Think along.
Interactive keynotes on design, apps, film and creative judgement. Ask questions, think along and bring your perspective.
German Vibe Code Awards
AI meets creativity.
Interactive keynotes. Try AI yourself.
And an exciting competition.
The AI summit for designers, vibe coders, agencies, studios and curious minds. At its heart: a brand sprint where twelve solo creators and teams bring very different strengths to one challenge. Five hours to bring a brand to life.
Join from 5 pm for the final stretch, then the pitches.
On board
- FAIME
- TnT Investment
- savvytec
- BeAStar Productions
- MüllerMusic
- DataForSEO
- Unicorn Studio
- ElevenLabs
- JONAS Werbetechnik + Druck
- Flora Köln
- KölnKongress
- Cittadino
- Wirkung GmbH
A summit.
With you in the mix.
You work with AI, experiment with it or want a fresh perspective? Meet people who have ideas and want to see where they can take them.
Get hands on.
Try tools, enter a prompt battle or generate your own song. The stations around the room turn curiosity into something you have made yourself.
Meet each other.
Talk to creatives and vibe coders, compare workflows and swap ideas. Between keynotes, in front of the builds and later at the bar.
Doors 5 pm · Flora Köln, Cologne · One ticket for the whole evening Join us · €13.37
The same brief.
Very different results.
12 spots · 5 hours · Solo or team
The brand sprint brings designers, vibe coders, agencies and teams with very different strengths to the same challenge. Nobody knows the brief in advance. With AI, they develop an idea, a brand world and a finished landing page.
Ideas, design, storytelling, product thinking: what each person brings shapes the result. Those differences are what make the competition exciting.
Catch the final stretch.
Join from 5 pm as the last ideas take shape.
Explore the brands.
In the gallery, meet the people beside their builds. Ask how they got there.
Follow it. Vote for it.
The pitches turn the work into a story. Vote for your favourite in the People’s Choice.
Regular applications have closed. If a spot becomes available, it may be offered to someone on the 2026 reserve list.
Keynotes that
spark something.
People who do the work share their perspectives and bring you into the conversation. From an idea to an app, from an AI film to what makes your work your own.
Keynote
Daniel Pudelko
savvytec · Managing Director
Building bridges: from code to marketing assets
Turning code into marketing assets, and a prototype into a better blueprint.
About the keynote & speaker
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
An app in a weekend. Ben shows the groundwork that made it possible.
About the keynote & speaker
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.
Keynote
Delila Bérnad and Svenja Saß
Psychology and practice
Is AI making us all the same?
Psychology meets practice: how to keep your own perspective when everyone uses AI.
About the keynote & speaker
Average is the factory setting. Make your uniqueness and your judgement your competitive edge. With AI, results get better. And more and more alike. Studies already show it, and every purple landing page proves it. Everyone knows the technical explanation: AI models deliver the statistically most likely result. Hardly anyone knows the psychological one: our brains have a factory setting too, the first plausible answer. And because AI readily confirms both, we mistake the average for our own skill. When everyone has the same tools, who stands out is therefore decided not in the model but in the thinking before it and the judgement after it. Delila brings the psychology, Svenja the practice from large transformation projects. Together they show how to change the factory setting in your head. Because you make the difference.
Delila Bérnad
Psychologist · AI evangelist · Digital Transformation Manager
Delila works where people, AI and transformation meet, connecting technology with human behaviour to turn ideas into measurable, positive impact.
Svenja Saß
Director · AI Transformation · Founder of KI und Kuchen
Svenja knows AI from two sides. In large transformation programmes she brings AI into project work and coaches delivery teams on using it. With KI und Kuchen she makes AI accessible to people who don't come from the tech world.
Podium
Studio Nona
Dragan, Sebastian and Betsy
From strategy to a brand that lives every day: a holistic approach to branding
Dragan, Sebastian and Betsy show how Studio Nona builds and guides brands holistically: from the first strategic question through design to day-to-day business. At the studio, Betsy runs operations, project management and client communication.
About the panel & studio
We believe a good brand isn’t made in Figma. It starts with the right questions. Before we push logos around and argue about colors, we work with our clients to find out who they really are and what makes them unmistakable. From there we develop brands that don’t just look good but take a stance, build recognition and hold up in everyday life. In our talk we show why good branding goes deeper than a pretty surface, and why sometimes you need to know who you are before you can decide how you want to look.
