VivaTech 2026 and India France Digital Partnership

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The Prime Minister of India joined the French President Emmanuel Macron at VivaTech 2026 in Paris.
They shared India's vision for human-centric artificial intelligence and worked to grow bilateral digital cooperation.

Viva Technology serves as Europe's biggest startup and technology event, acting as a top global platform for digital transformation.
It functions as an open-innovation hub that speeds up commercial and technological breakthroughs.
The event brings together deep-tech startups, industry leaders, major corporations, venture capitalists, and global investors to solve international economic and societal challenges.
The event takes place every year at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France.
French media and communications giants Publicis Groupe and Les Echos-Le Parisien co-founded and organize this event.
The event started in 2016.

The 2026 edition brings together roughly 180,000 attendees, 14,000 startups, 4,000 partners, and 450 global speakers across more than 30 distinct business sectors.
India features its largest pavilion footprint ever, displaying local digital systems in artificial intelligence, health-tech, clean tech, advanced computing, and digital public infrastructure.
More than 80 Indian deep-tech companies and innovators present real-world products built for industry, healthcare, green mobility, and climate sustainability.
The event includes the signature VivaTech Startup Challenges, which lets winning startups get incubation from elite global enterprise partners.

India participating in VivaTech 2026 boosts startup cooperation with France, strengthening growing technology ties between both nations.
India promoted an ethical and open-source artificial intelligence approach that focuses on public welfare, accessibility, healthcare, and digital inclusion.
The Indian pavilion highlighted scalable solutions in digital payments, agriculture, governance, and space technology for developing countries.