Regional partners
Host the Cannes regional round.
We do not fly a roadshow into your ecosystem and fly out with your founders' contact details. Regional rounds are hosted by the people who already run the ecosystem: accelerators, universities, chambers of commerce, innovation agencies and corporates.
Cannes is an official Season 1 target city and we are recruiting its host now. No round is confirmed in Cannes yet; the host we select confirms it. See the Cannes page for the published status.
- Cost to host
- Free
- Revenue share
- None
- Your local sponsorship
- You keep 100%
What you get
- The official regional round of a global competition, in your city
- Our playbook, judging framework and application platform
- Central review of applications so your round meets the same bar as every other
- Promotion across the competition and both community networks
- A direct path to the global finale for your regional winner
- A stronger sponsorship conversation locally, because you are selling a global brand
Including an Official Host City badge for your own site, issued when your round is confirmed.
What you bring
- The venue and local production
- Local marketing and applicant sourcing in your ecosystem
- Your own local sponsors, whose money you keep
- A named project lead for the season
Your local sponsorship is yours. We do not take a cut of what you raise locally, and we do not ask you for a licence fee to run Season 1.
The honest version
Why we are telling you this before you ask.
Hosting an official round costs you a venue, some hours and local marketing. In exchange you get to run the flagship AI founder event in your city, under a global brand, with a real investment prize at the end of it and a pathway that gives your winner somewhere to go.
That trade is the whole model, and it only works if it is genuinely good for you. If it is not, do not host: we would rather have six committed partners than twenty reluctant ones.
Host a regional round
Tell us about your city.
Tell us about your organization, your city and the round you want to run. There is no licence fee and no revenue share, and a named person replies to every enquiry.
5 min Free to submit. We reply to every enquiry.