BIZAGI 2020 HACKATHON RULES (THE “RULES”) HOSTED BY BIZAGI CORP. (“BIZAGI”)

We will survive, after all; Now it is time now to thrive.

Bizagi Corp. (“Bizagi”) and its affiliates have been helping companies around the world to transform their business digitally even before the term was invented. This year has affected societies and economics around the globe as never before. In the midst of extraordinary challenges and uncertainty, we have the confidence and assurance that we will all come out of this situation stronger and better. It is time now to explore new options, to jump to new paths, and to try new things. Bizagi wants to be your ally and cooperate constantly side by side with companies to help them reinvent themselves and create the new normality together.

We open the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon in search of innovative minds, problem solvers, and creative souls to design disruptive solutions using the Bizagi Platform. It is your opportunity in this eight week digital Hackathon to get into this new adventure of creating and trying new things with Bizagi.

OVERVIEW

You have eight weeks to hack - from October 19 to December 11  – you can select which category you want to participate in. It can be a new and innovative Widget to improve Bizagi´s forms, a new connector that extends Bizagi´s capabilities to connect with external systems or an experience-centric process using Bizagi Sites and Stakeholder concepts. You must use Bizagi Studio version 11.2.4 or higher for this. If you don´t have Bizagi Studio yet, you can go to www.bizagi.com and login to your account to download it. Submit your final result with a short video showing how your development works and include brief documentation. You will have the chance to win amazing prizes in different categories.

DATES AND TIMING

Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Submission Period: October 19, 2020 (9:00am EST) – December 11, 2020 (5:00pm EST)

Judging Period: December 14, 2020 – December 18, 2020

Winners Announced: The second week of January 2021

CATEGORIES

The Bizagi 2020 Hackathon will have three main categories where you can prove your skills. The three categories are:

Most Innovative Bizagi Widget

Widgets are specialized controls with predefined properties oriented toward a specific business requirement. Such properties promote reusability, in such a way that Widgets can be easily bound to any business model. This category aims to explore your creativity and give you space to create new ways to display information within Bizagi.

Most Innovative Bizagi Connector

One of the most outstanding alternatives to invoke external services from your Bizagi project is Bizagi Connectors. Through Bizagi Connectors, you may easily rely on powerful features to connect to other systems and applications, especially to those using modern architecture. This category aims to explore your creativity and allow you to extend the integration functionalities within Bizagi with the creation of new connectors.

Most Innovative Experience-Centric Process

The Bizagi Experience Design concept is oriented to offer a unique experience to each one of your end-users and best address the unstructured processes of your organization. Unstructured processes are those which you may catalog as non-routine, highly unpredictable, or dynamic, mainly because the course of action is not known beforehand, it emerges during process execution and depends on the information available. When working with these types of processes, real customization comes when Experience-Centric processes are combined with Bizagi Sites, where you can create rich and ready-to-go sites for your stakeholders. This category is intended to design and build a process focused on experience with its corresponding site as a solution to a current problem.

ELIGIBILITY

The Bizagi 2020 Hackathon IS open to: 

• Individuals 18 years and up and Teams of up to four individuals 18 years and up (“Participants”).
• An individual may join more than one team, and an individual who is part of a team may also enter the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon on an individual basis.  
• If a Team is entering the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one individual to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf.
• All Participants (including each Team member) must complete an entry form accurately in order to be eligible.

The Bizagi 2020 Hackathon IS NOT open to: 

• Individuals who are residents of or domiciled in, a country, state, province or territory where the laws of the United States or local law prohibits participating or receiving a prize in the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon (including, but not limited to Cuba, Sudan, Iran, North Korea, Syria and any other country designated by the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control).
• Any individual employed by any Bizagi company, members of their immediate family or household.
• Any other individual involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon, and each member of their immediate family or household*
• *The members of an individual’s immediate family include the individual’s spouse, children and stepchildren, parents and stepparents, and siblings and stepsiblings. The members of an individual’s household include any other person that shares the same residence as the individual for at least three (3) months out of the year.

HOW TO ENTER?

Participants may enter the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon by visiting www.bizagi.com/hackathon (“Hackathon Page”). Participants will complete an entry form where they have to select the category they want to participate in and then an email with additional information about the category will be sent.  

