Helena Cross
VP Engineering · Aperture Cloud
PROGRAM FORMAT
SHOWCASE_
SHOW US WHAT YOU'RE BUILDING
Show the work. Show the problem. Show what changed. Curated around relevance and quality — not floor space.
DEMONSTRATE_CURATED_REAL WORK_
PROJECT_
APPLICATION_
DEMO_
DISCOVERY_
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT_
WHY IT MATTERS
SOME WORKSPEAKS FORITSELF_
The Showcase is the work itself, running, with the people who built it standing next to it. You get to ask how it actually works instead of reading about it later.
SHOW_
The thing itself, not a slide about it.
DISCOVER_
What people are actually building right now.
CONNECT_
The builder, not just the booth.
WORKWORTHSHOWINGUP FOR
SHOW_
The thing itself, not a slide about it.
DISCOVER_
What people are actually building right now.
CONNECT_
The builder, not just the booth.
WHAT REACHES THE FLOOR?
WHAT REACHES THE FLOOR?_
From startup demos to student innovation, SHOWCASE_ brings real, working projects in front of the people who should see them.
STARTUP DEMO_
A working product, running live,
not a mockup with a countdown timer over it.
RESEARCH POSTER_
A finding explained in person,
by the researcher who actually found it.
PROTOTYPE_
Early and clearly unfinished,
still worth seeing before it gets polished away.
HARDWARE_
Something you can actually touch,
not a render or a line on a spec sheet.
OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT_
Built in public, issue by issue,
with the maintainers standing on the floor.
STUDENT INNOVATION_
Early career, genuinely early work,
judged on what it does, not who built it.
UPCOMING SHOWCASE SLOTS
UPCOMING SHOWCASE SLOTS_
Demos, posters and working prototypes from upcoming HATCon events.
SAMPLE PROGRAM — showcase slots are published as each city confirms
5 sessions shown
10:00
NOV 14
A lightweight runtime for running small agents on constrained hardware, live on the floor with a working install for visitors to try.
HATCon BengaluruSTARTUP DEMODrop-in · 10:00–13:00
10:00
NOV 14
CYBERA visual method for estimating how far a compromise actually spreads through a cloud account — poster plus a live Q&A window.
HATCon BengaluruRESEARCH POSTERDrop-in · 10:00–16:00
11:00
NOV 14
FRONTIERAn early prototype letting a remote surgeon feel resistance through a robotic instrument — hands-on, supervised demo slots.
HATCon BengaluruHARDWAREDrop-in · 11:00–15:00
12:00
NOV 15
BLOCKCHAINA fully open settlement layer built for auditability first — the maintainers are on the floor answering issues in real time.
HATCon New DelhiOPEN-SOURCE PROJECTDrop-in · 12:00–17:00
13:00
NOV 15
AIAn undergraduate team's model for predicting fire spread from satellite data, presented alongside the mentor who reviewed it.
OnlineSTUDENT INNOVATIONDrop-in · 13:00–15:00
DIFFERENT WAYS TO SHOWCASE
DIFFERENT WAYSTO SHOWCASE_
Same floor. Different stages of work. Early and finished sit side by side here.
STARTUP DEMO_
A working product. Live and running. Ask it questions a deck can't answer.
RESEARCH POSTER_
A finding, explained in person. Push back, and the author pushes back too.
FOUR DEPTHS. ONE FLOOR.
FOUR DEPTHS.ONE FLOOR_
Different domains. The same working proof. Four fields, each taken to its own depth, on one floor.
SAMPLE FIGURES
AI_
44 PROJECTS · 45% OF THE PROGRAMME
Systems that reason, act and build alongside us.
- Agents
- tooling
- applied research
Related circle: AI Infrastructure
CYBER_
27 PROJECTS · 28% OF THE PROGRAMME
Defending the systems the world now runs on.
- Defensive tooling
- research posters
Related circle: Cloud Security
BLOCKCHAIN_
15 PROJECTS · 15% OF THE PROGRAMME
Trust, identity and value as programmable primitives.
- Open-source protocols
- tooling
Related circle: Zero Knowledge
BUILDERS ON THE FLOOR
BUILDERS ON THE FLOOR_
People don't remember the pitch. They remember the moment it actually worked in their hands.
DIFFERENT WAYS TO SHAPE
COME IN WITH A PROJECT_
The floor is better with more real work on it.
AIDEBATE_
What's the bar for 'working' versus 'demo-able'?
5H AGO
CYBERTHREAD_
How do you showcase defensive security work without leaking it?
1D AGO
FRONTIERTHREAD_
Is a research poster enough, or does it need a live demo too?
8H AGOGO DEEPER FROM HERE
GO DEEPER FROM HERE_
Six formats. A bigger picture.
BUILDING SOMETHING WORTH SHOWING?
Apply to SHOWCASE_ at HATCon_
Apply to bring your work to the floor.
We curate for relevance and quality, not floor space. Paid exhibition opportunities exist separately and are labelled as such — inclusion here is never purchased.
APPLY TO SHOWCASE_CFP OPENING SOON_
- Real, working state
HATCON_
THE BEST PITCHIS SOMETHING THAT ALREADY WORKS_
REAL WORK.REAL BUILDERS.REAL PROOF.