RAISE Summit 2026

RAISE Summit 2026 is a large-scale, cross-industry AI summit for executives, founders and investors, held on 8-9 July 2026 at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. Billed as one of Europe's fastest-growing AI gatherings, it draws more than 9,000 attendees, 2,000-plus companies and over 350 speakers, with roughly four in five delegates at C-level or founder level. The event sits at the centre of a wider "RAISE Week" of activations across Paris and is positioned as the place where enterprise leaders move from AI ambition to real-world strategy, deployment and measurable return on investment.

The 4Fs: how the 2026 agenda is structured

RAISE organises its 2026 programme around a four-track framework it calls the 4Fs — Foundation, Frontier, Friction and Future. The Foundation track covers the models, infrastructure and tooling underpinning today's systems; the Frontier track digs into advanced applications such as agentic and autonomous intelligence capable of handling complex tasks with little human steering; the Friction track confronts the practical barriers to adoption, from ROI pressure and regulatory compliance to workforce change; and the Future track looks further out to pathways toward artificial general intelligence, sustainable and energy-aware AI, and multimodal interfaces that blend text, image and audio. The structure is deliberately built to meet attendees "where they lead" — whether they build, invest, regulate or deploy — so that a CTO, a fund partner and a policy lead can each follow a coherent thread through the same two days. In practice that lets a delegate move from a deep-infrastructure session to a frontier-research debate to a hard conversation about adoption economics without leaving the building, which is part of why the format appeals to leaders who have to think across all of those layers at once.

Speakers and co-located summits

The 2026 line-up leans heavily on the people building the current generation of AI. Speakers announced for the 2026 programme have included Yann LeCun, Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI, Andrew Feldman of Cerebras, Scott Wu of Cognition, May Habib of Writer, Daniel Dines of UiPath, Carolina Parada of Google DeepMind's robotics group, Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs, Pat Gelsinger, and AMD's Mark Papermaster, alongside investors and operators such as Mark Cuban and Benchmark's Chetan Puttagunta (confirm the final 2026 line-up on the official site). RAISE also bundles a set of focused co-located events under the same week, letting delegates assemble a programme around their priorities:

• MACHINA Summit — a dedicated physical-AI event on robotics, humanoids and autonomous hardware, with live demonstrations.
• RAISE CxO Summit — a private convening for C-suite AI leaders.
• RAISE Hackathon and RAISE the STAKES startup competition — building and pitching frontier solutions in real time.
• Specialist programming including an AI Security Summit and an Open Source track.

Who should attend, and what's distinctive this year

RAISE is aimed at decision-makers driving AI inside large organisations — enterprise executives, startup and scale-up founders, venture and growth investors, and the policy-minded leaders shaping how AI is governed. The distinctive draw for 2026 is the combination of frontier-lab access and an explicitly enterprise, ROI-first framing: rather than treating AI as a research showcase, the agenda pushes toward what actually ships and what actually pays back. The co-located MACHINA programme also reflects the year's broader shift toward physical AI, putting robotics and humanoids on the same bill as foundation models and agents — a signal that the conversation is widening from software-only systems to machines that perceive and act in the physical world. The heavily senior audience profile changes the texture of the event too: with most delegates at C-level or founder level, the hallway conversations and curated networking carry as much weight as the stage programme, and many attendees come specifically to source partnerships, customers or capital rather than simply to listen.

Format and how to attend

This is a primarily in-person event at the Carrousel du Louvre, with the core summit on 8-9 July 2026 and adjacent RAISE Week activities clustering around it, including MACHINA and several evening and networking events across the city. Given the scale and seniority of the audience, demand is high and capacity is finite; the organisers reported the 2026 edition filling well ahead of time. Prospective delegates should secure passes and review the published agenda and speaker roster through the official RAISE Summit website, and check which co-located summits a given ticket covers, since some — such as the standalone MACHINA day — are ticketed separately. For anyone weighing where to spend a single European AI-conference budget in 2026, RAISE offers an unusually dense concentration of frontier builders, infrastructure leaders and enterprise buyers in one venue. Whether the goal is partnership, fundraising, talent or simply a clearer read on where applied AI is heading, the Paris summit has rapidly become a fixture on the global calendar.