Autonomic Paris · 2027

Agoris analysis · updated November 2026

Key takeaways

• Autonomic Paris presents itself as the national event dedicated to disability, independence and older age. Manufacturers, distributors, medico-social establishments, local authorities and associations meet professionals and users on the same floor.
• Next edition: the 19th, from Tuesday 1 to Thursday 3 June 2027, at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Hall 4. The 2027 opening hours have not yet been published.
• A mixed trade show, and an exhibitor needs to know that from the outset: the organiser's 2025 report gives 53% general public and 47% professionals. Entry is free for everyone, with a visitor badge.
• Organiser: ADES Organisation, in Vincennes. No co-organiser listed.
• Frequency: every two years in Paris, on odd years since the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021.
• Results of the last edition, in June 2025: 267 exhibitors, 10,917 entries, 33 conferences and activities.
• Stand booking for 2027: not yet open at the time of writing. The site offers an opening alert from its Exhibit page.

Who exhibits

Typical profile

The 2025 report sorts the 267 exhibitors into four families: equipment, services and assistive technology (170), associations, leisure, tourism and culture (62), visual impairment (18), adapted vehicles and transport (17). Nearly two thirds of the floor therefore belong to the first family, and nearly a quarter to the association and leisure world: a manufacturer rubs shoulders with organisations that are not there to sell.

For 2027, the trade show page announces nine solution areas: assistive technology and specialist equipment; mobility and adapted vehicles; home adaptation and living at home; home automation and assistive technologies; communication and compensation for disabilities; support and personal assistance services; digital technology and accessibility; accessible sport, leisure, tourism and culture; employment, training and professional inclusion.

Notable exhibitors

The 2027 exhibitor list is not yet online: the site says it will be available soon. No name below is therefore confirmed for 2027.

The list published in the 2025 report gives a sense of the floor at that edition. On the manufacturers and suppliers side: Invacare Poirier, Permobil France, Sunrise Medical, Ottobock, Pride Mobility Products, Vermeiren France, Winncare France, B Braun Medical, Laboratoire Coloplast, Hollister France, Paul Hartmann, Teleflex, Tobii Dynavox, Smartbox Assistive Technology, Gruau Laval. On the operators, institutions and funders side: RATP (accessibility unit), SNCF Réseau, Ville de Paris, Agefiph, France Travail, Macif. On the associations side: Association Valentin Haüy, Retina France, Tourisme et Handicaps.

Quality of the audience

The 10,917 entries in 2025 split between 53% general public and 47% professionals, or around 5,100 professional entries (the editorial team's calculation). Among these professionals: 36% come from a medico-social or hospital establishment, 36% from a business, 11% from an association, 10% from a local authority, administration or institution, 5% are self-employed or independent professionals, and 2% come from a non-profit organisation.

The declared areas of interest put equipment and assistive technology first (21%), followed by services, advice and support (15%), home adaptation and accessibility (14%), adapted digital solutions (14%), tourism, culture and leisure (12%), adapted transport and vehicles (9%), care and well-being (8%), and education, training and employment (7%).

The visitors' origins deserve a close reading. The trade show addresses players from across France, but the eight départements of the Île-de-France region account for 74% of visitors in 2025 (the editorial team's sum), of which 20% for Paris. The other listed départements and the rest of France account for 24%, and international visitors for 2%. For an exhibitor, this is first and foremost access to the Paris region, with a minority national share.

These figures are the organiser's own. No OJS certification or third-party audit has been published.

Events & community

Conference programme

The 2027 programme has not been published: the page announces that it will go online soon. The site says only that conferences, round tables and workshops will cover, over the three days, accessibility, prevention, health, living at home and the rights of people with disabilities or loss of independence.

The 2025 edition serves as a benchmark: 33 conferences and activities. A good share of the slots in Forum A and Forum B were organised by exhibitors or partners present on site: Macif on carers, Unadev on the first flat for young blind and partially sighted people, Smartbox Assistive Technology and Tobii Dynavox on alternative communication, Auticiel on its digital solutions, Ville de Paris on the MDPH application. Speaking at a conference is therefore a form of presence in its own right for a brand.

National Accessibility Conference (Assises nationales de l'Accessibilité)

The trade show page says that the Assises nationales de l'Accessibilité take place during the trade show, without yet publishing their 2027 programme. According to the 2025 ministerial newsletter, the Délégation ministérielle à l'Accessibilité organises them at every Autonomic trade show in Paris. The 2025 theme was: "Les collectivités, actrices clefs des politiques d'accessibilité" (local authorities as key players in accessibility policy). One session also dealt with stations and trains, another with tourism. The benefit for an exhibitor is concrete: elected officials and government departments come to the same site as the suppliers.

