Roadshow: Defense & Security Week 2025

Join the EIC Scaling Club at the European Defence Week in Paris — a high-impact event designed to accelerate strategies, investments, and partnerships in the rapidly evolving Defence Tech landscape.


Unique Value Proposition

European Defence Week offers a unique opportunity to connect with key stakeholders, matchmake with fellow investors, and explore the future of defence innovation. The event provides access to crucial decision-makers, funding sources, innovative companies, and collaborative policy sessions within a comprehensive pan-European ecosystem focused on accelerating defence and dual-use technology go-to-market pathways.

During this week, many events will take place including:

1. Bpifrance Defence 2025 – 📅 27-30 October 2025

This intensive program serves as a major platform to activate and showcase the pan-European defense innovation ecosystem.

The event aims to:

• Showcase high-potential innovation and facilitate connections with investors and defence actors;
• Enable high-level conversations between key stakeholders across the defense ecosystem;
• Drive investment into early-stage defence and dual-use startups through the Defence Angels network;
• Engage private VCs, Family Offices and corporates through peer-to-peer learning;
• Encourage cross-border cooperation on dual-use technologies across Europe;
• Highlight strategic policy and regulatory frameworks supporting innovation;
• Foster public-private partnerships that accelerate go-to-market paths.
  

Core Activities

• Exhibitions and Tech Demonstrations;
• Pitch Sessions for startups;
• Matchmaking Sessions between investors and companies;
• Policy Roundtables and strategic discussions;
• Closed-door roundtables and invitation-only events;
• Networking cocktails and afterwork gatherings.
  

Contact Information:

📧 Email: Valentin.marin@bpifrance.fr

2. TechTour Defence 2025  – 📅 30-31 October 2025

As a Silver Partner, the EIC Scaling Club is proud to support this two-day gathering of Europe’s most promising defence tech start-ups, scale-ups, and innovators, alongside the sector’s most influential venture capital, corporate, and sovereign investors.

Why Attend?

Hosted as part of DefSec Week Paris by Bpifrance, Tech Tour Defence 2025 offers:

• Actionable insights from top-tier defence tech investors and entrepreneurs;
• Curated networking to foster meaningful relationships, investment opportunities, and strategic partnerships;
• Exposure to cutting-edge solutions in homeland security, advanced defence capabilities, and deep tech for sovereignty.
  

🔬 Tech Tracks:

• Homeland Security;
• Defence Capabilities & Capacities;
• Deep Technologies for Sovereignty & Defence.

Next-Generation ICs & Communications

• Quantum, semiconductors & AI
• Synergies between integrated photonics & next-gen computing

📍 Venue
Bpifrance Headquarters
8 Boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris, France
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🔗 Event Website: Tech Tour Defence 2025
📧 For more information and event passes, please contact: nicolette@techtour.com
🔗 Also check Bpifrance/Euroquity's event page, if you would like to register and/or download the event brochure. 

Be part of shaping Europe’s defence innovation ecosystem.