AVP Day 2026
Our flagship Paris forum for insight and connection, uniting ecosystem leaders, AVP portfolio founders, and partners to share ideas and spark growth.
AVP Day returns on Wednesday 14th October, hosted at the Sorbonne, one of the world's oldest and most storied universities.
This year's edition brings together a select group of our LPs, partners and portfolio leaders for a late afternoon and evening of ideas and connection. Places are strictly limited and by invitation only.
We are delighted to confirm Philippe Aghion, the Collège de France economist and 2025 Nobel Laureate in Economics renowned for his work on innovation and growth, as our keynote speaker, with further speakers to follow.
Given the limited capacity, we would encourage you to confirm your attendance as early as possible.
About Philippe Aghion
Philippe Aghion is a Professor at the College de France, at INSEAD, and at the London School of Economics, and a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the economics of innovation and growth. With Peter Howitt, he pioneered the so-called Schumpeterian Growth theory which became a leading paradigm to analyze the interplay between growth, innovation, market structure, and firm dynamics. Much of this work is summarized in their joint books Endogenous Growth Theory (MIT Press, 1998) and The Economics of Growth (MIT Press, 2009), in his book with Rachel Griffith on Competition and Growth (MIT Press, 2006), in his survey “What Do We Learn from Schumpeterian Growth Theory” (joint with U. Akcigit and P. Howitt), and more recently in The Power of Creative Destruction (joint with C. Antonin and S. Bunel). In 2001, Philippe Aghion received the Yrjo Jahnsson Award of the best European economist under age 45, in 2009 he received the John Von Neumann Award, and in March 2020 he shared the BBVA “Frontier of Knowledge Award” with Peter Howitt for “developing an economic growth theory based on the innovation that emerges from the process of creative destruction”. He has been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2025 (jointly with Peter Howitt for their works on creative destruction, and with Joel Mokyr)