RAISE Summit 2026 — Paris without a booth
July 7–9, 2026 · Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. 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.
Why this event is worth playing
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.
Official site: www.raisesummit.com
The universal four-week playbook
T-28 days. Pull the public speaker agenda. This is 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.
T-25 days. Enrichment + ICP scoring. Keep only the speakers who match your ICP. The rest go into a low-priority nurture for next year.
T-21 days. First touch. Every M1 references the speaker's actual talk title or a specific line from a recent post — never the product, never the booth. Ask is a 15-minute coffee at the venue, not a demo.
T-14 days. Track reply rate. Healthy is 8–15% on a talk-specific opener. Second-touch sequence to non-responders reframes around a peer attending the same panel.
T-7 days. Logistics confirmation to everyone who said yes. Calendar holds with venue + specific landmark.
On site. Walk in with the calendar already booked. Outreach misses turn into LinkedIn follow-ups during the event itself.
What's different about RAISE Summit
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
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.
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.
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.
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