Speedgeeking Contest
Organized by the AI Alliance
November 8, 2025 | Computer History Museum, CA
OVERVIEW
Speedgeeking Contest
Organized by the AI Alliance
Have a cool demo, tool, framework, or hack to share in 5 minutes? Are you excited to impress and inspire conference attendees? Then step into the spotlight at our Speedgeeking Contest—a high-energy showcase where developers compete with demos to get community votes.
ABOUT
What is Speedgeeking?
Speedgeeking is like speed dating, but for ideas. Attendees gather for 5 minutes around demo stations where developers show off their demos. At the end, attendees vote for their favorite demo. The top crowd favorite wins bragging rights, street cred and a prize.
BENEFITS
Why participate?
Share your passion project or clever hack
Meet other
attendees
Test ability to storytell under pressure
Win prizes
and recognition
PARTICIPANTS
Who can present?
Anyone attending the conference can apply to be a speedgeeker!
Whether you’re an independent, startup engineer, or hobbyist—if you’ve built something cool, we want to see it.
FORMAT
How it works
Before the event
Submit your idea via form by November 1st, 2025.
We’ll select 12 presenters based on creativity, clarity, and overall appeal.
If you’re selected, you’ll get a table, power, and WiFi. Bring your own laptop and any physical materials needed.
During the event
Presenters are stationed around the room.
Attendees are divided into small groups.
Every 5 minutes, each group rotate to the next presenter.
Each presenter repeats their 5-minute demo about 10 times.
After all rounds, attendees vote for their favorite demo.
The demo with the most votes wins!
Prizes
1st Place
Gift card
Featured blog spotlight
2nd Place
Gift card
3rd Place
Gift card
All finalists to be included in our event summary blog post.
Ideal presentations
A live demo of a tool, library, API, or workflow
A clever hack or automation trick
A demo of how you solved a real-world problem
A unique way you use an open-source project
Anything that makes developers say, “Whoa, cool!”
Date and time
12:30pm on Nov 8, 2025
More details to be announced.
PARTICIPATE
Submit your proposal
November 8, 2025
Computer History Museum, CA
