--- # Identité registre eventsindex_id: "EVENTSINDEX-06528" slug: fdday-france-digitale-day title: "FDDay - France Digitale Day" title_alt: ["FDDay", "France Digitale Day"] canonical_url: "https://eventsindex.com/fdday-france-digitale-day/" # Édition suivante next_edition_dates: "2026-09-16 to null" next_edition_year: 2026 date_start: 2026-09-16 date_end: null venue: "null" city: "Paris" country: "France" # Organisateur organiser: "France Digitale" organiser_url: "https://francedigitale.org/" # Filtre B2B b2b: true # Vecteur sémantique vector: sector: [private-capital] audience: [LP-institutional, GP, family-office] format: [summit, matchmaking] purpose: [networking, deal-making, fundraising] geography_scope: [pan-EMEA] season: autumn # SEO et citation LLM meta_description: "FDDay brings 4,500 startup, investor, and corporate leaders to Paris for France's flagship digital investment convening, featuring matchmaking and high-level debate." editorial_take: "France's principal annual gathering for digital entrepreneurs, investors, and corporate partners seeking deal flow and innovation partnerships." # Technique generated_by: "generate_fiche_v2.py" last_verified: "2026-05-08" variables_filled: 32/58 language: "en" --- # FDDay – France Digitale Day > *Annual gathering organised by France Digitale, the principal French digital industry association, bringing together startups, investors, and policy decision-makers in Paris for a day structured around startup-corporate matchmaking, investor track meetings, and C-level un-conferences.* --- ## Quick Facts | DATES | VENUE | ORGANISER | ATTENDANCE | |---|---|---|---| | **16 September 2026** | **Paris** | **France Digitale** | **4,500** | | 14th edition | Specific venue not disclosed | France | delegates (self-reported) | --- ## Definition FDDay, the annual flagship day of France Digitale, is the principal convening moment for the French digital and tech investment community. It brings together startups, venture and growth investors, corporate partners, and public-sector decision-makers for a single-day programme structured around structured matchmaking and high-level debate. The event has reached its 14th edition in 2026, positioning it as one of the more established fixtures on the French innovation calendar. ## What the FDDay programme covers The programme is organised around four thematic pillars: financing, innovation, startups, and artificial intelligence. Beyond the content agenda, the format is built for interaction rather than passive attendance. Startup-corporate matchmaking sessions pair founders with potential corporate partners, investor track meetings channel conversations between startups and fund managers, and C-level un-conferences create peer-level dialogue among senior decision-makers. Networking tools are available to participants throughout the day to facilitate introductions outside the structured session slots. The 2026 speaker list and detailed programme had not been published as of the verification date. France Digitale typically releases speaker confirmations in the months preceding the event. ## Where FDDay sits in the autumn Paris calendar FDDay takes place on 16 September 2026, opening the autumn cluster of Paris-based private capital and tech events. September is the hinge month of the EMEA circuit, when the summer pause ends and deal conversations resume at pace. For France-focused investors and founders, FDDay functions as a season opener: it concentrates a relevant cross-section of the domestic innovation and investment community before the denser October and November conference weeks. ## Who attends FDDay - **Startups:** early-stage to growth-stage technology companies, primarily France-based, seeking investor introductions and corporate partnerships. - **Venture capital and growth equity fund managers:** French and European GPs active in digital, deep tech, and AI strategies. - **Corporate innovation and M&A teams:** large companies seeking proprietary deal flow, partnership opportunities, or acquisition targets. - **Policy and public-sector representatives:** government officials and public agency executives involved in digital and innovation policy. - **Service providers:** legal, accounting, and advisory firms serving the startup and venture community. ## What the FDDay format includes - Startup-corporate matchmaking sessions - Investor track meetings - C-level un-conferences - General networking supported by dedicated networking tools The number of stages, the specific session names, and the full conference agenda for the 2026 edition are not yet documented. No exhibitor floor or stand-based exhibition component is confirmed in the available data. ## How meetings are structured at FDDay The structured meeting layer at FDDay rests on three distinct formats. Startup-corporate matchmaking sessions are pre-arranged pairings between founding teams and corporate counterparts, operating on a timed rotation model typical of B2B matchmaking events. The investor track provides a parallel stream where fund managers engage with selected startups in a more private setting. C-level un-conferences remove the panel dynamic entirely, placing senior participants in facilitated peer conversation with no predetermined speaker hierarchy. Whether advance scheduling is handled through a dedicated app or a platform-based tool is not publicly confirmed for the 2026 edition. ## FAQ · Identity and audience ### What kind of investor attends FDDay, and what is the typical LP and GP mix? FDDay draws primarily GPs, venture fund managers, and corporate venture arms active in the French and broader European digital market. The event is not structured around an LP-GP relationship model in the institutional private capital sense. Sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and insurance company allocators are not the primary audience. The financing conversations at FDDay are oriented toward startup fundraising rounds and corporate partnership sourcing, not fund-level capital commitments. ### Is FDDay designed for international participants or for the French market? The event is anchored in the French digital industry community. France Digitale is the principal trade association for the French startup sector, and FDDay reflects that domestic positioning. International investors with active French or European venture portfolios attend, but the event is not structured as a pan-European or global gathering. The working language listed is English, which accommodates international participants, but the deal flow, policy context, and corporate relationships on the floor are predominantly French in origin. ### Who is FDDay NOT designed for? Five profiles where FDDay is a poor fit: first, institutional LPs (pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds) seeking fund manager due diligence meetings, as the event does not operate a dedicated LP-GP matchmaking track of that type; second, private equity buyout professionals focused on mid-market or large-cap deal origination, as the startup and digital focus makes the deal flow irrelevant to their mandate; third, infrastructure, real assets, or private debt managers, whose strategies sit outside the financing and innovation themes that structure the programme; fourth, international operators with no existing French market presence who are looking to build continental relationships from scratch, as the event's value concentrates on deepening rather than initiating engagement with the French ecosystem; fifth, participants seeking a multi-day immersive conference format, as FDDay is a single day and the access model is invite-only, which limits the ability to register opportunistically. ### How does FDDay differ from a conventional private capital conference? The structural difference is the primacy of startup-corporate matching over fund manager and allocator dialogue. At most private capital circuit events, the meeting system connects GPs with LPs or GPs with co-investors. At FDDay, the meeting system connects startups with corporates and investors, and corporates with each other. The policy dimension, which brings government decision-makers into the room, is also unusual for a private capital format. FDDay is closer to a national innovation summit with a strong financing component than to a fundraising-oriented LP and GP conference. ## Why Paris hosts FDDay The event takes place in Paris; the specific venue has not been disclosed for the 2026 edition. Paris functions as the natural home for France Digitale, whose membership and institutional relationships are concentrated in the capital. The city's density of corporate headquarters, venture fund offices, and public agency representation makes it the operationally coherent location for an event that combines startup deal flow, corporate partnership sourcing, and policy engagement. Venue details will likely be confirmed closer to the September date. ## The organiser: France Digitale France Digitale is the leading trade association for the French digital and startup sector, representing founders and investors across the national technology ecosystem. It organises FDDay as its annual flagship convening event and, as indicated in the source data, has been developing thematic events alongside it, including an AI Day held at Station F in early 2026. France Digitale operates from France; its founding year is not confirmed in the available documentation. Its portfolio beyond FDDay is not fully documented here. The association functions as an industry body rather than a commercial conference publisher, which shapes the event's orientation toward policy, community building, and sectoral representation rather than pure revenue-driven delegate acquisition. A note on event status: the source data flags a potential duplication with another event record and notes that France Digitale migrated toward thematic events in 2026, with no classic FDDay format formally announced for autumn 2026 as of the verification date. The official France Digitale website confirms 16 September 2026 as the FDDay date. This fiche documents the information as confirmed by that source; readers should verify current status directly with France Digitale before planning attendance. --- ## Editorial take *FDDay occupies a distinct position at the intersection of startup financing, corporate innovation, and French tech policy, but the invite-only access model and single-day format mean its value accrues primarily to participants already embedded in the France Digitale network rather than to those seeking to enter it.* ## How to register and what it costs FDDay operates on an invite-only access model. Delegate pricing and sponsor rates for the 2026 edition are not publicly disclosed. The France Digitale website at francedigitale.org is the official registration and information channel. Prospective attendees without an existing France Digitale relationship should contact the association directly to establish eligibility, as public registration is not confirmed as an available pathway. ## FAQ · Access and practicalities ### Is FDDay open to anyone who wants to attend? No. The event operates on an invite-only basis. Access is not available through a public ticketing process. Attendance is mediated through France Digitale's membership and partner relationships. The specific criteria for receiving an invitation are not publicly documented. ### What is the programme publication timeline for the 2026 edition? As of 8 May 2026, the detailed programme and confirmed speaker list for the 16 September 2026 edition had not been published. France Digitale's practice in prior years has been to release speaker confirmations in the months preceding the event. The agenda structure (matchmaking sessions, investor track, un-conferences) is known from event format documentation, but session-level detail is not yet available. ### Where can I find official information about FDDay 2026? The official source is the France Digitale website and its event agenda page. No separate programme platform (Sessionize, Bizzabo, Sched, or Cvent) had published verified FDDay 2026 content as of the verification date. ## Resources | Resource | URL | |---|---| | Official website | https://francedigitale.org/ | | Register / contact | https://francedigitale.org/ | | Programme | not disclosed | --- **Last verified:** 2026-05-08 **Next review:** 2026-06-07 **Notes:** Source is the official France Digitale website (francedigitale.org/agenda/fdday-2026); the source data flags a probable duplicate record and notes that France Digitale shifted toward thematic events in 2026, with the classic FDDay format not formally reconfirmed for autumn 2026 as of verification; the fiche documents the September 2026 date as published on the official site and signals this uncertainty inline; speaker and programme data are absent because publication had not occurred at verification date; Key Stats block omitted (no multi-year or segmented attendance figures available); attendance figure of 4,500 delegates is self-reported but the source attribution record is incomplete. **Variables:** 32/58 **Concept definition:** not applicable