Bordeaux, host city for major international congresses and seminars
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Considered one of the main French cities for hosting international congresses by the ICCA (International Congress and Convention Association), Bordeaux hosts around 100 congresses and seminars everyyear, nearly half of which are international in scope. This success is due to the combination of state-of-the-art infrastructure, exceptional sites steeped in history and renowned R&D centres.
Bordeaux has 7 congress centres, for events up to 600 people in the city centre and for events up to 6,000 people in Bordeaux Lac, a congress centre directly accessible in 15 minutes by tramway, the Palais des congrès, the exhibition centre, the reputed Soccer Stadium Stade Matmut Atlantique,...
To illustrate this dynamism, amongst many other events to come, Bordeaux will host next year the world's largest robotics and artificial intelligence competition, the RoboCup. No less than 3,500 participants from all over the world and 40,000 visitors are expected from 23 to 29 June 2020 at the Bordeaux Exhibition Centre. The objective of this event is to stimulate the French robotics sector and to encourage vocations among the youngest. For more than 20 years, RoboCup has been a major scientific and technological event that generates between 7 and 15 million euros of spin-offs in six days, depending on the year. A real economic and innovative challenge that makes the whole region shine internationally !
