Must-Attend Tech and Innovation Events in 2025

Are you passionate about innovation and want to stay on top of the major 2025 trends? Look no further: this article is exactly what you need!

Major innovation events are unique opportunities to grow your network, discover the latest advances, and refine your future strategies. Here are the must-attend events of the year, with everything you need to anticipate and innovate successfully.

Cyber Show Paris: The Central Cybersecurity Event

Cyber Show Paris is the must-attend cybersecurity trade show for all IT professionals. It is a unique opportunity to discover innovative solutions, discuss your projects, and meet experts from the digital ecosystem. To dig deeper into the topic, our article on CVEs and understanding security vulnerabilities (in French) is a good complement.

• Date: January 29 and 30, 2025
• Location: Paris

Hub Forum: The Digital Transformation and Data Event

Hub Forum is the reference event for leaders in digital, data, and innovation. It explores major technology trends and shares strategies for a successful digital transformation of companies.

• Date: February 4 and 5, 2025
• Location: Paris

WAICF 2025: AI, Ethics, and Innovation in Cannes

The World AI Cannes Festival (WAICF) focuses on ethics, regulation, and innovation in artificial intelligence, covering key sectors such as Climatech, Edtech, Healthtech, and generative AI. It offers conferences, interactive workshops, and an exhibition to explore the major challenges of AI and its practical applications.

• Date: February 13 to 15, 2025
• Location: Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes

One to One Monaco: The Commerce and Digital Innovation Event

E-Commerce One to One Monaco is a must-attend event for online retail professionals. This annual event offers a varied program that includes conferences, business meetings, and networking opportunities. It showcases the latest trends and solutions in marketing, sales, communication, and point-of-sale equipment.

• Date: March 11 to 13, 2025
• Location: Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

Global Industrie: The Worldwide Industrial Innovation Event

Global Industrie is the flagship event that brings together the entire industrial ecosystem. A key player in reindustrialization, it highlights the skills, regions, and technological advances that will shape the industry of the future. It centers on major themes such as automation, digital transition, and energy and environmental solutions.

• Date: March 11 to 14, 2025
• Location: Eurexpo Lyon

Tech Show London 2025: The Future of Tech with One Ticket

This major event brings together several technology shows, including Cloud Expo Europe, DevOps Live, Cloud & Cyber Security Expo, Big Data & AI World, and Data Centre World. Attendees get access to five events with a single ticket.

• Date: March 12 and 13, 2025
• Location: ExCeL London

Techinnov: Innovation Serving Strategic Partnerships

Techinnov is an event dedicated to innovation and business meetings, bringing together large groups, SMEs, startups, research organizations, and investors. The program includes conferences, flash presentations, and themed booths covering areas such as GreenTech, FoodTech, AgriTech, HealthTech, digital transformation, defense, and security.

• Date: March 27, 2025
• Location: Parc Floral de Paris

SymfonyLive Paris 2025: The Must-Attend Event for Symfony Developers

SymfonyLive Paris 2025 is a flagship event for developers and enthusiasts of the Symfony framework. Organized by the Symfony team, it is a unique chance to meet the community, talk with experts, and discover the framework's latest features. It also offers training sessions to deepen your skills and explore the tools of the Symfony ecosystem. For a complete overview of Symfony and PHP events and how they differ (in French), see our dedicated guide.

• Date: March 27 and 28, 2025
• Location: Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

All4Customer 2025: The Customer and Digital Experience Show

All4Customer Paris is the must-attend show dedicated to customer experience, digital marketing, e-commerce, data, and artificial intelligence. It brings industry professionals together to share the latest trends, innovations, and best practices.

• Date: April 1 to 3, 2025
• Location: Paris Porte de Versailles

AI Day: Innovate and Accelerate with AI

AI Day is an event that presents the latest advances, innovations, and applications in artificial intelligence. This flagship event is organized by France Digital. Our artificial intelligence expertise (in French) lets us follow these advances and bring them into our clients' projects. To understand what is at stake with AI in web development, our article on the strengths and weaknesses of the most widely used generative AIs (in French) is a good starting point.

• Date: April 26, 2025
• Location: Paris

AFUP Day 2025: Celebrating 30 Years of PHP and Technological Innovation

AFUP Day 2025 is the spring conference series of the Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP (AFUP), dedicated to the PHP language and its ecosystem. Each local edition will offer a unique conference program featuring regional and national experts. Attendees can join a variety of sessions covering topics such as innovation, lessons learned, e-commerce, APIs, and performance optimization. To get a feel for the atmosphere, read our recap of AFUP Day 2025 in Lille (in French).

• Date: May 16, 2025
• Locations: Lille, Lyon, Poitiers

Viva Technology: The Future of Technology Innovation

VivaTech positions itself as Europe's leading technology gathering, bringing together startups, major industry players, and investors to explore the trends and innovations that will shape the future. It is a prime gateway to digital ecosystems across Europe and the world. Read our VivaTech 2025 recap (in French) for a concrete view of what happened there.

• Date: June 11 to 14, 2025
• Location: Paris

Green Tech Forum: Innovating for a Sustainable Future

The Greentech Forum aims to help companies reflect on the environmental impact of digital practices. We explore this topic in our article on web eco-design (in French). Combining inspiring talks and hands-on workshops, this event is aimed at technology professionals and at all organizations committed to sustainability.

• Date: June 17 and 18, 2025
• Location: Brussels

Paris Web: The Accessibility and Digital Design Event

Paris Web is an annual event for web professionals, focused on accessibility, usability, and design. Held in Paris, it brings together developers, designers, project managers, and other digital professionals to share knowledge, practices, and innovations.

• Date: September 25 to 27, 2025
• Location: Paris

Big Data & AI Paris: Data Intelligence for Tomorrow

Big Data & AI Paris is a major European event dedicated to data and artificial intelligence technologies. Every year it brings together experts, companies, researchers, and decision makers around the strategic challenges and opportunities offered by Big Data and AI.

• Date: October 1 and 2, 2025
• Location: Paris Expo Porte de Versailles

AI Expo Europe: The European Artificial Intelligence Summit

AI Expo Europe will explore the latest trends in artificial intelligence and Big Data, with a focus on their practical applications in industry.

• Date: November 1 and 2, 2025
• Location: Bucharest

Going Further

• Recap of Forum PHP 2024 (in French), what we took away from Forum PHP 2024
• SymfonyLive: Symfony conferences, the official calendar of Symfony events
• AFUP: Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP, the PHP community in France and its events
• VivaTech: The innovation event, the European technology innovation show