Manifesto
Why Build It Summit
Build It Summit (BIS), co-located with FOST Paris (Future of Software Technologies), is built by and for the people who make things real in Europe.
Europe's stack, made concrete
Europe has the talent and the tools to build its own software stack. It also has the demand: organizations that need to reclaim a system, rebuild a process, remove a dependency. Build It Summit is where that demand meets the people who can answer it, and the ambition stops being a slide.
Resilience is the practice, sovereignty is the result
Resilience is what you do, day to day: keep running, own your stack, depend on no single vendor. Sovereignty is what you get when enough builders do it. We never swap the two.
Open by design
Builder is an invitation, never a prerequisite. No-code, low-code, vibe coding, generative, voice and agentic AI: if you can express it, you can build it.
Who's who
- Build It Summit (BIS)
- This event. Three days for the people building Europe's software and deciding where it runs, December 1 to 3, 2026, at the CNIT Forest, Paris La Défense.
- FOST Paris (Future of Software Technologies)
- The event Build It Summit is co-located with, in the same venue and the same week.
- apidays
- The host organiser behind FOST Paris.
Builders are the new owners.