Innovation Challenge Participation Agreement

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‼️Please Note If you have concerns about any aspect of the Participation Agreement, email [email protected].

Velocity has the right to remove participants at any point if the terms outlined below or the Code of Conduct are not followed.

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Participation:

All participants must be a current student of the University of Waterloo.
All participants are required to attend the November 2nd Kick-Off event and, if chosen as one of the top 16 teams, the November 16th Project Showcase. If you are chosen as a finalist, you must also attend the in-person November 17th Finalist Pitch Prep and November 18th Final Presentations & Awards events. A full schedule of events is linked here.
At least one participant from each team must attend all other scheduled events.
All participants agree to be responsive and work collaboratively with each other throughout the duration of challenge.
All team members agree to always conduct themselves in a professional and respectful manner.
All participants agree to communicate effectively and consistently with each other and to report any issues or concerns to Velocity.

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🫵🏽 Dispute Resolution:

Any disputes or disagreements within the team will be handled through open and respectful communication and mediation.
If a dispute cannot be resolved, team members may consult Velocity Events ([email protected]) from Velocity for guidance.
Please let Velocity know as soon as an issue starts so we have enough time to resolve it.

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Intellectual Property:

All participants agree to disclose any existing intellectual property or patents that may relate to the project idea prior to the start of the challenge.
All participants agree that any intellectual property created during the challenge is owned jointly by all members of the team.
All participants agree that they will not use any intellectual property or patents they have conducted research on related to their thesis.

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Graduate Students:

All graduate students are required to complete the participant agreement attached below acknowledging that you are free to pursue the commercialization of any IP created over the course of the Innovation Challenge.
You will also acknowledge that you should not use any research conducted as part of your graduate studies for the Innovation Challenge.
Please complete this agreement and send it to: [email protected] with the subject line “Grad Student agreement - Stellar Blockchain Innovation Challenge”:

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