RAISE Summit 2026

RAISE Summit 2026 ran July 8-9 at Le Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, drawing more than 9,000 attendees from 2,000+ companies across 90 countries, with 350+ speakers. Over 80% of attendees were C-level, founders, or senior decision-makers. The summit anchored RAISE Week (July 4-9), a six-day program of co-located AI events across the city. RAISE was founded and produced by Chain of Events; Hyve Group acquired the brand in July 2026, alongside MACHINA Summit and Signal Week, to form its AI SuperVertical.

For data center and power operators, the relevant track is Foundation, which covers AI infrastructure, compute economics, and the capital strategies funding both.

Programming Focus

• AI infrastructure, data center capacity, and compute economics
• Sovereign AI strategy and cross-border policy friction
• Enterprise AI ROI and deployment at scale
• Agentic AI and autonomous systems
• Frontier model research
• Humanoid robotics, industrial automation, and physical AI
• AI capital formation and investment

The agenda is organized around four tracks, the "4Fs": Foundation (technology, infrastructure, capital), Frontier (transformative applications), Friction (obstacles and responsible advancement), and Future (next-generation AI).

Featured Speakers

Infrastructure and silicon:

• Amin Vahdat, Chief Technologist and SVP, AI & Infrastructure, Google
• Mark Papermaster, CTO and EVP, AMD
• Charlie Kawwas, President, Broadcom
• Pat Gelsinger, Playground Global (former CEO, Intel)

Frontier labs and AI research:

• Yann LeCun, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, AMI (formerly Chief AI Scientist, Meta)
• Arthur Mensch, Co-Founder and CEO, Mistral AI
• Scott Wu, Co-Founder and CEO, Cognition
• Lin Qiao, Co-Founder and CEO, Fireworks AI

Enterprise and capital markets:

• Marco Argenti, CIO, Goldman Sachs
• Nelson Griggs, President, Nasdaq
• Olivier Pomel, Co-Founder and CEO, Datadog
• Daniel Dines, Founder and CEO, UiPath

Robotics and physical AI:

• Carolina Parada, Head of Robotics, Google DeepMind
• Bernt Børnich, Founder and CEO, 1X
• Jonathan Hurst, Co-Founder, Agility Robotics

Investors and operators:

• Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google
• Mark Cuban, entrepreneur and owner, Dallas Mavericks

OpenAI, Anthropic, NVIDIA, Oracle, BlackRock, and McKinsey were also represented on the program.

Sponsors

Tier 1: IREN, Cognition, Cursor, Together AI, NVIDIA, Snyk

Enterprise: Mercedes-Benz, Capgemini, AXA, Adecco, Sodexo

Media: Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, NYSE Wired, theCUBE

Ecosystem and investment: Business France, La French Tech, France Digitale, Medef, Microsoft for Startups, HubSpot for Startups, Kima Ventures, Alpha Intelligence Capital

RAISE Week Program

The summit sat inside a six-day citywide program:

• RAISE Hackathon, July 4-5, a 48-hour build sprint for engineers, researchers, and founders
• MACHINA, July 7, a summit on physical AI, humanoid robotics, and autonomous machines
• Versailles AI Gala, July 7 evening, a private gathering at the Château de Versailles powered by IREN
• CxO Summit, July 8, a closed-door, invitation-only session for senior enterprise leaders from Fortune 1000 corporations
• RAISE Summit, July 8-9, the flagship two-day forum
• RAISE the STAKES, July 8-9, the official startup competition, with founders pitching live to investors
• RAISE House and the closing party, July 9

Across the full week: 15,000+ attendees, 4,000+ companies, 500+ speakers, and 50+ city-wide side events.

Who Should Attend

• Data center developers and operators selling AI capacity
• Neocloud and GPU cloud providers
• Utilities, IPPs, and power developers serving AI load
• Enterprise CIOs and heads of AI
• Investors, lenders, and advisors funding AI infrastructure
• Chip, networking, and cooling vendors
• Policymakers and regulators