ENTRY CONDITIONS AND RELEASE BY ENTERING THE BIZAGI 2020 HACKATHON, PARTICIPANTS (AND, IF YOU ARE ENTERING ON BEHALF OF A TEAM, EACH PARTICIPATING MEMBER) AGREE(S) TO THE FOLLOWING:

(i) The relationship between Participants and Bizagi, is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other special relationship.

(ii) Participant will be bound by and comply with these Rules and the decisions of Bizagi and/or the Judges which are binding and final in all matters relating to the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon.

(iii) Participant releases, indemnifies, defends and holds harmless Bizagi and its respective parent, subsidiary, and affiliated companies, and all of their respective past and present officers, directors, employees, agents and representatives (hereafter the “Released Parties”) from and against any and all claims, expenses, and liabilities (including reasonable attorneys’ fees), including but not limited to negligence and damages of any kind to persons and property, defamation, slander, libel, violation of right of publicity, infringement of trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights, property damage, or death or personal injury arising out of or relating to a Participant’s Submission , participation in the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon, acceptance or use or misuse of the Prize (including any travel or activity related thereto) and/or the broadcast, transmission, performance, exploitation or use of the Submission as authorized or licensed by these Rules. 

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS 

All Submission materials must be in English.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Participants must consider the following conditions regarding the submission in order to participate in the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon:

• Participants must use the Bizagi Widget Editor, Bizagi Connector Editor or Bizagi Studio – version 11.2.4 or higher – to develop their solution.
• Participant must create a 2-5 min video that includes footage that clearly explains the widget, connector, or experience-centric process features and functionality through a comprehensive demonstration. The video must be uploaded to YouTube, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Website.
• Be a new solution created during the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Period. If the Participant submits an update to an existing solution, the entry will be judged solely on the basis of the update and the Participant will be required to explain how their solution is different from the existing solution.
• For the Widget category the Participant must submit a .bwg file with the whole implementation of their widget, the 2-5 min video and the form including technical details of their implementation. If any of the required elements stated described before are not received by Bizagi, the submission will be dismissed.
• For the Connector category the Participant must submit a .bizc file with the whole implementation of their connector, the 2-5 min video and the form including technical details of their implementation. If any of the required elements stated described before are not received by Bizagi, the submission will be dismissed.
• For the Experience-Centric Process category the Participant must submit a .bak file with the data base backup of their Bizagi project, the 2-5 min video and the form including technical details of their implementation. If any of the required elements stated described before are not received by Bizagi, the submission will be dismissed.

JUDGING

• Judges: Eligible Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by Bizagi (each a “Judge”). Judges may be employees of Bizagi or third parties, may or may not be listed individually on the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period.
• Criteria: The Judges will score eligible Submissions using the following equally weighted criteria:
  • (i) Level of innovation: How creative and original is the solution
  • (ii) Level of real-world impact: What would the effect be on businesses, individuals, or the world?); and
  • (iii) Level of execution: How well the idea was executed by the developer and how close to delivering a production-ready final product was the project?

The Participant whose Submission earns the highest overall score based on the Judging Criteria in each category will become the winner of the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Prizes. Judges are not required to test the Submission and may choose to judge based solely on the description, images and video provided in the Submission. If two or more Submissions are tied, the tied Submission with the highest score in the first applicable criterion listed above will be considered the higher scoring Submission. In the event any ties remain, this process will be repeated, as needed, by comparing the tied Submissions’ scores on the next applicable criterion. If two or more Submissions are tied on all applicable criteria, the panel of Judges will decide the winner of the tied Submissions by voting.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

• Subject to any license hereby included, all Submissions remain the intellectual property of the individuals or teams that developed them.
• By entering the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon, and submitting an entry, Participant grants to Bizagi, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt or translate any Submission as well as to display the Submission publicly and use it for promotional purposes. This license includes, but is not limited to, posting or linking to the Submission on Bizagi’s websites, including the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Website, Bizagi Xchange and display and promotion of the Submission in any other media, worldwide.
• The Submission components may be displayed to the public. Such component includes but are not limited to the name, description, images, video URL, website URL, team members, the Submission category and platform, and submitter type.
• By submitting an entry or accepting any prize, Participant represents and warrants that (a) submitted content is not copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless Participant is the owner of such rights or has permission from their rightful owner to post the content; and (b) the content submitted does not contain any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware or other disabling devices or harmful or malicious code.

