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Build It Summit · Make it concrete
1-3 December 2026 · CNIT Forest, Paris La Défense
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Join the people who build and the people who need it (re)built, on a stack you control.
For CIOs and CTOs, heads of AI, CMOs, business and ops teams, founders and Builders.
Open calls
Speak, pitch or submit your REX
Startup Pitch
Four Builder-led startups pitch on stage on December 3.
Until 31 October
Apply to pitchBuilders REX Awards
Five awards for Builder projects that shipped and are in use, one per category.
Until 31 October
Submit your REXYou can also: Join the crew Become an ambassador Bring your community Cover the event (press) Suggest a topic
Why come
Talks, tools and the people behind them
Each comes with a line to make the case to your manager.
The talks
Teams that ship with AI agents, vibe coding, low-code and no-code tell how they did it: Devana, H Company, Softr, Delos and more.
Make the case: production stories, including what broke.
See the speakersThe Builders Village
Try the tools on your own use case, watch Live Builds, and ask the people who make them.
Make the case: compare what your team is evaluating, side by side, in one place.
Explore the VillageThe people
Meet&Match one-to-ones for buyers and recruiters, Mix&Match tables and the Buiiiild Party.
Make the case: introductions picked from what you declare you need.
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The event
Two days of talks, a Village open all three
The program sets the direction, then puts it to work. The Builders Village runs the whole time.
INSPIRATION · December 2
Keynotes, panels and fireside chats on where building goes next.
OPERATIONS · December 3
Hands-on labs, live demos and working sessions you can run right away.
On the floor
The show floor is open all three days: a Builders Village of tools to try, a Meet&Match area where teams with a problem meet the people who can build it, and competitions in the making that bring building on stage.
Builders Village
Tools to try, hands on, open all three days
Networking
Meet&Match and open networking where teams meet the people who build
Competitions
Startup Pitch and REX Awards, with Builders Games and a hackathon in the making
Speakers
First speakers
The first names are in. More join as they confirm, and the call for speakers stays open.
Barbara Delacroix
CEO and Co-founder
Caroline Charra
Head of Product
Mariam Hakobyan
Co-Founder and CEO
CEO and co-founder of Devana, a French company building sovereign, human-centred AI for critical European environments. Devana orchestrates AI models into a co-pilot for knowledge work, designed to comply with EU regulation.
Caroline Charra leads product at H Company, the Paris-based company building AI agents that use computers the way people do.
Mariam Hakobyan is the co-founder and CEO of Softr, the leading AI app builder for business operations. A former engineer turned entrepreneur, she has spent more than a decade building products and leading product and engineering teams, and is passionate about making software accessible to everyone.
CEO and co-founder of Delos, the French company behind AI Workers, autonomous digital employees embedded in business processes. He leads enterprise relations, helping companies define their GenAI roadmap and development needs, and drives strategic partnerships and Delos’s growth with mid-size and large companies.
Founder and CEO of Twin, a French startup building AI agents that carry out business tasks inside the software teams already use, and browse the web when no API exists. Twin’s first agent went live with Qonto in 2025.
Founder and CEO of Clever Cloud, a French platform as a service that runs, automates and secures IT environments on its own datacenters in France. He speaks regularly on cloud infrastructure, digital sovereignty and how AI changes software development.
New event, established ground
Where Build It Summit stands
Build It Summit is a first edition, co-located with FOST Paris, an established European gathering that carries software conferences and their audiences from across Europe.
10,000+
Attendees
3,000+
Companies
300+
Sessions
300+
Speakers
FOST Paris combined figures: the event Build It Summit joins
At CNIT Forest, Paris La Défense
Under the historic vault of the CNIT, in Paris La Défense, Europe's largest business district, a short ride from the city center.
See the venue and how to get there →The team that runs it
A new summit from the team behind three editions of NoCode Summit, now open to everyone who builds, as the tools get easier.
Read the story →Sponsors
Exhibit at the Builders Village
Booths for the companies that want to reach a room that builds, from the platforms and tools people build with to the enterprises scaling and hiring around them. Meet the people who build.
Secure your spotBuild It Summit is convened with a broad coalition: the communities that gather Builders, the media that carry the story, and the organizations that put it to work. Partner as a community →
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Pick the pass that fits and book it on FOST Paris, where payment happens. Compare the passes first if you prefer.
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