IT & Cybersecurity Meetings Cannes · 2027

Agoris analysis · updated October 2026

Key takeaways

• IT & Cybersecurity Meetings Cannes is a trade show in the One to One Meetings format devoted to networks, cloud, mobility, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence solutions. Suppliers host invited buyers, the hosted buyers, on their stand for pre-scheduled 15-minute meetings.
• Next edition: 23, 24 and 25 March 2027 at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes. The two business days with published times are Wednesday 24 March, 08:45 to 19:00, and Thursday 25 March, 08:45 to 18:00.
• Organiser: Weyou Group. Annual frequency, in March, at the Palais des Festivals: editions held 22-24 March 2022, 21-23 March 2023, 19-21 March 2024, 18-20 March 2025 and 17-19 March 2026, all in the Hall Riviera.
• The trade show was called IT & IT Security Meetings until 2021. It took its current name for the March 2022 edition, presented by the organiser as its 10th; the official 2023 catalogue spoke of an 11th edition.
• It shares its dates and venue with Hotel & Restaurant Meetings Cannes, another Weyou Group One to One Meetings trade show, devoted to 4- and 5-star hotel establishments. IT & Cybersecurity Meetings is the larger of the two according to the figures each website displays; these figures are not combined.
• The website displays 240 exhibitors and 560 hosted buyers, without specifying the edition concerned; the official 2026 exhibitor list had 226 entries with a stand number. No report with figures is published for any edition, and the website mentions no certification of the figures by a third-party body.

Who exhibits

Typical profile

The offer falls into eight families, those of the website's exhibitor search engine: cybersecurity; cloud computing; data centre; networks and telecoms; managed services; print and document; mobility; consulting and training.

The detailed classification shows the scope. In cybersecurity, it runs from firewalls and endpoint protection to ZTNA, identity management, cloud security, DevSecOps, compliance and cyber insurance. On the cloud side, it covers IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offers, virtualisation, hybrid cloud and generative AI; on the data centre side, the construction and extension of sites, managed infrastructure, storage and backup. Added to these are network and telecoms operators and equipment makers, unified communications, mobile fleet management and managed print services. Stands are offered as bare or equipped.

Notable exhibitors

The exhibitor list for the 2027 edition has not yet been published: the official exhibitors page, still headed "Exposants 2025" in the website footer, showed no usable list on 3 October 2026.

The 2026 exhibitor list, as archived before and after the March 2026 edition, had 226 entries with a stand number. On the cybersecurity side, the list included in particular CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Bitdefender, Sophos, Rapid7, Tenable, Wiz, Splunk or Symantec by Broadcom, alongside Orange Cyberdefense, Eviden and software vendors such as HarfangLab, Tehtris, Stormshield, Gatewatcher, Glimps, CybelAngel or Cyberwatch.

Digital identity was represented by Okta, Ping Identity, SailPoint, BeyondTrust, Delinea, One Identity, Imprivata and Memority; infrastructure, cloud and data by HPE, IBM, Akamai, Cloudflare, Rubrik, Cohesity, Infoblox, Digital Realty and Megaport; telecoms by SFR Business, Free Pro, KDDI France and Ericsson Enterprise Wireless Solutions. These are 2026 exhibitors: nothing guarantees their return in 2027.

Visitor quality

The core of the format is the Hosted Buyers programme. Weyou Group's teams select buyers with projects "from 1 week to 18 months" that the trade show's exhibitors can deliver; each meeting is validated by both sides, buyer and exhibitor, before being scheduled. A hosted buyer receives between 10 and 18 meetings over two days depending on their needs, stays in control of accepting or declining each of them, and their stay is covered, according to the programme's conditions: transport, 5-star hotel and catering.

The target profiles cover the whole IT decision chain: information systems directors and IT directors, network and telecoms directors, IT production and infrastructure directors, information systems security managers (CISOs), technical and IT logistics directors, as well as buyers and specifiers at resellers. In 2026, the website specified that these decision-makers came from large companies, public administrations and public and private organisations, in France and in Europe.

