Attend
The AI summit in the evening: keynotes, twelve freshly built websites, booths to try things yourself and the award ceremony.
- When
- doors 5 pm
- Price
- €13.37
German Vibe Code Awards
Germany's stage. Europe's best.
12 builders. 5 hours. One brief nobody has seen before.
At noon twelve spots get the same brief and spend five hours building a complete brand with AI: idea, website, images, video. From 5 pm you join in and see what came out of it.
One ticket, one price: €13.37, for the evening from 5 pm. Presale opens soon. Want to compete? Applying is free and open to all of Europe. No age limit. Applications close 15 October 2026.
On board
- FAIME
- TnT Investment
- savvytec
- BeAStar Productions
- MüllerMusic
- DataForSEO
- Unicorn Studio
What are your plans for 5 November?
Compete
You build a brand and its website with AI in five hours and present it on stage that evening.
- When
- all day, from the morning
- Price
- free
Become a partner
Your company is in the hall or on stage that evening.
- How
- booth, stage, lounge or main sponsor
- Price
- packages on the partner page
Questions first? The FAQ covers the essentials, for guests and for competitors.
They build during the day.
You join in the evening.
daytime
Competitors only
- At midday, twelve solos and teams get the same brief and build for five hours.
- We shoot the videos you will see on stage in the evening.
- Stage and tech are set up for the evening.
- Only the competitors and the people they bring are in the hall.
There are no tickets for this part.
Apply nowfrom 5 pm
For everyone with a ticket
- Keynotes on stage: practitioners show how they work with AI.
- Twelve finished websites to look at, with the people who built them standing next to them.
- At four booths you try building with AI yourself.
- Twelve presentations on stage, four minutes each.
- You vote on who gets the audience award.
- Award ceremony, then the bar is open.
One ticket, one price: €13.37. Join the waitlist
- What is confirmed
- Thursday, 5 November 2026, Flora Köln. Doors 5 pm. €13.37 per ticket. Twelve slots, five hours of build time.
- What is still to come
- We will announce the exact evening schedule and more keynotes when presale opens.
You belong in this room if …
One ticket, one price: €13.37 for the evening from 5 pm. What you want to know beforehand is in the FAQ.
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… you make websites, brands or campaigns.
Twelve answers to a brief that could have landed on your desk. Next to them stand the people who can tell you how long each step took.
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… you build software or products.
You care about the stack, not the show. In the gallery it stands next to every screen, at the booths you type yourself.
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… you decide what your company uses.
Here you see what five hours with AI really deliver today. Afterwards the people who built it are at the bar.
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… you're just getting started.
No degree needed, no experience. You look over the shoulders of people you otherwise only read on LinkedIn. And yes, you can apply too.
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… you're with one of the spots.
Friend, colleague, family: from noon you stand behind your people, from 5 pm you're in the middle of the audience with a ticket.
Grab a seat as soon as presale opens: waitlist
One evening. One room.
At 5 pm the doors open, and the room is already warm. The exact times come when presale opens.
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01
Doors open
The LED wall counts down the last half hour. Then it's hands up, no more prompts.
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Gallery
Twelve finished websites, the builders next to them. At the booths the prompt battle runs.
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Stage
Keynotes, with twelve pitches of four minutes each in between. On stage, among others: Fateh Khodamoradi, Daniel Pudelko and Ben Sufiani.
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The vote
Phones up, the room awards the People's Choice. Then the battle final, live on stage.
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05
Trophies and bar
Grand Prix, People's Choice, best solo and best team. Then you stay, everyone's still here.
What happens in the room while the pitches run up front.
The evening has a stage and a room. On stage, keynotes and pitches. In the room, in between, you get to try things yourself.
The gallery
Twelve screens, twelve finished websites, and next to each one stands the person who built it. Ask about the prompt that didn't work. The jury walks the same round.
Four booths
- Prompt battleSame task, a few minutes, two people. The best make it to the final on stage.
- Sound boothA song from one sentence, on headphones.
- AI portraitYou go home with a picture of yourself that didn't exist before.
- Real or AI?Two images, one call. The hit rate runs on the wall.
Four to six exhibitor spots, each with a screen and a keyboard in front of it. Whoever exhibits here doesn't show you their tool, they let you build with it.
