Techinnov · 2027

Agoris analysis · updated September 2026

Key takeaways

• Techinnov is a business convention dedicated to innovation: a day of business meetings scheduled in advance between start-ups, SMEs, mid-caps, large corporates, research laboratories, investors and territories, alongside a stand exhibition and the Techinnov National Innovation Competition.
• Organisers: the CCI Essonne and the CCI Paris Île-de-France. The matchmaking platform, registration and stand sales are handled by Vimeet events, which publishes the official website.
• Next edition: the 21st, announced for March 2027 in Paris. The exact day and venue had not yet been published at the time of writing. The last five editions were held at the Parc Floral de Paris, which the site's Access page still lists.
• Annual frequency, with one edition every year since at least 2020, including a fully online format in 2021.
• Results of the 2026 edition, the 20th, held on 24 March 2026 at the Parc Floral de Paris: 1,455 participants, 186 exhibitors, 8,400 accepted business meetings, and 156 investors and 264 buyers in attendance.

Who exhibits

Typical profile

The exhibition is organised into themed villages aligned with the France 2030 plan's objectives. In 2026, the 186 exhibitors were split between healthtech, foodtech and agritech, greentech, digital transformation, Tech'2030 and defence and security, with a category dedicated to regional innovation. The organiser's results count 40 France 2030 award winners among them.

Most exhibitors are innovative start-ups and SMEs looking for customers, industrial partners or funders. Stands are small and delivered fully fitted out, from the 3 m² start-up corner to the 6 m² stand: here, the stand is first and foremost a meeting point, not a showcase.

For 2027, the competition has redefined its six themes: "Defence, Cyber & Sovereignty", "Climate, Energy & Decarbonisation", "Health & Life Sciences", "AI, Data & Connectivity", "Food, Agriculture & Resources", broadened to include water and maritime issues, and "DeepTech, Quantum & Robotics", which replaces Tech'2030.

Notable exhibitors

The list of participants can be viewed in the online catalogue reserved for registrants; the public website does not publish a named list for 2027. The eight winners of the 2026 competition, finalists exhibiting on their own stand, give an idea of the profile: UserShaker (Lille), Procureezy, RocketFin (Lyon), NeuralTeks, KeoPass (Vannes), AER Board (Bayonne), Kyol and CLICKNCRYPT, a CEA spin-off.

On the large-corporate side, Airbus and MBDA featured as premium sponsors in 2026. Orange, GRDF, Sodexo, Servier, Safran and Rydge Conseil were the competition's 2026 ambassadors: each sponsors a theme and comes to assess the finalists at their stand.

Visitor quality

The format is built on qualification rather than volume. Meetings last 20 minutes and are scheduled by mutual approval: a month before the event, each participant requests the contacts they want to meet, giving reasons for the request, and a matchmaking algorithm then builds the schedules. The 2026 edition logged more than 19,000 meeting requests beforehand.

Corporate buyers take part free of charge, subject to profile approval, which explains the presence of large corporates and buyers. In 2026, the results counted 800 innovative start-ups and SMEs, 156 investors and 264 buyers. The audience reaches beyond Île-de-France: half of the 2026 award-winning start-ups came from other regions.

No OJS certification or third-party audit is published: the figures are those released by the organisers after each edition.

Activities & community

Conference programme

Conferences, panel discussions and flash talks are spread across two stages, open to all registrants free of charge. The programme announced for 2026 opened the day with a panel discussion on defence innovation. New to that edition, Open Ynnov, run by the CCI Versailles-Yvelines, was set to reverse the usual roles: twelve large corporates, including MBDA, Airbus and Servier among the first confirmed, presenting their innovation needs to start-ups in 20-minute slots.

The 2027 programme had not been published at the time of writing. Conferences from past editions are available as replays on the Techinnov YouTube channel.

The Techinnov National Innovation Competition

This is the event's second pillar. Applications for 2027 have been open since 14 September 2026 and close on 6 November 2026; finalists will be announced in January 2027. Around forty start-ups and SMEs will be selected and will exhibit under privileged conditions. On the day of the event, a jury of industry, financial and institutional experts tours the stands and names one winner per category.

Alongside the six themed prizes are the "Regional Innovation Prize" and the "Île-de-France Innovation Prize". Applications remain open to companies from across France. In 2025, each winner received, among other things, 2,000 euros from the CCI Essonne and a pass to VivaTech provided by the CCI Paris Île-de-France.

