BIG Bpifrance, or Bpifrance Inno Generation, is a single-day, hybrid entrepreneurial gathering at the Accor Arena in Paris, organised by the French public investment bank Bpifrance; the 12th edition, themed "Culot," runs 8 October 2026 with an organiser figure of more than 75,000 participants.
BIG Bpifrance, formally Bpifrance Inno Generation, is a single-day, hybrid entrepreneurial gathering organised by Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, at the Accor Arena in Paris. Now in its 12th edition, themed "Culot" (audacity) for 2026, the event brings together entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, mid-market companies, large corporations, investors, researchers, students and public-sector actors around economic and innovation issues (per bpifrance-creation.fr and big.bpifrance.fr, checked 21 September 2026).
The 2026 edition runs 8 October 2026, from 07:30 to 19:00, in-person and streamed online. The venue is the Accor Arena, 8 boulevard de Bercy, 75012 Paris.
Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, organises BIG directly, per big.bpifrance.fr and bpifrance-creation.fr, checked 21 September 2026.
The organiser's 2026 figure is more than 75,000 participants, alongside more than 1,000 speakers and 500 conferences and workshops across more than 225 hours of content (per bpifrance-creation.fr and cpccaf.org; unverifiable information, organiser figures not independently audited). The audience spans entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, mid-market and large corporations, investors, researchers, students and public-sector actors.
The 2026 edition carries the theme "Culot" (audacity), its 12th edition, inviting entrepreneurs to push the boundaries of innovation, per bpifrance-creation.fr. No further dated comparison against the 2025 edition was found in this research pass.
The organiser reports more than 500 conferences and workshops across more than 225 hours of content and more than 1,000 speakers (per cpccaf.org; unverifiable information). A session-by-session agenda with named individual speakers was not retrieved in this research pass.
Documented formats: keynotes, conferences and workshops across more than 225 hours of content, in a hybrid in-person and streamed format. No further structural detail (stage count, track names) was found in this research pass.
Not fully documented in this research pass. As a Bpifrance-organised gathering with a stated entertainment and large-format element (per past editions' reputation), some non-conference programming is likely, but no 2026-specific side-event detail was confirmed.
Not publicly disclosed in the sources checked this session.
Not publicly disclosed. No call-for-speakers page was found in the sources checked.
Not publicly disclosed with a specific contact in this research pass.
Not publicly disclosed. No named sponsor list for 2026 was found in the sources checked.
No independently audited breakdown was found. The organiser's own framing spans the full range of Bpifrance's client base: startups, SMEs, mid-market companies (ETI) and large corporations, plus investors, researchers, students and public actors.
Not publicly disclosed. No press accreditation page was found in the sources checked.
Coverage found in this pass is organiser and partner-linked content (bpifrance-creation.fr, cpccaf.org, francefintech.org), naming dates, venue and the "Culot" theme, without independent attendance figures of their own.
Weak as independent verification. No media partner is recorded against this event in the database. The sources found are organiser-linked or partner-organisation listings restating Bpifrance's own figures; no independent count of the 75,000-plus attendance figure was found.
Buyers looking for a narrowly scoped, single-sector event: BIG spans the full breadth of Bpifrance's client base rather than one industry, so a buyer with a narrow sector focus may find more targeted events elsewhere on EventsIndex.
BIG Bpifrance runs 8 October 2026, between Premiere Classe (2 to 5 October) and MCB by Beaute Selection (10 to 12 October), both tracked elsewhere on EventsIndex.
Not documented in the sources checked this session; BIG is organised as a single flagship Paris gathering.
Not explicitly documented; as a French public-bank event, French is the likely primary working language, but no organiser statement confirming this, or naming any interpretation service, was found.
Yes: the event is documented as hybrid, in-person and streamed online, per bpifrance-creation.fr. Whether sessions remain available on demand after the event was not confirmed in this research pass.
Not publicly disclosed. No refund or cancellation clause was found in the sources checked.
Not publicly disclosed as an event-specific policy. The Accor Arena is a major modern venue with general accessibility provisions common to large Paris arenas, but no BIG-specific accommodation process was confirmed.
The Accor Arena is at 8 boulevard de Bercy, 75012 Paris, served by Metro Line 14 and RER A/D (Gare de Lyon, nearby) and Metro Line 6/14 (Bercy station). No further detail specific to BIG was found in this research pass.
Because the organiser positions it as Europe's largest entrepreneurial gathering, drawing more than 75,000 participants (organiser figure) across every stage of the Bpifrance client relationship, from first-time founders to large corporations and public-sector actors, in a single hybrid day rather than a multi-day trade show.
Because every scale figure attached to the 2026 edition, the 75,000-plus participants, 1,000-plus speakers and 500 conferences, is Bpifrance's own organiser figure, restated by partner organisations rather than independently counted, and no non-affiliated source auditing attendance was found in this research.
Official site: big.bpifrance.fr. Programme: big.bpifrance.fr/en/sessions. This research could not fetch big.bpifrance.fr directly (see Notes); readers should treat the official site as the primary source ahead of anything summarised here.