Q3 2025 Events Resourcing Proposal

Overview

This proposal requests funds for events in Q3 2025, per the Akash Events 2025 discussion on GitHub. There is a $426,000 requirement for Q3. Overclock Labs is requesting a total of $300,563.08 which accounts for a $125,426 surplus of liquidated funds from Q2 (calculations below). The outline of items covered in for a Tier-1 event are listed below.

Tier 1 Event Outline

Total budget per Tier-1 event: $293,485

This is the largest event tier for Akash, and will include the following:

• Attendance for up to 7 core team and community members.
• The highest allocated budget for main event sponsorship. This includes multiple speaking opportunities and a custom 10’ x 20’ booth.
• An Akash-hosted side event to accommodate up to 300 guests.

Quarter	Event Name	Tier	Budget Amount
Q3	ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning: July 14-17th 2025	1	$235,000
Q2	Akash Accelerate Overage Compensation (Q2)		$66,000
Q3	Budget for Q3 Hackathons (SF, NYC, HackerHouses)		$75,000
Q3	Budget for Q3 Regional/ Local events (SF & NYC)		$50,000
	TOTAL		426,000

*Due to the overwhelming interest and turnout for Akash Accelerate, initial costs and budgets needed to be slightly increased. The line item above reflects the amount of compensation to reflect that overage.

Quarter 2 Totals	Amount Requested	Actuals
Total Requested	119,500
Yale Blockchain Conference	1,000	$1,000
Austin DeAI Week	30,000	$11,649.64
Cornell Blockchain Conference	6,000	$5,607
Permissionless	50,000	$54,712.11
AI Engineer World Fair	10,000	0
NY Tech Week	10,000	$11,963
Q1 Reimbursement	12,500	$12,500
Total Actual		$97,431.75

Surplus Calculations

Q2 Funds Liquidated - 320,829 AKT for $427,146.83 ($1.33/AKT Avg) Q2 Actuals - $97,431.75 Q1 Shortfall covered in Q2 request - $204,277.37

Q2 Liquidated - Q2 Actuals - Q1 Shortfall = Surplus $427,146.83 - $97,431.75 -$204,278.16 = $125,426.92