There is something about a Mediterranean summer — the quality of the light, the pace of the evenings,
the way strangers become collaborators over a shared table — that no conference hall has ever replicated.
TiE's Global Charter Member Retreat has always understood this. And in July 2026, Marseille, France's
oldest city and one of its most alive, becomes our canvas.
This is not a conference with social events appended to it. The TiE Global CM Retreat is,
by design, the inverse: three days of shared experience, anchored by one extraordinary city,
punctuated by the conversations and connections that only happen when the right people are
removed from their routines and placed somewhere genuinely worth being.
After an extensive on-the-ground recce, we can say with confidence:
the venues are exceptional, the experiences are curated, and the stage is fully set.
What follows is your invitation to be in the room.
"TiE Retreats are where global TiE relationships do not just continue — they deepen.
The balcony conversation. The dinner that runs two hours over. The handshake that becomes
a partnership. These things do not happen on a Zoom call."
— The Case for Being in the Room
Your Base
One Hotel.
No Fragmentation.
Every Charter Member at this retreat will be under one roof: the
InterContinental Marseille – Hôtel Dieu, an 18th-century royal hospital transformed
into the city's finest luxury hotel, perched above the Old Port with sweeping views of the Mediterranean.
This is a deliberate choice. Retreats forge the deepest personal bonds when members are not
scattered across properties. When everyone is in the same place — in the same corridors,
the same terrace at breakfast, the same lounge after dinner — the serendipitous encounters
multiply. That is where TiE's real work happens.
A dedicated Charter Member Lounge will serve as an all-day gathering point.
The grand Salle Des Honneurs — 414 square metres of architectural grandeur —
stands ready. And the terrace, opening directly onto panoramic harbour views, sets the
stage for the opening night.
The Honest Case
Why This Retreat
Is Different.
Every retreat has beautiful venues. That is table stakes. What makes a TiE CM Retreat
worth the journey is something harder to put on a slide: the quality of who is
in the room, and what happens between them.
Global Chairs. Serial founders. Cross-border investors. Operators building across
continents. When this community gathers — not virtually, not at a chapter event,
but together, over three days in one place — the conversations that emerge
have a different weight. Ideas that would have taken six months of email threads
to surface materialise over dinner. Partnerships that looked complicated in
a boardroom become obvious on a terrace.
The retreat is where TiE's global network stops being a directory and
becomes a living, breathing community with shared memory, shared experience,
and shared momentum.
"The only thing worse than missing a flight to Marseille is hearing about
the conversations you were not part of."
— On the Cost of Waiting
Availability
Our room block at the InterContinental is 100 rooms. 55 are already taken.
Once the Saver window closes and the room block fills,
the core HQ experience — the lounge, the terrace breakfasts,
the spontaneous late-night conversations in the corridors — becomes
harder to access. The room block is the retreat.
If Marseille is even a "maybe" for you — make it a yes.
The people who are already registered are not waiting.