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We are back with a new Paris Hardware Meetup, this time focused on Space! 🚀 From launch systems and satellites to propulsion, and now data centers in orbit, a new generation of companies is rethinking how we build for space. And a lot of it is happening right here in Europe. Our mission is simple: bring together the founders, engineers, and builders turning ambitious hardware into real systems. Hardware Meetups bring together founders, engineers, and innovators in 50+ cities around the world to share ideas, showcase projects, and connect with the people shaping the future of hardware. Paris and Europe are full of world-class space builders. Now is the time to bring them together! We have a fantastic group of guest speakers: Paul Lascombes, CTO at Exotrail Daniel Chapman, CTO at Gama Virgile Charton, Deputy CTO at ThrustMe Mathieu Chaize, CTO at Alatyr Agenda for the night: 19:00 - 19:30 - Arrival, mingle, grab refreshments 19:30 - 19:40 - Welcome and introduction 19:40 - 20:40 - Guest talks and audience Q&A 20:40 - 21:00 - Community open mic 🎤 Share your current project in 1 minutes, an open moment for anyone building something exciting! 21:00 - 21:30 - Drinks, food, mix and mingle! Thank you to our sponsors Planet A is an early-stage European tech VC backing founders solving the world’s greatest challenges. We take a scientific approach to identify breakthrough technologies across energy, resource mastery, neo-manufacturing and critical infrastructure. Thank you to our partners Hexa is the leading multi-stage startup studio. We work hand-in-hand with founders to grow companies that leave a mark on the world - at every stage of the journey. informal is a freelance collective for the most talented independent professionals in the hardware ecosystem. With expertise in a diverse range of industries - from consumer electronics to automotive, climate tech to medical devices - informal members work with clients at every stage to design, manufacture, and scale top-quality

Join us for an exclusive VC side event and rooftop cocktail 360 view during IPEM, bringing together investors, founders, and ecosystem leaders for an evening focused on building category-defining companies from Europe to the world. Following welcoming remarks, we’ll host a conversation with four standout unicorns and soonicorns founders from Plug and Play's local portfolio. Moderated by Plug and Play, this won’t be the usual startup pitch panel. We’ll go behind the scenes to explore what they’re building and why it matters now, what it takes to build from Europe while competing globally, how they approached international expansion, and what comes next. The conversation will be followed by an exclusive rooftop networking cocktail overlooking Paris, bringing together founders, VCs, LPs, and leaders from across the global tech ecosystem. Featured companies Owkin — AI platform transforming biopharma R&D through biological reasoning models and predictive analytics, accelerating drug discovery, biomarker identification, and diagnostics from complex multimodal patient data. $303M raised · Series B Zama — Pioneer in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), building open-source technology that enables computation on encrypted data and infrastructure for confidential applications and blockchain transactions. $179M raised · Series B Stockly — Global shared-inventory network enabling e-commerce retailers to seamlessly access and sell each other’s stock, turning unavailable inventory into additional sales. $45M raised · Series B Spore.Bio — AI-powered rapid microbiological testing platform enabling manufacturers to detect contamination in minutes rather than days, across food, pharma, cosmetics and other industries. $32M raised · Series A About your host Plug and Play is a global venture capital firm with $1B+ of assets, consistently recognised among the world’s most active venture investors. Having backed more than 2% of the world’s unicorns at an early stage, Plug and Play combines

SPRIND's Recoding Medicine Challenge backs teams that unlock European health data for AI with up to €480k per team in Stage 1, with later stages up to €455k and €550k, plus coaching and investor access. On 9 September, Foresight Institute joins SPRIND at legendary startup campus Station F to catalyze team formation for Challenge applicants. Researchers, clinicians, engineers, domain experts and curious minds are invited to join us for semi-structured match-making, followed by plenty of time for unstructured connection, to help you find your Recoding Medicine Challenge team! 📝 Event Info 📝 Purpose Europe holds some of the world's most valuable biomedical data, and most of it never reaches the researchers who could use it not because the science is hard, but because the two sides don't know each other exist, and the path to access runs through legal and organisational questions nobody answers first. This is three hours curated to help you close that gap. Who Should Come? • AI/ML researchers, builders and startups seeking real biomedical data • Data holders, such as hospitals, biobanks, registries, patient groups • Clinicians • Domain experts in fields related to the Challenge, including governance, legal and policy perspectives • Community members who would like to learn more about SPRIND, Foresight and how to get involved with our programs Format & Agenda 18:30 - 19:00 • Arrive early to enjoy light bites and drinks, while creating a match-making badge to indicate the role you’d contribute to a team (e.g. data provider, ML researcher, lawyer etc.) 19:00 - 19:30 • Short intros from Foresight, SPRIND, and our Paris host (English) • Call to action & problem statement from Emmanuel Bacry (CNRS, Health Data Hub, PSL) (English) 19:30 - 20:00 • Participant Open Mic —> share a brief (one to three minutes) statement on what you’d like to contribute, how you can support, or what you're looking for in a team (English or French) 20:00 - 21:30 • Matchmaking and connectio