VivaTech 2026 Hits Record 200,000 Attendance in Tenth Anniversary Year

The milestone edition, held from June 17 to 20, hosted more than 15,000 startups and 4,500 exhibitors, with 61% of participating companies arriving from outside France. High-profile attendees included Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who led the delegation for India, the event’s designated AI Country Partner. Discussions spanned critical technological frontiers, punctuated by the debut of the VivaTech x Bloomberg Awards, which honored figures such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Yann LeCun for their contributions to the field.

Beyond high-level networking, the exhibition floor highlighted tangible advancements in hardware and biotech. Notable showcases included thought-controlled humanoid robots from Unitree x HABS, smart contact lenses by XPANCEO, and 3D-printed resorbable implants from Lattice Medical. The event expanded its footprint beyond the conference halls, featuring an open-air showcase on the Champs-Élysées and a public-facing closing day headlined by astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Organizers Maurice Lévy, Michèle Benbunan, and François Bitouzet framed the record-breaking turnout not as a retrospective, but as a gateway to a new decade of development, with the next gathering scheduled for June 2027.