VivaTech celebrates its 10th edition
Viva Technology is one of the largest innovation & technology events supported by Orange Group. Every year new challenges are launched and startups propose solutions to tackle them. This year the event marked its 10th edition that brought together more than 15,000 startups, 4,200 exhibitors and over 200,000 visitors in Paris, confirming its position as one of Europe’s leading technology events. This year, discussions were largely shaped by AI and digital sovereignty.
Highlights
Orange
at VivaTech 2026
At VivaTech 2026, Orange was the only Tech & Telco operator at the event, showcasing its vision for a more useful, secure, and trusted digital future. Orange 585 m2 stand demostarted 3 exhibition spaces: Future-ready Connectivity, Future-ready Business, and Future-ready Experience. Among the highlights were demonstrations of real-time deepfake detection, digital twins, cybersecurity solutions, hybrid connectivity, Tap to Pay, and Drone 360, giving visitors a glimpse of the technologies shaping the future. This strong interest was also reflected in the numbers: the Orange booth welcomed 22,600 unique visitors, who spent an average of 13 minutes exploring the stand.
Orange Fab Romania
at VivaTech 2026
Orange stand welcomed more than 60 startups and 3 of them were a part of Romanian Orange Fab ecosystem: Alpha by Zendra, Ogre and FieldOS. Alpha by Zendra represented the program at the Orange Fab Demo Day, showcasing how AI can help companies continuously assess and improve their cybersecurity. The Romanian innovation ecosystem was also celebrated during the “French Tech – Romanian Touch” reception at the Romanian Embassy in Paris, where Orange Fab Romania received the “Startup Program of the Year” award - a recognition of the long-term collaboration between startups, corporates, universities, investors, and ecosystem partners.
About Alpha by Zendra
Founded in 2025 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Alpha is a cybersecurity platform that makes continuous vulnerability assessment and automated penetration testing accessible to any organization, regardless of size or budget. No dedicated security team needed. No five-figure invoices. No waiting weeks for a report that's already outdated by the time it lands in your inbox. Instead, the platform automates the entire lifecycle: combining vulnerability assessment, automated penetration testing, brute force simulation, and reporting into one single workflow that can be deployed by any IT team from day one.
About Ogre
Ogre is a platform specialised in energy forecasting and optimization solutions, targeting large and medium-sized companies in the energy sector. This industry faces numerous challenges, such as balancing supply and demand, integrating intermittent renewable energy sources, and increasing grid losses. These challenges are further amplified by the high investments in renewable energy projects, the growing number of prosumers, e-mobility expansion, and the adoption of future decentralized energy networks.