Keynote
Fateh Khodamoradi
known as Kabarza
Design Engineering: The new path from idea to website
From design to a finished website: how design engineering changes the way you work.
About the keynote & speaker
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
Garvin Hirt
FLOK · Designer & Brand Owner
Giro della Fortuna: An experiment in filmmaking
A film and a world of his own: where creative curiosity and AI can take you.
About the keynote & speaker
Can you make your own film “on the side”? That exact question was the starting point of Giro della Fortuna. A love of cinema, a fascination with classic race cars and curiosity about the new possibilities of AI turned into a nine-month experiment. The result is a film of more than 40 minutes, set in 1950s Siena, full of racing, rivalry, corruption, friendship and fate, with a cast of friends and acquaintances. In his keynote, Garvin tells how one idea grew into a complete film world. The focus is less on the technology itself than on how far curiosity, persistence and new creative tools can carry a single person, and what it means to shape story, direction, visual world, sound and editing into one coherent film.
Your topic for
our next edition.
Can you show how AI changes creative work? Send us your idea for an interactive keynote, with an example from your own practice and a suggestion for involving the audience.
Suggest a keynoteIn German and English. More keynotes will be announced as they are confirmed.
The jury takes a close look.
You get a vote.
Design, brand, ideas and execution: these people bring different perspectives. The jury awards its prizes; you and the room choose the People’s Choice. Open a profile to meet the jury.
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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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FLOK · Designer & Brand Owner
Asks whether your idea understands the brand's real challenge. And whether AI stays a tool rather than an end in itself.
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BeAStar Productions
Invented the format. So he knows exactly where five hours start to hurt.
Give it a go.
Start a conversation.
Between keynotes and pitches, the room is yours. Try AI for yourself at the stations, then make time for questions, new people and the next shared idea.
The conversations in between
How do you work with AI? What surprised you? What are you working on? Meet people with different strengths and familiar questions. Later, keep the conversation going at the bar.
Four booths
- Prompt battleSame task, a few minutes, two people. The people watching cast their votes.
- 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.
Dirk Wendel from Pandotax is in the room too. His motto: bookkeeping that’s fun again. He’ll show you a new tool for it and has time for your questions.
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 spotIdeas deserve
a stage.
Four trophies: Grand Prix, Best Solo, Best Team and People’s Choice. The prizes include a paid client project, film production and merch featuring the brands created that day.
What there is to win.
The Grand Prix recognises the best overall product, whether built solo or as a team. There is a trophy each for the best solo and the best team. The room chooses the People’s Choice. All four trophies are awarded on the same evening. No entry wins twice.
Best Solo
awarded by the jury
The Solo Bounty.
- The trophy
- One year of Unicorn Studio
- Three months of ElevenLabs Pro
- A merch set of your brand: hoodie, shirt, cap
Best Team
awarded by the jury
Content by professionals.
- The trophy
- A brand film or three months of content support by Be A Star Productions
- Three months of ElevenLabs Pro
- A merch set of your brand for every person on the team
People’s Choice
awarded by the room
The room decides.
- The trophy
- A merch set of your brand for every person
- Voted on site only, no scoring grid
Grand Prix
awarded by the jury
A real client job. Paid.
Whoever builds the best brand of the day gets a real client project afterwards, paid like any other. The job has nothing to do with the brand from the night. Not an exercise, not a free job.
- The trophy
- A real, paid client project, separate from the brand you built that night
For all twelve spots
Whoever builds on 5 November does not go home empty-handed. Trophy or not.
- The Flora stage in front of a full room and the recording of your pitch
- Your own intro video, shot at noon by the FAIME video team
- Photo and video material from the whole evening, prepared for you
- At least one merch piece of the brand you built, your choice
- One month of ElevenLabs Creator
Frequently asked
questions
What you need for your visit. Applications for the competition have closed. The 2026 reserve list is for spots that become available.
Your question isn't here? farzan@vibecodeawards.de
Watching
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. You get it on Eventbrite, where you also pay. The ticket arrives by email.
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. We'll post the exact times here once they're set.
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.
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An event by FAIME and BeAStar Productions. Produced by Benny Schmidt and Farzan Borhanazad with their event, technical and video team.
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