AI Day 2026

Under the high patronage of Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic

Ahead of the AI Impact Summit taking place in India in February, France Digitale’s AI Day returns for its 10th edition  with a strengthened ambition: bringing together the best of French and European AI innovation to capture the strongest signals shaping the future.

Organized by France Digitale and co-designed with the PR[AI]RIE AI cluster, the event will gather 2,000 innovation leaders: founders & CEOs, CTOs and C-levels from scale-ups, investors, incubators, researchers, corporates, and public decision-makers.

The goal? To understand, anticipate, and activate the full potential of AI at every level: scientific, strategic, and operational.

AI Day is structured around three complementary pillars:

• AI & Research – in partnership with the PR[AI]RIE AI cluster

A state-of-the-art overview of AI delivered by leading researchers. A forward-looking perspective on scientific breakthroughs, emerging trends, and the disruptions ahead. Understanding what’s coming… before it actually arrives.

• AI & Business

How does AI create value? What strategies work for companies, investors, startups, and scale-ups? A concrete breakdown of business models, performance, adoption, and real economic impact.

• AI & Operations: NoCode and New Abstraction Technologies

The applications, especially NoCode, that are transforming workflows, accelerating processes, and making AI accessible to a much wider audience. Use cases, feedback, tools, and demos to help teams move from idea to execution.

This vision comes to life through four complementary on-site formats to explore AI from every angle:

• High-level conferences to take a step back, grasp the major dynamics of AI, and hear from those shaping its future.
• An exhibition space featuring the best current AI & NoCode solutions, the ones already transforming jobs and boosting organizational performance.

• Hands-on workshops and demos to get practical: tools, methods, real-world feedback, and best practices to accelerate transformation across teams.
• Qualified matchmaking sessions between startup founders and investors (our FDTour format), between startups and corporates to actually do business, plus a networking app to facilitate meaningful connections between participants.