Viva Technology, or VivaTech, is an annual technology conference, dedicated to innovation and startups, held in Paris, France. VivaTech was founded in 2016 by Publicis Groupe and Groupe Les Echos.[1] The first two days of VivaTech are for startups, investors, executives, students and academics, and it is open to the general public on the third day.[2]
| Viva Technology | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Annual Technology Conference |
| Venue | Paris expo Porte de Versailles |
| Location(s) | Paris |
| Country | France |
| Inaugurated | 2016 |
| Founders | Publicis Groupe and Groupe Les Echos |
| Attendance | 165,000 (2024) |
| Website | Official website  |
2016
editThe first year of VivaTech was held from 30 June to 2 July 2016 in Paris, and gathered 45,000 visitors including 5,000 startup companies.[3]
2017
editIn 2017, VivaTech was held at Paris expo Porte de Versailles from 14 to 16 June in Paris. In attendance were 6,000 startup firms, 1,400 investors, and 1,500 journalists. French President Emmanuel Macron delivered the keynote address and announced the creation of a 10-billion Euro fund for innovation and the launch of a French technology visa for international entrepreneurs.[3]
One thousand startups were exhibited in 20 open innovation "labs" sponsored by corporate groups (AccorHotels, Air France, KLM, Airbus, BNPP, La Poste, Cisco, Engie, Carrefour, LVMH, RATP Group, SNCF, Sodexo, Sanofi, Orange, TF1, Talan, Pari mutuel urbain, Vinci Energies, Valeo).[4]
Speakers including Eric Schmidt, Daniel Zhang and John Collison were also in attendance.[5]
2018
editIn 2018, VivaTech took place from 24 to 26 May in Paris. Over 100,000 visitors and over 300 speakers attended the third edition of the event including Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Dara Khosrowshahi, Ginni Rometty, Chuck Robbins and Bill McDermott.[6]
French President Emmanuel Macron returned to VivaTech in 2018 and announced that the French government will launch a R900 million-programme aimed at investing in African startups.[7]
A partnership was established with TechCrunch and the Startup Battlefield, a competition for startups where the winners attended the Startup Battlefield finals in San Francisco in September 2018.[8]
2019
editIn 2019, the fourth edition of the event was marked by a trend towards positive innovation ("tech for good") as well as the presence of 124,000 visitors at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, on 16 and 17 May for professionals, and on 18 May for the general public.[9]
Nearly 13,000 startups were present, as well as 450 prominent figures from all over the world, such as Jack Ma of Alibaba Group, Justin Trudeau, Olympic medallist Usain Bolt, Holly Ridings of NASA, Ken Hu of Huawei, Young Sohn of Samsung, John Kerry and Margrethe Vestager.[10]
2021
editIn 2021, the fifth edition of the event was marked by a trend towards Positive change through technology at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles and online, on 16, 17 and 18 June.[11]
Prominent figures from all over the world were present, such as Tim Cook of Apple, Peggy Johnson of Magic Leap, Eric Yuan of Zoom, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Melissa Bell of CNN, Emmanuel Macron and Fionn Ferreira[12]
2022
editIn June 2022, for the sixth edition of VivaTech, 91,000 visitors were recorded, an attendance which remains lower than the figures before Covid.[13]
2023
editIn June 2023, for the seventh edition of VivaTech, big names in global tech are expected such as Elon Musk, head of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, and Yann LeCun, chief scientist of Meta's AI department. The President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron is going there again. Bernard Arnault, president of LVMH, as well as Dan Schulman, president of PayPal, and Christel Heydemann, general manager of Orange, are among the speakers.[14]
The edition reached a record by attracting more than 150,000 visitors over the entire duration of the event, almost 60,000 more than during the previous edition. The number of visitors to Viva Tech thus exceeds for the year 2023 that of CES, a benchmark show in the field of new technologies, organized each year in Las Vegas.[15]
2024
editThe eight edition of VivaTech was held from 22 to 25 May at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, and attracted more than 165,000 visitors,[16] from 160+ nationalities,[16] over the four days of the event, setting another attendance record. Elon Musk virtually attended vivatech and shared his personal vision as well as the advances made by his companies in the field of Artificial Intelligence, which have been the subject of much debate.[17] Japan was honored at the country of the year at this 8th edition of the Vivatech summit.[18]
References
edit- ^ "VivaTech concentrates France's booming tech scene, and its mind" Archived 6 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, TechCrunch, 1 July 2016
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- ^ a b "Emmanuel Macron's Call to Action: Viva Technology!" Archived 5 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Forbes, 18 June 2017
- ^ "Viva Technology" is coming back to Paris with its ginormous tech conference" Archived 6 April 2018 at the Wayback Machine, TechCrunch, 21 February 2017
- ^ "Viva Technology is coming back to Paris with its ginormous tech conference". techcrunch.com. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ^ "Publicis Groupe". www.publicisgroupe.com.
- ^ "{title}". Archived from the original on 15 October 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2018.
- ^ "Announcing Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech this May". 14 February 2018.
- ^ O'Brien, Chris (19 May 2019). "Key Takeaways From Viva Technology 2019". The Innovator news. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ Coleman, Lauren deLisa. "Inside The Massive Tech Event That Drew Power Players from Jack Ma To Heads Of State". Forbes. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- ^ "Key VivaTech Highlights 2021". vivatechnology.com. 19 August 2021. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "VivaTech Speakers List 2021". VivaTechnology.com. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Le salon VivaTech a accueilli plus de 91.000 visiteurs". lefigaro.fr (in French). 19 June 2022. Retrieved 19 June 2022.
- ^ "VivaTech Digital Platform". app.vivatechnology.com. Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- ^ Benjamin Vincent (18 June 2023). "Viva Tech 2023 détrône le CES de Las Vegas". francetvinfo.fr (in French).
- ^ a b Official website
- ^ "VivaTech 2024: Elon Musk does not want "politically correct" AI". 23 May 2024.
- ^ "VivaTech Press Releases | Vivatechnology". vivatechnology.com. Retrieved 10 June 2024.