AI didn’t just accelerate in 2025, it fractured.
Agents hit production, infra became a competitive advantage, and the gap between demos and real systems widened fast. As we step into 2026, the question isn’t what’s new, but what actually holds.

To kick off the year, The AI Collective and Paatch are bringing together founders, engineers and operators for an evening focused on grounded AI predictions and high-signal connections. No hype cycles, no polished decks, just people who spent 2025 shipping, breaking, and rebuilding AI systems, comparing notes on what comes next.

2 roundtables on AI predictions for 2026:
⇒ One focused on technology evolutions.
⇒ One focused on AI adoption inside organizations.

This is the place to make your own bets and create authentic connections with fellow founders and builders.

🗓️ Agenda (6:30 PM → 10:30 PM)

6:30 PM — Doors open + welcome drink

7:15 PM — The AI Collective × Paatch opening

7:30 PM - Roundtable 1: How will the AI usage evolve in 2026 in the organizations? Adoption and use cases.

Featured panelists:

Maxime Thoosen, Co-Founder of AGO
Mehdi Medjaoui, Founder of Olympe.Legal & Apidays
Dust speaker, TBA

8:00 PM - Roundtable 2: AI for engineers & data scientists — where will head the research in 2026?

Featured panelists:

Léo Dreyfus-Schmidt, Founder turnstile labs, ex-VP Research at Dataiku
Antoine Moissenot, CEO of Neuralk AI
Denis Brulé, CEO of Finegrain

8:30 PM — Structured matchmaking + targeted intros.

8:40 PM — Drinks, community time and open networking.

10:30 PM — End of event.

👥 Who This Is For

You’ll feel at home if you are:

An AI founder (seed → scale)
A CTO / Staff+ engineer shipping AI systems
An infra, platform, or tooling builder
An operator or investor deeply involved in AI-native companies

We prioritize signal over volume.

ℹ️ Practical Infos

🗓️ February 5, from 6:30 to 10:30pm.
📍Place d'Italie, Paris 13. Register to see location.
🎟️ Spots are limited — RSVP now to secure your place.

Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these community events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. If you are not accepted to this event, please keep applying! We appreciate your application tremendously and we are looking forward to seeing you at a future event very soon!

The AI Collective is a global non-profit building the human layer for the AI age. We unite 150,000+ leaders, builders, and stakeholders across 100+ forums worldwide to democratize the frontier, build trust, and coordinate how society navigates the rapid acceleration of technological progress.

Paatch is an AI adoption platform combining technology and a curated community of 2,000+ AI builders and forward-deployed engineers.

We help organizations move from AI experimentation to production by designing, deploying, and scaling AI agents and workflows on real data and real processes — through hands-on workshops and operator-led execution.

Paatch is the human and operational layer that turns AI tools into working systems.

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2026 AI Predictions & Founder Mixer - powered by The AI Collective x Paatch