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Idea Reality Check

A working session at the JKU LIT Open Innovation Center that puts early startup ideas under pressure: participants arrive with a concept and leave with a validated — or discarded — prototype built with AI tools.

Confirmed Partner May 2026 JKU LIT Open Innovation Center
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What happens in the room

Participants bring an idea, break it into assumptions, and test the riskiest one the same afternoon. AI tooling compresses the build step so the session ends with something clickable rather than another slide deck.

Why we run it

Linz has no shortage of ideas and a shortage of people who have shipped. The format exists to shorten the distance between the two, and to feed builders into the hub's project teams.

In the room
Illustration of a small team working around a whiteboard covered in sticky notes
Working session. How the teams actually operate.
Illustration of builders working at long tables during a hackathon
The build floor. Teams heads-down on prototypes.