PRIZES

PRIZE WINNERS

There is a limit of one (1) prize per Participant. Winners will be notified at on or about the date or time set forth on the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Page. THE AWARD OF A PRIZE TO A POTENTIAL WINNER IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION OF THE IDENTITY, QUALIFICATIONS AND ROLE OF THE POTENTIAL WINNER IN THE CREATION OF THE SUBMISSION. Each winner or member of a winning team (as applicable) may be required to complete, sign, have notarized (if applicable) and return to the address specified by Bizagi, without alteration and in the form presented by Bizagi, an affidavit of eligibility, declaration and/or liability/publicity release (unless prohibited by law) and tax forms (if applicable) within the time frame designated by Bizagi or prize may be forfeited. Winners must return required forms within ten (10) business days after the forms are sent. In the event of noncompliance with these requirements, the prize may be forfeited and awarded to an alternate winner (time permitting and in Bizagi's sole discretion) based on the Judges scores. The affidavit of eligibility and liability/publicity release (if any) are subject to verification by Bizagi. Bizagi reserves the right to modify the notification procedures in connection with the selection of any alternate potential winner, if any.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

PRIZE WINNERS AGREE THAT THE PRIZE IS PROVIDED AS-IS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION OR GUARANTEE, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN FACT OR IN LAW.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION/GOVERNING LAW

To the fullest extent permitted by law, by participating in the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon, Participants agree that: (a) any action at law or in equity initiated by any person or entity against Bizagi or any person or entity affiliated with Bizagi arising out of or relating to these Rules or the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon shall be filed exclusively in the courts of the State of Delaware and Participants hereby consent and submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action, with any right of change of venue or forum non conveniens or the like being expressly waived; (b) any such action shall be resolved individually, NOT as part of a class action; (c) Under no circumstances will Participants be permitted to obtain awards for, and contestant hereby waives all rights to claim, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than contestant’s actual out-of-pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Bizagi 2020 Hackathon), and Participants further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased (or damages/remedies/relief of any other kind). These Rules shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to choice of law/conflict of law principles of Delaware or any other jurisdiction.

MISCELLANEOUS

The terms and conditions of the Rules are subject to change at any time, including the rights or obligations of the Participants and Bizagi. Bizagi will post the terms and conditions of the amended Rules on the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Website. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any amendment will become effective at the time specified in the posting of the amended Rules or, if no time is specified, the time of posting.

Bizagi reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, suspend and/or modify the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon or any part of it, in the event of a technical failure, fraud, or any other factor or event that was not anticipated or is not within their control.

Bizagi reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any Participant found to be actually or presenting the appearance of tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon or to be acting in violation of these Rules or in a manner that is inappropriate, unsportsmanlike, not in the best interests of this Bizagi 2020 Hackathon, or a violation of any applicable law or regulation.

If there is any discrepancy or inconsistency between the terms and conditions of the Rules and disclosures or other statements contained in any Bizagi 2020 Hackathon materials, including but not limited to the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Submission form, Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Website, advertising (including but not limited to television, print, radio or online ads), the terms and conditions of the Rules shall prevail.

PUBLICITY

Entry in the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon constitutes consent for Bizagi to collect and maintain Participants’s personal information for the purpose of operating the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon and publicizing the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon. 

By participating in the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon Participant consents to the use Send Email processing of its personal information (including members of the Participant’s Team) by Bizagi and third parties acting on their behalf. Such personal information includes, but is not limited to, Participant’s name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions, comments, hometown, and country of residence. It may be used in any existing or newly created media, worldwide without further payment or consideration or right of review, unless prohibited by law. Authorized use includes for advertising and promotional purposes.

The duration of your consent is for a period of three years following the conclusion of the Bizagi 2020 Hackathon. This consent applies, as applicable, to all members of a Participants’s Team that participated in the Submission. By presenting a Submission you agree that your personal information will be treated in accordance with Bizagi’s Privacy Policy. You may request the deletion of your personal information by sending an email to privacy@bizagi.com

CONTACT

If you have any questions or comment, or wish to send us any notice regarding this Bizagi 2020 Hackathon, please email us at hackathon@bizagi.com