Streamlit LLM Hackathon

LLMs and AI
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SNOWFLAKE/STREAMLIT LLM HACKATHON OFFICIAL RULES

The following rules, terms and conditions (“Official Rules”) govern your entry to and participation in the Snowflake/Streamlit LLM Hackathon (“Hackathon”). Your participation and submission of a hackathon entry constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, these Official Rules. NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY. A PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. THE HACKATHON IS SUBJECT TO ALL APPLICABLE LAWS AND VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

SPONSOR MAY MAKE CHANGES TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AT ANY TIME IF IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR SPONSOR TO DO SO (FOR INSTANCE IF THE 2023 HACKATHON WERE TO BE MOVED TO A VIRTUAL EXPERIENCE). SPONSOR WILL ENDEAVOR TO PROVIDE AS MUCH NOTICE AS POSSIBLE OF ANY SUCH CHANGES ON THE HACKATHON SITE OR IN OTHER APPROPRIATE MESSAGING.

  1. SPONSOR. The sponsor of the Hackathon is Snowflake Inc. (address for various offices published at https://www.snowflake.com/legal/snowflake-contracting-entities/) (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, “Sponsor” or “Snowflake”).

  2. DATES AND TIMELINE. Snowflake’s computer will be the Hackathon’s official clock, and all times are provided in Pacific Time. The Hackathon begins on September 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM Pacific Time (PT) and ends on September 19, 2023 at 11:59 PM PT (the “Hackathon Period”). The Hackathon Period consists of the submission period followed by one (1) round of judging, as further described below.

2.1 Submission Period. The “Submission Period” begins on September 5, 2023 at 12:00 AM Pacific Time (PT) and ends on September 19, 2023 at 11:59 PM PT. Please see Section 4 (How to Enter) for further information on the submission process. Before the start of the judging period, the Sponsor reserves the right to postpone or modify the start or end dates of the Submission Period.

2.2 Judging Period. The “Judging Period” begins on September 20, 2023 at 12:00 AM PT and ends on or before October 5, 2023, at which time the Hackathon Winners for each category will be announced. Please see Section 10 (Criteria and Selection) for further information on each round of the Hackathon.

  1. ELIGIBILITY.

3.1 Eligible Individuals. The Hackathon is only open to individuals (each, a “Registrant”) who (1) create a new Streamlit app focused on LLM / AI with priority given to those that utilize Weaviate, LlamaIndex, LangChain, AssemblyAI, or Clarifai and (2) aren’t otherwise ineligible as described in 3.2 below.

3.2 Ineligible Persons. The following persons are not eligible to enter the Hackathon: individuals who (i) are currently employed by Snowflake, or any entity that may be acquired by Snowflake during the Hackathon period; (ii) are immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, or children) or household members of any of the employees listed in Section 3.2; (iii) are a Hackathon Judge (defined in Section 9 below) or immediate family (spouse, parents, siblings, or children) or household members of a Hackathon Judge; (iv) are current employees of an entity in which Sponsor has invested and holds an ownership interest (v) are professionally involved in the development or administration of the Hackathon, including sponsors Weaviate, LlamaIndex, LangChain, AssemblyAI, and Clarifai; (vi) are on any restricted or prohibited party list maintained by the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State and the Treasury; or (viii) are residents of, or domiciled in:

  • Quebec or Brazil;
  • any country, state, province or territory where the laws of the United States or local law prohibits participating in a Hackathon or receiving a prize in the Hackathon or a country where a prize cannot be awarded;
  • Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria; or any country or territory that may, from time to time, become subject to U.S. export controls or designated as a country that is subject to a general prohibition on U.S. persons engaging in financial and/or export transactions.

All Registrants are responsible for ensuring they are in compliance with any employment or other contract to which they are a party, including, for example, eligibility to participate in promotions and acceptance of prize awards.

  1. HOW TO ENTER. To enter the Hackathon, visit LLM Hackathon • Streamlit (“Hackathon Site”) during the Submission Period and follow all posted instructions to submit information on how the application created uses the Snowflake/Streamlit platform as a core part of the architecture of its application. This information, and the submission materials (including the App (defined in Section 5.1 below)) (the “Entry” or “Entries”) must meet the requirements as described below and include elements reflected in Section 5 (Entry Requirements).

