An AI-first health summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, dedicated to concrete uses of artificial intelligence across healthcare, pharma and medtech.
AI for Health 2026 takes place on 3 to 4 December 2026 at the Grand Palais in Paris, co-founded by Artefact and Johnson & Johnson. It is the ninth edition of the summit and runs as the health vertical of the Adopt AI Grand Palais event. The 2025 edition drew more than 8,000 participants and over 120 speakers around applied artificial intelligence in healthcare, pharma, medtech and life sciences.
AI for Health is an annual summit dedicated to applied artificial intelligence in healthcare, held at the Grand Palais in Paris. Running since 2017 and now in its ninth edition, it is co-founded by the AI and data consultancy Artefact and by Johnson & Johnson, and it forms the health vertical of the wider Adopt AI Grand Palais event. The 2026 edition runs from 3 to 4 December. It brings together pharmaceutical and medtech companies, startups, clinicians, institutions and investors around concrete AI use cases, and the 2025 edition reported more than 8,000 participants across four stages.
AI for Health 2026 runs from 3 to 4 December 2026 at the Grand Palais, 7 Avenue Winston Churchill, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France. It is a two-day event.
AI for Health draws the people who build and buy AI in healthcare:
The summit is built around concrete AI use cases and runs across four stages: a main stage, a masterclass stage, a startup stage and a demo zone. Recurring themes include:
AI for Health is one of the few European events at scale that leads with AI rather than treating it as one digital health theme among many.
| Event | Month 2026 | City | Focus | Typical audience | Price band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI for Health | December | Paris | AI-first, applied AI in health | Pharma, medtech, startups | Paid, EUR |
| HLTH Europe | June | Amsterdam | Digital health, business of health | Providers, payers, founders | Paid, EUR |
| Frontiers Health | November | Berlin | Digital health innovation | Founders, pharma, investors | EUR 295 to 1,675 |
It is a standalone summit with its own history since 2017, now hosted as the health vertical inside the Adopt AI Grand Palais event. That means an AI for Health pass sits within a larger cross-industry AI summit that also runs verticals for finance, industry and other sectors.
Fully. Unlike digital health conferences that include AI as one theme, AI for Health is defined by artificial intelligence applied to health, from drug discovery to clinical operations to medtech.
AI for Health is one of the few large European events that is AI-first rather than digital-health-first, and its move into the Grand Palais under the Adopt AI banner has turned a specialist summit into a headline fixture of the Paris innovation calendar.
AI for Health is a paid event. At the 2025 edition, a one-day regular pass was listed at 500 EUR and a two-day regular pass at 900 EUR, with discounted rates and a higher VIP tier, plus free application-based media and volunteer passes. The 2026 tiers are confirmed at registration through the official site.
At the Grand Palais in central Paris.
Application-based media and volunteer passes were available at the 2025 edition, subject to approval. General access is paid.
Verified from the official AI for Health site and the Adopt AI site on 2026-07-09.
| Official website | https://www.aiforhealth.fr/ |
| Adopt AI Grand Palais | https://adoptai.artefact.com/ |
| Organiser | https://www.artefact.com/ |