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VivaTech 2024 breaks records with 165,000 visitors, 6.5M online viewers

Viva Technology"s VivaTech, May 22-25, 2024 | Viva Technology, X account

By Crypto Republique

May 30, 2024

Viva Technology announced that its VivaTech 2024 event has become one of the most popular business gatherings. The event concluded last week, attracting a record-breaking 165,000 visitors and 6.5 million online viewers worldwide.

According to a Viva Technology press release, VivaTech 2024—which took place from May 22-25 in Paris—welcomed representatives from 120 countries spread across 40 national pavilions. These included Canada, Taiwan, Brazil, the UK, and Germany. Japan, named "Country of the Year" this year, showcased an array of technologies through its ministerial delegation and over 40 startups. Africa hosted the Africa Tech Lab, which spotlighted local talent and startups and featured the AfricaTech Awards for the third consecutive year.

The press release also revealed that VivaTech 2024 fostered more than 400,000 business connections through digital channels alone. Over 13,500 startups entered business relationships with companies across more than 25 sectors or met with more than 2,000 investors and investment funds, including Accel, KKR, Lightspeed, Sequoia Capital, Eurazeo, and GV (Google Ventures).

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Viva Technology highlighted that the event featured "the latest and most tangible AI solutions," with more than 40% of exhibitors demonstrating advances in this rapidly evolving domain alongside initiatives in sustainability. Approximately 50 exclusive global and European announcements were made at the event surrounding innovations such as BiPed AI, Everdian, Bioteos, Dopavision, and Tesla’s Cybertruck.

The four-day event offered keynote addresses delivered by some of the biggest names in the tech space: Elon Musk (SpaceX, Tesla), Eric Schmidt (Schmidt Futures), Faye Iosotaluno (Tinder), Hiroshi Mikitani (Rakuten), Linda Yaccarino (X), Christel Heydemann (Orange), Meredith Whittaker (Signal Foundation), and Bernard Arnault (LVMH).

Additionally, VivaTech hosted more than 400 debates on various international topics featuring prominent figures such as John Kerry; Rachel Delacour from Sweep; Robin Li from Baidu; Arthur Mensch from Mistral AI; Yann LeCun from Meta; and Dario Amodei from Anthropic. "VivaTech has firmly established itself as the place that is redefining the debate around innovation, technology, and startups. The figures speak for themselves," stated Maurice Lévy and Pierre Louette along with François Bitouzet in the press release.