About The World AI Cannes Festival
Flagship Event of The AI Summit Series
Where Europe's AI Community Connects
Welcome to WAICF, where we're not just hosting a festival; we're igniting Europe's AI agenda.
Our community is a catalyst for change, bringing together international businesses, policymakers, and leading voices to move AI forward with purpose and impact. We're committed to fostering high-value connections, delivering practical insights you can act on, and celebrating breakthrough innovation through our prestigious awards programme.
Ready to be part of this defining moment?
Join us in Cannes, where strategic partnerships are forged, transformative ideas take shape, and the future of AI in Europe begins.
OUR STORY
Built in Cannes. Built for Europe.
Founded in 2022 with a simple conviction: Europe needed its own major AI business event — rooted in European values, shaped by European regulatory reality and attended by the senior professionals building AI strategy inside European enterprises.
What began as a bold first edition has grown into one of the most recognised AI events on the European calendar. Six editions in, WAICF has established itself as the February fixture for enterprise AI leaders across France and beyond — a place where the conversations that matter happen, in a setting unlike anywhere else.
The event has always been built on partnerships. From the first edition, WAICF has been supported by the institutions and organisations that make Cannes what it is — partners who believed in the ambition before it was proven, and who remain at the heart of what makes WAICF distinctive.
The partners who built WAICF
Since its first edition, the Festival has been supported by leading institutional and ecosystem partners who share its ambition to position Cannes and the region at the heart of Europe’s AI conversation.
Together, we're building the platform where that conversation happens.
Committed institutional partner — supporting WAICF as part of the region's broader ambition to position the French Riviera as a centre of technological innovation and enterprise development.
Founding host partner — bringing the global recognition of Cannes and the prestige of the Palais des Festivals to enterprise AI. Pioneering the use of AI in urban services and municipal governance.
Home of WAICF. One of the world's most iconic event venues providing the setting that signals ambition, credibility and international reach, and a team whose expertise in world-class event delivery is unmatched.
A founding partner since edition one. European centre of expertise in AI, based in Sophia Antipolis — connecting the academic, research and enterprise AI communities across France and Europe.
Be part of the sixth edition.
Join 7,500+ enterprise AI leaders at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes.