Les Rendez-vous Carnot is the flagship B2B research and development matchmaking event of the French Carnot Institutes network, held at Espace Champerret in Paris; the 2026 edition runs 21 to 22 October 2026, reporting more than 1,300 participants and more than 8,000 pre-scheduled business meetings, themed around technological sovereignty and reindustrialisation.
Les Rendez-vous Carnot is the flagship event for research and development partnership-building in France, organised by the network of Carnot Institutes, which brings together the country's technology-transfer and innovation actors. It gathers companies, startups, large groups, researchers and experts for pre-scheduled B2B meetings, conferences, pitches and technology demonstrations, held at Espace Champerret in Paris (per rdv-carnot.com and cerema.fr, checked 21 September 2026). The 2026 edition is themed around technological sovereignty and reindustrialisation, in France and internationally.
The 2026 edition runs 21 to 22 October 2026. The venue is Espace Champerret, Paris, distinct from the venues used by the other shows tracked in this Paris batch.
The Reseau des instituts Carnot (network of Carnot Institutes) organises Les Rendez-vous Carnot, per rdv-carnot.com and lereseaudescarnot.fr, checked 21 September 2026.
The organiser's 2026 figure is more than 1,300 participants, including 1,100 researchers and experts, around more than 8,000 pre-scheduled business meetings (per cerema.fr; unverifiable information, organiser figures not independently audited). The audience is companies, startups, large groups and researchers seeking R&D partnerships, alongside experts from the Carnot Institutes themselves.
The 2026 edition's stated theme is technological sovereignty and reindustrialisation, in France and internationally (per cerema.fr, checked 21 September 2026). No further dated comparison against the 2025 edition was found in this research pass.
The programme includes pre-scheduled B2B meetings, conferences, pitches, technology demonstrations and meetings with Carnot institutes (per cerema.fr, checked 21 September 2026). A full session-by-session agenda with named speakers was not retrieved in this research pass.
Documented formats: pre-scheduled one-to-one B2B meetings (more than 8,000 reported), conferences, pitches and technology demonstrations. This is a matchmaking-format event rather than a trade show with an open exhibition floor.
Not publicly disclosed beyond the core programme of meetings, conferences, pitches and demonstrations described above.
Not publicly disclosed in the sources checked this session.
Not publicly disclosed. No call-for-speakers or pitch-application page was found in the sources checked.
Not publicly disclosed with a specific contact in this research pass. As a B2B matchmaking format rather than a trade show, participation likely runs through registration for the meetings programme rather than a stand-booking process; this was not confirmed.
Not publicly disclosed. No named sponsor list for 2026 was found in the sources checked; participating Carnot Institutes named in this research include Cetim and CEA-Leti, per their own event listings.
No independently audited breakdown was found. The organiser's own framing points to companies of all sizes, from startups to large groups, seeking R&D partnerships with the Carnot Institutes' technology-transfer network.
Not publicly disclosed. No press accreditation page was found in the sources checked.
Coverage found in this pass includes event listings from participating Carnot Institutes themselves (Cetim, CEA-Leti, Minalogic, Telecom SudParis) and the organiser's own site (rdv-carnot.com), rather than independent third-party press.
Weak as independent verification: the coverage found is from participating institutes and the organiser's own channels, expected for a B2B matchmaking event of this kind, but meaning no independent count of the 1,300-participant or 8,000-meeting figures was found. No media partner is recorded against this event in the database.
Buyers looking for an open trade-show floor rather than pre-scheduled matchmaking: the format is built around one-to-one meetings arranged in advance, not walk-up exhibitor browsing.
Les Rendez-vous Carnot runs 21 to 22 October 2026 at Espace Champerret, the same two days as Architect@Work France Paris (La Grande Halle de La Villette) and immediately after Forum Teratec (20 to 21 October, Palais des Congres), all tracked elsewhere on EventsIndex.
Not documented in the sources checked this session; the event is organised as a single flagship Paris gathering by the Carnot Institutes network.
Not explicitly documented; as a French research-network event, French is the likely primary working language, but no organiser statement confirming this was found.
Not publicly disclosed. No livestream or on-demand offer was found in this research pass; as a pre-scheduled meetings format, remote attendance is unlikely to be offered for the core programme.
Not publicly disclosed. No refund or cancellation clause was found in the sources checked.
Not publicly disclosed. No accessibility statement specific to Les Rendez-vous Carnot was found in this research pass.
Espace Champerret is in northwestern Paris, served by Metro Line 3 (Porte de Champerret station).
Because it is the flagship, pre-scheduled matchmaking event of the French Carnot Institutes network, reporting more than 8,000 pre-arranged one-to-one meetings (organiser figure), giving a company a structured route to a research partnership rather than the open-floor networking of a general trade show.
Because the 1,300-participant and 8,000-meeting figures found in this research are organiser figures, restated by participating institutes rather than counted by an independent source in this research pass.
Official site: rdv-carnot.com. Conference programme: rdv-carnot.com/conferences. Network: lereseaudescarnot.fr. This research could not fetch these sites directly (see Notes); readers should treat the official site as the primary source ahead of anything summarised here.