Know which rooms
will have you.
Every tech week list tells you what is on. None of them tell you which ones you can get into — whether you qualify, what you would actually get out of it, what you have to submit, and the date it closes. Localfit reads the fine print on every application, so you find that out now and not in paragraph four of a form at eleven at night.
One email when something you qualify for opens applications. Nothing else.
Start here
What do you want out of the week?
Four different jobs, four different kinds of room. Most lists treat them as one.
Pitch
A slot on a stage — showcases, pitch competitions, demo days. Costs you an application, a deck and a stage-ready story, not a fee.
Table
The exhibitor floor. A table, signage, two people to staff it, and a fee that runs from nothing to four figures.
Demo
A station where people put their hands on it. Needs a working build, a screen, and wifi that holds up in a basement.
First users
A room that happens to be your ICP. No stage, no table — you leave with people using the thing.
The part that wastes your week
The fine print, read before you start writing
These are the real rules on one SF Tech Week showcase this October. Four of the six are disqualifying, and all six sit below the fold of the application form.
- At least one woman founder
- Pre-seed through Series A
- Working product — visual, tangible, interactive
- Present live in SF — no remote, no travel funding
- A real AI startup, not an AI wrapper
- Pitch deck required to be considered
We check them against your profile first
Every room shows you qualify, you do not, or one thing is missing — before you open the form.
Write it once
Every application asks for the same nine things
Your profile holds them, so the second application takes four minutes instead of an evening.
Pitch deck
Current draft, versioned, so you send the right one.
Demo video
A screen recording or booth walkthrough.
Who it is for
Target customer and the problem, in your own words.
Team
Headcount, backgrounds, advisors.
Competitors
And why you beat them, which they always ask.
Stage and raise
Pre-seed through A, how much, from where.
Traction
Users, revenue, pilots, waitlist — the numbers you keep rewriting.
Booth plan
What you would show and how people would use it.
Assets you bring
Signage, screens, swag, the things you own already.
The thing that actually loses you the room
Applications close before the week does
A real example
The Women in AI Consumer Tech Showcase runs on 6 October. Applications closed on 30 September and results went out on the 2nd. Six days between the door shutting and the event happening.
So the alert is the product
Not a weekly digest. One email the day something you qualify for opens, and one more before it closes.
And it lands on your calendar
Apply-by dates, results dates and load-in go to the calendar you already use, not a list you have to remember to open.
How we find them
Half of tech week never reaches a calendar
The official schedule is the part everyone sees. The rooms worth being in get posted once in a Luma link, a LinkedIn comment, or a group chat — and the application closes a week before anyone you know mentions it.
It watches the places events get posted
Facebook groups, LinkedIn, Luma, Eventbrite, X, organizer sites, and the mailing lists that never make it anywhere public.
Every event, update and deadline in one channel
Not a digest you will not read. The event, the change to the event, and the application deadline, as they happen.
Humans and agents, in one place
An agent does not get tired. A room full of people still knows things no scraper will.
And on the day
Leave with more than a lanyard
Your week on one map
Everything within a walk of where you are staying, and what is worth crossing town for.
Clashes before you commit
Two good rooms at six on Tuesday is the whole problem. We show it while you can still choose.
Capture at the table
A code people scan instead of handing you a card, with what they asked about attached.
A week you can report on
What each room cost, what it returned, and which ones to buy again next year.
Selling at markets and fairs instead?
Same product, different rooms — pop-ups, farmers markets, craft fairs and festivals.