V.Hive Paris hosts seminars, conventions, showrooms, talk shows and evening events for up to 180 guests at a time. The venue offers six spaces with a central stage and control room, a café, a lounge, a shop and production suites for streaming and filming. It is the Paris headquarters of the esports club Team Vitality, at 100-102 Boulevard de Sébastopol, in the 3rd arrondissement.
Seminars and company events
Team Vitality rents V.Hive for corporate events and presents it as adaptable to many formats. The examples it gives are a seminar, a convention, a showroom, a talk show for a school, a corporate seminar for a five-a-side football brand, a live launch party for a sportswear brand and a privatization by a sports business network. The central stage and its control room are the core of a plenary or a show, the café area receives guests and caterers, and the lounge serves as a green room for speakers and staff.
What sets the venue apart from a conventional meeting room is its broadcast setup. Production suites and a streambox are available for filming with commentators, so a keynote, a panel or an internal tournament can be streamed or recorded on site. The shop space can be used for product presentations and sales, which suits a launch or a showroom.
For smaller groups, V.Bootcamp is a 20-square-meter private room for up to seven people with seven high-end gaming PCs, a 50-inch screen on a stand and a 1 Gbit connection with WiFi. It is used by teams preparing for tournaments and can be booked for a half day or a full day.
Rooms and capacities
The rental page lists six spaces totaling 500 square meters, while the venue's main page describes 400 square meters: the central stage with control room, the café area, the lounge, the shop, the production suites with streambox, and the V.Play gaming area. The image gallery also names a cinema room and a boardroom. The venue receives up to 180 people at once. Capacities per space and seated layouts are not published, so confirm the figure for your format with the team.
Catering
The café area is described as the space for welcoming caterers and the public, and the V.Café serves as a break area for guests between games and during matches. The site does not say whether event catering is supplied in-house or by an outside caterer.
History and setting
V.Hive brings together the Team Vitality offices, a gaming café, a café and the club's store in one building, marked by the bee logo visible through the windows. The V.Play area offers high-end gaming equipment to the public, the V.Shop sells the club's jerseys and merchandise, and V.Bootcamp is the training room used by the club's players. The venue is open to the public from Tuesday to Sunday, from 1 p.m., and closed on Mondays.
Getting there
The address is 100-102 Boulevard de Sébastopol, 75003 Paris, on one of the main north-south avenues of central Paris, between Réaumur-Sébastopol and the Strasbourg-Saint-Denis area. Opening hours to the public vary through the week and may change for special events, so plan setup times with the team.
