Rough Cuts: AI Demos

​Rough Cuts: AI Demos is a hands-on demo night focused on showing real AI projects in progress not polished pitches or investor decks.

​Builders walk through how their systems actually work—the architecture, tools, decisions, tradeoffs, and what they're still figuring out. Live demos. Open Q&A. No business models.

​What to expect:

• ​Technical walkthroughs of interesting AI builds

• ​Simple but clever solutions to complex problems

• ​The stuff smart people hack on weekends

​Our speakers:

• ​​Mujahid Gondal Sultan, a PhD founder with 20 years in enterprise architecture; (Autosad, NEXA)

• ​​Ariel Vazquez, a Slalom consultant building a travel app on the side; (GoAway Travels)

• ​​Boz Zou and Hadi Hamade, two builders who put an entire AI production pipeline on a $600 machine sitting on their desk.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ (Sovereign Cloud)
  
  As a non-profit, your ticket directly supports our mission to provide equitable access to AI education, community programming, and technical resources.

​Presented by:
NovaForge AI Venture Lab — a non-profit incubator and accelerator within a 50,000-sq-ft Canadian innovation hub, supporting AI builders with mentorship, capital access, and community.

​In partnership with Kanata Ventures — an early-stage venture firm backing ambitious founders building transformative technology.