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.

• 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

• Demo Day Shortlist

• Demo Slides Submission Form

• Sui Demo Day Telegram Group

• 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 terms and conditions of the Sui Demo Day contest, please check here

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

1. Join the Sui Demo Day @ HK Telegram group for coordination of the contest and related communication and updates

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Open a pull request from your fork to the main 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.

1. Register for the Sui Demo Day by following the steps described above

2. The submitted project information above will be public and used by in the audience voting and panel judging process.

3. Teams are able to update their submitted project information up until April 15th, 23:59pm by submitting additional PR's to this repo.

4. 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.

Registered projects will be pre-filtered for eligibility requirements and shortlisted on April 10th to give teams a better idea of whether they will be eligible to demo.

If your project is registered but not on the shortlist, it's likely the project did not meet some of the eligibility requirements, with the main one being the project has to be materially integrated with Sui devnet or testnet. If your project has had recent updates, or you believe it was in error to not be shortlisted, please contact one of the organizers through the Sui Demo Day Telegram Group.

The Demo Day shortlist can be found here:

Sui Demo Day Hong Kong Shortlist

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.

All demo teams are invited to join the builder house. If you need help with registration approvals, please reach out to one of the hosts and specify you will be participating in the Demo Day.

The demo sessions will take place during the afternoon of April 16th, from 1 PM to 4 PM. The results announcement and award ceremony will be shortly after the end of the two demo sessions from 4:30 PM to 4:45 PM.

There will be two demo sessions that cover the primary tracks as below:

• Session One:
  • NFT & Gaming
  • Infrastructure & Dev Tooling
  • DID, Governance & Social
• Session Two:
  • DeFi and Payments

Full Demo Day Schedule

A finalized schedule of project demos, and the order of demos will be provided to the participating teams in the evening of April 15th. Please check back at this section at that time.

• Each team will be given five or six minutes of time to demo (depends on final number of teams demoing). The team can distribute the time how they wish, but it's recommended to leave a minute or two for Q&A from the audience and the judge panel
• Teams who are not present when called according to the demo order will be passed immediately
• Teams who were passed previously will be called again at the end of their demo session; not being present again will be deemed a forfeit

• 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

• Sui Foundation will invite and select a panel of judges and experts from partner organizations, VC’s, institutions, and so on
• The rubric that judges will use to score demos can be viewed here
• Each of the judges will submit a scoresheet for each project demo, and the sum of the judges' scores will be tallied and ranked for all projects
• Judge panel scores will be used to determine the Judge's Choice winners of each primary track

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), 2nd place ($2,000 USD) and 3rd place ($1,250 USD) based on audience voting results
• Judge's Choice 1st place ($3,000 USD), 2nd place ($2,000 USD) and 3rd place ($1,250 USD) based on judge panel scores

• Sui Developer Docs
• Sui GitHub
• Sui Framework Documentation
• Sui Typescript SDK
• Sui Rust SDK
• Sui Examples Book
• Intro to Sui Move
• Encode Club Sui Series