diff --git a/examples/quickstart-pandas/pyproject.toml b/examples/quickstart-pandas/pyproject.toml
index 986ae9abd0ac..8e3d8e46ecad 100644
--- a/examples/quickstart-pandas/pyproject.toml
+++ b/examples/quickstart-pandas/pyproject.toml
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ authors = [
 dependencies = [
     "flwr[simulation]>=1.13.1",
     "flwr-datasets[vision]>=0.3.0",
-    "numpy==1.24.4",
+    "numpy>=1.26.0",
     "pandas==2.0.0",
 ]
 
diff --git a/examples/vertical-fl/pyproject.toml b/examples/vertical-fl/pyproject.toml
index 4efa726eb530..a1d0a70afe61 100644
--- a/examples/vertical-fl/pyproject.toml
+++ b/examples/vertical-fl/pyproject.toml
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "flwr[simulation]>=1.13.1",
     "flwr-datasets>=0.3.0",
     "pandas==2.0.3",
+    "numpy>=1.26.0",
     "scikit-learn==1.3.2",
     "torch==2.1.0",
 ]