Recoding Medicine: Paris Matchmaking Evening

SPRIND's Recoding Medicine Challenge backs teams that unlock European health data for AI with up to €480,000 per team in Stage 1, with later stages up to €455k and €550k, plus coaching and investor access. Applications close 16 October 2026, and applying requires proven access to a dataset. This event exists to help you find that match, with SPRIND's challenge team in the room. 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. The format. Arrive early for food, drinks, and a badge marking what you're here as. Short intros from Foresight, SPRIND, and our Paris host (~30 min, English). Open mic —> one to three minutes each on what you hold or what you're looking for (English or French). Then the rest of the evening is matching and real conversations. Who should come. AI/ML researchers and startups who want real biomedical data. Data holders: hospitals, biobanks, registries, patient groups. Clinicians and domain experts and governance/legal people, because most blockers are legal, not technical. Before you arrive, create a short profile on the Foresight matchmaking platform: https://foresightmatchmaker.app/ — you'll get a ranked shortlist of who's worth talking to. Nothing moves without your say-so. Can't make it? Profiles are matched across all three events — or join us in Berlin (2 Sept) or Stockholm (17 Sept). The platform is built and operated by Foresight Institute.