Request an exhibitor spotKeynotes and twelve pitches.
In the evening the stage belongs to the twelve spots and people who build things themselves. In German and English. The first names are in.
Keynote
Fateh Khodamoradi
known as Kabarza
Design Engineering: The new path from idea to website
Design engineering means the person who decides how something looks also builds it. Fateh walks through how that works at his agency, from Figma through code to the finished website. A new process opens up new possibilities, and those belong in what you offer. Fateh shows how.
Keynote
Daniel Pudelko
savvytec · Managing Director
Building bridges: from code to marketing assets
Vibe coding isn't just one thing: at an agency it builds a brand, in software development a prototype that later goes into production. Daniel builds the bridge. Behind many subscription AI tools sit tools like FFmpeg that you can chain into a pipeline yourself. And a click demo with real logic makes a better blueprint than any Word document.
Keynote
Ben Sufiani
Pirate Skills · Captain
From web to app: a companion for your customers in a weekend
Your website waits until someone drops by. An app stays with your customers even when they're not with you. Ben built his in a weekend, without being a developer. What made it possible came first: his website is built from actions like listing events, signing up or booking a call, which agents and apps both use. Ben shows how.
We'll announce more keynotes as soon as they're official. To hear it first: join the waitlist
Two languages, one stage.
Cologne, Germany. The program runs in German and English, depending on who's speaking. There's no live translation: keynotes and pitches go online after the event as a recording with subtitles in the other language. In the Arena, you pitch in German or English, your call.
This is the jury you have to convince.
Open a card if you want to know who's judging your build.
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FORMBURG · Webflow Educator
Watches for design and motion. And for the human part: the love of detail that no prompt creates on its own.
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Creative Director · Brand Designer
Asks about the idea behind the project, and whether your design makes the brand tangible.
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Kabarza · Design Engineer
Judges storytelling, brand, structure and UX. So he asks what your build can do, and whether it all fits together.
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Product Builder · AI Enthusiast
Looks under the hood: tech, accessibility, and whether anyone can find your build.
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BeAStar Productions
Invented the format. So he knows exactly where five hours start to hurt.
We'll reveal the trophy itself soon. To see it first: join the waitlist
A trophy for a new way of building.
Everyone in the Arena pitches to a full room. Four trophies cross the stage that evening: the Grand Prix for the best overall product of the day, no matter whether one person or a team built it, the People's Choice, which the room hands out, and one trophy each for the best solo and the best team of the day.
If a solo takes the Grand Prix, the Solo Bounty comes with it. We'll announce the bounty's amount and partner before the last seats in the Arena are given out. If an agency, a studio or a team takes it, they've shown a full room why teams still matter.
All four trophies cross the same stage on the same evening, right after the last pitch.
After that The bar. Stays open.
The format is new. The people behind it are not.
FAIME produces events and awards in Cologne. Most recently the Deutscher Netzwerk Award (the German Network Award), whose 2025 premiere ran with 148 partners in this very building. In 2026 the same team runs sixteen evenings here. This is one of them.
Managing Director BeAStar & FAIME
Benny Schmidt
Has been producing awards and company events in Cologne for years, with his own tech and video crew in house. Award day is his responsibility.
Initiator & Head of Creative Development
Farzan Borhanazad
Initiated the Vibe Code Awards and built the format: take vibe coding out of the back room and put it on a stage. Owns the concept, the brand and everything digital.
What you want to know before you come.
A new format brings new questions. Here are the ones we hear most: for everyone who comes to watch, and for everyone who wants to compete.
Your question isn't here? farzan@vibecodeawards.de
Watching
What actually happens on 5 November?
At noon twelve spots at Flora Köln get the same brief and spend five hours building a complete brand, from the idea to a live website. At 5 pm the doors open: gallery, booths, keynotes, twelve live pitches, the People's Choice and the awards. Then the bar.
Do I need to know how to code to get anything out of it?
No. You see twelve finished websites and ask the people next to them how they came about. At the booths you type yourself, no prior knowledge needed. If you want, you take on the prompt battle.
What does vibe coding mean?
