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Program

Three days, three rhythms

Build It Summit runs across three days inside FOST Paris. The Builders Village is open all three days. The conference runs over two: day two is a single plenary on the Main Stage, and day three opens into parallel tracks across the rooms. Keynotes, panels, fireside chats and hands-on labs, with Live Build demos and matchmaking throughout. Below is the shape of the three days.

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Preliminary · subject to change

The three tracks

The three tracks run in parallel on day three, across the rooms. Day two is a single plenary on the Main Stage. The theme is what brings you in.

Hands-on

BUILD LAB

Hands-on workshops. Prompt-to-product, automation, first agents. Leave with something running.

For organizations that need to build

BUILD @ WORK

Inside companies and institutions: real use cases, governance, security, upskilling. The decision-makers who bring the problem, the builders who solve it. What works, what breaks.

Control over the stack

SOVEREIGN STACK

For teams that can no longer depend on infrastructure they do not control. Building on a European stack, concretely. Resilience is the practice, sovereignty is the result.

Day 1 · Tuesday, December 1

Gather

Day one opens the Builders Village alongside the Founders & Leaders Gathering. The Village floor is live from the start: builders' booths, Live Build demos and matchmaking. The Gathering brings together the people building and backing Europe's software, and community side events run in parallel, hosted by and for the builder communities themselves. The conference program on the stages begins on day two.

  • Builders Village · open from day one, with Live Build demos and matchmaking
  • Founders & Leaders Gathering · an invitation-only moment for founders and leaders. (Forming · details announced soon.)
  • Community side events · gatherings hosted by the builder communities, on and around the venue. Run your own? Bring it to us.

The Builders Village runs all three days. The conference program on the stages runs on day two and day three.

Host a community side event

Day 2 · Wednesday, December 2

Build

Day two runs as a single plenary on the Main Stage, in the Amphi. The whole audience shares one room and one program: keynotes and panels on how building this way changes how teams and organizations ship, govern and grow. No parallel tracks on day two. The Builders Village stays open for Live Build demos and matchmaking, and the day ends with the evening party.

  • Main Stage · the Amphi · opening keynote and plenary program
  • Builders Village · Live Build demos and matchmaking
  • Evening · the Build It Summit party

One shared room on day two.

Day 3 · Thursday, December 3

Open up

Day three opens into parallel tracks. The three tracks run at the same time across the rooms: bigger panels, keynotes and fireside chats in the Dragonnier rooms, hands-on labs in the Dattier rooms. Students and job seekers join the floor, meet the teams that hire and the builders who got there first. The Builders Village stays open all day, with a closing keynote to send everyone off.

  • Three tracks in parallel · panels, keynotes and fireside chats in the Dragonnier rooms
  • Hands-on labs · the Dattier rooms
  • Builders Village · Live Build demos and matchmaking
  • For students and job seekers · a recruiter meet zone and a way in for people starting out
  • Closing keynote · room to be confirmed

Student and Job Seeker passes are day-three passes. The full passes cover day two and day three.

The rooms

Day two is one room. Day three runs across the bigger Dragonnier rooms for sessions and the Dattier rooms for hands-on labs.

  • Main Stage · the Amphi · day two plenary · 700 seats
  • Dragonnier 3 and Dragonnier 4 · day three · the bigger rooms
  • Dattier 1, Dattier 2 and Dattier 3 · day three · the lab rooms

The formats

Sessions run 25 or 50 minutes. Expect keynotes, panels and fireside chats on the stages, and hands-on labs where you leave having built something. Live Build demos run 15 minutes on the Village stage.

The Startup Pitch (Day 2) and the Builders REX Awards panel (Day 3) are confirmed and open for applications now. Other competitions, games and Meet&Match are still being shaped: tell us what you want and you hear first.

See the formats

Full program and times announced soon · first speakers disclosed July 15

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