  2. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS.

5.1 Entry. In addition to the requirements in Section 4 above, a Registrant’s Entry must include the following: (a) a complete profile, including name, email address, phone number, and country of the Registrant; and (b) the application url, (c) the url for the GitHub repository of the source code for evaluation by the Sponsor (the “App”). Once the Submission Period has ended, the Entries cannot be changed or updated. Entries submitted outside of the Submission Period are invalid and will not be considered. Incomplete Entries also are invalid and will not be considered. Entries cannot be acknowledged and will not be returned. Sponsor is not responsible for any errors, omissions, or failures in submission of any Entry or in the Registrant not maintaining accurate contact information during the Submission Period.

5.2 Language. All Entries, including any oral presentations, must be in English.

  1. ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR ENTRIES. Each Registrant is entirely responsible for the Entries and submission materials, in whole or in part. By submitting an Entry and participating in the Hackathon, the Registrant represents and warrants that their Entry and submission materials: (a) do not contain any defamatory, offensive or otherwise inappropriate materials; (b) are original, not copied, in whole or in part, and are exclusively owned and gratuitously provided without any restriction or limitation on use; (c) do not infringe or misappropriate of any intellectual property rights or confidential or proprietary information of any third party; (d) do not contain any confidential or proprietary information of any entity or person; (e) do not contain any material that violates any privacy or publicity right of any person; (f) do not reflect any duty of attribution, or any compensation obligation; (g) do not contain any content that would violate any law, statute, ordinance, rule or regulation, or any agreement with another person or entity; (h) do not contain software viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, bots, or any other computer code or files that are designed to disrupt damage, impact, or limit the functioning of any software or hardware in any way; and (i) are not misleading, and must be true and accurate. Sponsor, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to remove the Entry, submission materials, and presentation content from the Hackathon Site, in whole or in part, for any violation of these Official Rules.

  2. VERIFICATION. During the Hackathon Period, the Sponsor, its agents and/or the Hackathon Judges will evaluate the Entry for the Registrant’s compliance with these Official Rules and satisfaction of the minimum requirements for the Entry to be judged in the Hackathon. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any Entry that it ascertains at any time does not meet the requirements for the Entry and these Official Rules during or after the Hackathon Period. Sponsor further reserves the right before awarding any prize, to have the Registrant execute a declaration (or affidavit) of compliance and agreement with these Official Rules, compliance with all applicable Laws, and/or confirmation of eligibility, the publicity release, and the copyright license in connection with any round of the Hackathon.

  3. RIGHTS.

8.1 Intellectual Property of Registrant. Subject to the licenses described below, any applicable intellectual property rights to an Entry (including the submission materials and presentation content) will be owned by and remain with the Registrant.

8.2 License Grant. By entering the Hackathon, Registrant grants to the Sponsor and any other third parties acting on the Sponsor’s behalf, a royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable license to display publicly and use the Entry (including the submission materials) for promotional and any other purposes in perpetuity without further consideration or payment of any type. This license includes, but is not limited to, posting, or linking to the Entry on Sponsor’s and partners’ websites and applications, including the Hackathon Site, and displaying and promoting the Entry in any other media, worldwide, including publication of the Registrant’s name, App description, images, video URL, and website URL.

8.3 Representation and Warranty. Each Registrant represents and warrants that the Sponsor and its partners are free to use the Entry in the manner described above, as provided or as modified by the Sponsor, without obtaining permission or license from any third party and without any compensation to the Registrant.

  1. JUDGING. Eligible Entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by the Sponsor for each round of the Hackathon (the “Hackathon Judges”) as further specified in Section 10 (Criteria and Selection). Hackathon Judges will include employees from the Marketing team of the Sponsor and representatives from LangChain, LlamaIndex, Weaviate, AssemblyAI, and Clarifai. Sponsor, including from the Product, Sales, Engineering, and Marketing teams, and/or external industry specialists and representatives of Snowflake customers. Judging will take place in one round in accordance with Section 10 below. All decisions of the Hackathon Judges and Sponsor are final, non-appealable, and binding, and in their sole discretion applying the criteria to the Entries. By participating in the Hackathon, each Registrant agrees it has no right to request, and Sponsor has no obligation to disclose the assessment of its Entry at any time for any round of the Hackathon or in the entirety of the Hackathon.

