INFORMATICA

DATA ENGINEERING HACKATHON 2024

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF PARTICIPATION

1. Dates and Timing

Registration & Idea Submission Period: February 12, 2024 (10:00 am Pacific Time) – March 11, 2024 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Time) (“Submission Period”).

Mentorship, Final Submission, Judging Period: March 12, 2024 (10:00 am Pacific Time) – April 11, 2024 (5:00 p.m. Pacific Time) (“Judging Period”).

Winners Announced: On or around April 14, 2024 (2:00 p.m. Pacific Time).

2. Sponsor and Administrator

Sponsor: Informatica, 2100 Seaport Blvd, Redwood City, CA, United States 94063  

Administrator: Hack2skill. (“H2S”): A-14, 4th floor Eco Tower, Sector 125, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201303

3. Eligibility

The Hackathon IS open to: 

• Individuals who are at least the age of majority where they reside as of the time of entry (“Eligible Individuals”);
• Teams of Eligible Individuals (“Teams”); and
• Organizations (including corporations, not-for-profit corporations, other nonprofit organizations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and other legal entities) that exist and have been organized or incorporated at the time of entry.

(the above are collectively “Entrants”)

An Eligible Individual may join more than one Team or Organization, and an Eligible Individual who is part of a Team or Organization may also enter the Hackathon individually. If a Team or Organization is entering the Hackathon, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission on their behalf. By entering a Submission on behalf of a Team or Organization, you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your Team or Organization.

     The Hackathon IS NOT open to: 

• Individuals who are residents of, or Organizations 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 Hackathon and any other country designated by the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. 
• Organizations involved with the design, production, paid promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, including the Sponsor and Administrator (“Promotion Entities”).
• Employees, representatives, and agents** of such Promotion Entities, and all members of their immediate family or household*
• Any other individual involved with the design, production, promotion, execution, or distribution of the Hackathon, and each member of their immediate family or household*
• Any Judge (defined below), or company or individual that employs a Judge
• Any parent company, subsidiary, or other affiliate*** of any organization described above
• Any other individual or organization whose participation in the Hackathon would create, in the sole discretion of the Sponsor and Administrator, a real or apparent conflict of interest 
• *an individual’s immediate family members 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 who shares the same residence as the individual for at least three (3) months out of the year. 

*Agents include individuals or organizations that, in creating a Submission to the Hackathon, act on behalf of, and at the direction of, a Promotion Entity through a contractual or similar relationship.

**An affiliate is (a) an organization under common control, sharing a familiar majority or controlling owner, or joint management, or (b) an organization that has substantial ownership in or is substantially owned by the other organization.

4. How To Enter 

Entrants may enter by visiting https://hack2skill.com/hack/informatica-deh-2024/  (“Hackathon Website”) and following the below steps:

1. Register for the Hackathon on the Hackathon Website by clicking the “Register Now” button. To complete registration, sign up to create a free Hack2skill account or log in with an existing Hack2skill account. This will enable you to receive important updates and make your submission.
2. Entrants will obtain access to the required platform and complete a Project described below in Project Requirements. Use of the developer tools will be subject to the license agreement related to it. Entry in the Hackathon constitutes consent for the Sponsor and Hack2skill (H2S) to collect and maintain an entrant’s personal information to operate and publicize the Hackathon. Additionally, the gathered personal information will be therefore used by Hack2skill to communicate with the participants about the hackathon and updates.
3. Sign up for an Informatica IDMC account, which will be shared once shortlisted for final project submission through an email. Meanwhile, team members use Choose Your Free Cloud Platform Trial | Informatica to familiarize themselves with various Informatica IDMC services. 
4. Complete and enter all the required fields on the “Enter a Submission” page of the Hackathon Website (each a “Submission”) during the Submission Period and follow the requirements below.

Project Requirements

What to Create: Entrants must create a working data engineering solution including a pipeline, presentation and short explainer video demonstration in one of the following categories: Open Innovation Themes (each a “Project”):

• Cost-optimized data Pipeline Development and
• AI/ML and Data Science

**Sponsor and Administrator reserve the right to reassign a Project from one category to another if deemed more appropriate based on the content.

Functionality: The Project must be capable of being successfully installed and running consistently on the platform for which it is intended and must function as depicted in the video and expressed in the text description.

Platforms: Once shortlisted, a submitted Project must run on the Informatica IDMC platform for which it is intended and which is specified in the Submission Requirements. 

