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AITEX Summit Fall 2025 (jury): an award for O-1 and EB-1A

Award

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From the organisation's official site

What the organisation itself states on its site aitexsummit.com. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.

Organiser
The series is run by the AITEX association (Association of Information Technology Experts); the summit site is part of its initiative.
Frequency
The site describes AITEX Summit as a quarterly online event where participants build AI projects in teams.
Entry fee
Participation is free and open to developers, researchers and designers.
Jury
The Fall 2025 judges page lists 64 people - engineers, managers and founders of IT companies; the site says they evaluate projects and mentor teams.
How jurors are chosen
Judges apply through a form on the site (name, work email, company, LinkedIn, position, experience description); no fee for judges is stated on the pages read.
Categories
Participants pick one of four tracks: Open Innovation, Creative AI, AI for Business, AI for Good.
What the winner receives
The top three teams get $500, $300 and $200, certificates and project publication; all awards are digital.
  • Judges also receive awards: the Fall 2025 awards page lists 9 judge award categories (for example, Outstanding Mentor Award).

Source: the organisation's site aitexsummit.com (pages /fall25, /fall25/judges, /fall25/Awards), checked Oct 2, 2026; the version on the site applies.

What officers look at: 8 CFR 204.5(h)(3)(iv) - whose work was judged and how it is documented

AITEX Summit Fall 2025 (jury) counts under the awards criterion if it is given for merit in your field, not for participation: the officer looks at selectivity and the awarding body.

The "Awards" criterion: what USCIS requires and how to meet itOpen the full catalog

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Why "Awards" gets refused

Accepted in 14% of challenged petitions (25 of 184); not an approval rate.

The award’s field does not match the field you are filing in, or is worded so that the link is not obvious.

All refusal grounds and the sample