  2. CRITERIA AND SELECTION. All eligible Entries will be reviewed by Hackathon Judges to select up to two winners for each category (each, a “Hackathon Winner”). Hackathon Winners may include an individual or a two-member team. Hackathon Judges will score Entries according to the following criteria: (1) Registrants will build a Streamlit app; (2) The Streamlit app must use a large language model and at least one of the following tools: LangChain, LlamaIndex, AssemblyAI, Weaviate, and Clarifai (collectively, “Judging Criteria”).

  3. PRIZES.

11.1 Prize Package for Entry. The first 250 entrants who submit a valid app (one that adheres to the judging criteria specified above) will receive a pair of Streamlit socks at a value of approximately $8 USD.

11.2 Prize Package by Category. Following submission of the apps, the top two individuals or two-person teams in each category will be designated as Hackathon Winners by the Judges, and will receive a prize for the “Best use” of the category in which they are designated a Hackathon winner (qualifiers will be selected based on use of LangChain, LlamaIndex, Weaviate, AssemblyAI, or Clarifai) (collectively the “Prizes”).

All Hackathon Winners in each of the five categories will receive a Streamlit backpack (at an approximate value of $70); plus the Hackathon Winners in the individual categories will receive additional prizes as follows:

“Best use of Weaviate” Hackathon Winners will be awarded a wireless computer keyboard (at a total value of approximately $150)

“Best use of LlamaIndex” Hackathon Winners will be awarded AirPods (at a total value of approximately $180)

“Best use of LangChain” Hackathon Winners will be awarded a LangChain sweatshirt and stickers (at a total value of approximately $20)

“Best use of AssemblyAI” Hackathon Winners will be awarded a USB microphone (at a total value of approximately $110)

“Best use of Clarifai” Hackathon Winners will be awarded $170 Carifai credits plus a swag bag (at a total value of approximately $30)

The odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible Entries received. No cash or other substitution of prizes is permitted, except at the sole option of Sponsors for a prize of equal or greater value. Sponsors will not replace any lost or stolen prizes. Winners are solely responsible for any and all federal, state, provincial and local taxes, if any, that apply to prizes.

11.2 Forfeiture of Prize. If a selected winner cannot be contacted, is ineligible, fails to claim a prize and/or where applicable an affidavit of eligibility and publicity/liability release is not timely received, is incomplete or modified, the prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner will be selected from remaining valid, eligible Entries timely submitted.

11.3 Non-Transferable. The prize is not transferable or assignable to any other person or entity. Prizes have no cash value and cannot be substituted except in the sole discretion of Sponsor. If the actual value of a prize is less than the stated approximate retail value, the difference will not be awarded. Sponsor will not replace any lost or stolen prizes. Hackathon Winners are solely responsible for any and all federal, state, provincial and local taxes, if any, that apply to prizes.

  1. PRIVACY. Sponsor may collect personal data from and about a Registrant online, including without limitation, through the Entry and submission materials in accordance with the Privacy Policy applicable to the Hackathon Site, and as otherwise described in these Official Rules. By participating in the Hackathon, the Registrant expressly agrees to the collection and use of personal information submitted, consistent with the Privacy Policy applicable to the Hackathon Site, in connection with the activities of Sponsor in promoting and administering the Hackathon, and in regards to any activities of the Sponsor in connection with its business related to the Hackathon.

  2. GENERAL CONDITIONS.

By entering the Hackathon, Registrant agrees that these Official Rules are the controlling rules for the Hackathon and Registrant agrees to be bound exclusively by these Official Rules and the decisions of Sponsor.

Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, or misdirected entries; lost, interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections; miscommunications, computer or software malfunctions; transmission problems; technical failures; garbled transmissions; damage to user’s software or transmission devices; or other errors or malfunctions of any kind, whether human, mechanical, electronic or otherwise that may occur in connection with the Hackathon.

If for any reason, the Hackathon is not capable of proceeding as planned for reasons outside the control of Sponsor, including without limitation, due to any COVID-19 restrictions or other limitations, which in the sole discretion of Sponsor, may impact the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the Hackathon (or any portion thereof), Sponsor reserves the right, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend the Hackathon (or any portion thereof) and, in that event, the Sponsor will have no further obligation to any Registrant.

