An invitation-or-application-only forum on global economic governance, the Conference of Paris gathers heads of state, central bankers and chief executives at the OECD headquarters each December, reaching its 10th edition on 16 and 17 December 2026 as the European anchor of the International Economic Forum of the Americas.
Conference of Paris (IEFA) is an annual, invitation-or-application-only forum on global economic governance, organised by the International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) since 2017. The 2026 edition, its 10th, runs on 16 and 17 December at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris and stands as the IEFA's flagship event in Europe, built around dialogue between government, business and central banking leaders on Europe-Americas relations.
16 to 17 December 2026, the 10th edition. Source: the organiser's own events listing at forum-americas.org/all-events, checked 3 September 2026, which reads "10TH EDITION Conference of Paris December 16-17, 2026". OECD Conference Centre, 2 rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris, France, the confirmed venue for the 9th edition on 16 and 17 December 2025. The current official page for the 10th edition does not itself name a venue, so the OECD Conference Centre is the best available information carried over from the last confirmed edition, not an explicit 2026 confirmation.
International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA), founded in 1995 by Gil Rémillard and headquartered in Montreal. President and CEO Nicholas Rémillard still held that role as of the IEFA Latam Forum in Buenos Aires in March 2026. The Conference of Paris is hosted by the IEFA "in association with Integra Capital," an investment group chaired by José Luis Manzano, per the organiser's own page (forum-americas.org/conferences/paris, checked 3 September 2026). The IEFA runs the Conference of Paris alongside three other flagship forums, the Conference of Montreal (since 1995), the Toronto Global Forum (since 2007) and the World Strategic Forum in Miami (since 2011), plus the newer IEFA Latam Forum in Buenos Aires and the Phoenix Global Forum.
Not publicly disclosed for the 2026 edition. The organiser's own events page showed a placeholder of 0 participants, 0 speakers and 0 represented countries as of 3 September 2026, meaning 2026 attendance has not yet been populated. For the most recently completed edition, the 9th (16 to 17 December 2025), the organiser reported 70-plus speakers, a figure it has not had independently audited. Attendees are drawn from heads of state and government ministers, central bank governors, chief executives, institutional investors, economists and civil society leaders, per the organiser's own description of the event and its Board of Governors.
The IEFA has not published a speaker list for the 10th edition as of 3 September 2026. The 14 names below are the confirmed roster for the 9th edition (16 to 17 December 2025), per the organiser's press release distributed on PR Newswire and its wire syndication:
The 2026 edition marks the 10th anniversary of the Conference of Paris, up from the 9th in 2025. The 2026 edition keeps the same mid-December slot the 9th edition held in 2025. No 2026 theme, programme or speaker roster had been published as of 3 September 2026, against the 2025 edition's announced theme, "Thriving in the unpredictable." Whether the OECD Conference Centre continues as venue for the 10th edition has not been confirmed on the official page.
No 2026 programme has been published as of 3 September 2026. For the 9th edition, the organiser structured the agenda around five themes: sustainable finance, artificial intelligence, industrial sovereignty, energy transition and international cooperation, framed by a broader focus on Europe-Americas trade and global economic governance. Whether these themes carry over to the 10th edition is not publicly disclosed.
In-person only, over panel discussions and keynote-style addresses across two days, per the organiser's press materials and photo archive. No exhibition floor or vendor stands are documented. The IEFA's Board of Governors and Advisory Board, described by the organiser as a "select group of individuals... carefully selected for their in-depth knowledge and experience," also convene around the event. No breakout workshops, delegate-matching app or professional-development accreditation are documented for this event.
Not publicly disclosed. No side events, such as a gala dinner, a startup track or an investor club, are described on the official Conference of Paris page, in its photo gallery, or in the organiser's press release for the 9th edition. Searches for a dinner, reception or fringe programme around the December 2025 dates returned nothing beyond the two-day conference itself.
Not publicly disclosed. Conference of Paris (IEFA) does not sell open tickets: access is "invitation or application only," per the organiser's own description, and no delegate fee appears on the official page. Interested applicants apply through the registration site, www.conferencedeparis.com.
Not publicly disclosed. The speaker roster is curated by the IEFA and drawn substantially from its own Board of Governors and Advisory Board; no open call for speakers or submission form is published. Whether an informal pitch route to the programme team exists is not documented.
Not publicly disclosed as a defined process. The official page carries a general partnership pitch, stating that partnering with the IEFA gives access to networking opportunities and high-profile events, but names no specific package, price or application form for the Conference of Paris. Interested organisations are directed to the IEFA's general contact page.
No sponsor or partner tier list is published for the Conference of Paris. The organiser's own site names one commercial association: Integra Capital, the investment group chaired by José Luis Manzano, credited as co-host ("hosted by the IEFA in association with Integra Capital"). No other 2026 or 2025 sponsors are named on the official page, in the 9th-edition press release, or in the photo gallery.
Reads from the Board of Governors and the 2025 speaker roster rather than from a published breakdown. Large-cap energy and industrial groups form one cluster: ENGIE, TotalEnergies, Repsol, BHP, thyssenkrupp and Honeywell each supply a governor or a 2025 speaker. Global financial institutions form a second: Citadel, Ardian, Banco Santander, First Abu Dhabi Bank, CalPERS, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, DNB and LGT Group. A small multilateral presence appears through the OECD itself, via Secretary-General Mathias Cormann. One AI-native company, Mistral AI, represents technology; no venture-stage startups or exhibitors are documented. No percentage breakdown is published; this reads the observed governor and speaker lists, not a stated statistic.
