Sui Demo Day @ Hong Kong

Overview

The Sui Foundation is hosting its first Sui Demo Day in Hong Kong, on April 16th, 2023, as a part of the Hong Kong Sui Builder House event.

Sui Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the adoption of Sui Network and its associated technology stack, such as the Sui Move smart contract language. Sui Foundation believes openness and competition will drive the most innovative and disruptive products to be built on Sui Network; Sui Demo Day aims to foster those spirits.

Sui Demo Day is open to both new and existing projects and developers within the Sui ecosystem. The event aims to provide an open platform for projects, teams and individual developers on Sui to showcase what they are creating on Sui Network.

Key Information

Sui Hong Kong Builder House: April 14th - April 16th, 2023
Sui Demo Day: April 16th, 2023
Address: Eaton Club, 5/F, Champion Tower, 3 Garden Rd, Central, Central, Hong Kong
Builder House Registration Page

If you are planning to participate in the Sui Demo Day, please indicate that when you register for the HK Builder House.
Presentation Language: Presentations can be in either Cantonese, English or Mandarin. Conference interpreters will be available during the Demo Day session
Sui Demo Day Telegram Group

Contest Eligibility

The project must be deployed to Sui Devnet or Testnet, or otherwise integrated with Sui
Both new and existing Sui projects are welcome to participate
At least one of the project's team members must be able to attend Sui Demo Day in-person to present the project
A member of the team must pass KYC to receive any prizes
For detailed legal terms and conditions of the Sui Demo Day contest, please check here (TODO).

Primary Tracks

DeFi and Payments
NFT and Gaming
Infrastructure and Dev Tooling
DID, Governance and Social

Registration

Join the Sui Demo Day @ HK Telegram group for coordination of the contest and related communication and updates
Fork this current repository and create a copy of the Registration Template Form under the sub-folder corresponding to the primary track that your project will be competing in. If your project can be categorized under multiple tracks, please pick one that fits best.

Note: a given project can only register under one track.
Fill out the information on the Registration Template Form, and change the file name to your project name, so that the file name is of the form [your project name].md.
Open a pull request from your fork to the registrations branch of this repository to submit the filled out registration template form. Registration PR's will be merged regularly and once merged, the project will be considered registered for the Demo Day event.

Contest Structure

Registration Period - March 15th to April 15th

Register for the Sui Demo Day by following the steps described above
The submitted project information above will be public and used by in the audience voting and panel judging process.
Teams are able to update their submitted project information up until April 15th, 23:59pm by submitting additional PR's to this repo.
Join the Sui Demo Day @ HK Telegram group for coordination of the contest.

Note: For individuals interested in forming or joining a team, please join the Team Forming channel in the Telegram super group above to look for a team or other teammates. Once the project team is confirmed, please register using the team registration flow.

Hong Kong Sui Builder House - April 14th to April 16th

Workspace will be available for project teams that join the Sui Builder House in Hong Kong to continue working on their projects, demos and etc.

Sui Foundation will also host a number of workshops on topics such as pitching, conducting live product demos, and other relevant topics for the contest, as well as ice breakers and matching sessions for anyone looking to join a team or start a project.

Demo Day - April 16th

Demo Process

The actual demo period will be in the afternoon of April 16th, 2023
A schedule of project demos will be provided to the participating teams in the evening of the 15th
Each team will be given X minutes of time to demo, and leaving at least 2 minutes for questions from the audience and the panel; the next team should prepare their demo during the previous team's Q&A section

It is our intent to allow as many teams building on Sui to have a chance to demo as possible, but we will filter out projects that do not meet the eligibility requirements, haven't filled out the registration information, or otherwise showing a low degree of effort

Audience Voting

Attendees of the HK builder house can vote on projects participating in the Demo Day
Voting structure will be anonymous ranked preference voting by primary track
The voting results will be used to select for Audience Favorite prizes
People who participate in voting will be eligible for special Sui swag

Panel Voting

Sui Foundation will invite and select a panel of judges and experts from the Foundation, Mysten Labs, partner organizations, VC’s, institutions, and etc.
Judges will submit a scoresheet for each project demo, the lowest and highest scores will be dropped, and the sum of the remaining scores will be tallied
Judge panel scores will be used to determine the Judge's Choice winners

Prize Structure

The competition results will be announced on the same day on April 16th before the end of the Sui Builder House. The prize pool will be divided between the four different primary tracks.

Each of the four primary tracks will have the following prizes, for a combined prize pool of $50,000 USD:

Audience's Favorite 1st place ($3,000 USD) and 2nd place ($2,000 USD) based on audience voting results
Judge's Choice 1st place ($3,000 USD) and 2nd place ($2,000 USD) based on judge panel scores
Best New Project ($2,500 USD), eligible to new projects built and deployed after the contest announcement on March 15th, based on a 50/50 weight of the above two criteria

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