Lilidi AI Selected for the TechBBQ Startup Showcase 2026

Lilidi AI has been selected for the Startup Showcase at TechBBQ 2026, the largest startup and innovation summit in the Nordics. On 26-27 August 2026 we will be exhibiting our unified AI creative workspace at Bella Center Copenhagen, alongside founders, investors, corporate innovation teams and creative studios from across Europe.

If you are planning your late-summer conference calendar, tickets and the full programme are on the official site: techbbq.dk.

What TechBBQ is, in plain terms

TechBBQ started in 2013 as a small community barbecue for Copenhagen founders and grew into the Nordic region's flagship startup summit. It is a non-profit, community-driven event, and that origin still shapes the room: less corporate theatre, more direct conversation between people who actually build and fund companies.

The 2025 edition filled Bella Center Copenhagen with founders, investors and operators from more than 100 countries across two days, with several parallel stages, a packed exhibition floor, curated investor matchmaking and a dense side-event programme around the city. For an early-stage company, the value is concentrated: two days replace roughly a quarter of outbound.

• When: 26-27 August 2026
• Where: Bella Center Copenhagen, Denmark
• Who attends: founders, VCs and angels, corporate innovation, public innovation agencies, media and talent
• Tickets: techbbq.dk

What last year looked like

The photographs below are from recent editions of TechBBQ at Bella Center. They are the honest version of what to expect: a genuinely busy exhibition floor, stages running back-to-back sessions, and most of the real work happening in the standing conversations in between.

What Lilidi AI is bringing to Copenhagen

Lilidi AI is an all-in-one workspace for AI image, video and audio creation. Instead of juggling separate subscriptions, interfaces and credit systems, creators and marketing teams work with leading models in one place, with the cost of every generation shown before they press generate.

• 23+ flagship models for image, video, audio and upscaling in a single prompt bar;
• one shared credit balance across every model and tool;
• visible generation cost before you run anything - no silent burn;
• automatic refunds when a provider job fails;
• brand tooling - poster studio, logo maker, background removal, voiceover;
• an API and MCP server so teams can wire generation into their own stack.

At the stand we will run live workflows end to end: a single brief turned into a product image set, a short vertical ad, a voiceover and a poster - in the same session, with the credit meter visible the whole time. If you run content at volume, bring a real brief and we will build it with you rather than showing a canned demo.

Who we want to meet

We are going to Copenhagen with three specific conversations in mind:

• Brands and agencies producing creative at volume, who are tired of paying for five overlapping AI subscriptions;
• Creators and studios who need commercial-grade output and predictable per-asset cost;
• Investors and operators interested in the economics of a multi-model creative platform - unit cost, margin per generation and retention.

If any of those describe you, message us before the event so we can hold a slot: [email protected] or the contact page.

Why this matters for Lilidi AI

Being selected for the Startup Showcase is a recognition of the product direction we committed to early: honest pricing, transparent credit costs, and one professional workspace instead of a fragmented tool stack. Selection is competitive and curated, which makes it a useful external signal that the direction reads clearly to people outside our own team.

It also follows other recent milestones - joining the Google for Startups Cloud Program and receiving an invitation to the ALPHA startup programme at Web Summit Lisbon 2026. Copenhagen in August, Lisbon in November.

How to plan your two days

A short, practical playbook if this is your first TechBBQ:

• Buy early. Ticket tiers step up as the date approaches - techbbq.dk has the current pricing and programme.
• Book meetings before you fly. The floor is busy; the calendar you arrive with is the one you keep.
• Pick two stages, not five. Sessions are recorded; conversations are not.
• Leave the evenings open. A large share of the value sits in the city-wide side events.
• Bring a demo you can run in 90 seconds. That is the real attention budget at a stand.

Meet us at TechBBQ

If you are attending TechBBQ 2026, come and see what one prompt bar and 23+ models can do. Get your ticket at techbbq.dk, read more about Tetiana Stepanets, or talk to a live Lilidi Twin.

TechBBQ is an independent event; its name and logo belong to their respective owners. Participation in a startup showcase does not imply investment, partnership or endorsement.