bob, Upsun, MWM and Gradium alongside a DeepMind…

## Builders & Brews Paris

- Date: Thursday 1 October 2026, 16:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Hackathon
- Venue: Paris, France
- Organizer: [Builders & Brews](https://foundercal.com/organizers/builders-and-brews)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/builders-and-brews-paris-qKE5bgrJ8RgCwZ3
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8824?p=md

Builders & Brews: Hack Edition ☕️💻 Builders & Brews, our flagship builder community event series, is getting a hands-on build-day twist and going global. Nebius and Tavily are taking a special tour to 20 cities worldwide, bringing workshops, technical support, and focused build time to the global…

## Big 2026

- Date: Thursday 8 October 2026, 08:30 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Price: Free
- Venue: Accor Arena, 8 Boulevard de Bercy, 75012 Paris
- Organizer: [Bpifrance](https://foundercal.com/organizers/bpifrance)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/big-2026-2026-10-08
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2474?p=md

France's single biggest entrepreneurship gathering, thrown by the public investment bank Bpifrance and packing tens of thousands of founders, business leaders and investors into the Accor Arena for one day. 500+ workshops span AI, deeptech, climate, healthtech, industry and going international,…

## ai-PULSE 2026

- Date: Tuesday 13 October 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: STATION F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris
- Organizer: [Scaleway](https://foundercal.com/organizers/scaleway)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ai-pulse-2026-2026-10-13
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2471?p=md

Scaleway's one-day technical AI conference at Station F: 4th edition, 2,000+ engineers and AI leaders across three stages. Past editions keynoted Yann LeCun and Xavier Niel; the bias is hard toward research, infra and real product demos rather than hype. Worth a day if you are building on top of…

## Meet'Up Greentech 2026

- Date: Tuesday 20 October 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Price: Free
- Venue: STATION F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris
- Organizer: [Ecolab (CGDD) with Bpifrance, ADEME and La French Tech](https://foundercal.com/organizers/ecolab-cgdd-with-bpifrance-ademe-and-la-french-tech)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/meetup-greentech-2026-2026-10-20
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9261?p=md

The annual gathering of France's climate-tech ecosystem, free and hosted at Station F. The part that matters for a founder is not the panels: it is the pitch slots for startups currently raising, the reverse pitches where public buyers and large corporates state what they need, and the one-to-one…

## Tech.Rocks Summit 2026

- Date: 30 November 2026 – 1 December 2026
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Théâtre de Paris, 15 Rue Blanche, 75009 Paris
- Organizer: [Tech.Rocks](https://foundercal.com/organizers/tech-rocks)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/tech-rocks-summit-2026-2026-11-30
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8116?p=md

France's CTO gathering: two days in the Théâtre de Paris, 3,700 attendees and ~380 speakers, all of them engineering leaders rather than vendors. For a technical founder past the first hires this is the most concentrated source of the stuff nobody writes down: how to structure a team at 20…

## Adopt AI 2026

- Date: 3 December 2026 – 4 December 2026
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Grand Palais, 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris
- Organizer: [Artefact](https://foundercal.com/organizers/artefact)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/adopt-ai-2026-2026-12-03
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2475?p=md

Dubbed "the Davos of AI" after a first edition that drew President Macron, Adopt AI returns to the restored Grand Palais for a 20,000-attendee, C-suite-heavy summit on putting AI to work. Expect 2,000+ CEOs, 600 speakers and industry tracks across health, finance, industry and retail: the room…

## FinTech R:Evolution 2027

- Date: Wednesday 31 March 2027, 09:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: STATION F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris
- Organizer: [France FinTech](https://foundercal.com/organizers/france-fintech)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/fintech-r-evolution-2027-2027-03-31
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9262?p=md

France FinTech's flagship day, now in its twelfth edition and back at Station F. It is the one day a year where French fintech founders, the investors who fund them, the banks and insurers who buy from them, and the regulators who decide what they may ship are all in the same building. Member…

## ChangeNOW 2027

- Date: 26 April 2027 – 28 April 2027
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Grand Palais, 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris
- Organizer: [ChangeNOW](https://foundercal.com/organizers/changenow)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/changenow-2027-2027-04-26
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8109?p=md

Three days under the Grand Palais glass roof for the largest impact-solutions gathering in Europe. This one is narrow on purpose: if you build in climate, energy, food, materials or circular economy it is the densest concentration of impact investors, corporate buyers and policy people you will get…

## Paris Air Show 2027 (SIAE Le Bourget)

- Date: 14 June 2027 – 20 June 2027
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Paris–Le Bourget Exhibition Centre, Aéroport de Paris–Le Bourget, 93350 Le Bourget
- Organizer: [GIFAS / SIAE](https://foundercal.com/organizers/gifas-siae)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/paris-air-show-2027-siae-le-bourget-2027-06-14
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8113?p=md

The biennial aerospace, defence and space show at Le Bourget, twenty minutes north of central Paris: 2,400 exhibitors from 48 countries and 305,000 visitors at the last edition. It is an industry trade show, not a startup conference, and that is exactly the point: since Europe reopened the defence…

## France Quantum 2027

- Date: Tuesday 15 June 2027, 09:00 (Europe/Paris)
- Type: Conference
- Venue: STATION F, 5 Parvis Alan Turing, 75013 Paris
- Organizer: [France Quantum](https://foundercal.com/organizers/france-quantum)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/france-quantum-2027-2027-06-15
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9258?p=md

The sixth edition of France's quantum summit, a single day at Station F that pulls the research labs, the startups and the first industrial buyers into one room. France has real quantum companies and a state programme behind them, so the use-case sessions tend to be concrete rather than…

## VivaTech 2027

- Date: 16 June 2027 – 19 June 2027
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, 1 Place de la Porte de Versailles, 75015 Paris
- Organizer: [Viva Technology](https://foundercal.com/organizers/viva-technology)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vivatech-2027-2027-06-16
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8114?p=md

Europe's biggest tech gathering: four days at Porte de Versailles, with the organisers claiming 200,000 attendees, 4,500 exhibitors and 15,000+ startups. For a founder the value is not the keynote stage: it is that every European VC, every corporate innovation buyer and half the global tech press…

## RAISE Summit 2027

- Date: 6 July 2027 – 8 July 2027
- Type: Conference
- Venue: Palais des Congrès de Paris, 2 Place de la Porte Maillot, 75017 Paris
- Organizer: [RAISE Summit](https://foundercal.com/organizers/raise-summit)
- Details: https://foundercal.com/events/raise-summit-2027-2027-07-06
- Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/8112?p=md

Paris's flagship AI summit and, by its own billing, the fastest-growing AI conference in Europe: three days at the Palais des Congrès mixing frontier-lab researchers, enterprise buyers, investors and policymakers. The hallway track is the reason to go: if you sell AI into large European companies…