The biennial naval defence and maritime security exhibition held at Paris Nord Villepinte; the 30th edition runs 3 to 6 November 2026 in Hall 6, with around 450 exhibitors, 150 official French and foreign delegations, a four-day conference programme organised one strategic theme per day, and a dedicated start-up zone.
Euronaval is the biennial international exhibition for naval defence and maritime security, held near Paris and covering naval defence, maritime security, naval technology, shipbuilding and underwater systems. The 2026 edition is the 30th. It is a trade-only event built around three audiences meeting in the same hall: political decision-makers, naval and military delegations, and the shipbuilding and naval systems industry. Its distinguishing feature against a general defence exhibition is the concentration on the maritime domain alone, and against a commercial trade fair, the weight of the official delegation programme: 150 French and foreign delegations attend, which is what most exhibitors are actually there for. Source: euronaval.com and sogena-events.com/euronaval/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Euronaval 2026 runs Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 November 2026, four days. The venue is Paris Nord Villepinte, Hall 6, ZAC Paris Nord 2, 93420 Villepinte, France, north-east of Paris beside Charles de Gaulle airport. The conference programme uses the full four days, with the final session on the morning of 6 November, so the last day is a half day for content purposes. Daily opening hours for 2026 were not retrievable from the sources reachable on this pass. Euronaval runs biennially in November, so the following edition would fall in November 2028; no 2028 dates have been published. Source: euronaval.com/practical-informations/venue-and-opening-times/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Euronaval is organised by SOGENA, a subsidiary of GICAN, the Groupement des Industries de Construction et Activités Navales, which is the French naval industry association. The event is therefore run by the industry it serves rather than by an independent exhibition company, which is the structural fact worth knowing: the exhibitor base, the delegation invitations and the conference agenda all pass through the French naval industry's own trade body. General visitor enquiries go to visit@euronaval.com and commercial enquiries to sales@euronaval.com. Source: euronaval.com and sogena-events.com/euronaval/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Visitor figures for the 2026 edition are reported in a range: the event record holds around 22,000 professional visitors, while the organiser's own 2026 communication and trade coverage put the expected figure at around 26,000, and the gap has not been resolved on this pass (unverifiable information). What is consistent across sources is the delegation count: 150 official French and foreign delegations, plus 350 accredited journalists. The audience is naval industry professionals, military and naval delegations, defence procurement officials, shipbuilders, systems and equipment suppliers, and maritime security and coast guard bodies. Access is strictly reserved to maritime and naval industry professionals, subject to registration approval, and requires a personalised badge. Source: euronaval.com and defence trade coverage of the 2026 edition, consulted 18 September 2026.
Three things. This is the 30th edition, a milestone the organiser is using in its own positioning. The conference programme has been restructured so that each day carries one strategic theme rather than mixing tracks: information superiority and control of the maritime domain on 3 November, resilient and scalable platforms on 4 November, the new dimensions of naval warfare on 5 November, and from innovation to operational capability on the morning of 6 November. And the show now runs a pre-event conference series rather than confining its content to the exhibition week: the Euronaval Conference Series 2026 opened in Brussels on 13 January 2026 under the theme "Maritime Superiority: The Quantum and Artificial Intelligence Shift". A returning exhibitor should also note the innovation zone described in the formats entry below. Source: euronaval.com/2026-conferences-programme/ and euronaval.com/euronaval-conference-brussels/, consulted 18 September 2026.
The conference programme runs one theme per day across the four days: information superiority and control of the maritime domain (3 November), resilient and scalable platforms (4 November), the new dimensions of naval warfare (5 November), and from innovation to operational capability (6 November, morning). That structure is unusual for a defence exhibition, where content is more often organised around exhibitor sponsorships, and it means a visitor can plan a single day around a capability question. Alongside the conference sit the exhibition floor in Hall 6, the EURONAVAL DNA programme, and SEAnnovation, the start-up zone. The Brussels session of 13 January 2026 opened the year's conference series ahead of the exhibition. A complete named speaker roster for the November sessions was not published in the sources reachable on this pass. Source: euronaval.com/2026-conferences-programme/ and conference.euronaval.com/highlights/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Five. The exhibition floor in Hall 6 is the commercial core, with around 450 exhibiting companies. The conference programme runs one strategic theme per day. EURONAVAL DNA is the organiser's own exhibition-within-the-exhibition programme. SEAnnovation is an innovation zone of 200 square metres reserved for start-ups, which apply to a panel of experts to secure a place and present naval technology concepts there rather than renting a stand. The official delegation programme, 150 delegations, is the fifth format and the least visible: it is not on any public agenda but it is the mechanism through which most procurement conversations happen. The event record shows no organiser-run B2B matchmaking platform and no advance meeting scheduling tool, so meetings outside the delegation programme are arranged directly with exhibitors. Source: euronaval.com/exhibition/euronaval-dna/ and euronaval.com, consulted 18 September 2026.
