The countdown is on for DemoCamp Halifax, which is set to take place Oct. 10 at Pier 21 in Halifax.

DemoCamp is an opportunity for early-stage startups to present their projects to an audience of fellow innovators and potential investors. The catch? No PowerPoint presentations.

DemoCamp, which was first held in Halifax in 2011, is about getting your product to work in front of an audience.

Eight startups, almost all from the Halifax area, have already been confirmed to present and more may be added by the time the event takes place.

Debbie Fougere, Director of Product Management at STI technologies, will be giving this year’s lighting speech. Before joining the STI team, Fougere served as product manager with Smart Technologies, and has a background in product development and management with Eastlink and Intuit.  As Director of Product Management with STI Technologies, Fougere is a key driver of product and service innovation at STI, which was bought earlier this year by American multinationa QuintilesIMS. She is scheduled to speak at 7:30pm.

A spokeswoman for Volta Labs, this year’s organizer, says the startup house is awaiting confirmations from a few more companies to appear at the event.

Here are the ones scheduled so far:

Bereda Training -- Bereda gives endurance athletes a framework to easily build and update customized training plans in line with modern training theory.

Green Power Labs -- Predictive building control for operational HVAC management of commercial buildings.

Kilo Communications -- Existing metrics for tracking goalkeeper game performance in soccer provide a flawed measure of goalkeeper ability. Kilo has created GKStopper, an analytics app that records and analyzes goalkeeper strengths and weaknesses independently of overall team performance.

Kognitiv Spark – The Fredericton company is building a worker support platform that brings holographic augmented reality visualization to the field or job-site.

Ocean Executive -- Ocean Executive is a sales and procurement platform for the seafood industry, with a focus on seafood sustainability. Its matchmaking platform connects seafood buyers and seller from around the world.

Site 2020 -- Site 2020 Inc. is creating a traffic management solution for road construction sites that increases safety while reducing overhead costs.

Swept -- Swept develops software specifically for the commercial cleaning industry. Its software is designed for the unique challenges cleaning companies have when managing a large number of cleaners and clients with limited resources.

TripNinja -- Trip Ninja is a travel-booking service for people who want to travel to several different cities in a single trip and don’t care about the order.

DemoCamp is being held in the Kenneth C. Rowe Hall at Pier 21. Doors open at 6:00pm with opening remarks beginning at 6:30pm. You can find tickets here.