PRESENT OPEN STAGE
OPEN CALL Share your favourite unrealized project at Forward Festival 2025.
PRESENT Open Stage: What’s Your Favourite Unrealized Project?
We're handing over the mic! During one of our festival breaks, five courageous creatives will get the chance to share their passion project in front of a supportive panel of experts composed of PRESENT founder Hugo Hoppmann and other selected speakers from the Festival.
Be PRESENT Move FORWARD.
We all have this project. This one dream. This Thing we know we need to do, but keep on putting off. The task that scares us, yet we can’t get it out of our mind.
We want to empower anyone bold enough to get started on Their Thing. Come as vulnerable as you dare, leave with contructive feedback and practical next action steps.
No slides, no screens, all in an intimate setting away from the buzz of the main stage. It can be unfinished, raw: it’s not about perfection, or a polished finished project, but about honest sharing and unlocking new clarity on how to move forward - and stay present.
Whether you’re a practiced speaker or just passionate about an idea, this is your moment to shine and share your vision with a forward-thinking audience.
Rewards include a presentOS membership and access to its global community of makers, tickets for next year’s Forward Festival, an invitation to the speakers dinner, and more!
APPLY HERE - we're all ears. Submissions are open until July 22nd, 2025.
