Over 100,000 visitors and over 300 speakers attended the third edition of the event including Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Dara Khosrowshahi, Ginni Rometty, Chuck Robbins and Bill McDermott.

[8] In 2019, the fourth edition of the event was marked by a trend towards positive innovation ("tech for good") as well as the presence of 124,000 visitors at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, on 16 and 17 May for professionals, and on 18 May for the general public.

[9] Nearly 13,000 startups were present, as well as 450 prominent figures from all over the world, such as Jack Ma of Alibaba Group, Justin Trudeau, Olympic medallist Usain Bolt, Holly Ridings of NASA, Ken Hu of Huawei, Young Sohn of Samsung, John Kerry and Margrethe Vestager.

[13] In June 2023, for the seventh edition of VivaTech, big names in global tech are expected such as Elon Musk, head of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, and Yann LeCun, chief scientist of Meta's AI department.

Elon Musk virtually attended vivatech and shared his personal vision as well as the advances made by his companies in the field of Artificial Intelligence, which have been the subject of much debate.