Alongside the hosted buyers, accredited visitors can walk the trade show, meet exhibitors and attend the conferences and workshops. Entry is free but subject to named accreditation checked in advance; students and the general public are not admitted.

The home page also publishes satisfaction scores from the latest edition, drawn from the organiser's platform: 4.15 out of 5 on the exhibitor side, 4.66 out of 5 on the hosted buyer side. These are figures declared by the organiser.

Programme & community

Conference programme

The concept provides for conferences at certain times of the day, and the organiser specifies that no meeting is scheduled during those slots. For 2027, the programme page details the meeting slots, from 10:00 to 12:50 then from 15:30 to 18:20 on both days, and the lunch options, but not yet the conferences.

In 2026, the programme published on the website listed eleven 45-minute exhibitor workshops, at 09:00 and at 14:30, spread across the Croisette, Lérins and Esterel rooms on 18 and 19 March. The topics followed the concerns of security teams: AI-driven DNS security, verification of digital identities in the age of AI, exposure management, external security, protection of industrial OT environments, data leak prevention, staff training, or a privileged access management bastion presented in the context of DORA compliance. Several workshops took the form of a customer case study: the management of a database estate, the modernisation of an information system and faster patching, or an ISO 27001 certification obtained in eleven months.

Networking

Networking is part of the format. The concept provides for three evenings: a welcome cocktail dinner, a free evening during which exhibitors can invite clients and prospects, and a gala evening including a cocktail dinner. In 2026, the website announced a welcome cocktail on Tuesday 17 March from 21:00 and a closing cocktail on Thursday 19 March from 20:30, reserved for exhibitors and invited decision-makers.

At midday, three options coexist in 2027: a business lunch organised by matchmaking after mutual validation, a cocktail at the VIP Club, or a free lunch, depending on status and the options purchased. Hosted buyers are housed in hotels on the Croisette, where part of the networking takes place, the rest taking place at the Palais.

Community & networks

The website's partners page displays the Palais des Festivals as official partner and the CIP-PACA, Club Informatique Provence, which brings together IT decision-makers in the Sud region and their partners, as institutional partner. On the press side, the media partners displayed include in particular Global Security Mag, IT for Business, L'Informaticien, MISC, GNU/Linux Magazine, Linux Pratique and Cyberun.

IT & Cybersecurity Meetings Cannes belongs to the family of Weyou Group One to One Meetings trade shows, which applies the same concept in Cannes to other sectors, notably events with Heavent Meetings Cannes, the workplace with Workplace Meetings Cannes, and marketing and customer experience with All4Customer Cannes. Weyou Group has also rolled out the IT & Cybersecurity brand in Marbella and Amsterdam, with launches announced in 2024 and 2025.

On site: what you need to know

The trade show takes place at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès de Cannes, on the Croisette. The 2022 to 2026 editions occupied the Hall Riviera; the 2027 hall has not yet been specified. The SNCF railway station is about a six-minute walk away, and shuttles link Nice-Côte d'Azur airport to Cannes in about 45 minutes.

Announced times for 2027: Wednesday 24 March from 08:45 to 19:00, Thursday 25 March from 08:45 to 18:00. Tuesday 23 March is among the announced dates, with no times published to date; in 2026, the eve of the business days hosted the welcome cocktail.

Access is by badge only: exhibitors receive a pack containing their badges and, where applicable, the wristbands linked to lunches or evenings, access to which depends on the options in the contract.

How much it costs to exhibit

Weyou Group publishes no price list online: the website offers a 15-minute introductory call to detail the participation formats and locations. It describes their components: a bare stand, a carpeted area to be fitted out, or an equipped stand including partitions, lighting, electricity, Wi-Fi and basic furniture; a meeting schedule with the hosted buyers, which the organiser presents as meetings that are sold and scheduled; contract options for lunches, the VIP Club and evenings.

