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AI Content Generation
Generate, remix, or personalize posts, threads, carousels, and captions with LLMs and multimodal AI.
Tracks
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Video & Post-Production
AI video editing, auto-captioning, clip generation from long-form, thumbnails, and audio-to-visual pipelines.
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Creator Tools & Workflows
Content calendars, batch schedulers, brand-kit generators, and end-to-end workflow automation.
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Wild Card
Anything social: meme generators, social commerce, AR filters, voice-to-content, or something we haven't imagined.
Schedule
Check-in + Breakfast09:00
Introduction09:30
Lunch13:00
Team lock / unlock closes16:00
Team registration deadline16:15
Submission deadline16:30
Top 8 presentation17:30
Winners announced19:00
Judges
Your projects will be scored by operators, creators, and builders from Stuttgart's startup and media scene.
Carlos Schönig
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Globalist
Carlos Schönig is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Globalist, a leading performance marketing agency from Stuttgart with over 50 employees that manages €80M+ in annual ad spend across 120+ clients. In parallel, he is Managing Director of gerryweber.de and golf24.com, and operates hobbyhorse24.com. His current focus is transforming Globalist into a Commerce Operating System: a strategic response to the AI-driven reshaping of the agency market. Carlos brings an operator's perspective to early-stage evaluation: concrete and results-oriented.
Adam Vagovic
Content creator & entrepreneur
Adam Vagovic is a 17-year-old content creator and entrepreneur from Stuttgart. He's been creating content since he was 9 and now runs several YouTube channels that reach millions of viewers each month. His most famous channel has almost 200,000 subscribers. He's also building his own YouTube automation software and developing a mobile game for his audience called Candy Fusion. Outside of content creation, he's a member of Stuttgart's Youth Council and works on projects around technology, media, and social impact.
Veljko
Startup Manager, Stuttgart Media University
Veljko has built digital products as a designer, developer, CTO, and founder. He's now Startup Manager at Stuttgart Media University and runs the Sandbox Accelerator, where he works with hundreds of software startups each year. His work has earned SXSW Interactive recognition, a Webby nomination, and an Axel Springer Media Entrepreneur title.
Marvin Herzog
Founder, Studio Zeil & The Future Creatives
Marvin Herzog is founder of Studio Zeil, a creative agency for content production and social media marketing in Stuttgart. He works with clients like Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, dm, and VfB Stuttgart. He also founded The Future Social, a conference and community platform for creators that brought over 550 guests and 60 speakers to Stuttgart in 2025. Right now he is building the next chapter of that platform with The Future Creatives.
Sponsors
An AI-powered code editor that helps you write and edit code faster.
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Tools and APIs for generating voice and audio from text.
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Access to AI models for image and video generation.
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Cloud platform to build, deploy, and scale apps and services.
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Workflow automation that connects apps and services without manual wiring.
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Build crawlers for research and directory sites.
Learn moreRegional partners: Sandbox accelerator · CREATORS · Startup Stuttgart e.V. · Infomotion · AI Engineering Collective
Prizes
Sponsors are backing the winning teams with credits, subscriptions, and a ticket to Gründerwasen.
Cursor credits
- 1st place: $400 in Cursor credits
- 2nd place: $200 in Cursor credits
- 3rd place: $100 in Cursor credits
ElevenLabs credits
- Overall winning team: 3 months of ElevenLabs Pro for each team member
- Best project built with ElevenLabs: 6 months of ElevenLabs Scale for each team member
n8n
- 1st place: 1 year of n8n Cloud Pro for every team member
Gründerwasen
- 1 ticket to Gründerwasen for each winning team