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Europe’s largest AI event of 2026 is happening this week in Paris, and the speaker list is unusually builder-dense. RAISE Summit 2026 runs July 8-9 at the Carrousel du Louvre, with the MACHINA Summit for physical AI opening a day earlier, July 7, at STATION F.

Part of our Builder’s Log.

The Week at a Glance

RAISE Week 2026 turned Paris into a rolling AI event from July 4-9. If you’re tracking signals rather than attending:

Date Event Location Relevant to builders
July 4-5 Hackathon Paris Already ran — 7,000 devs building frontier AI demos
July 7 MACHINA Summit STATION F Physical AI, humanoid robotics — new territory for most builders
July 7 (evening) Versailles AI Gala Château de Versailles VIP networking
July 8 CxO Summit Carrousel du Louvre Enterprise AI strategy, closed-door
July 8-9 RAISE Summit (main) Carrousel du Louvre Keynotes, 4 tracks, 350+ speakers
July 8 ALL-IN Live (Europe) Paris Rare European Jason Calacanis appearance
July 8-9 RAISE the STAKES Paris Startup pitch competition

MACHINA: Physical AI Is Moving Faster Than Most Builders Realize

MACHINA Summit (July 7 at STATION F) is billed as Europe’s first major event dedicated entirely to physical AI and robotics. The two names that matter most:

  • Carolina Parada — Head of Robotics at Google DeepMind. DeepMind’s robotic foundation models and embodied reasoning work is quietly among the most credible in the field.
  • Bernt Børnich — Founder and CEO of 1X, the humanoid robotics company that shipped the world’s first fully neurally-controlled humanoid in production settings. 1X has been funded partly by OpenAI.

Why does this matter for software builders? Because the toolchain for physical AI is converging on the same MCP-style agentic patterns used in software. Builders who ignore the physical layer are likely to miss the next wave of API surface area opening up.

Builder-Relevant Speakers at RAISE Summit (July 8-9)

The full speaker list tops 350, but these are the names whose talks are worth hunting for replays:

Agentic AI / Coding

  • Scott Wu (Cognition, CEO) — Devin’s builder. His perspective on where autonomous coding agents actually are vs. the hype is one of the most grounded in the industry.
  • Anton Osika (Lovable, Founder/CEO) — The AI-first full-stack dev tool that has rapidly moved from prototype to production use. Worth watching for what deployment patterns are proving durable.
  • Jordan Topoleski (Cursor, COO) — Cursor’s growth has been in part about what builders don’t want from AI IDEs. Topoleski often speaks plainly about product decisions.
  • Michele Catasta (Replit, President/Head of AI) — Replit shipped agentic parallel sessions earlier this year; Catasta has been unusually transparent about what worked and what didn’t in builder adoption.

Model / Infrastructure

  • Arthur Mensch (Mistral AI, CEO) — Mistral is shipping models at a fast pace (Leanstral 1.5 dropped July 3). Mensch typically previews roadmap signals in talks.
  • Vipul Ved Prakash (Together AI, CEO) — Together runs inference for a huge slice of the open-source model ecosystem; his read on the open vs. closed model market is consistently useful.
  • Lin Qiao (Fireworks AI, CEO) — Fireworks is a significant inference provider for production agentic workloads where latency matters more than cost.
  • Tuhin Srivastava (Baseten, Co-Founder/CEO) — Model deployment infrastructure; useful for anyone thinking about serving custom fine-tuned models or self-hosting.
  • Andrew Feldman (Cerebras, Founder/CEO) — The inference speed argument (not just chip specs) is increasingly relevant for agentic loops where latency compounds.

Policy / Strategic Context

  • Guillaume Princen (Anthropic, International Head) — Will likely surface Anthropic’s European market strategy. Read alongside the recent Anthropic Milan office expansion.
  • Jacob Helberg (U.S. State Department) — Sovereign AI and export control policy has direct implications for where builders can deploy and which models are accessible.

The Four Track Framework

RAISE organizes content into four tracks. For most builders, /02 Frontier is the one:

Sessions in /02 Frontier worth watching for:

  • Agentic Systems & Autonomous Intelligence
  • Enterprise AI Architecture
  • Open Source & Interoperability
  • APIs & Usage Economies
  • Cloud Strategy for AI Enterprises

The Open Source track is co-organized with >commit (a European open-source AI initiative), which should make it more practitioner-focused than typical enterprise track content.

/01 Foundation covers compute economics — useful background for understanding why rate limits, inference costs, and API pricing are moving the way they are.

/03 Friction covers the reality check: ROI questions, compliance, and workforce transformation. The ROI session is worth following given the steady stream of enterprise deployment reports showing mixed results.

ALL-IN Live in Europe

On July 8, the ALL-IN podcast (Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Friedberg) records a live episode at RAISE. This is a rare European appearance. The All-In crew covers the intersection of AI investment and builder opportunity without much of the tactical depth, but their macroeconomic AI read tends to move capital — worth scanning the clip for what themes they surface as investable.

RAISE the STAKES: Startup Competition

Running July 8-9, RAISE the STAKES is the summit’s startup pitch competition. Winners get high-visibility exposure to the RAISE investor network. If any agentic AI or MCP-adjacent startups place, that’s a signal worth tracking for product or partnership evaluations.

What Signals to Watch Post-Event

Even if you’re not in Paris, RAISE tends to produce durable outputs:

  1. Model roadmap breadcrumbs — Mensch (Mistral) and others often preview directional plans in talk format that don’t appear in press releases.
  2. Enterprise AI ROI data — The /03 Friction track may surface new survey data or case study results on agentic deployment outcomes that can calibrate your own build-vs-buy decisions.
  3. MACHINA partnership announcements — Physical AI companies often use major summits to announce compute or software partnerships. Watch 1X and Google DeepMind in particular.
  4. RAISE the STAKES winners — Startups that win or place here often get disproportionate European distribution. Useful for watching what’s getting funded in the agentic tooling space.
  5. Open Source track outputs — The >commit partnership may produce commitments around European open-weight model governance that affect where open models can be deployed.

Following Along Without a Ticket

RAISE does not typically stream live, but the summit generates significant replay content on YouTube and X within 48-72 hours of each day. The official channels:

We’ll follow up with a post-event recap covering the most builder-relevant takeaways from the July 8-9 sessions.

This article covers RAISE Summit 2026 (July 8-9) and MACHINA (July 7) as a preview. A post-event recap will follow.