Apr 18–19, 2026 · Minneapolis

O1 Summit / Recap

O1 Summit · 2026

Recap

O1

SUMMIT

Two days for engineers, designers, and founders who prefer shipping over waiting.

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The Room · 120 Builders · 24 Hours

120 builders, one floor, 24 hours.

Packed audience at the 2026 O1 Summit kickoff

01 / 04

"The talent in that room was something else. The next wave of health-tech innovation is in very good hands here in Minnesota."

Jamie Sundsbak · Mayo Clinic Platform Accelerate

By the Numbers

120

Builders

24h

Build window

$10K+

Awards

40+

Partners

Judges

The Work · 3 Finalists

What got built.

01Grand Prize Winner

Manifest

An AI interface giving ALS patients autonomy through voice and gesture control.

"We built Manifest, an AI interface designed to allow ALS patients to regain autonomy."

Sophia Pung · Team Manifest

022nd Place · ElevenLabs Sponsor Prize

Aegis

Agentic bank dispute resolution. Files, argues, and tracks the case end-to-end.

033rd Place

AssistMySurgery

Real-time agentic video tracking for operating rooms, powered by vision-language models.

The Judges · 11 Leaders

Eleven leaders judged the work.

Daisy Hoang

TinyFish

Chief Revenue Officer

Jamie Sundsbak

Mayo Clinic Platform

Director, Platform Accelerate

Sowmya Podila

Target

Senior Applied AI Scientist

Steve Frederickson

Capacity

Head of Product, Answer Engine

Garrett Lauderdale

Idea Fund

Vice President

Shawn Aronson

Co-Founder & CEO

Charlotte Epée-WillSun

BlackBumble & GrooVVee

Founder

Kishor Patil

Best Buy

Sr. Manager, Cloud Platform Eng.

Darrell Vesterfelt

Mount Haley Holdings

Founding Partner

Sridher Arumugham

DigiKey

Chief Data Analytics Officer

David Nguyen

University of Minnesota

Professor, Mgmt of Technology

Summit 2027

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