The financing strand

In 2026, Techinnov was held on the same day and at the same venue as GO INVEST, the regional financing convention run by the CCI Paris Île-de-France and the CCI des Hauts-de-Seine. The two events remained distinct, with Techinnov hosting GO INVEST, and a joint pass giving access to both programmes. This strand brought together 108 financing participants from 59 organisations, for 361 scheduled meetings. Whether this pairing would be repeated in 2027 had not been announced at the time of writing.

Community & networks

The event is held under the high patronage of the President of the Republic. It draws on a network of Paris-region innovation territories, including Paris-Saclay, Grand Paris Sud, Grand-Orly Seine Bièvre, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Versailles Grand Parc and the Conseil départemental de l'Essonne, as well as ecosystem players such as Bpifrance, the INPI, the Agence de l'innovation de défense, Genopole and Inria.

On the media side, Les Echos Start-up and French Tech Journal are among the partners featured. Techinnov also runs a podcast, Tech'a Break.

On site: what you need to know

The day and venue for the 2027 edition remain to be announced. The practical information below is taken from the official website's Access page, which describes the Parc Floral de Paris, in the Bois de Vincennes: exhibitor entrance at 26 route du Champ de Manoeuvre, visitor entrance via route de la Pyramide, 75012 Paris.

By public transport, the park is served by metro line 1 (Château de Vincennes), the RER A (Vincennes) and bus 112 (Stade Léo Lagrange). By car, it is five minutes from the ring road via the Porte Dorée, Porte de Vincennes or Porte de Charenton exits, and from the A4 via the Joinville exit. The site lists a free public car park with 500 spaces and a private car park with room for up to 300 vehicles for the events venue.

The personal badge can be downloaded from the participant area a few days before the event, and the meeting schedule around a week before. Contacts remain accessible and downloadable after the day.

How much it costs to exhibit

Preparing your visit

For the exhibitor

• Polish the online profile: description, precise keywords, detailed offers and needs. It feeds the matchmaking algorithm and determines the number of meetings offered.
• Be ready for the opening of meeting requests, a month before the event: this is the phase that fills the diary.
• Prepare an adaptable 20-minute pitch: you do not present your innovation the same way to a large-corporate buyer, a business angel or a venture capital fund.
• For a start-up, aim for the competition: finalists exhibit under privileged conditions and receive visits from the judges and ambassadors.

For the decision-maker visitor

• Register as a corporate buyer rather than as a congress-goer: participation is free and comes with a personalised meeting schedule.
• Spell out your needs precisely in your profile, to receive relevant requests rather than a flood of solicitations.
• Notify your contacts if you cannot make it: repeated no-shows can limit access to meetings at future editions.

CSR policy & initiatives

The site's FAQ states that Techinnov combines innovation, business and responsibility to create events with a reduced environmental footprint that promote social inclusion. No concrete measures, event carbon footprint or ISO 20121 certification are published to support this.

At organiser level, the CCI Paris Île-de-France presents a structured CSR approach: a first published carbon footprint and Lucie label obtained in 2024, with commitments strengthened in 2025. This approach covers the organisation as a whole, not Techinnov specifically. No equivalent programme was found on the CCI Essonne website.

On the venue side, the Parc Floral de Paris website, whose pages carry the GL events Paris brand, does not publish an environmental certification specific to its events spaces on the pages reviewed.

On substance, part of the content touches on the ecological transition: the "Climate, Energy & Decarbonisation" theme of the 2027 competition, greentech in 2026. These are programme themes, not a commitment by the organiser regarding the event itself.

How the event has evolved

Trajectory analysis

Techinnov has existed since 2006. According to the organiser's 2026 results, the event was born in Orly, grew at La Défense, where it was still held in February 2020 at the Espace Grande Arche, then settled at the Parc Floral de Paris, where it has returned every year since 2022. In between, the 2021 edition was held entirely online.

Since the return to an in-person format, the exhibition has grown and then stabilised: 160 exhibitors in 2023, 190 in 2024, 186 in both 2025 and 2026, while the number of participants rose from 1,375 to 1,455 between 2025 and 2026. The reported meeting volumes can only be compared with caution, as the results sometimes refer to meetings scheduled in advance and sometimes to accepted meetings.

The clearest shift is thematic. Defence became a category in its own right in 2025, and Airbus and MBDA feature among the premium sponsors; financing took on a structuring role in 2026 with GO INVEST; and the 2027 revamp of the themes, with the arrival of "DeepTech, Quantum & Robotics", is a choice the organiser links to the Paris-Saclay ecosystem, at the heart of which sits the CCI Essonne. National reach is also asserting itself, with a regional prize and half of the 2026 award-winning start-ups coming from other regions.

All data that does not mention a source comes from the organiser's website.

Unless otherwise stated, all factual data in this listing comes from the organiser's official website (techinnov.events).