Moonshots LIVE 2026
In a Nutshell
Moonshots LIVE 2026 is a September 25th Los Angeles event awarding $5M across two X Prizes: a $3.5M prize for optimistic sci-fi films and a $2M AI hackathon for real-world problem-solving businesses. Five finalists per prize will pitch live to industry judges (including Ben Lam of Colossal, Astro Teller of Google X, and Palmer Luckey of Anduril) with audience voting. The gathering aims to unite 1,200 builders celebrating technology-driven optimism and future-shaping innovation.
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Optimistic entrepreneurs believe that problems are solvable and then go out and solve them. On September 25th in downtown Los Angeles, a room full of builders, creators, and optimists will gather to steer humanity and create an extraordinary future. On this day, two major X prizes will be awarded with $5 million in purses and more than 25,000 contenders from around the world.
The first is the Future Vision X Prize, a $3.5 million competition for a science fiction movie depicting an optimistic and hopeful future. The second is the Build with Gemini X Prize, the world's largest hackathon with $2 million in prizes for businesses solving problems with AI. Real users, real revenues, real problems.
Five finalists from each X Prize will pitch live to a panel of industry legends. Audience members get to vote right alongside the panel. The event will be hosted alongside the Moonshot Mates and a group of entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of reality and science fiction.
Featured guests include Ben Lam, CEO of Colossal, who is resurrecting the woolly mammoth and the direwolf. Astro Teller, the captain of moonshots at Google X, will also participate. Palmer Lucky, who invented the Oculus and is now building Anduril, the most advanced hardware company on the planet, is another featured speaker.
There is room for 1,200 builders and creators to join for the biggest celebration of optimism in the universe. The event promises to be an epic day.
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