VivaTech celebrates decade of innovation on Champs-Élysées | News
VivaTech is set to turn the Comité Champs-Élysées into a free, open-to-all technological immersion experience on June 14th.
Founded in 2016 at the initiative of Publicis Groupe and the Groupe Les Échos-Le Parisien, VivaTech has established itself over ten years as the most important European event dedicated to startups and technology.
Every year in Paris, it brings together entrepreneurs, researchers, major corporations, investors and international decision-makers, making France a strategic crossroads for global innovation.
To celebrate this past decade and look ahead to the next one, VivaTech and the Comité Champs-Élysées are offering this year an unprecedented, free, open-air immersive experience, designed to be accessible and engaging.
“From VivaTech’s very inception, I wanted the general public to be able to discover innovations and for them not to be reserved for an elite. On the occasion of this tenth anniversary, and with the support of the Comité des Champs Élysées and the City of Paris, we are offering a walk through the era of the future, robots, artificial intelligence, within everyone’s reach.
“This is our way of celebrating a decade of innovation by making it more accessible, more alive and more human than ever,” said Maurice Lévy, co-chairman of VivaTech.
Even before VivaTech opens – which will take place from June 17-20 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles – this preview will allow children and adults, the curious and the passionate alike, to celebrate global innovation in the heart of the capital, on its most iconic avenue.
For one day, more than 150,000 visitors are invited to discover all the innovations, inventions and demonstrations housed under the eight giant letters of the word VivaTech, eight thematic stops assembled on the roadway to explore the major technological transformations that will shape our future.
Each space will offer exclusive demonstrations and interactive installations, allowing everyone, regardless of age, to concretely understand and grasp the innovations already transforming our daily lives.
Throughout the experience, visitors will be able to discover, among other innovations, a stratospheric capsule enabling observation of Earth from the upper atmosphere, solar vehicles with charging integrated directly into their bodywork, as well as next-generation drones capable of inspecting or transporting loads with zero emissions.
Robotics and human-centred innovation will also be widely represented, with humanoid robots and companion robots capable of interacting with the public, as well as exoskeletons designed to enhance, restore or augment human physical capabilities.
The experience will also highlight concrete impact innovations, such as technologies producing drinking water from air, as well as solutions envisioning the city and food of tomorrow (in partnership with Vusion), combining connected objects, sustainable uses and sensory experiences.
Finally, in partnership with Google, artificial intelligence will be explored in a playful, creative and responsible way, through immersive, participatory and artistic experiences, inviting everyone to better understand and embrace these technologies in a positive way.
In total, more than 35 innovation demonstrations will be offered free of charge to visitors.
