The sponsors of the 2026 Edition
Direction Générale de l'Armement
DGA Maîtrise de l’information, based in Bruz, is the technical expert of the Ministry of the Armed Forces for information and communication systems, cybersecurity, electronic warfare, and tactical and strategic missile systems. Its expertise ranges from electronic components to systems of systems, for all types of environments (land, sea, air, space, cyber).
The DGA is also the Ministry of the Armed Forces' technical expert in cyber matters in the three areas of cyber warfare: defensive, offensive, and influence. From anticipating threats to implementing cyber solutions for defense and senior government officials, it is involved in everything from designing cryptographic algorithms to secure architectures for complete systems.
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Exoscale
Headquartered in Switzerland, Exoscale is a privacy-minded European cloud provider, delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure from secure datacenters across Europe.
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Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure
Attached to the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) is the French secret service. It conducts intelligence operations abroad. The DGSE's mission outside France is to gather, analyze, and make available to the French authorities intelligence relating to geostrategic issues and threats that could affect the nation.
As an intelligence and action service, it contributes to knowledge and anticipation, but also to the prevention of threats to French interests. The DGSE is an integrated service that masters all methods of human, technical, and operational intelligence gathering. Constantly evolving, it has a staff of nearly 7,200, 68% of whom are civilians. The DGSE is directly involved in setting up technical capabilities based on the best technologies and has innovative infrastructure at its disposal.
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SYNACKTIV
Founded in 2012, Synacktiv aims to become the French reference in offensive cybersecurity. We recruit enthusiasts in our various activities: pentest, reverse-engineering, development of cybersecurity tools and incident response. Synacktiv has locations in Paris, Toulouse, Rennes, Lille, Bordeaux and Lyon and a team of over 190 experts. We are CESTI approved by ANSSI and we have the PASSI qualification.
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Root-Me PRO
Founded in 2019, Root-Me PRO is a leading French cybersecurity player specializing in training, awareness-raising and assessment of IT security skills.
An offshoot of the Root-Me association, recognized for its fun, community-based approach, Root-Me PRO offers solutions tailored to the needs of businesses and schools:
- Awareness-raising: understanding and preventing cyber threats
- Training and career guidance: developing technical skills (web, network, system, SOC, forensic, AI, web3, etc.)
- Educational support: ensuring that skills are developed in a way that is appropriate, engaging and sustainable
- Recruitment: identifying and effectively assessing technical skills
- Organizing cybersecurity events: bringing people together and engaging them through fun formats such as Escape Games or CTFs (Capture The Flag).
Root-Me PRO's unique concept is based both on its platform, designed to make learning fun and accessible, and on the variety and complementarity of the content on offer.