Fiona Pennellar

It's, you know, everyone, all genders.

I can just see this being really, really hard for a lot of people to see.

Thank you.

I'm frankly appalled.

I don't know why the President of the United States treats its own allies this way.

It's not the first time it happens.

This is Europe's biggest tech gathering and with 180,000 people expected through the doors over the next few days, the geopolitical significance of the tech sector is not being lost here.

Earlier I saw Jeff Bezos, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder, take to the stage.

He spoke about the space race.

But of course, he also mentioned artificial intelligence.

And he said that he thought that AI could unlock opportunities for humans and create more jobs, which was definitely a more positive case for AI than I've heard for a long time.

Now, of course, the big players are here at VivaTech.

You've got Samsung, you've got Microsoft, L'Oreal,

but it's also a place for innovators to get together and startups to discuss what's next for the tech sector.

Germany has been chosen as the country for VivaTech 2026, and every year a different country is chosen.

This is the first time that a European country has been chosen.

I spoke to a couple of German startups, and one was a doctor who had created an app which was basically an eye test in your pocket.

carrying around an optometrist that you can do and check your eye health, I was able to do it in less than a minute and get a full scan of my eyes.

It's that kind of innovation that we're seeing here at VivaTech.

Of course, the big crowd was for UDTree and their humanoid robot, which has been front and centre of many of these big tech conferences over the last few years.