Activities at the 2025 edition

Three features marked 2025, with no guarantee of being repeated in 2027: a Sports Area of more than 800 m², run by CAP SAAA and co-run with the Comité Olympique et sportif d'Île-de-France and Play Moovin', where visitors could try wheelchair basketball, wheelchair rugby, blind football or wheelchair fencing; a Gaming Area run by the CapGame association, with a racing-game competition; and the ArtNow Gallery, where eight artists exhibited for the 30th anniversary of CAP SAAA. The 2025 Accessible Tourism Trophies also had a session organised by the Association Tourisme et Handicaps.

Community & networks

The partners shown in the 2025 report are Ville de Paris, the Ministries for Regional Planning and Ecological Transition, the ANFE (the French national association of occupational therapists), Tourisme et Handicaps, Retina France, Groupe RATP, SNCF Réseau, Handinova, Le Parisien, FACIL'iti and Co Work'HIT. The 2027 partners have not been published.

The trade show belongs to the Autonomic series, which the organiser describes as present in several major cities for more than 30 years. The site's calendar shows Autonomic Lille Europe on 2 and 3 December 2026, Autonomic Méditerranée in Marseille on 1 and 2 December 2027, and Salon Handica in Lyon on 7 and 8 June 2028. Each city has its own figures: those on this page apply to Paris only.

On site: what you need to know

The trade show takes place at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Hall 4, 1 place de la Porte de Versailles, 75015 Paris. The site lists metro line 12 (Porte de Versailles station), trams T2 and T3a (Porte de Versailles - Parc des Expositions stop) and bus line 80.

Entry is free for everyone, but a visitor badge is required. Online registration was not yet open at the time of writing. No practical information page has yet been published for 2027.

For reference, the 2025 practical information gave opening hours of 9.30am to 6.30pm on the first two days and 9.30am to 5pm on the last; pedestrian access to Hall 4 via gate A; free accessible parking in Hall 3, reached via gate D; a free wheelchair loan with Invacare, against ID, and a free wheelchair repair service; French Sign Language (LSF) interpreters with Accès Culture; braille documentation at the information desk; a Quiet Area, a treatment room and accessible toilets. These arrangements remain to be confirmed for 2027.

How much it costs to exhibit

Preparing your visit

For the exhibitor

• Sign up for the booking opening alert: no price list or floor plan has been published at this stage.
• Prepare two messages on the same stand: one for the user and carer, who want to try things out and understand their care package; the other for the establishment, business or local authority, which buys or prescribes.
• Make the stand itself accessible: wheelchair circulation, readable documentation, staff prepared to welcome all types of disability. At a trade show devoted to independence, this is expected.
• Bring equipment to try: the site emphasises trying out equipment and demonstrations.
• Aim for a slot in the programme: in 2025, many slots were run by exhibitors.

For the decision-making visitor

• Request your badge as soon as registration opens.
• For an establishment or a local authority: combine the visit to suppliers with the Assises nationales de l'Accessibilité, once their programme is published. In 2025, attending required a specific registration in addition to the one for the trade show.
• Consult the exhibitor list as soon as it goes online to prepare comparisons between suppliers.

Policy & CSR initiatives

The Autonomic website has no CSR or sustainable development section, and the organiser publishes no formal policy, no carbon footprint assessment and no ISO 20121 certification specific to the trade show.

The venue provides a verifiable framework: Viparis, the operator of Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, states that in 2014 it was the world's first event industry operator to be ISO 20121 certified across all its sites and activities, and it runs a strategy called Better Events. This commitment is the operator's, not the trade show's.

The social side, for its part, lies in the very subject of the event. The accessibility services documented in 2025 (LSF, braille, wheelchair loan, Quiet Area) are concrete, dated measures. They do not replace an environmental approach, on which no communication was found.

How the trade show has evolved

Trajectory analysis

The rhythm has remained that of one edition every two years, with a single break: the 2020 wave, which cancelled all disability trade shows according to Handicap.fr, pushed Paris back to 2021 (first announced for April, finally held in October). The trade show has since settled on odd years and returned to June.

Size is harder to read. The only complete results found are those of 2025. The rise from more than 230 exhibitors announced in 2023 to 267 in 2025 suggests growth without proving it: the first figure is a pre-show announcement, the second a post-show result. No comparable attendance figure was found for earlier editions.

That leaves one question that the next report will help settle: the professional share. At 47% in 2025, it makes Autonomic Paris a genuinely mixed trade show, and an exhibitor who targets only institutional buyers must factor that into their calculation.

The dates of the edition following 2027 have not been announced.

All data that does not state its source comes from the organiser's website.

Unless otherwise stated, all factual data in this listing comes from the organiser's official website (autonomic-expo.com).