Cannes Lions 2026 Events & Parties: The Propeller List is Live

The Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List 2026 is live: Your complete guide to the festival
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Quick answer: The Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List 2026 is live, with 1,026+ events at launch. Now a fully searchable website, an upgrade from our old-school spreadsheet, it covers everything happening across Cannes Lions 2026 - fringe events, official Palais programming, awards shows, partner activations, the Empower Cafe, and every 2026 FIFA World Cup match during the festival. Now in its 14th year, it is the original and most comprehensive guide to the week. Access it at cannes.propellergroup.com.
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What are the best events to go to at Cannes Lions 2026?
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The best events at Cannes Lions 2026 depend on what you want to get out of the week. Creative inspiration from the Palais main stage, intimate yacht-side panels, beachfront networking, evening parties on the Croisette, or community-led spaces like the Empower Cafe. Rather than pick favourites, the Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List brings every one of them into a single searchable space so attendees can filter by date, location, type and category and build the week that works for them.
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These are the questions Propeller's Associate Director Ben Titchmarsh wanted answered on his first trip to Cannes in 2012, and the questions that drove him to start the list in the first place. 
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Fourteen years later, the list - now bigger, better and with a sprinkling of World Cup 2026 fixtures - is still answering them.
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What is the Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List?
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The Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List is the searchable, mobile-friendly guide to every panel, party, networking event, brand activation, awards show and community experience happening across Cannes Lions 2026. Both inside the Palais and across the city. 
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Curated by Propeller's teams in London and New York, it is a free resource compiled with the support of the Cannes Lions team.
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The list is live now, and the headline numbers for 2026 are:
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• 1,026+ events at launch, with daily updates through to the start of the festival
• A proper website, no longer a Google Sheet, now searchable, filterable, mobile-friendly
• Fringe and official, together for the first time, with the "fringe" tag retired because this year the list showcases everything
• New categories including Mind, Body and Soul and Safety and Support
• Every 2026 FIFA World Cup match flagged across the festival week
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How do I find Cannes Lions parties and fringe events?
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The Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List solves what is otherwise one of the hardest problems of the week: finding everything that's actually happening. The list aggregates every event, both official and unofficial,  into one searchable directory at cannes.propellergroup.com. Attendees can filter by what they're looking for, and bookmark or upload events directly from the microsite, built mobile-first for use on the ground in France.
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Who created the Cannes Lions Events and Parties List?
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The list is the brainchild of Propeller's Ben Titchmarsh. It started life in 2012 as Ben's Cannes Parties List, a Google Doc shared between a handful of industry friends trying to figure out where everyone was going. Scrappy, hand-typed, and based almost entirely on whispered tip-offs from people Ben had met through years of client PR work for the festival.
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What's new for 2026? Three things worth flagging
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The full picture, not just the fringe
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For years, the list focused on unofficial events happening around the official festival programme. This year, with the support of the Cannes Lions team, the list showcases the lot. Fringe programming across hundreds of venues, and official Palais programming, awards shows and partner activations, clearly marked for pass holders. One place, one guide. That's why Propeller has retired the "fringe" tag from the name. 
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This year, the list is everything. EVERYTHING.
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New categories that reflect how people use Cannes
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Working closely with Frank Starling, Philip Thomas, Simon Cook and Sophie Godfrey at Cannes Lions, we’ve introduced new categories including Mind, Body and Soul and Safety and Support. Cannes is an intense week, and the festival has done genuinely important work building out programming that reflects the realities of attending; wellness, community, accessibility, mental health. 
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The 2026 World Cup
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Cannes Lions and the 2026 World Cup overlap, which means the bars, restaurants and beach clubs of the Croisette are about to host some of the most chaotic group-stage viewing in living memory. Every match during the festival is flagged on the list, alongside supporter groups, unofficial national "captains," and a running thread on where to watch what.
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What is the Empower Cafe at Cannes Lions?
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The Empower Cafe is the official woman-centric, inclusive hub at Cannes Lions, powered by Propeller in partnership with WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications, Leadership). Located at L'Avenue, a short walk from the Palais, it is a space for the creative, media, technology and advertising industries to gather, connect and recharge.
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Across the festival week, the Empower Cafe hosts a programme of curated content, panel discussions, mentoring and networking. Bringing underrepresented voices to the forefront of Cannes Lions and championing diversity and inclusion in the industry. While the focus is on women in the industry, people of all genders are welcome.
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The Empower Cafe was co-founded by Propeller's Louise Watson and Karen Stacey, CEO of DCM and WACL President, and made its debut at Cannes Lions in 2024. It returns for 2026 as a fixture of the official festival programming, and every Empower Cafe session is included in the Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List.
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Why the list exists
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Networking changes lives. We've seen it happen. To colleagues, to friends, to people we've watched grow careers off the back of a single Cannes conversation. Walking into the right room and meeting the right person can completely alter a trajectory, and the list exists to make that as easy as possible for as many people as possible.
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When is Cannes Lions 2026?
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Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2026 takes place in June at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes, France. The Propeller list covers the full festival week, including events on the days either side.
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How much does it cost to access the list?
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Nothing. The Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List has always been a free resource, curated by us as a gift to the industry. For more on how Propeller approaches the week and the events we host year-round, see our News & Views and Events hubs.
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I am hosting an event at Cannes Lions 2026. How do I get listed?
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Submit your event via the form on cannes.propellergroup.com. 

The platform updates daily right up to the festival, so the earlier the better.

Access the list

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The Propeller Cannes Lions Events and Parties List 2026 is live now at cannes.propellergroup.com.
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If you'd like to connect with the Propeller team on the ground in Cannes, get in touch or follow us on LinkedIn.

See you on the Croisette.

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