Sponsor also reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any Registrant if they are found to be: (a) tampering or attempting to tamper with the entry process or the operation of the Hackathon, or any website maintained or operated by Sponsor; (b) using any robotic, macro, automatic programmed or like type of entry methods; (c) violating these Official Rules; or (d) engaging in unethical, inappropriate or disruptive action or conduct, or taking any action inconsistent with these Official Rules, the fairness of the Hackathon and the reputation of Snowflake.

Any failure to enforce any terms of these Official Rules will not constitute a waiver of that provision or bar Sponsor from enforcing that term subsequently in connection with the Hackathon. The headings in these Official Rules are inserted for convenience and identification only, and are not intended to describe, interpret, define or limit the scope or intent of these Official Rules for the Hackathon. By submitting an Entry, each Registrant waives any right it may have to claim ambiguity of these Official Rules or any advantage or any impact on interpretation of these Official Rules that may arise from any such ambiguity claim. These Official Rules will be construed by Sponsor in its sole discretion, its decisions will be binding and final.

  1. WARRANTIES. Without limiting any other terms of these Official Rules, by participating in the Hackathon, each Registrant represents and warrants that its participation will comply with these Official Rules and that it has sufficient rights in the Entry (including the related submission materials) to authorize the publication and dissemination thereof as contemplated in these Official Rules. No Registrant will seek the assistance of any officer, director, employee of Snowflake apart from these Official Rules and the Hackathon to attempt to gain any advantage.

  2. PUBLICITY AND LICENSE GRANT. Except where prohibited by law, by submitting an Entry, each Registrant expressly grants Sponsor a license and consent to use, in its sole discretion, the name, country location, photo or likeness, and/or the background of the Registrant, and the Entry and submission materials, in whole or in part, in connection with the Hackathon, in any form of media, now known or hereafter created, worldwide, without further permission, payment, or any other consideration.

  3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF SPONSOR. You agree that nothing in these Official Rules or in any other statements made in connection with the Hackathon, grants to any Registrant the right or license to use any intellectual property of Sponsor. Registrant will not use the name, trademarks, service marks, logos, any copyrighted material or any other intellectual property of Sponsor (collectively, “Sponsor IP”) without the express written consent of Sponsor, which Sponsor may withhold in its sole discretion. Further, Registrant agrees that it will not use as its own, any service mark, service name, trade name, trademark, design or logo(s) confusingly similar to those part of or otherwise embodied in the Sponsor IP. Sponsor retains all rights, including media rights, to promote the Hackathon and the background and story of the Hackathon, including any Registrant’s participation in the Hackathon in its sole discretion.

  4. NO OBLIGATION OF PROGRAM ENTITIES RE SUBMISSION MATERIALS. Each Registrant acknowledges that third parties may submit information and Apps to Sponsor separate from the Hackathon that may contain information, ideas, concepts, and approaches similar to, or the same as, those any Registrant submits or submitted to the Hackathon, and that Sponsor may already be working on information, ideas, concepts, and approaches similar to, or the same as, those the Registrant submits or submitted to the Hackathon. By entering, each Registrant acknowledges and agrees that the Sponsor’s actions with respect to another entry or work of its own or of any third party, even if similar to, or the same as, the Registrant’s Entry, will not create any liability of any kind to Sponsor or others involved in the Hackathon. Each Registrant also acknowledges and agrees that participation in the Hackathon, receipt of a prize and/or designation as a Hackathon Winner or Winner does not create any obligation on the part of the Sponsor to promote, use in any way, or to take any further action regarding the Entry or submission materials of the Registrant or the Registrant’s involvement in the Hackathon apart from these Official Rules.

