Events
Jour E 2025: The essential event to accelerate the transition
On April 2, 2025, the Palais Rameau in Lille will host the 5th edition of Jour E, a major event focused on supporting businesses in their ecological and energy transition. This event provides concrete solutions to help companies advance in their sustainability efforts.
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International Development For Industry Is A Two-Way Street, Inside And Outside Of France
An increasing number of French industrial entrepreneurs are looking to expand their operations globally while France remains an attractive destination for foreign industrial companies looking to grow outside of their borders. In the wake of the 2025 Global Industrie event, two firms — one French, the other Canadian — share their experience in what developing internationally means.
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Jour E: Towards Circular Reindustrialization
Paul-François Fournier, the Executive Director of Innovation at Bpifrance, hosted a conference on April 4th during Jour E about circular reindustrialization. Eléonore Blondeau, a circular industry expert and co-founder of CSI France, and Christian Bruere, president of Mob-ion, spoke at the event.
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Vivatech, CES Las Vegas, SXSW, Global Forum on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence 2024… 4 AI Events to follow in 2024 with Bpifrance
For all AI enthusiasts, we have curated a list of four events to keep an eye on in 2024.
Big Media, Bpifrance’s media channel is following artificial intelligence (AI) for Tech entrepreneurs, business leaders, and project enthusiasts from all backgrounds, exploring its applications, challenges, and developments.
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The Cornerstone Investor club: helping to build lasting relationships between cornerstone investors to boost the dynamism of the French IPO market!
After the creation of La French Tech 10 Years ago and the emergence of numerous start-ups in France where R&D can be developed in a favorable environment thanks in particular to the constant efforts of public authorities, the French Tech ecosystem has now entered a new phase of maturity, with a development of scale-ups and unicorns for which the next step of financing could be an IPO (Initial Public Offering).
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Bpifrance celebrates Big’s 9th edition
This year again, Bpifrance held Europe’s largest business gathering. The 9th edition of Big on October 5th at the Paris Accor Arena. Top speakers, conferences, Networking sessions… Here are a few highlights of this exciting day and its thousands of participants.
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Bpifrance celebrates 10 years of supporting French SMEs
As part of Bpifrance’s 10th anniversary celebrations, Bpifrance organised an event on 31 May to mark 10 years of support for French SMEs, including a major conference on « NPBIs: what role in a changing world? ».
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Bpifrance welcomes the EMENA foundation’s annual meeting in Paris
Last week, on May 10th and 11th, members of the EMENA Foundation, endorsers, and participants gathered in Paris for their annual meeting and were pleased to welcome Kuwait’s Investment Authority, the sovereign fund of Kuwait, as main endorser of the Foundation.
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Bpifrance for an innovative Europe
The Innovation Department and the International and European Affairs Department aim to increase French participation in the Horizon Europe program. To this end, Bpifrance organised three related events on March 7th and 8th about « Building an innovative Europe through deeptech ».
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The #MEETAfrica Forum, first get together for African Entrepreneurs in Europe
On February 11th, the first edition of the #MeetAfrica Forum was held at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. This economic event organized by Expertise France in partnership with the ANIMA Investment Network and co-financed by the European Union and the French Development Agency, brought together more than 3,000 participants.
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