Building with AI: you describe what you want, the AI writes the code, generates the images or the copy, and you steer, check and decide. That's how a website, visuals and a film come together in hours instead of weeks. In the gallery you see the result, at the booths you try it yourself.
What does a ticket cost, and where do I get one?
€13.37, one price for everyone, valid for the evening from 5 pm. Presale opens soon. If you're on the waitlist you hear first and get a seat before anyone else. Capacities are announced when presale opens.
How does the evening run?
Doors 5 pm, and the Arena is still building then. Once building ends it turns into a gallery, then keynotes and pitch blocks take turns on stage, the room votes, and the awards close it out. Exact times are fixed when presale opens.
Can I come at noon and watch the building?
During the day the room belongs to the spots and their own people. For everyone else the doors open at 5 pm, as the last half hour runs. If you want to see the finish live, be on time.
Do I get to decide anything as a spectator?
Yes, in the People’s Choice. After the pitches the audience awards it, no scoring grid and no explanation required.
Which language is the program in?
German and English, depending on who is speaking. There's no live translation: keynotes and pitches go online after the event as a recording with subtitles in the other language. On stage, pitches are in German or English.
Where is Flora, and how do I get there?
Flora Köln, Am Botanischen Garten 1a, 50735 Cologne, right next to the zoo. Take the tram to the Zoo/Flora stop (line 18), from there it's a two-minute walk.
Competing
Who can apply?
Anyone in Europe who builds with AI: freelancers, employees, studios, self-taught builders. Alone or in a team of up to four people, there's no quota. There's no age limit, under 18 we just need a consent form from your parents. Your CV is not a discipline.
What does competing cost?
Nothing. Applying and the seat are free, there's no entry fee. You bring a laptop, chargers and your own tool accounts, we provide the rest.
When do applications close, and how are builders selected?
Applications close on 15 October 2026. Applying takes under two minutes: you link a project or portfolio and tell us in a sentence or two which part of it is yours. We review continuously, and every application gets a clear yes or no. Only a written confirmation secures your seat. The twelve builders are announced publicly before the event.
What exactly do I have to build in five hours?
A small world that actually works: idea and positioning, a visual system with a key visual, a published landing page and a four-minute pitch. 3D, motion, video or social assets can strengthen the idea but aren't required. More output doesn't automatically mean more points.
Which tools am I allowed to use?
Your own, no restrictions. Three rules apply to everyone: the competition build starts only after the shared brief, outside human help during the build time is off limits, and after submission you disclose your tool stack and rough workflow.
How is the work judged?
The jury looks at five things: strength of the idea (30%), brief and target group (25%), brand and design (20%), landing page and usability (15%) and the live pitch (10%). Not team size, not the number of assets, not the length of the prompt. The People’s Choice comes from the room, independently of that.
What is there to win?
Four trophies: the Grand Prix for the best overall product of the day, solo or team, the audience's People’s Choice and one each for the best solo and the best team of the day. If a solo wins the Grand Prix, the Solo Bounty comes on top, amount and partner are announced before the seats are assigned. Plus your own intro video by the FAIME video team and four minutes in front of a full room.
Do I have to be there all day, and can I pitch in English?
Yes and yes. You're at Flora from the morning: check-in and video shoot, the brief at noon, five hours of building, your pitch in the evening. Your own people can come in with you from the start. You pitch in German or English, your call. The times for builders are on the application page.
Presale opens soon.
€13.37
One ticket, one price. For the evening, doors 5 pm.
We'll announce the number of tickets when presale opens. Everyone on the waitlist hears it first, and gets a seat before anyone else.
Did somebody tell you about the VCA? Put their name in. When presale opens, we give out free tickets through the people who invited you.
How we handle your data is in our privacy policy (German).
You're on the list. We'll be in touch when presale opens.
That didn't work. Write to us at farzan@vibecodeawards.de.
for companies, exhibitors & partners
The people who build. And the companies that make it possible.
For one evening the people who make websites, brands and software sit in one room. Twelve of them have just spent five hours building in front of an audience. If you're hiring, selling tools or want to see how fast people build now, you'll meet all of them at once.
Main sponsor, stage and battle, an exhibitor spot with a keyboard in front of it: what the evening holds for companies and associations has its own page.