The most creative minds in AI.
One room.
Your brand right in the middle.

Become a partner of the first German Vibe Code Awards. On 5 November the scene meets at Flora Köln in Cologne: builders, founders and tech teams who build software with AI and choose the tools for it. Your product stands right where they try it out.

5 Nov 2026 · Flora Köln, Cologne · up to 2,000 guests across the day

What is vibe coding?

You describe in plain sentences what a piece of software should do, and an AI writes the code. Idea, taste and direction stay with the human. Products come together in days instead of months, built by founders, designers and marketers too, not just by computer scientists.

  1. Feb 2025A viral post by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy coins the term.
  2. Nov 2025Collins Dictionary names "vibe coding" its word of the year.
  3. Nov 2026The scene gets its own award. At Flora Köln, with you.

Not just one evening. Part of something bigger.

The German Vibe Code Awards are the first edition of a format built to last. And they are one evening of the FLORA26 event series: FAIME plays Flora Köln on sixteen evenings, with one venue, one stage, one video team and people in the hall you would otherwise never meet in the same room.

This is what the Flora week 2025 looked like. Shot by the video team that will be back in the house on 5 November.
  1. Sat 31 Oct Deutscher Netzwerk Award Entrepreneurs and networks
  2. Thu 5 Nov German Vibe Code Awards Builders, tech teams, decision makers
  3. Fri 6 Nov Versorgung zählt. Healthcare day, politics and practice

Further FAIME formats such as the Wedding King Awards and the WK Allstars concert can be added by arrangement. FAIME announces the remaining evenings of the week separately.

One week, many audiences.

Entrepreneurs, tech teams, healthcare and politics: every evening of the FLORA26 event series brings different people into the same house. Add the formats FAIME produces throughout the year. Partners of the Awards can add visibility on further evenings. What fits you is something we work out together. Partners in the Flora week 2025 used it exactly that way.

Video content you keep.

A video team is in the house every evening. All footage of your space and your appearances is yours to use freely. Your own partner film, a spot in the aftermovie, social cuts or an on-site interview: we put these building blocks together with you. At the Deutscher Netzwerk Award (the German Network Award) 2025, every partner had their film three days after the event.

A venue that carries. A start that stays.

The same stage, the same LED wall, the same team that has already delivered a premiere with 148 partners in this very Flora. The Awards start in 2026 as a first edition, built to last. Join now and you're in from the very beginning.

Formats you experience. Not just see.

Six packages, the number is fixed up front. The exact cut takes shape in conversation, with a floor plan and a schedule.

Two guests talking at booths with brand banners, the tall windows of Flora in daylight behind them

Available

Booth, Expo & Experience Area

€3,500

Booths and demo space for software, hardware, models or services, with your own workshop slot. Live demos, test setups and real conversations with teams, talent and customers.

Request
Talk in the roof salon of Flora: a speaker in front of the big arched window, audience and two screens with a presentation

Available

Workshop & Program

€6,500

A program slot carries your name: deep dive workshop, talk, product demo or a seat on the jury, curated together and matched to the audience.

Request
Light show above the runway in the packed hall at Flora, audience on both sides

Available

Arena & Show formats

€12,500

The competition itself carries your name: five hours of build time, twelve seats, plus prompt battles and audience challenges on stage and on the LED wall. You're part of the schedule, not next to it.

Request
Guests talking at a round lounge table, the blue-lit hall of Flora behind them

Available

Lounge at the Arena

€2,500

Bookable seating right at the work block: your guests look over the builders' shoulders, you hold your conversations while the building happens next door.

Request

Cooperation

Associations & Communities

Contribution instead of budget

Non-monetary partnership for AI associations, communities, universities and media partners: visibility in the program, a hand in the formats, shared reach.

Request

The first main sponsor has signed. Announcement to follow.

All prices net plus VAT. Contributions in kind such as hardware, network, prizes or catering count like budget.

Who's in the room.

Builders, agencies, studios, solopreneurs, tech teams and IT decision makers: people who choose tools, recommend them and use them every day. Plus a trade audience that wants to understand how building with AI works.

Capacity
up to 2,000 guests across the day
Deep dives
100 workshop seats
Live Arena
12 seats
Stage
a full day of program

Why now?

The scene behind this shift is growing fast, but in Germany it never had a place to meet. On 5 November it gets one: tech expo and Arena during the day, all four trophies awarded in the evening, then the party.

Nobody forgets the first edition of a format. Whoever makes it possible isn't one logo among many on the wall. They shape how this day feels.

See what your audience sees.

The awards page is our stage to the outside: the Arena, the program and the night everything leads up to.

To the awards page

No renderings: this is how Flora celebrates.

Real moments from FAIME productions at Flora Köln, season 2025. On 5 November 2026 this stage belongs to vibe coding. And to your brands.

The packed ballroom of Flora at an evening gala: chandeliers, light show and the room-wide LED wall behind the stage
The ballroom in full swing, looking toward the LED wall
The facade of Flora in the evening, columns of fire in front of it greeting the guests
Columns of fire as the guests arrive
The foyer of Flora full of guests under hundreds of warmly glowing light globes
The foyer after doors open
Audience in front of the room-wide LED wall in the hall, showing a live shot of the lit-up Flora
The LED wall in the hall, here with a live shot of Flora

Behind it stands a team that knows this house.

FAIME produces events and awards in Cologne. Most recently the Deutscher Netzwerk Award, whose 2025 premiere ran with 148 partners in this very Flora. The Vibe Code Awards are our own format, built by the same team that runs sixteen evenings in this house in autumn 2026.

ORGANIZER

Benny Schmidt

Managing director of BeAStar and FAIME, produces award day with his own tech and video crew. Your direct contact for partnerships: he makes the call himself, no middle layer.

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 onto a stage. Owns the concept, the brand and everything digital.

FILM

BeAStar Productions

The video team is in-house. Every builder gets their intro clip, every partner space its footage for afterwards.

A format by

Partners

The stage is open.

We curate talks for the main stage and deep dive workshops in the roof salon. We're looking for practice: real projects, real workflows, honest learnings, no sales pitch. A slot comes with stage or salon, tech and an audience that builds things itself.

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Evening sun through the arched windows of Flora: the audience in the packed hall applauds toward the stage

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