The website does not say whether accommodation is included in participation. The organiser strongly advises exhibitors to book in the hotels where the hosted buyers stay, since most of the networking takes place there.

To justify the investment, the organiser displays an average return on investment of 7 to 15 times measured over 18 months and 70% of exhibitors who re-sign within 30 days. These indicators cover all of its One to One Meetings trade shows, not IT & Cybersecurity Meetings Cannes alone, and are measured by its own tools.

Preparing your visit

For the exhibitor

• Book your accommodation early in the hosted buyers' hotels: that is where the meetings outside the schedule happen.
• Take care over the description of your solutions and product families: these are the exhibitor data that the matchmaking platform cross-checks against the hosted buyers' projects.
• Prepare a demonstration that fits in 15 minutes in front of a CIO or a CISO: the website presents the meeting on the stand as favouring a concrete demonstration of the products.
• Find out about the exhibitor workshops: in 2026, several of them featured a customer case study.
• Check the contract options, lunches, VIP Club and evenings, before the event: badges and wristbands depend on them.

For the decision-making visitor

• Apply to the Hosted Buyers programme if a security, network, cloud or infrastructure project is under way: the schedule is built around that project and your stay is covered.
• Otherwise, request a free visitor accreditation, to be justified by your role and company.
• Accept or decline each meeting proposed: the programme leaves that control to the buyer.
• Consult the programme for the conferences and workshops open to visitors, not published to date for 2027, and keep time for the stands you were not matched with.

CSR policy & initiatives

The trade show's undated CSR/ESG page highlights a partnership with the Palais des Festivals and SNCF: chartered TGV trains to bring the invited decision-makers, with a calculation of 3.25 kg of CO₂e per person by train against 140 kg by plane, established by the organiser from SNCF and Air France data.

At group level, Weyou Group cites HQE-certified offices, hybrid working, a policy of professional equality and inclusion, and a long-term shareholder, EMZ Partners, a signatory of the Principles for Responsible Investment. No ISO 20121 certification specific to the trade show is displayed.

The venue brings its own guarantees: the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès has been a société à mission since 2022 and displays the ISO 20121 (responsible event management), ISO 9001 and ISO 18788 certifications, as well as the Destination Innovante Durable and Tourisme & Handicap labels.

How the trade show has evolved

Trajectory analysis

The trade show has settled into a stable slot, the second half of March, at the Palais des Festivals. Its positioning became clearer in 2022 and then broadened. By changing its name for the 2022 edition, IT & IT Security Meetings wanted, according to the organiser's press release, to play the card of IT security, which has become an essential area for companies and public-sector players. The trade show now presents itself as devoted to networks, cloud, mobility, cybersecurity and AI solutions, and its concept page adds data centres. The website itself changed address in late 2025: the old domains redirect to it-and-cybersecurity-one-to-one-meetings.fr.

The official exhibitor lists give an order of magnitude of the growth, in the absence of a published report: 183 entries with a stand number in the 2023 catalogue list, 226 in the 2026 list, shared stands included in both cases. The website's "key figures", for their part, do not describe a specific edition: 191 exhibiting stands and 6,700 one to one meetings have been displayed identically since at least March 2024, with a number of participants per day that has varied between more than 2,600 and more than 3,000 depending on the versions of the pages. The home page now highlights 240 exhibitors and 560 hosted buyers.

The co-location with Hotel & Restaurant Meetings, which displays 200 exhibitors and 275 hosted buyers, does not add to these figures: each trade show keeps its own website, exhibitors and hosted buyers. For a cybersecurity supplier, the format rests on two days of meetings validated by both sides with CIOs and CISOs carrying projects, at a trade show where, in 2026, international software vendors such as CrowdStrike, Fortinet or Sophos rubbed shoulders with vendors such as Tehtris, Gatewatcher or Cyberwatch, which present themselves as French, or Stormshield, which highlights its French roots.

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 (it-and-cybersecurity-one-to-one-meetings.fr).