# Supabase's First Move: Malaysian AI Show & Tell

[Canonical page](https://www.mohtasham.dev/events/supabase-first-move)

Paul Copplestone was already coming to Malaysia for AIMTO. We had less than two weeks to turn that visit into a Supabase conversation and a proper Malaysian.AI show-and-tell.

11 August 2026. 500 Global, Southeast Asia. Role: Organizer, curator, and host.

I planned the event, ran registration, chose the builders who would present, handled logistics, and hosted the night. I introduced Paul and every participant who took the stage.

## Facts

- Registered: 300+. Applications received

- Attended: 118. Recorded on Luma

- Planning: <2 weeks. From idea to event night

## My work

- Planned the event with Malaysian.AI and its partners

- Managed registration and attendee logistics

- Reviewed applications and selected the presenters

- MCed the event and introduced Paul and each builder

## A Thursday format in a much bigger room

Malaysian.AI normally runs a show-and-tell every Thursday. People share the workflow, experiment, or project they are working on. It is deliberately not a pitch night. There are no market-size slides and no pressure to make an unfinished idea sound like a company.

Paul's visit gave us a chance to keep that format while opening it to a much larger audience. He spoke about the path that led to Supabase, then roughly ten Malaysian builders showed what they were making.

## Choosing who got the microphone

The hardest part was selecting the presenters. More than 300 people registered, but the show-and-tell only worked if every demo gave the room something concrete to learn from. I reviewed the applications and chose a small group with real products, experiments, and technical stories.

The audience noticed the difference. People were surprised by how little it felt like a pitch event, and several wanted to join the smaller Thursday sessions afterward.

## Two weeks from idea to room

1. Opportunity: Paul Copplestone was in Malaysia for AIMTO.

2. Registration: More than 300 people applied to attend or demo.

3. Curation: I selected roughly ten builders for the stage.

4. Show: Paul's conversation led into rapid builder demos.

5. After: New people asked to join the weekly show-and-tell.

The organizing sequence behind the event.

## An AI agent inside a music plugin

One Japanese builder showed an AI agent built into a music plugin. It was the kind of demo the format was made for: specific, working, and interesting before anyone tried to sell it.

- [Event page](https://luma.com/zkxj8z7b)
- [AI Malaysia Takeover](https://aimto.my/)
- [Malaysian.AI](https://www.malaysian.ai/)