We are assembling a balanced team of 5 judges, which we hope to announce soon.

All of the rules and guidelines can be found here.

Bob Newmark — BCLP, Office Managing Partner for St. Louis
Dennis Rasmussen — Neota Logic, Director of Client Engagement and Solutions
John Lofy — Litera, Vice President of Key Accounts
Scott Foster — Thomson Reuters, Global Client Director
Cheri Nolle — Energizer, Legal Operations Manager

We are also putting together a team of legal innovation and technology experts who will support teams over the weekend. We won't allocate specific mentors to specific teams, but we do have a great line up of roving mentors to help, advise and challenge the teams across all of the disciplines. Some will be available all weekend, while others will volunteer time when they can across Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please contact email Christian Zust or Kristi Smith.

As well as hacker teams and participants, we need helpers on the day, mentors to advise the teams, judges and sponsors. If you want to get involved, please email Christian Zust or Kristi Smith.

This is a non-profit event supported by Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. However, if you are interested in supporting the event, please email Christian Zust or Kristi Smith.

There are no restrictions, you can use any technology that makes sense.

We hope teams will have an amount of free access to Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud & Watson and some other technologies to be announced soon. The Global support team have provided access to vLex Iceberg AI platform and ServeManager which are all described in the attendee help here.

Please note that access to these technologies isn't unlimited, for example vLex will be provided to up to 100 teams globally on a first come first served basis. Please check out the details of each individual offer from our sponsors and supporters to check terms and availability as soon as you can.

As with technology, you can use whatever tools and resources that make sense for your team. There is guidance and suggestions of what you might use on the attendee help here.

Design is crucial, and you ought to make sure you've got design expertise in your team. We definitely recommend you consider a Design Thinking approach for your project at the hackathon.

Here is an introduction to Design Thinking, which links to resources to help you find out more.

You can definitely come with ideas and do your research beforehand, as long as they haven't been materialized into actual tangible products or organizations prior to the start of the event.

There is a global attendee knowledge base for all teams and attendees linked here.

We will publish specific St. Louis guidance, or link to it here in these FAQs. Check back regularly for the latest news.

Look at the technology section of these FAQs for guidance on platforms, tools and technologies that you might use.

Watch for news here and on email from us about how you can connect and collaborate with other Hackathon attendees before the start.

The attendee knowledge base has some suggestion on forming teams and what to bring here.

You can definitely come with ideas and do your research beforehand, and discuss these with others, as long as your ideas haven't been materialized into actual tangible products or organizations prior to the start of the event. You can also identify others you would like to be part of your team and encourage them to attend as well. However, if you do form a group in advance, you should also come prepared to allow others to join your team as this will ensure you have a diverse group to tackle the problem you have identified.