For the 9th edition, media accreditation ran through a Zoho form (forms.zoho.com/iefa/form/MediaaccreditationCDP2025) and a named contact, Régine Le Brun of Confluence Paris, reachable at +33 6 14 67 03 16, per the organiser's press release. No 2026-specific accreditation form or media contact had been published as of 3 September 2026.
For the 9th edition, the coverage found is limited to the organiser's own press release, "Navigating a multipolar world: global leaders gather in Paris" (PR Newswire, and its French-language counterpart), syndicated without independent reporting by Yahoo Finance and by French event-listing and content sites (Le Café du Geek, meet-in.fr, webdisclosure.fr). The release states the organiser expects "international journalists from Bloomberg TV, CNBC, BFM Business, The Banker and Financial Times" to attend, which describes anticipated moderators and attendees, not published articles.
Two tiers, not one undifferentiated pile of "press." Organiser-issued, not independent: the PR Newswire release and its pickups by Yahoo Finance, Le Café du Geek, meet-in.fr and webdisclosure.fr all reproduce the organiser's own wording rather than original reporting. Predictable but not yet coverage: Bloomberg TV, CNBC, BFM Business, The Banker and Financial Times are named by the organiser as expected attendees, a role that has historically meant panel moderators rather than reporters filing independent stories; no bylined article from any of these outlets about the Conference of Paris was found. Net read: no independent editorial coverage of the Conference of Paris turned up in this research; what circulates is the organiser's own release and its syndication.
Anyone without an invitation or an accepted application, since there is no open-registration path. Vendors or startups seeking a stand, a pitch slot or exhibitor leads should also skip it: no exhibition floor, sponsor tiers or startup track are documented. Early-career professionals and those seeking a primarily networking event with open access are not the audience the organiser describes; the event is built around heads of state, ministers, central bankers and chief executives rather than practitioner peer exchange.
December is a dense month for high-level economic forums, and Conference of Paris (IEFA) sits at its close: the Milken Institute Middle East and Africa Summit runs 7 and 8 December 2026 in Abu Dhabi, and Conference of Paris (IEFA) follows nine days later, on 16 and 17 December, before the World Economic Forum's Davos meeting reopens the calendar in mid-January. Within the IEFA's own circuit, Paris is the organiser's last conference of the calendar year, following the Toronto Global Forum in October and the World Strategic Forum in Miami in November.
No. The Conference of Paris brand runs only in Paris. The IEFA operates separately branded sibling forums elsewhere, the Conference of Montreal (Montreal, since 1995), the Toronto Global Forum (Toronto, since 2007), the World Strategic Forum (Miami, since 2011), the IEFA Latam Forum (Buenos Aires) and the Phoenix Global Forum. These share the organiser and the invitation-or-application model but are distinct events, not other editions of the Conference of Paris.
English and French. The organiser issues its own press materials for the Conference of Paris in parallel English and French releases, consistent with the IEFA's bilingual Montreal base.
No live remote or on-demand option is described on the official page or in the registration process. Selected content, such as welcome remarks and a highlights video, has been posted after past editions to the organiser's YouTube channel, but this is retrospective and partial, not a livestream or full-session replay offered to registrants.
Not publicly disclosed. The IEFA's general terms of use (forum-americas.org/terms-of-use, checked 3 September 2026) contain no refund or cancellation clause, and the event-specific registration site, www.conferencedeparis.com, did not expose a terms or cancellation page to this research. Applicants with questions should contact the IEFA directly.
Not publicly disclosed for the Conference of Paris specifically. The OECD, host of at least the 9th edition, states that its Conference Centre is fully wheelchair-accessible, but no accessibility statement naming the Conference of Paris itself was found, and the venue for the 10th edition has not been reconfirmed.
2 rue André Pascal, 75016 Paris. Per the OECD's own published access information, Métro line 9 (La Muette) is roughly a 9-minute walk, RER C (Avenue Henri-Martin) about 7 minutes and Boulainvilliers about 11 minutes; bus lines 22, 32, 52, 63 and PC1 stop nearby. Visitors register at the welcome desk for a badge and are asked to arrive at least 30 minutes early with a QR-coded invitation and valid identification. This applies to the OECD Conference Centre as a venue generally; it is confirmed for the 9th edition of the Conference of Paris and not yet reconfirmed for the 10th.
Read the choice of the OECD's own headquarters as a deliberate bid for institutional weight, not a neutral rental decision. OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann welcomed hosting the 2025 edition in his own words, lending the IEFA's commercial forum a policy-body endorsement that a hotel ballroom could not. It also ties the event's stated themes, global economic governance, industrial sovereignty, energy transition, to the address where a share of that governance is actually negotiated.
The only public number is "70-plus speakers" for the 2025 edition, an organiser claim with no independent audit behind it, and the 2026 page currently shows a placeholder of zero speakers, zero participants and zero countries. Treat both as artefacts of an annual cycle still being built out this far ahead of December, not as evidence about the event's actual scale.
Because the event sells access through invitation and application rather than through an exhibition floor, its commercial logic differs from sponsor-driven conferences. The one named commercial association, Integra Capital, reads as a strategic co-host tied to its chairman's own investment interests in energy and materials, not a paying sponsor bought into a published tier.
Official site: forum-americas.org/conferences/paris. Registration and applications: www.conferencedeparis.com. Board of Governors: forum-americas.org/conferences/paris/board. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/international-economic-forum-of-the-americas. X: @AmericasForum. YouTube: youtube.com/@iefatv, as listed by the organiser, not independently verified by this research. General contact: admin@forum-americas.org.