Third-Party Integrations: If a Project integrates any third-party SDK, APIs, and data, the Entrant must be authorized to use them by any terms and conditions or licensing requirements of the tool.

Submission Requirements 

Submissions to the Hackathon must meet the following requirements:

• Must include a Project generated using Informatica IDMC and meets the above Project Requirements.
• Must include a text description that explains the features, functionality, and the intended purpose of your Project.
• You should include a demonstration video of your project. The video portion of the Submission:

• should be less than ninety (90) seconds
• should include footage that shows the intended interaction with your application 
• must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, or Youku, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on the Hackathon Website; and
• must not include third-party trademarks, copyrighted music, or other material unless the Entrant has permission to use such material.

Blog Post Bonus Prize Submission Requirements

• Once shortlisted, publish a post on Data Engineer Central about your project during the Judging Period.
• Blog posts can cover similar topics but should differ from the H2S hackathon text description.
• Share your journey and the broader impact of your work through a Data Engineer Central blog post.

• Community Impact: Describe how your project can positively affect your target community. Discuss the potential benefits, envisioned real-world application, and plans for encouraging adoption.

5. Submission Modifications

Draft Submissions: Before the end of the Submission Period, you may save draft versions of your submission on H2S to your portfolio before submitting the Submission materials to the Hackathon for evaluation. Once the Submission Period has ended, you may not make any changes or alterations to your Submission, but you may continue to update the Project in your H2S portfolio. Before the end of the submission period, you may submit draft versions of your ideas/MVPs to your dashboard under the submissions section. You can make edits and updates multiple times before the submissions end. Once the submission period ends, you may not be able to make any modifications to your submissions.

Modifications: After the Submission Period. The Sponsor and H2S may permit you to modify part of your Submission after the Submission Period to add, remove, or replace material that potentially infringes a third-party mark or right, discloses personally identifiable information, or is otherwise inappropriate. The modified Submission must remain the same as the original Submission, with the only modification being what the Sponsor and H2S permit. 

6. Judges & Criteria

Eligible submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by the Sponsor (the “Judges”). Judges may be employees of the sponsor or third parties, may or may not be listed individually on the Hackathon Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period. Judging may occur in one or more rounds with one or more panels of Judges at the sponsor's discretion. 

Stage One) The first stage will determine via pass/fail whether the ideas meet a baseline level of viability in that the Project reasonably fits the theme. It applies well to the required outcomes featured in the Hackathon.

Stage Two) All Submissions that pass Stage One will be evaluated in Stage Two based on the following equally-weighted criteria (the “Judging Criteria”):

Entries will be judged on the following equally weighted criteria and according to the sole and absolute discretion of the judges:

• Applicability of the solution in real-life use cases
• Clarity of the use case (opportunity addressed)
• Quality of the Solution
• How well does your solution utilize the features of Informatica IDMC?
• Potential to Inspire
• Creativity
• How original is the idea? Does it address a potentially valuable use case?

The judges' scores will determine the potential winners of the applicable prizes. The Entrant(s) eligible for a Prize and whose Submissions earn the highest overall scores based on the relevant Judging Criteria will become potential winners of that Prize.

Tie Breaking: For each Prize listed below, 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. If any ties remain, this process will be repeated, as needed, by comparing the tied Submissions’ scores on the following applicable criterion. If two or more Submissions are tied to all relevant criteria, the panel of judges will vote on the tied Submissions.

7. Intellectual Property Rights

All Submissions remain the intellectual property of the individuals or organizations that developed them. By submitting an entry, entrants agree that the Sponsor will have a fully paid, non-exclusive license to use such entry to judge the entry. Entrants agree that the sponsor and H2S shall have the right to promote the Submission and use the name, likeness, voice, and image of all individuals contributing to a Submission in any materials promoting or publicizing the Hackathon and its results during the Hackathon Period and for three years after that.  Some Submission components may be displayed to the public. The sponsor, H2S, and judges for screening and evaluation may view Other Submission materials. By submitting an entry or accepting any prize, entrants represent and warrant 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 Entrant 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.

8. Prizes

IMPORTANT NOTES ON MULTIPLE PRIZE ELIGIBILITY:

• Each eligible Entrant may win up to one Overall Prize, Early Entrant Prize, or Blog Post Prize.

Substitutions & Changes: Prizes are non-transferable by the winner. At its sole discretion, the sponsor has the right to substitute the prize for an equivalent or more excellent value. Sponsor will not award a prize if there are no eligible Submissions entered in the Hackathon or if there are no eligible Entrants or Submissions for a specific prize.

