TL;DR. The 30 km radius covers exactly two towns of any size — Aire-sur-l’Adour at 13 km [3] and Mont-de-Marsan at 26 km [2] — and IT activity is entirely Mont-de-Marsan, entirely weekday, entirely cyber-flavoured: Mars@Hack [7] in early March [4] and Rencontres de la Cybersécurité in late January [9], both already past for 2026. No DevFest, no BarCamp, no French Tech hub inside the radius. For a Saturday-evening dinner anchor: nothing aligns in 2026. If matching a tech event matters, plan a weekday-anchored 2027 trip with Saturday dinner attached, or extend the radius to Pau (~60 km) for UTNT [15] on 7–8 Oct 2026 [16].
What “within 30 km” actually contains
Eugénie-les-Bains is a ~500-inhabitant Tursan spa village [19] in southern Landes [1]. A 30 km drive radius captures very few populated centres:
| Town | Distance | Tech footprint |
|---|---|---|
| Aire-sur-l’Adour | 13 km | One coworking space (HapCOW); no listed IT conference calendar [20] |
| Mont-de-Marsan | 26 km | CCI Landes + Campus Landes + ESNL school + BA 118; hosts the radius’s only IT events [12] |
| Geaune / Hagetmau / Saint-Sever / Garlin | < 30 km | Villages, no tech-event calendar found |
| Pau | ~60 km ⚠ outside radius | French Tech Pau Béarn hub, UTNT, Hélioparc tech park [17] |
2026 calendar — within the 30 km radius
All confirmed IT-flavoured dates concentrate at the CCI des Landes building in Mont-de-Marsan. All three 2026 editions are past as of 1 June 2026.
| Date | Event | Type | Venue | Audience | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 28 Jan | Rencontres de la Cybersécurité | half-day conference, free | CCI des Landes + Campus Landes, Mont-de-Marsan | Companies, institutions, experts, students [9] | ⚠ past 2026 |
| Tue 10 Mar | Mars@Hack 2026 (7th ed.) | CTF (240 seats) + roundtable | CCI des Landes, Mont-de-Marsan | Pros, students, hacking enthusiasts [4] [8] | ⚠ past 2026 |
| Tue 4 Apr | Salon Entreprendre dans les Landes (Mont-de-Marsan leg) | regional business salon (digital booths but not IT-only) | Mont-de-Marsan | Entrepreneurs [14] | ⚠ past 2026 |
Mars@Hack is the radius’s marquee event. The 7th edition was co-organized by Mont-de-Marsan Agglo, Base Aérienne 118, the IUT Réseaux & Télécoms (UPPA), and Campus Landes [4] [5]; the Ministry of the Armed Forces’ ComCyber backs it [6]. CTF runs 8 a.m.–6 p.m. (80 onsite + 160 online) with a 8:30–10:30 a.m. business-cyber roundtable on NIS2 [8]. 8th edition expected March 2027.
What’s confirmed after 1 June 2026 inside the radius
Slim. The CCI and Campus Landes agendas list, for the rest of 2026:
- 5 June 2026 — Le P’tit Déj de Conjoncture, CCI Landes — macro briefing, not IT [10].
- 6 June 2026 — Campus Landes Mont-de-Marsan Open Day (a Saturday) — covers ESNL (École Supérieure du Numérique des Landes: web dev, cybersecurity, networks, data, UX/UI) [11] [12]. Useful only if you want a campus tour, not a conference.
- 2 June 2026 — Atelier Naviguer en ligne, Mont-de-Marsan Archives — digital-literacy workshop, not a tech event [13].
The CCI agenda runs sparse webinars on numérique, SEO, AI, e-invoicing and cyber awareness through the year, but these are typically 1–2 hour weekday morning sessions on Teams and don’t anchor a trip [10].
What is not within 30 km
- No French Tech regional hub. The nearest official community is French Tech Pau Béarn in Pau, ~60 km south [17]. It runs quarterly matinales, bi-monthly déjeuners and quarterly onboarding soirées at Hélioparc, Pau — closest matinale: 4 June 2026, 09:00–10:30 [18].
- No GDG / DevFest / BarCamp / Meetup.com tech group. Bordeaux and Toulouse host the closest developer conferences, both 150–200 km.
- No vendor user groups. No AWS UG, Snowflake, Databricks, etc. within the radius.
- No regular Saturday-format tech event. Mars@Hack and Rencontres de la Cybersécurité are weekday; Campus Landes Open Days are Saturdays but they are recruitment events for prospective students.
If extending to ~60 km (Pau)
| Event | Date | Venue | Why it might matter |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTNT 2026 (11th edition) | Tue–Wed 7–8 Oct 2026 | Palais Beaumont, Pau | ~15 conferences on digital sovereignty of territories, datacenters, fiber, AI; registration opens May 2026 [16] |
| French Tech Pau Béarn matinale | Thu 4 Jun 2026 | Hélioparc, Pau | Quarterly cadence; topic this round is director compensation, not IT-pure [18] |
UTNT is the closest serious multi-day IT conference to Eugénie-les-Bains and the only one in 2026 whose timing could plausibly bracket a Saturday dinner (the Tue–Wed dates leave Sat 10 Oct or Sat 3 Oct as plausible dinner-night anchors, with a ~45-min drive from Pau).
Recommendation for a Saturday-evening dinner anchor
| Goal | Best fit |
|---|---|
| Pure Sat-dinner anchor, 2026 | No tech event aligns. Don’t try to force it. |
| Sat-dinner + tech anchor, 2027 | Target Mars@Hack (~mid-March 2027) — attend Tue, stay Tue–Sat, dinner Sat night. |
| Sat-dinner + tech anchor, 2026 | Extend radius to Pau: attend UTNT Tue–Wed 7–8 Oct, stay through to Sat 10 Oct. |
| Saturday daytime tech taster only | Campus Landes Mont-de-Marsan Open Day (Feb/Jun Saturdays) — student-focused, low signal [11]. |
The honest read: this corner of Landes is a tech-event desert. Mars@Hack is a real, well-attended cyber CTF [8] backed by ComCyber [6], but it lives on a fixed weekday in March. For the rest of the calendar, the local IT activity is the ESNL school running classes [12] and the CCI running webinars [10] — not trip-anchors.