• Share your class, hackathon, or personal projects with Industry Professionals and fellow CUNY students
• Get professional feedback on your work and your presentation skills
• Build your professional network

PitchFest is a brand new CUNY event where selected CUNY students get to present programming projects they have created for classes, hackathons, or personal use to New York Tech Industry professionals to receive vital feedback while building your network.

Participants can enter using any programming project that will be completed by the video demo deadline. It can be a personal project, a project written at a hackathon, or a class project.

Teams and individuals can register using the link below. As part of the application process, entrants must submit a linked to a short video demonstration by January 8 2026. Accepted entrants will be notified by January 12, 2026.

At the event, entrants are required to bring a laptop with their project. All entrants will be set up at tables. During the event, industry professionals will visit tables and the participants have five minutes to present to each group of professionals.

Refreshments will be provided during the event.

The event site has limited capacity. Should number of entrants exceed capacity, organizers will select final participants based on submitted projects with preference going towards group submissions.

The event is also for CUNY students. Organizers will consider teams composed of CUNY and non CUNY students as space permits.