Verification Requirement: 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. No Submission or Entrant shall be deemed a winning Submission or winner until their post-competition prize affidavits have been completed and verified, even if prospective winners have been announced verbally or on the competition website. The Sponsor and Administrator shall make the final decision to designate a winner. 

Prize Delivery: Prizes will be payable to the Entrant if an individual, to the Entrant’s Representative if a Team, or to the Organization if the Entrant is an Organization. The winning Entrant’s Representative will allocate the Prize among their Team or Organization’s participating members as the Representative deems appropriate. A monetary Prize will be mailed to the winning Entrant’s address (if an individual) or the Representative’s address (if a Team or Organization) or sent electronically to the Entrant, Entrant’s Representative, or Organization’s bank account only after receipt of the completed winner affidavit and other required forms (collectively the “Required Forms”), if applicable. The deadline for returning the Required Forms to the Administrator is ten (10) business days after the Required Forms are sent. Failure to provide correct information on the Required Forms or other accurate information required for the delivery of a Prize may result in delayed Prize delivery, disqualification of the Entrant, or forfeiture of a Prize. Prizes will be delivered within 60 days of the Sponsor or H2S’s receipt of the completed Required Forms.

     Fees & Taxes: Winners (and, in the case of the Team or Organization, all participating members) are responsible for any costs associated with receiving or using a prize, including but not limited to wiring fees or currency exchange fees. Winners (and in the case of the Team or Organization, all participating members) are responsible for reporting and paying all applicable taxes in their jurisdiction of residence (federal, state/provincial/territorial/local). Winners may be required to provide certain information to facilitate receipt of the award, including completing and submitting any tax or other forms necessary for compliance with applicable withholding and reporting requirements. United States residents may be required to provide a completed W-9 form, and residents of other countries may be required to provide a completed W-8BEN form. Winners are also responsible for complying with foreign exchange and banking regulations in their respective jurisdictions and reporting the receipt of the Prize to relevant government departments/agencies, if necessary. The Sponsor, H2S, and Prize provider reserves the right to withhold a portion of the prize amount to comply with the tax laws of the United States or other Sponsor jurisdiction or those of a winner’s jurisdiction.

9. Entry Conditions and Release

1. By entering the Hackathon, you (and, if you are entering on behalf of a Team or Organization, each participating member) agree(s) to the following:

1. The relationship between you, the Entrant, and the Sponsor and Administrator is not a confidential, fiduciary, or other special relationship.
2. You will be bound by and comply with these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor, Administrator, and the Hackathon Judges, which are binding and final in all matters relating to the Hackathon.
3. You release, indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Promotion Entities, and their respective parent, subsidiary, and affiliated companies, the Prize suppliers and any other organizations responsible for sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, advertising or promoting the Hackathon, 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 Entrant’s entry, creation of Submission or entry of a Submission, participation in the 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 Official Rules.

2. Without limiting the foregoing, the Released Parties shall have no liability in connection with:

1. Any incorrect information, whether caused by the Sponsor or Administrator’s electronic or printing error or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Hackathon; 
2. Technical failures of any kind, including, but not limited to, malfunctions, interruptions, or disconnections in phone lines, internet connectivity or electronic transmission errors, or network hardware or software or failure of the Hackathon Website;
3. Unauthorized human intervention in any part of the entry process or the Hackathon; 
4. Technical or human error may occur in the administration of the Hackathon or the processing of Submissions or 
5. Any injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from the Entrant’s participation in the Hackathon or receipt or use or misuse of any Prize.

The Released Parties are not responsible for incomplete, late, misdirected, damaged, lost, illegible, or incomprehensible Submissions or for Entrants' address or email address changes. Proof of sending or submitting those above will not be deemed proof of receipt by the Sponsor or Administrator. If, for any reason, any Entrant’s Submission is determined to have not been received or been erroneously deleted, lost, or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, the Entrant’s sole remedy is to request the opportunity to resubmit its Submission. Such a request must be made promptly after the Entrant knows or should have known there was a problem and will be determined at the sole discretion of the Sponsor.

