The Beanstalk Challenge Finale: Building Something Real
The Beanstalk Challenge Finale is not a pitch competition or giveaway. It is a live demonstration of what can happen when digital identity, entrepreneurship, AI-enabled business creation, and Internet infrastructure come together in the real world.
Hosted by Rick Schwartz and moderated by Ron Jackson, this special live event brings founders, finalists, and selected builders to the stage to showcase the businesses, brands, and ideas they’ve created through the Beanstalk Challenge.
Rick Schwartz
Domain King Inc
CEO
Ron Jackson
DNJournal.com
Editor & Publisher
A Live Demonstration of What Can Happen When Digital Identity, Entrepreneurship, AI-Enabled Business Creation, And Internet Infrastructure Come Together In The Real World
The Beanstalk Challenge is a skill-based entrepreneurial initiative built around category-defining domain names and long-term business creation. Participants are selected based on the strength of their ideas, execution potential, and entrepreneurial vision, with the program designed to help builders transform digital identity into real companies and lasting momentum.
At its core, the challenge reflects the connection between NamesCon and CloudFest Americas themselves. One community has always centered on digital identity, domains, and online opportunity. The other has focused on the infrastructure, platforms, cloud technologies, and AI tools that turn digital ideas into scalable businesses. The Beanstalk Challenge sits directly at that intersection.
This Challenge is Where Digital Identity Meets Execution
Domains
AI
Cloud Infrastructure
Opportunity
What starts as a conversation about domains expands into something much bigger
A live showcase of entrepreneurs using the modern Internet stack to build real companies, real brands, and real economic opportunity.
NamesCon and CloudFest Americas attendees will meet this year’s finalists, hear directly from entrepreneurs participating in the initiative around the world, and witness the next chapter unveiled live in Miami.
All For The Grand Prize Of A Real Business…
…With A Founder Incentive…
The experience concludes with a major outdoor finale featuring the live presentation of Rick Schwartz’s Bentley as part of this year’s Beanstalk selection. The moment is intentionally ambitious and undeniably visual, but grounded in the same idea driving the entire initiative: that the Internet still creates opportunity for people willing to build something real.
Part founder showcase, part live spectacle, and part statement about the future of Internet entrepreneurship, The Beanstalk Challenge Finale is designed to become one of the defining moments of NamesCon and CloudFest Americas 2026.