The main one runs months ahead of the exhibition rather than beside it: the Euronaval Conference Series 2026, whose opening session took place in Brussels on 13 January 2026 on quantum and artificial intelligence in maritime operations. That series is the organiser's own, not a third-party fringe. During the exhibition week itself, no independent fringe programme, satellite conference or associated Paris naval week was found in the sources reachable on this pass; SEAnnovation and EURONAVAL DNA are components of the show rather than side events. Given the venue's location beside Charles de Gaulle airport rather than in Paris proper, evening programming is a practical constraint on any fringe activity. Searched: the official site, the conference pages and defence trade press. Source: euronaval.com/euronaval-conference-brussels/ and euronaval.com, consulted 18 September 2026.
Badges are priced in three bands, all including VAT: an early bird rate of EUR 80 until Wednesday 9 September 2026, a standard rate of EUR 110 from 10 September to 2 November 2026, and an on-site rate of EUR 300 from 3 November 2026. The early bird window closed on 9 September 2026, so a visitor registering now pays EUR 110 rather than EUR 80, and waiting until the doors open costs EUR 300, close to three times the advance price. That on-site premium is the steepest of any event in this registry and is clearly designed to force registration in advance, which also suits an event that vets its attendees. Registration is subject to approval, entry is limited to maritime and naval industry professionals, badges are personalised, and online registration closes before the show opens. Source: euronaval.com/practical-informations/venue-and-opening-times/ and euronaval.com/i-want-to-visit/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed as an open process. No call for papers, speaker application form or submission deadline was found for the 2026 conference programme, which reads as curated by GICAN and SOGENA around the four daily strategic themes. There is, however, one documented competitive route into the event for a young company, and it is not the conference: SEAnnovation, the 200 square metre start-up zone, selects its participants through an application to a panel of experts, and a place there carries the right to present a naval technology concept. For a conference speaking approach, the practical route is the organiser's contacts, visit@euronaval.com for general enquiries and sales@euronaval.com for commercial ones. No speaker fee or expenses policy is documented. Source: euronaval.com and euronaval.com/2026-conferences-programme/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Exhibiting and commercial enquiries go to sales@euronaval.com, and the organiser is SOGENA, the GICAN subsidiary. No public stand rate card, sponsorship tier ladder or tier pricing was found for the 2026 edition, so commercial terms are quoted rather than published. Two routes are documented. The conventional one is renting stand space in Hall 6 alongside the roughly 450 exhibiting companies. The cheaper one, for early-stage companies, is applying to SEAnnovation, whose 200 square metres are allocated by an expert panel rather than sold, which makes it the only part of this show where a place is won rather than bought. Searched: the official exhibitor pages and the organiser's own site. Source: euronaval.com and sogena-events.com/euronaval/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed as a sponsor list. Euronaval publishes an exhibitor directory rather than a named sponsor roster with tiers, which is normal for an industry-association exhibition: the backing that matters is GICAN's own, since the French naval industry association organises the event through its subsidiary. The exhibitor count is itself reported in a range, from the roughly 450 held in the event record and quoted in trade coverage to "nearly 500" in the organiser's 2026 communication. Named exhibitors confirmed for the 2026 edition include Babcock International, BAE Systems, CMN Naval, Dassault Aviation, Indra Group, HENSOLDT, Leonardo, Navantia, Naval Group and STM; that is a sample from trade coverage, not the full list. The event record holds no official media partner list, so no mention in this fiche carries a "(media partner)" marker. Source: euronaval.com and defence trade coverage of the 2026 edition, consulted 18 September 2026.
European naval primes and their supply chains, with a strong French core. The named 2026 exhibitors illustrate the pattern: French and European shipbuilders and systems houses (Naval Group, CMN Naval, Navantia, Babcock International, BAE Systems, Leonardo), aerospace and sensor companies with naval lines (Dassault Aviation, HENSOLDT, Indra Group), and a Turkish naval systems presence (STM). Around that core sit equipment, propulsion, underwater systems, communications and cyber suppliers, plus certification and classification bodies such as DNV. The event record lists 450 exhibitors and the sector categories as naval defence, maritime security, naval technology, shipbuilding and underwater systems. Start-ups are present but contained: SEAnnovation's 200 square metres is the designated space, and a company arriving without a stand or a SEAnnovation place has no obvious foothold. Source: euronaval.com and defence trade coverage of the 2026 edition, consulted 18 September 2026.
