https://eventsindex.org The editorial index of professional events in EMEA en Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://eventsindex.org/events/vivatech-champs-elysees.html https://eventsindex.org/events/vivatech-champs-elysees.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-14 · VivaTech's public face on the Champs-Élysées, the free open-air day that opens the technology week to passers-by before the trade floor takes over at Porte de Versailles. https://eventsindex.org/events/diana-demo-days-opening-reception.html https://eventsindex.org/events/diana-demo-days-opening-reception.html Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-15 · The defence-tech opening note of the VivaTech week, where NATO's deeptech accelerator shows its 2026 cohort to investors and government before the demonstrations. https://eventsindex.org/events/ai-climate-breakfast.html https://eventsindex.org/events/ai-climate-breakfast.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · A working breakfast at the AI and climate intersection, pairing a global law firm with a specialist fund the morning before the VivaTech rush. https://eventsindex.org/events/belgium-beer-night.html https://eventsindex.org/events/belgium-beer-night.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · A Franco-Belgian economic-diplomacy evening, bringing 45 Belgian scale-ups face to face with French investors the night before VivaTech opens. https://eventsindex.org/events/built-to-scale-deeptech-ctos.html https://eventsindex.org/events/built-to-scale-deeptech-ctos.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · A practitioner morning on the hardest deeptech question: turning a research team into an organisation that can scale, told by four CTOs who have done it. https://eventsindex.org/events/innovation-manager-dinner.html https://eventsindex.org/events/innovation-manager-dinner.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · A peer dinner for corporate innovation leaders, where the people who buy from startups compare notes the night before VivaTech opens. https://eventsindex.org/events/master-networking-bits-and-pretzels.html https://eventsindex.org/events/master-networking-bits-and-pretzels.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · The open, pre-VivaTech warm-up from the Bits & Pretzels community, built to turn casual drinks into a working contact list for the week. https://eventsindex.org/events/next-gen-cybersecurity-techmeeting.html https://eventsindex.org/events/next-gen-cybersecurity-techmeeting.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · The cybersecurity open-innovation slot of the VivaTech week, pairing Paris-region corporates with international startups around next-generation security. https://eventsindex.org/events/scaling-revenue.html https://eventsindex.org/events/scaling-revenue.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · A go-to-market evening for European scale-ups, anchored by an ESSEC research study and a panel of CROs who have scaled the revenue function. https://eventsindex.org/events/the-symposium-paris.html https://eventsindex.org/events/the-symposium-paris.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · The corporate-VC dinner that opens VivaTech week, where a deal-flow platform, a global law firm and a cross-border fund convene investors behind closed doors. https://eventsindex.org/events/ukraine-tech-night-summit.html https://eventsindex.org/events/ukraine-tech-night-summit.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · The convergence point for the Franco-Ukrainian tech axis during VivaTech, blending dignitary diplomacy, startup pitches and a closing reception. https://eventsindex.org/events/vivatech-mobility-side-event.html https://eventsindex.org/events/vivatech-mobility-side-event.html Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-16 · The sustainable-mobility slot of the VivaTech week, where EIT Urban Mobility and the Via ID accelerator gather executives, investors and public players around Europe's mobility deeptech. https://eventsindex.org/events/climate-tech-drinks-vivatech.html https://eventsindex.org/events/climate-tech-drinks-vivatech.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · A closed climate-tech cocktail that signals the verticalisation of VivaTech's investor evenings, convening four climate funds and their portfolios. https://eventsindex.org/events/financing-deep-clean-industrial-innovation.html https://eventsindex.org/events/financing-deep-clean-industrial-innovation.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · A working breakfast on the financing gap for clean industrial deeptech, held in the offices of one of its backers. https://eventsindex.org/events/hong-kong-tech-pavilion-vivatech.html https://eventsindex.org/events/hong-kong-tech-pavilion-vivatech.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · Hong Kong's official delegation inside the VivaTech halls, where the HKTDC stages 24 startups and a pitch-and-reception programme to put the city in front of European investors. https://eventsindex.org/events/junior-impact-vc-lateral.html https://eventsindex.org/events/junior-impact-vc-lateral.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · The relaunch evening of a junior impact-investing community, using VivaTech week to introduce its new identity, Lateral. https://eventsindex.org/events/la-french-tech-in-europe.html https://eventsindex.org/events/la-french-tech-in-europe.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · The pan-European French Tech evening of the VivaTech week, where 30 community chapters convene founders and investors around an awards ceremony. https://eventsindex.org/events/one-univers-ai-energy.html https://eventsindex.org/events/one-univers-ai-energy.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · The AI and energy evening of the VivaTech week, where the company behind EnOS convenes cross-sector leaders on the Seine. https://eventsindex.org/events/soiree-du-nord-vin-ventures.html https://eventsindex.org/events/soiree-du-nord-vin-ventures.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · A VivaTech-week networking evening listed for investors and innovators, whose organiser and venue are not yet publicly confirmed. https://eventsindex.org/events/soiree-innovation-metropolitaine.html https://eventsindex.org/events/soiree-innovation-metropolitaine.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · The institutional evening of the VivaTech week, where Greater Paris convenes its startups and public officials on a barge on the Seine. https://eventsindex.org/events/startup-germany-night.html https://eventsindex.org/events/startup-germany-night.