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For builders under 28 and students of any age. Tell us who you are and what you're building, and we'll give you a decision on the spot — and if you're in, your $499 seat is ready to claim immediately.

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Two days, and the second one decides $5M.

Thursday, September 24

The United Theater on Broadway

The World Premiere of The Sixty-Year Mission

The red-carpet world premiere of the Star Trek 60th anniversary documentary, the night before Moonshots LIVE. Included with every ticket. The Star Trek VIP Experience adds priority seating and a reception at the Belasco with the cast and crew.

Friday, September 25

A restored 1920s movie palace, Downtown LA

Moonshots LIVE

9:00 AMPeter Diamandis opens, then all five Moonshots Mates on stage
11:45 AMBuild with Gemini XPRIZE: five finalists pitch for $2M to Cathie Wood, Palmer Luckey, Logan Kilpatrick and Mark Pincus
3:00 PMCathie Wood on big ideas and the agentic economy, with Peter Diamandis, Nikhil Chandhok and Emad Mostaque
4:00 PMFuture Vision XPRIZE: five filmmakers pitch for $3.5M+, judged by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Neal Stephenson, Mira Lane and John Zissimos. The winner's film gets made.
6:00 PMReceptions, then an attendee-led unconference in two tracks until 10 PM

$5M+Awarded on stage

25,000+Competing now

10Finalists pitch live

1,500Seats, total

On stage September 25

Logan Kilpatrick
Product Lead, AI Studio, Google

Mira Lane
VP, Technology & Society, Google

Photos of Mark Pincus and Neal Stephenson via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA.

Two prizes · one night

A film gets greenlit. A business gets funded.

More than 25,000 people are competing across the largest sci-fi film competition and the largest hackathon ever run. On September 25, five finalists from each pitch live to a panel of industry legends.

Future Vision XPRIZE

$3.5M+

In prizes · the winner's film gets made

Five filmmakers pitch a three-minute vision of a future worth living in. The grand prize is a greenlight: the winner's film gets produced with Range Media Partners.

Build with Gemini XPRIZE

$2M

$500K to first place

Five builders pitch real, profitable AI businesses built in 90 days, each taking on a problem that could change thousands of lives. Decided in the room.

Where the money goes

Future Vision XPRIZE$3.1M+

Grand prize$2.6M

Four runners-up · each$100K

Top 10 winners · each$10K

$3.1M+ in direct prizes, plus a Republic Film crowd-investment raise of $1M+ for the winner's production, carries the Future Vision pool past the $3.5M+ headline.

Build with Gemini XPRIZE$2M

1st place$500K

2nd place$200K

3rd – 5th · each$100K

Runners-up · each$50K

Category · each$50K

$1,750,000 grand pool + $250,000 across five categories.

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Sept 25 · Moonshots LIVE

● You are here

Aug 15

Submissions close

Deadline for both prizes. Every entry is in.

Sep 15

Finalists announced

Ten named across both XPRIZEs — five and five.

Sep 25

Moonshots LIVE

Live finals in Los Angeles. $5M+ awarded on stage.

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You're in.

Two days, and the second one decides $5M.

A film gets greenlit. A business gets funded.

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