Press accreditation runs through the event's press room at euronaval.com/press-room/. The scale of the press operation is documented, 350 accredited journalists attend, which is a substantial media presence for a trade exhibition and reflects the event's political and delegation profile. What is not published in the sources reachable on this pass is the detail a journalist needs: eligibility criteria, required proof of journalistic activity, the accreditation deadline, and the on-site press facilities. A journalist should therefore work through the press room page directly rather than from published rules, and should apply well ahead, given that the show closes its general online registration before opening. Source: euronaval.com/press-room/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Coverage sits in specialist defence and maritime media rather than general press, which is what a trade exhibition with 350 accredited journalists produces. Items located on this pass include Defensehere on the 2026 exhibitor count, Unmanned Systems Technology's event coverage, and TURDEF from the Turkish defence press, alongside exhibitor-published event pages from DNV and others that are marketing rather than journalism. The organiser runs its own press room and publishes a highlights site at conference.euronaval.com. The event record holds no official media partner list, so no mention in this fiche carries a "(media partner)" marker; that absence should be read as an absence of data rather than as confirmation that no media partnerships exist. Source: the items named above and euronaval.com/press-room/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Two specific weaknesses, both visible in the numbers this fiche had to report as ranges. Visitor attendance circulates as both around 22,000 and around 26,000 for the same 2026 edition, and exhibitor counts as 450, "nearly 500" and, in one trade headline, "nears 400", with no independent audit to settle any of it; the figures originate with the organiser and are then rounded differently by each outlet. Second, the specialist defence press that covers Euronaval depends on the same manufacturers who exhibit, which makes critical coverage structurally rare, and a large share of what surfaces in search is exhibitor announcement copy rather than reporting. Against that, the operational detail the organiser publishes is precise and checkable: the three-band badge pricing with exact dates, the day-by-day conference themes, the hall number and the delegation count are all specific enough to be wrong if they were wrong. Source: cross-reading of euronaval.com against the trade items named above, 18 September 2026.
Anyone outside the naval and maritime domain, because the door will actually stop them: access is restricted to maritime and naval industry professionals, registration is subject to approval, and badges are personalised. Beyond eligibility, a land or air defence supplier will find a general defence exhibition a better use of four days, and a commercial shipping or port operator will find the maritime security content thinner than a dedicated maritime event. The event is also poorly suited to anyone hoping to sell into a broad market: this is a delegation-driven show where the buyers are navies and defence ministries, and a company without a government sales motion is paying EUR 110 to walk past stands aimed at someone else. Finally, a start-up that has not secured a SEAnnovation place has no low-cost way in. Source: euronaval.com/i-want-to-visit/, consulted 18 September 2026.
It is the naval half of the French defence exhibition pair, and its biennial rhythm interlocks with the other half. Euronaval runs in November of even years at Paris Nord Villepinte; Eurosatory, the land and airland defence exhibition, runs in June of even years at the same venue, so 2026 carries both. Against the wider calendar, Euronaval's closest peers are the naval exhibitions in northern Europe and Asia rather than the generalist Gulf shows, and its distinguishing feature is the concentration of European naval primes in one hall with 150 official delegations circulating between them. With the Bahrain International Airshow having slipped from November 2026 to November 2028, Euronaval is one of the few defence fixtures left in that month this year. Source: euronaval.com and the EventsIndex defence registry, consulted 18 September 2026.
The exhibition itself is held only at Paris Nord Villepinte, with no regional or overseas edition. What does travel is the conference: the Euronaval Conference Series 2026 held its opening session in Brussels on 13 January 2026, on quantum and artificial intelligence in maritime operations, which extends the brand beyond the exhibition week and beyond France without creating a second exhibition. Whether further sessions in that series were held elsewhere during 2026, and where, was not established on this pass (unverifiable information). The organiser SOGENA runs other maritime events, including Euromaritime, which is a separate commercial maritime exhibition rather than a Euronaval edition. Source: euronaval.com/euronaval-conference-brussels/ and sogena-events.com, consulted 18 September 2026.
