IT conferences and tech events within 30 km of Les Morainières

TL;DR. Don’t plan the trip around a conference. The 30 km bubble around Jongieux contains essentially zero proper IT/tech conferences in 2026 [7]. The two scheduled fixtures both fall in the same week of April 21-24, 2026: a free 90-min USMB cybersecurity lecture in Chambéry on Tue April 21 [8], and the SOPHIA PV reliability workshop at INES/Savoie Technolac on April 23-24 (registrations already closed) [10]. The three Chambéry dev-meetup groups (GDG Alps 361 members [13], Developers In The Alps 127 [14], Dev Tech Chambéry 50 [15]) fire irregularly and don’t keep a public 2026 calendar. For a real conference, plan a separate trip to Lyon (DevFest, Dec 4 2026 [19]) or Paris (Devoxx, Apr 22-24 2026 [18]).

The 30 km bubble

Driving radius from Jongieux to candidate venues — what’s in scope and what isn’t.

The bubble effectively means Chambéry + Aix-les-Bains + Savoie Technolac. Annecy is just outside, so anything at LAPP, IMERIR, or in the Haute-Savoie French Tech hub is excluded by the 30 km rule — flagged below for completeness.

Scheduled 2026 events in the bubble

1. USMB cybersecurity lecture — Tue 21 Apr 2026, Chambéry

The only IT-flavoured public event with a published 2026 date inside the radius. Part of Université Savoie Mont Blanc’s free “Amphis pour Tous” series, which mixes alpine-climate, AI, and pure-math talks across the year [9].

• Title: Cybersécurité : comment les mathématiques veillent sur vos données [8]
• When: Tuesday April 21 2026, 18:00–19:30 (90 min)
• Where: Présidence USMB, 27 rue Marcoz, 73000 Chambéry (25 km from Les Morainières)
• Format: Single talk, two USMB speakers (one from the Électronique-Télécoms-Réseaux dept, one from LAMA maths lab). Free, public, no registration mentioned. Recorded and posted to the USMB YouTube channel afterward [9].
• Vibe: general-public outreach, elliptic-curve crypto framed for non-specialists. Not a developer conference. Worth it if you’re already in town and want a 90-min cultural anchor — not worth planning a weekend around.

2. SOPHIA PV Reliability Workshop — Thu-Fri 23-24 Apr 2026, Le Bourget-du-Lac

A research workshop on photovoltaic-module reliability, run inside the INES CEA campus on Savoie Technolac [10].

• When: April 23-24 2026, two days
• Where: INES CEA, 50 avenue Lac Léman, Bâtiment Lynx 3, Technopôle Savoie Technolac, 73375 Le Bourget-du-Lac (15 km from Les Morainières)
• Status: ⚠ Registrations closed — fully booked as of the page’s last update [10].
• Vibe: solar-tech R&D for PV-module reliability specialists. Energy-tech adjacent, not IT — closer in spirit to a materials-science workshop than a dev conference. The Saturday slot (April 25) is therefore free.
• INES’s other 2026 dates run mostly outside the bubble (OPEN ENERGIES at Chassieu near Lyon, Intersolar Munich, Saint-Priest storage day, etc.) [12].

3. INES at ASDER Open-Doors Day — Fri 24 Apr 2026, Chambéry

The same week, INES Formation & Évaluation runs a public-facing presence at ASDER’s open-doors day [11].

• When: Friday April 24 2026, 11:00–17:00
• Where: Maison des Énergies, 124 rue du Bon Vent, 73000 Chambéry (25 km)
• Format: Open doors, drop-in, free admission. Energy training + solar career info.
• Vibe: career fair / public outreach, not a conference. Useful only if you’re stacking with the SOPHIA workshop or the USMB lecture.

4. Local dev meetups (irregular, no published 2026 calendar)

Three small developer groups exist in Chambéry. None has a recurring monthly cadence visible from outside; events drop ad-hoc. Worth checking the day-of, not before.

GDG Alps despite the name does not host the regional DevFest — that’s run from Turin (DevFest Alps 2025 was at Toolbox Coworking, ~140 km away) [21].

5. French Tech in the Alps - Chambéry (organization, not a public event series)

The Chambéry hub of French Tech Alpes is one of five territorial hubs (Annecy, Chambéry, Genevois Français, Grenoble, Valence-Romans) supporting 700+ startups across the alpine ridge [16]. They run pitch days, financing breakfasts, and the annual French Tech Summit (held in Annecy, out of range). Their public Chambéry events page still shows the 2025 programme as of June 2026 — no 2026 calendar published [17]. Newsletter or LinkedIn is the only feed.

What’s not in the bubble (but you’ll see in search results)

These are out of range under the 30 km rule — listed only so you don’t mistake them for local options.

Lyon is the realistic “I want a real conference” fallback — 1 h drive from Jongieux, and DevFest Lyon’s 4 December 2026 Friday date pairs nicely with a Saturday return through the Bugey [19].

Practical alignment with a Saturday-anchored weekend

The anchor is a Saturday evening dinner at Les Morainières. None of the in-bubble fixtures fall on a Saturday in 2026:

• The USMB lecture is a Tuesday evening [8].
• SOPHIA is Thu-Fri [10] and full anyway.
• The ASDER open-doors is Friday [11].

If you want to stack a tech-event with the dinner: the week of April 20-25 2026 is the only window with anything pre-scheduled — arrive Tuesday, catch the USMB lecture, optional ASDER drop-in Friday, then Saturday at Les Morainières. Otherwise treat the bubble as event-free and plan the trip purely on the wine + food angle. The serious-conference detour is DevFest Lyon on Friday 4 December 2026 — drive ~1 h to Lyon Friday, dinner at Jongieux Saturday, drive home Sunday [19].