Paris: EMEA events hub
Last updated: 10 October 2026. Next review: 10 November 2026. Sources are linked in the text and listed at the end of the page.
Paris hosts three distinct circuits that rarely share an audience. Private capital and venture forums (Operating Partners Summit, Raise Summit, IPEM Global, FDDay) reflect France's dense fund manager and family office base. AI and developer events (Big Data & AI Paris, dotAI 2026, Dev With AI, ai-PULSE) draw on the city's position as one of Europe's larger AI research and startup hubs. A separate defence and aerospace calendar, Euronaval, the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget, Milipol Paris, and the Forum Innovation Défense, ties to France's role as a major European defence industrial base and arms exporter.
Why these three circuits coexist
Unlike London, where finance and technology events blend into overlapping audiences, Paris keeps its circuits more separated. Private capital events concentrate around France Invest and the LP-GP forum tradition, largely independent of the AI conference calendar. The defence and aerospace events (Euronaval, the Paris Air Show, Milipol) are tied to specific biennial or multi-year cycles rather than an annual rhythm: Euronaval and the Paris Air Show in particular alternate with other European defence and aerospace hubs, so a given year's Paris calendar can look heavier or lighter than the last depending on that cycle.
Reading the Paris calendar
Most of the AI and private capital events on this list ran between June and September 2026: Operating Partners Summit, Raise Summit, IPEM Global, Big Data & AI Paris, FDDay and dotAI have all taken place, and Dev With AI and ai-PULSE open the October run. The defence and aerospace events skew later: Euronaval (3-6 November 2026) is the only one in 2026, while the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget and Milipol Paris both fall in 2027, reflecting their longer multi-year cycles rather than a gap in the 2026 calendar. The Paris Peace Forum (10-11 November 2026) is the main policy event of the autumn.
As of 10 October 2026, 7 of the 16 events on this hub have already run and 9 are still ahead. The next three are Dev With AI (12 October 2026), ai-PULSE (13 October 2026) and Euronaval (3-6 November 2026). The last 2026 date on this hub is Tech.Rocks Summit (30 November 2026 to 1 December 2026). The 2027 dates recorded so far are SANTEXPO (25-27 May 2027), Paris Air Show (14-20 June 2027), Forum Innovation Defense (1 November 2027) and Milipol Paris (16-19 November 2027). Dates are as recorded in each event's fiche on the date above, which carries its own last-verified date.
Methodology
Events listed here are a selection of the fiches with city: Paris on Events Index, each with a confirmed date; the full list is in the registry. This hub does not add editorial judgement about which Paris events matter most; see the relevant sector hub (private capital, developer AI, defence) for that analysis.
Dates and organiser pages are taken from each event's fiche as of 10 October 2026.
Sources
Accessed on 10 October 2026.
- Dev With AI, organiser site: dates of 12 October 2026.
- ai-PULSE, organiser site: dates of 13 October 2026.
- Euronaval, organiser site: dates of 3-6 November 2026.
- Paris Peace Forum, organiser site: dates of 10-11 November 2026.
- Tech.Rocks Summit, organiser site: dates of 30 November 2026 to 1 December 2026.
- SANTEXPO, organiser site: dates of 25-27 May 2027.
- Paris Air Show, organiser site: dates of 14-20 June 2027.
- Forum Innovation Defense, organiser site: dates of 1 November 2027.
- Milipol Paris, organiser site: dates of 16-19 November 2027.