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · The opening night of Germany as VivaTech 2026 Country of the Year, the largest national gathering of the VivaTech week. https://eventsindex.org/events/tech-run-talk-longevity-health.html https://eventsindex.org/events/tech-run-talk-longevity-health.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · The first of the VivaTech week running meetups, swapping badges and pitches for a shared run on the longevity and health theme. https://eventsindex.org/events/vc-poker-night.html https://eventsindex.org/events/vc-poker-night.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · The most recognised gathering of the Paris VC scene at VivaTech: a poker evening among investors, fully booked weeks before the show opens. https://eventsindex.org/events/venture-client-summit-vivatech.html https://eventsindex.org/events/venture-client-summit-vivatech.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · France's reference slot on venture clienting at VivaTech, pairing corporates and startups around the practice of buying from startups to solve real problems. https://eventsindex.org/events/viva-technology.html https://eventsindex.org/events/viva-technology.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · Europe's largest tech show and the main arena where the continent's industrial AI strategy is negotiated in public, now an instrument of tech diplomacy as much as a trade fair. https://eventsindex.org/events/vivatech-founders-breakfast.html https://eventsindex.org/events/vivatech-founders-breakfast.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · The founders' warm-up to VivaTech day one, where two transatlantic funds gather their networks on a rooftop before the doors open. https://eventsindex.org/events/where-europe-scales.html https://eventsindex.org/events/where-europe-scales.html Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-17 · A curated, invitation-only format that captures the rise of premium evenings around VivaTech: less booth, more conversation between scaleups and European capital. https://eventsindex.org/events/blockchain-web3-vivatech-side-event.html https://eventsindex.org/events/blockchain-web3-vivatech-side-event.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · The blockchain crowd's after-work of the VivaTech week, where the FFPB gathers the French Web3 scene over rooftop drinks rather than on the show floor. https://eventsindex.org/events/capgemini-side-event-resilience.html https://eventsindex.org/events/capgemini-side-event-resilience.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · The corporate-host slot of the VivaTech week from a Gold partner, framed around resilience and business value through data and AI. https://eventsindex.org/events/casual-vc-drinks.html https://eventsindex.org/events/casual-vc-drinks.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · The informal afterwork of the VivaTech week, where three European funds gather investor peers over drinks without an agenda. https://eventsindex.org/events/franco-german-tech-night.html https://eventsindex.org/events/franco-german-tech-night.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · The bilateral set piece of Germany's Country of the Year year at VivaTech, inaugurated by a German state secretary and the two ambassadors. https://eventsindex.org/events/hivenet-tii-padel-night.html https://eventsindex.org/events/hivenet-tii-padel-night.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Asnieres-sur-Seine · 2026-06-18 · The sport-and-networking evening of the VivaTech week, pairing a sovereign-cloud startup and a research institute over padel. https://eventsindex.org/events/invite-only-vc-lunch-start2-ovhcloud.html https://eventsindex.org/events/invite-only-vc-lunch-start2-ovhcloud.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · A private investor lunch pairing a global accelerator network with a European sovereign-cloud provider during VivaTech week. https://eventsindex.org/events/no-boring-tech-talks-paris.html https://eventsindex.org/events/no-boring-tech-talks-paris.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · The candid-conversation evening of the VivaTech week, taking on Europe's funding gap with data and no slides. https://eventsindex.org/events/sustainability-exec-summit.html https://eventsindex.org/events/sustainability-exec-summit.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · VivaTech's own executive sustainability summit, a curated C-level room on how technology shapes a sustainable future. https://eventsindex.org/events/underdog-breakfast.html https://eventsindex.org/events/underdog-breakfast.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · The inclusion breakfast of the VivaTech week, where identity.vc and partner communities curate a room for founders who build outside the norm. https://eventsindex.org/events/vivatech-ecosystem-mixer.html https://eventsindex.org/events/vivatech-ecosystem-mixer.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · The no-agenda rooftop mixer of the VivaTech week, where a global accelerator and a London VC convene the wider ecosystem over drinks. https://eventsindex.org/events/wind-pool-party.html https://eventsindex.org/events/wind-pool-party.html Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-18 · The decompression party of the VivaTech week, where the VC firm Wind turns the end of the show day into curated poolside networking. https://eventsindex.org/events/brazil-innovation-party.html https://eventsindex.org/events/brazil-innovation-party.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-19 · The Franco-Brazilian closing party of the VivaTech week, where economic diplomacy meets a Sao Paulo DJ set. https://eventsindex.org/events/ecai-vip-breakfast.html https://eventsindex.org/events/ecai-vip-breakfast.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-19 · The AI governance breakfast of the VivaTech week, convened by the WEF and VivaTech's joint centre for senior decision makers. https://eventsindex.org/events/hack-the-worlds.html https://eventsindex.org/events/hack-the-worlds.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-19 · The student hackathon of the VivaTech week, putting 100 engineers on world models under the patronage of Yann LeCun. https://eventsindex.org/events/weroad-networking-event.html https://eventsindex.org/events/weroad-networking-event.html Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-19 · The deliberately open networking evening of the VivaTech week, where WeRoad mixes founders, investors and the simply curious without a guest list. https://eventsindex.org/events/tech-run-talk-community-run.html https://eventsindex.org/events/tech-run-talk-community-run.html Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Paris · 2026-06-20 · The closing run of the VivaTech week, an open community jog along the Seine to wrap up the Tech Run series.