Sponsors — 2026 Edition
Bouygues Telecom
Attached to the Bouygues Group, Bouygues Telecom is one of France's three major telecommunications operators, providing connectivity services to individuals, families, and businesses across the country. Its mission is to give customers access to the best technology for their personal and professional digital lives, wherever they may be.
A full-service operator with nearly 12,000 employees and over 32 million customers, Bouygues Telecom masters mobile, fixed fiber, cloud, and enterprise connectivity — including cutting-edge 5G and WiFi 7 network infrastructure.
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Direction Générale de l'Armement
DGA Maîtrise de l'information, based in Bruz, is the technical expert of the Ministry of the Armed Forces for information and communication systems, cybersecurity, electronic warfare, and tactical and strategic missile systems. Its expertise ranges from electronic components to systems of systems, for all types of environments (land, sea, air, space, cyber).
The DGA is also the Ministry of the Armed Forces' technical expert in cyber matters across the three areas of cyber warfare: defensive, offensive, and influence. From anticipating threats to implementing cyber solutions for defense and senior government officials, it covers everything from cryptographic algorithms to secure architectures for complete systems.
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Exoscale
Headquartered in Switzerland, Exoscale is a privacy-minded European cloud provider, delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure from secure datacenters across Europe.
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Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure
Attached to the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) is the French secret service. It conducts intelligence operations abroad, gathering, analyzing, and making available to French authorities intelligence relating to geostrategic issues and threats that could affect the nation.
As an intelligence and action service, it contributes to knowledge and anticipation, and to the prevention of threats to French interests. The DGSE masters all methods of human, technical, and operational intelligence gathering and has a staff of nearly 7,200, 68% of whom are civilians.
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Synacktiv
Founded in 2012, Synacktiv aims to become the French reference in offensive cybersecurity. They recruit enthusiasts across their activities: pentest, reverse-engineering, development of cybersecurity tools, and incident response. With offices in Paris, Toulouse, Rennes, Lille, Bordeaux and Lyon, the team counts over 190 experts. Synacktiv is CESTI approved by ANSSI and holds the PASSI qualification.
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Founded in 2019, Root-Me PRO is a leading French cybersecurity player specializing in training, awareness-raising and assessment of IT security skills. An offshoot of the Root-Me association, it offers solutions tailored to the needs of businesses and schools:
- Awareness-raising: understanding and preventing cyber threats
- Training & career guidance: web, network, system, SOC, forensic, AI, web3, and more
- Recruitment: identifying and assessing technical skills effectively
- Organizing cybersecurity events: CTFs, Escape Games, and other fun formats