10. Publicity

By participating in the Hackathon, Entrant consents to the promotion and display of Entrant’s Submission and the use of personal information about themselves for promotional purposes by the Sponsor, Administrator, and third parties acting on their behalf. Such personal information includes, but is not limited to, your name, likeness, photograph, voice, opinions, comments, and hometown and country of residence. It may be used in any existing or newly created media worldwide without further payment consideration or right of review unless prohibited by law. Authorized use includes but is not limited to advertising and promotional purposes. 

11. General Conditions 

1. Sponsor and Administrator reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel, suspend and modify the 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.
2. Sponsor and Administrator reserve the right in their sole discretion to disqualify any individual or Entrant if it finds to be actually or presenting the appearance of tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Hackathon or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or in a manner that is inappropriate, unsportsmanlike, not in the best interests of this Hackathon, or a breach of any applicable law or regulation.
3. Any attempt by any person to undermine the proper conduct of the Hackathon may be a violation of criminal and civil law. Should the Sponsor or Administrator suspect such an attempt has been made or is threatened, they reserve the right to take appropriate action, including but not limited to requiring an Entrant to cooperate with an investigation and refer to criminal and civil law enforcement authorities.
4. If there is any discrepancy or inconsistency between the terms and conditions of the Official Rules and disclosures or other statements contained in any Hackathon materials, including but not limited to the Hackathon Submission form, Hackathon Website, or advertising, the terms and conditions of the Official Rules shall prevail.
5. The terms and conditions of the Official Rules are subject to change at any time, including the rights or obligations of the Entrant, the Sponsor, and the Administrator. The Sponsor and Administrator will post the terms and conditions of the amended Official Rules on the Hackathon Website. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any amendment will become effective at the time specified in the posting of the amended Official Rules or, if no time is set, the time of posting.
6. If at any time before the deadline, an Entrant or prospective Entrant believes that any term in the Official Rules is or may be ambiguous, they must submit a written request for clarification. 
7. The Sponsor or Administrator’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision. Should any provision of these Official Rules be or become illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction whose laws or regulations may apply to an Entrant, such illegality or unenforceability shall leave the remainder of these Official Rules, including the Rule affected, to the fullest extent permitted by law, unaffected and valid. The illegal or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a valid and enforceable provision that comes closest and best reflects the Sponsor’s intention in a legal and enforceable manner concerning the invalid or unenforceable provision.
8. Excluding Submissions, all intellectual property related to this Hackathon, including but not limited to copyrighted material, trademarks, trade names, logos, designs, promotional materials, web pages, source codes, drawings, illustrations, slogans, and representations, are owned or used under license by the Sponsor and Administrator. All rights are reserved. Unauthorized copying or use of any copyrighted material or intellectual property without the express written consent of its owners is strictly prohibited. Any use in a Submission of Sponsor or Administrator’s intellectual property shall be solely to the extent provided in these Official Rules.

12. Limitations of Liability

By entering, all Entrants (including, in the case of a Team or Organization, all participating members) agree to release the Released Parties from any liability concerning the Prizes or Entrant’s participation in the Hackathon. However, any liability limitation regarding gross negligence or intentional acts or events of death or body injury shall not be applicable in jurisdictions where such limitation is not legal.

13. Disputes

1. Except where prohibited by law, as a condition of participating in this Hackathon, Entrant agrees that:

1. any disputes and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Hackathon, or any Prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action lawsuit, and exclusively by final and binding arbitration under the rules of the American Arbitration Association and held at the AAA regional office nearest the contestant;
2. The Federal Arbitration Act shall govern the interpretation, enforcement and all proceedings at such arbitration; and
3. Judgment upon such arbitration award may be entered in any court having jurisdiction.

2. Under no circumstances will Entrant be permitted to obtain awards for, and Entrant at this moment 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 Hackathon), and Entrant further waives all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
3. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or the rights and obligations of the Entrant and Sponsor in connection with this Hackathon, shall be governed by and construed by the substantive laws of the State of New York, USA without regard to New York choice of law rules.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

14. Additional Terms

Please review the H2S Terms of Service at https://hack2skill.com/hack/informatica-deh-2024/ for additional rules that apply to your participation in the Hackathon and, more generally, your use of the Hackathon Website. Such Terms of Service are incorporated by reference into these Official Rules, including that the term "Poster" in the Terms of Service shall mean the same as "Sponsor" in these Official Rules." If there is a conflict between the Terms of Service and these Official Rules, these Official Rules shall control this Hackathon only.

15. Entrant’s Personal Information

Information collected from Entrants is subject to H2S’s Privacy Policy.

For questions, send an email to informatica-deh@hack2skill.com.