{"id":31950,"date":"2016-01-26T16:32:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T15:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=31950"},"modified":"2016-01-26T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T15:32:22","slug":"is-france-ready-to-host-its-own-web-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2016\/01\/is-france-ready-to-host-its-own-web-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Is France ready to host its own Web Summit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2016 is looking like it’s going to be a strong year for Startups in\u00a0France. My Blablacar-Lyft merger theory<\/a>\u00a0might not pan out now that Lyft is in GM’s\u00a0hands, but Deezer raised \u20ac100 Million, Day Use raised \u20ac15 Million<\/a>, Botify raised \u20ac6 Million – a huge jump year over year from\u00a0the less than\u00a0\u20ac50 Million raised in January 2015. With so much activity going on in France – along with the rest of Europe – the race to build\u00a0France’s largest startup conference is on, especially with LeWeb’s fate in the wind – media, government officials, and investors have noticed.<\/p>\n

Rude Baguette has no intention of filling this gap – I’ll talk a bit about why later on, but it’s a question of vision for the Event space. We organize #ParisFounders<\/a>\u00a0every quarter, and\u00a0in October we are bringing 2,500 Founders, Entrepreneurs, Investors & Innovators from around the world for an invite-only, premiere technology event –\u00a0it’s 100% free for every Founder. No stand. No booth. No pitch (unless you want to, and we want you to). This event isn’t meant to be big, it’s meant to be intimate – 2,500 is about as big as I’ve ever seen an event get while remaining intimate enough to connect with anyone at the event, and so that’s what we’re doing.<\/p>\n

Someone else, however, has picked up the coveted torch to carry the responsibility of bringing Web Summit- and Slush-level of attendance to Paris. Les Echos (think FT in France)\u00a0& Publicis have teamed up, with sponsorship confirmed from Orange, EY & BNP Paribas, to organize Viva Technology Paris<\/a>, a 3-day conference & expo that promises:<\/p>\n