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RAISE Summit 2026, Paris without a booth

This edition has wrapped. The playbook below still works for the next edition, or any conference you are attending. RAISE is what Davos pretends to be. 500 speakers hand-picked as European AI decision-makers, dropped inside Carrousel du Louvre for three days, surrounded by 150 invite-only side dinners where the actual checks get signed. The Summit is the discovery layer; RAISE Week is the deal layer.

Dates
July 7–9, 2026
Venue
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
Format
invite-only

The four-week play

  1. T-28 days
    Pull the public speaker agenda
    The only window that matters. The 8-45-90 curve says 60-70% of all event-driven conversion comes from outreach started in this three-week window.
  2. T-25 days
    Enrich and score against your ICP
    Keep only the speakers who match. The rest go into a low-priority nurture for next year.
  3. T-21 days
    First touch, talk-specific
    Every M1 references the speaker's actual talk title or a specific line from a recent post, never the product, never the booth. Ask for a 15-minute coffee at the venue, not a demo.
  4. T-14 days
    Track reply rate
    Healthy is 8-15% on a talk-specific opener. The second touch to non-responders reframes around a peer attending the same panel.
  5. T-7 days
    Confirm logistics
    Calendar holds with venue and a specific landmark for everyone who said yes.
  6. On site
    Walk in booked
    The calendar is already full. Outreach misses turn into LinkedIn follow-ups during the event itself.

What's different about RAISE Summit

  1. 01
    Treat the speaker page as a leaderboard, not a list. RAISE curates speakers as a signal, being on stage means RAISE vetted them as a C-level AI decision-maker. Every name is pre-qualified.
  2. 02
    RAISE Week side events are the real game. The flagship Summit is where you discover names; the 150+ city-wide side events are where you close. Map speakers to specific dinners and breakfast sessions during the week.
  3. 03
    Outreach in French to French speakers, English to everyone else. Paris is the venue but the audience is global, get the language right or the M1 reads as bot.
  4. 04
    Confirm logistics with the venue and the nearest metro stop. "Café across from Carrousel du Louvre, Pyramides exit" beats "let's find each other." Paris venues are spread out.

The thing nobody will tell you

The headline speakers are not the room. The room is the 80-odd 'industry leader' speakers RAISE quietly adds in the last four weeks before the event, late additions, no PR push, no inbox flood yet. They are the highest-reply-rate cohort on the entire agenda, and almost nobody pulls the speaker page a second time to find them.

FAQ

Is RAISE Summit 2026 worth attending without a sponsorship?

Yes, if you do the speaker-outreach work pre-event. RAISE curates 500+ speakers across the Summit and RAISE Week side events, that's a pre-qualified target list. Show up with 15+ meetings already booked and skip the sponsor floor entirely.

How early should I start outreach for RAISE Summit?

T-28 to T-21 days. The speaker list updates through the event, but the calendar of every senior AI leader attending RAISE Week locks in by mid-June. Wait until July and you're competing with every AI startup in Europe for the same coffee slot.

What's the difference between RAISE Summit and RAISE Week?

RAISE Summit is the flagship three-day event at Carrousel du Louvre. RAISE Week is the 150+ city-wide side events around it. The Summit is where you discover targets; the Week is where you close, so plan your outreach around both.

Run this play on RAISE Summit

Sayintel automates the four-week playbook end to end: speaker extraction, enrichment, ICP scoring, and per-speaker draft generation that quotes the actual talk. You approve every send, nothing goes out without your tap.