  5. RELEASE AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.

18.1 BY PARTICIPATING IN THE HACKATHON, EACH REGISTRANT AGREES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THAT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW: (A) ANY AND ALL DISPUTES, CLAIMS, AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE HACKATHON, INCLUDING AS APPLICABLE ANY PRIZE AWARD, WILL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY, WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION; (B) ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, JUDGMENTS, SETTLEMENTS, AND AWARDS WILL BE LIMITED TO REASONABLE, ACTUAL THIRD-PARTY, OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS INCURRED (IF ANY) NOT TO EXCEED $1,000 USD, BUT IN NO EVENT WILL ATTORNEYS’ FEES BE AWARDED OR RECOVERABLE; (C) UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL ANY REGISTRANT BE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN ANY AWARD FOR, AND HEREBY KNOWINGLY AND EXPRESSLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT TO SEEK, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, AND/OR ANY OTHER TYPE OF DAMAGES, OTHER THAN ACTUAL OUT-OF-POCKET THIRD PARTY EXPENSES ACTUALLY INCURRED (IF ANY) NOT TO EXCEED $1,000 USD, OR ANY RIGHT TO HAVE ANY DAMAGES MULTIPLIED OR OTHERWISE INCREASED; AND (D) EACH REGISTRANT IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO SEEK INJUNCTIVE OR EQUITABLE RELIEF.

18.2 Nothing in the Official Rules will exclude or limit the liability of either party to the other for: death or personal injury arising out of negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law.

  1. ADDITIONAL TERMS.

19.1 Each Registrant assumes any and all risks associated with the posting and use of the Entry, submission materials, travel and activities arising from or in connection with the Hackathon, and expressly waives and releases any and all claims or causes of action against the Sponsor, their officers, employees, representatives, and agents for any and all injury and damage of any nature whatsoever (whether existing or thereafter, whether direct, indirect, or consequential, and whether foreseeable or not), arising from the Entry, submission materials and presentation content, including but not limited to the ideas submitted to the Hackathon, and any travel or other activities arising from or in connection with the Hackathon.

19.2 This Hackathon is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter. The Registrants release Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter from all liability in relation to the Hackathon.

  1. INDEMNIFICATION. YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD THE SPONSOR (AND Hackathon JUDGES, AND ANY OTHER PERSONS ADMINISTERING THE Hackathon) AND EACH OF THEIR EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES, AGENTS, ATTORNEYS, AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OFFICERS, MANAGERS, AND SHAREHOLDERS (THE “INDEMNIFIED PARTIES”) HARMLESS FROM ANY DAMAGE, LOSS, COST, OR EXPENSE (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND COSTS) INCURRED IN CONNECTION WITH ANY THIRD-PARTY CLAIM, DEMAND, OR ACTION (“CLAIM”) BROUGHT OR ASSERTED AGAINST ANY OF THE INDEMNIFIED PARTIES, ALLEGING FACTS OR CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WOULD CONSTITUTE A BREACH OF ANY PROVISION OF THE THESE OFFICIAL RULES BY THE REGISTRANT OR ARISING FROM, RELATED TO, OR CONNECTED WITH YOUR ENTRY, SUBMISSION MATERIALS, AND PARTICIPATION IN ANY WAY IN ANY ASPECT OF THE Hackathon, INCLUDING RECEIPT OF ANY PRIZE. IF YOU ARE OBLIGATED TO PROVIDE INDEMNIFICATION PURSUANT TO THIS PROVISION, SPONSOR MAY, IN THE SPONSOR’S SOLE DISCRETION, CONTROL THE DISPOSITION OF ANY CLAIM AT YOUR SOLE COST AND EXPENSE. WITHOUT LIMITATION OF THE FOREGOING, YOU MAY NOT SETTLE, COMPROMISE, OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER DISPOSE OF ANY CLAIM WITHOUT THE SPONSOR’S EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT.

  2. GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTIONS. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation, and enforceability of these Official Rules and/or the rights and obligations of each Registrant, or the rights and obligations of the Sponsor, Hackathon Judges and anyone involved in administering the Hackathon will be exclusively governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions that would cause the application of the laws of any other country or jurisdiction. Any litigation arising out of, in connection with, or relating to these Official Rules must be filed and pursued exclusively in the State or Federal courts in Wilmington, Delaware, and each Registrant participating in the Hackathon, and any related person or entity, consents to the jurisdiction of and venue in the state or federal courts in Wilmington, Delaware.

  3. WINNER’S LIST. For a list of prize winners, visit the Hackathon Site following the conclusion of the Hackathon.