Eurosatory 2018: Latest news and what to expect at Paris Defense Exhibition


The 2018 edition of Eurosatory, the international exhibition of land and air defense and security that will take place in Paris (France) from 11 to 15 June 2018, confirms its leading position as the major exhibition for the international defence and security industry. During a press conference on May 17, 2018, Mister Patrick Colas des Francs, event director, has presented the latest news and what to expected at Eurosatory 2018.


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Latest news and what to expect at Eurosatory 2018 the International Land and Airland Defence and Security Exhibition that will take place in Paris, France from the 11 to 15 June 2018.


For the 2016 edition of Eurosatory, 1,571 exhibitors participated in the event. Eurosatory 2016 saw the visit of 212 national and international official delegations, 57,024 international visitors and 700 journalists from all over the world. The 2018 edition of Eurosatory will see an increase in the number of exhibitors, with 1,700 national and international companies represented in 36 national pavilions from France, United States, Germany, Israel, Turkey South Korea, Japan, Azerbaijan, etc.

The new hall 5B completes the indoor exhibition area of Eurosatory with a third hall which will be dedicated mainly to security issues. It will showcase such technological clusters as intelligence, civil security, crisis management and people security, security of critical infrastructures and sensitive facilities, and CBRN. Moreover, the discovery village will be installed in the hall, as well as some national pavilions.

The live demonstration zone is moved to the area close to the exhibition halls, so everybody will be able to come on foot to watch live demonstrations. For the first time, institutional live demonstrations will complete the Eurosatory live demonstrations week programme. Among them are French Army, French Police, French Special Operations Command, National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), Research and Intervention Brigade, and the Paris Fire Brigade.

For the 2018 edition, Eurosatory has created an all-new start-up area called Eurosatory LAB, dedicated to international start-ups in the fields of defence and security. Eurosatory will select up to 80 most ground-breaking start-up companies to display their products or services alongside 1,600 other companies. Internationally renowned keynote speakers will animate the LAB.

Eurosatory 2018 will present a new international thematic event dedicated to CBRN issues and organised with the participation of French and foreign Ops Officers, exhibitors from the D&S domains, state representatives, experts and VIPs. This event completes already existing technology cluster and live demonstration, dedicated to the CBRN issues.

Army Recognition Group SPRL, with its online Defense and Security magazine Army Recognition, is the only official online news for Eurosatory 2018, including web TV coverage. The organizers of Eurosatory 2018 understood the interest of using the international notoriety and popularity of Army Recognition online Global Defence & Security magazine to mediatize all the activities taking place during the event, and to provide the exhibitors with a global online window in parallel with Eurosatory 2018 exhibition about the latest defence and security technologies and innovations.