Demo Day 2026
– The AI Pitch Dinner
The year concludes with a shared event: An AI Native Pitch Dinner, a formal demo day co-hosted with the main funding partner.
This evening aims to bring together founders, investors, industry players, and the wider innovation community of Leipzig.
For our members, it’s a moment to:
- present their AI-native ventures
- share what they’ve built, learned, and envisioned
- showcase early prototypes, pilots, or validated concepts
- receive direct feedback from experienced voices
- open doors to follow-on funding, partnerships, or pilot clients
The AI Pitch Dinner blends the professionalism of a demo day with the atmosphere of a curated networking event – creating a space where meaningful conversations lead to real opportunities.
The goal is clear:
to give each founder visibility, momentum, and direct access to capital so their next steps into the future can begin immediately after the program.
Our program:
Hub Membership
At the heart of our program sits human-to-human collaboration.
For €100 per month we offer our members a focused surrounding where they don’t build solo, but with others immersed at the frontier. Once a month, before a hackathon or community dinner, the Hub hosts a shared 2-hour colloquium to exchange bottlenecks, test assumptions, and find solutions through collective ideation.
Foresight Sessions
A free Zukunftswerkstatt to assess your own AI-native potential until 2035. Facilitated for each founder or founder team to expand the possibility space and uncover potential bottlenecks, using tools from foresight, design thinking and future science.
Helps founders clarify their long-term vision, future market potential, and AI-native positioning.
One-on-one Mentoring
On-demand mentorship sessions for technical, organizational, or strategic challenges with either of the Hub founders.
Option to bring in external experts for topic-specific advice.
Coworking
Shared workspace (“AI Basecamp”) equipped with internet, a meeting zone, and a living-room-inspired prototyping environment in the heart of Plagwitz, Leipzig.
On-demand check-ins and light-touch coaching for any challenge.
School Incubator
An after-school (GTA) offer to raise future founders at Leipzig’s Ostwald Gymnasium.
Students are enabled to explore original ideas in small teams and approach real-world challenges by building AI-native solutions close to their lived reality.
AI Fridays
Monthly events and get-togethers where anyone can drop in to explore what’s emerging in AI.
Including discussions, resident speakers, hackathons, community dinners, and thematic workshops that bring together Hub members and AI enthusiasts across disciplines to highlight new ideas and developments.
Become AI Native
Sign in to our online learning tracks to start becoming AI-native today:
Free Online Course