French and English. The event is French-organised and French-hosted, with an international delegation and exhibitor base, and the official site is published in both languages, with euronaval.fr and euronaval.com serving the two. No formal language policy for the conference programme, and no commitment to simultaneous interpretation, is published in the sources reachable on this pass, so a non-French speaker should confirm the working language of specific conference sessions before planning a day around them. Source: euronaval.com and euronaval.fr, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed as an organiser-run offer. No livestream, virtual pass or on-demand conference archive was found for the 2026 edition, and given that access to the exhibition is vetted and restricted to verified naval industry professionals, a public remote option would sit oddly with the event's own admission policy. The organiser does run a highlights site at conference.euronaval.com carrying content from the conference programme, and publishes material through its press room, which is the closest thing to after-the-fact access. Searched: the official site, the conference pages and the press room. Source: euronaval.com and conference.euronaval.com/highlights/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed. No refund terms, cancellation window or transfer procedure was found for visitor badges in the sources reachable on this pass. Two documented facts bear on the question in place of a policy: badges are personalised, which in practice rules out passing an unused badge to a colleague, and registration is subject to approval, so a refused registration raises the question of whether the fee is returned, and no published answer exists. With the early bird band at EUR 80 having closed on 9 September 2026 and the standard band at EUR 110 running to 2 November, the amounts at stake for an individual visitor are modest; for an exhibitor, the terms sit in the commercial contract with SOGENA rather than on the site. Searched: the practical information pages and the visitor registration pages. Source: euronaval.com/practical-informations/venue-and-opening-times/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Not publicly disclosed at event level. No accessibility statement, accessible parking or transport guidance, accessible seating arrangement for the conference programme, or access contact was found on the event's own pages. The venue, Paris Nord Villepinte, is a modern single-level exhibition centre served by a dedicated RER station, and its operator publishes general accessibility provision, but no event-specific arrangement for Euronaval was documented and none of the venue's provision is restated here as if it were the organiser's. A visitor with access requirements should contact visit@euronaval.com directly and well ahead of the November dates, particularly given that badges are personalised and registration is subject to approval. Searched: the official site's practical information and visitor pages. Source: euronaval.com, consulted 18 September 2026.
Paris Nord Villepinte is at ZAC Paris Nord 2, 93420 Villepinte, north-east of Paris and adjacent to Charles de Gaulle airport; Euronaval occupies Hall 6. The venue has its own RER station, Parc des Expositions on RER line B, which is the same line that serves Charles de Gaulle, so an arriving international visitor can reach the show without entering Paris: the journey from the airport terminals is a few minutes southbound. From central Paris, RER B northbound from Châtelet les Halles or Gare du Nord takes roughly 30 minutes. By road the site sits on the A1 and A104, with on-site parking. No event-specific shuttle arrangement was documented for the 2026 edition. Source: euronaval.com/practical-informations/venue-and-opening-times/, consulted 18 September 2026.
Eighty euros in early bird, one hundred and ten in the standard window, three hundred at the door. A near fourfold jump between the cheapest and the most expensive way to buy the same badge is not revenue optimisation, it is a filter. An exhibition that vets every registration, issues personalised badges, restricts entry to verified naval industry professionals and closes online registration before the doors open is not trying to maximise footfall; it is trying to know exactly who is in Hall 6 when 150 official delegations are circulating through it. The three-hundred-euro walk-up price is the cost of not having been checked in advance. Read alongside the fact that the organiser is GICAN's own subsidiary rather than an independent exhibition company, the pricing describes an industry association convening its own market under controlled conditions, which is a different proposition from a trade fair selling space.
This fiche had to report two of the three headline numbers as ranges, and that is the finding. Visitor attendance appears as around 22,000 in the record this page was built from and around 26,000 in the organiser's 2026 communication and the trade coverage that repeats it. Exhibitor counts appear as 450, as "nearly 500", and in one trade headline as "nears 400", which is a spread of a quarter around the middle figure for a number that the organiser alone can know precisely. None of it is audited, and the specialist defence press that would do the auditing depends commercially on the companies exhibiting. What holds up is everything with a date or a place attached: the three badge bands with their exact cut-off dates, the four conference themes assigned day by day, Hall 6, the 150 delegations and the 350 accredited journalists. Plan against those, and treat the attendance figure as an order of magnitude rather than a measurement.
Official site: euronaval.com, and euronaval.fr in French. Venue and opening times: euronaval.com/practical-informations/venue-and-opening-times/. Visitor registration: euronaval.com/i-want-to-visit/. Conference programme: euronaval.com/2026-conferences-programme/. Conference highlights: conference.euronaval.com/highlights/. Brussels conference session: euronaval.com/euronaval-conference-brussels/. EURONAVAL DNA: euronaval.com/exhibition/euronaval-dna/. Press room: euronaval.com/press-room/. Organiser: sogena-events.com/euronaval/. Visitor enquiries: visit@euronaval.com. Commercial enquiries: sales@euronaval.com.