The Paris Club of Innovation Directors was born at the first National Meeting of Innovation Directors, in 2008. Its aim is to build a shared understanding of a fast-changing world and to be a place of encounter and exchange, allowing Innovation Directors to benefit from the experience of their peers. It is today the world’s leading experience-sharing club in innovation management. An exceptional networking community, it is also a place where knowledge is capitalized on and where members stay in permanent contact with the best international practices, studies and analyses in innovation.
The values shared by the members of the Paris Club of Innovation Directors:
“Not to anticipate is already to moan”Leonardo da Vinci
The Club brings together around a hundred Innovation Departments*, mainly from large groups and also from mid-sized companies with international operations. Most members are world leaders in their sector. The Club also welcomes the Innovation Departments of public administrations and of major scientific and technological research centers.
*or R&D, Marketing, CSR, Strategy or any other department effectively leading innovation where no Innovation Director position exists.
The activities offered by the Paris Club have a single purpose: to make the professional lives of Innovation Directors easier by giving them access to high-quality analyses at the best international level, high-level reflection, a strategic approach, outstanding training, trips and visits, as well as concrete solutions enriched by experience-sharing with their peers. These quality inputs are available at a marginal cost, made possible by pooling resources and by the Club’s all-inclusive format.
An intensive two-day program: visits and meetings with 15 leading innovation players of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan area.
Concrete progress of generative AI in the service of innovation and the accelerating emergence of quantum: feedback, best practices and new perspectives.
Launch and first session of the higher training program on amplifying the value creation of innovations (5 days: one in 2026, four in 2027).
Fake news and misinformation, the scale of a multifaceted phenomenon: better understanding its different forms and the ways to counter it.
As every year-end, the Club de Paris des Directeurs de l’Innovation invites you to a festive, relaxed evening.
Development momentum and outlook of Mercosur and Brazil: innovation and cooperation opportunities, bio-economy and sustainable development, urban planning, transport, infrastructure.
The world’s largest gathering dedicated to creation across all sectors: innovation and high-tech, AI, film, series and performing arts, sustainable energy, networks, new business models.
The 2027 National Meeting takes on a “European Meeting” dimension: building new European leadership through innovation, with a dozen European countries invited.
April 2026
May 2026
June 2026
September 2026
October 2026
November 2026
December 2026
February 2027
March 2027
June 2027
