Europe’s largest AI gathering lands at the Carrousel du Louvre this week, and the guest list reads like a checklist of who currently matters in enterprise AI.
RAISE Summit 2026 runs July 8-9 at Le Carrousel du Louvre in Paris. The event convenes more than 9,000 AI leaders, over 2,000 global companies, and more than 360 speakers, spanning top executives, policymakers, and investors. Over 80% of attendees sit at C-level, founder, or senior decision-maker level. French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to address the summit, underscoring how central AI policy has become to European heads of state.
The 2026 lineup includes Yann LeCun (AMI Chairman, former Meta Chief AI Scientist), Mark Cuban, Amin Vahdat (Google’s Chief Technologist & SVP of AI & Infrastructure), and Pat Gelsinger (Playground Global, formerly Intel CEO), alongside representation from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Oracle, and BlackRock. An invitation-only CxO Summit brings in Fortune 1000 executives to benchmark AI strategy and governance, with sessions featuring leaders from Mercedes, Capgemini, AXA, Adecco, and Sodexo.
This isn’t a hype conference. The program is structured around a “4Fs” framework — Foundation, Frontier, Friction, Future — with deep dives into sovereign cloud and trusted infrastructure, data provenance and synthetic pipelines, the energy-compute nexus, and AI governance and reliability at scale. RAISE also positions itself around B2B enterprise adoption and deal-making rather than general discussion, with sessions on AI infrastructure and compute economics, sovereign AI strategy, and agentic AI deployment.
The summit also hosts the industry’s largest AI-focused hackathon and a startup competition with a substantial prize pool, plus an adjacent event, MACHINA, dedicated to physical AI and robotics — humanoids, industrial automation, and human-machine interfaces — debuting July 7.
For a market currently obsessed with whether enterprise AI spend is real or narrative, RAISE is a useful pressure test: the agenda’s tilt toward infrastructure economics, sovereign compute, and governance rather than model-of-the-month hype suggests the conversation in the room has moved past demos and into deployment mechanics — the same shift showing up in earnings commentary from the infrastructure names carrying this cycle.
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