JetBrains Academy AI Festival

These Public Competition Regulations (hereinafter the Regulations) shall govern the procedure of organization and provision of the AI Hackathon public competition (hereinafter the Competition).

No purchase or payment necessary to enter or win. A purchase or payment will not increase your chances of winning.

Submission of any entry constitutes agreement to these official rules as a contract between entrant (and each individual member of entrant) and the public competition organizer.

Submission Period: March 1, 2024 (06:00 PM Central European Time) – March 3, 2024 (06:00 PM Central European Time) (“Submission Period”).

Judging Period: March 3, 2024 (06:00 PM Central European Time) – March 7, 2024 (06:00 PM Central European Time) (“Judging Period”).

Winners Announced: On or around March 8, 2024 (12:00 pm Central European Time).

The Competition Organizer is JetBrains s.r.o. with its registered office at Na Hřebenech II 1718/8, Prague, 14000, Czech Republic, registered with Commercial Register kept by the Municipal Court of Prague, Section C, file 86211, ID.Nr.: 265 02 275; B.

3.1 The Competition IS open to:

Individuals who are at least 18 years old (“Eligible Individuals”) in the Machine Learning Category and Teams of Eligible Individuals (“Teams”); (the above are collectively, “Entrants”) in the Engineering Category.

An Eligible Individual may join no more than one Team and an Eligible Individual who is part of a Team may also enter the Competition on an individual basis. If a Team is entering the the Competition, 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 you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your Team.

3.2. The Competition IS NOT open to:

Residents and persons ordinarily incident in territories subject to EU or U.S. comprehensive sanctions and export control limitations, such as North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iran, Crimea region and other annexed territories of Ukraine, Russian Federation and Belarus.

Persons designated on sanctions lists by the European Union, the Czech Republic, the United Nations or the U.S. Government, and individuals associated or linked with such designated persons.

Employees of the Organizer and/or affiliates and persons who were employees of the Organizer and/or affiliates in the period from October 11, 2023 to March 01, 2024, other persons involved in the organization of the Competition, as well as their family members.

3.1 The Competition IS open to:

Individuals who are at least 18 years old (“Eligible Individuals”) in the Machine Learning Category and Teams of Eligible Individuals (“Teams”); (the above are collectively, “Entrants”) in the Engineering Category.

An Eligible Individual may join no more than one Team and an Eligible Individual who is part of a Team may also enter the Competition on an individual basis. If a Team is entering the the Competition, 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 you represent and warrant that you are the Representative authorized to act on behalf of your Team.

3.2. The Competition IS NOT open to:

Residents and persons ordinarily incident in territories subject to EU or U.S. comprehensive sanctions and export control limitations, such as North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iran, Crimea region and other annexed territories of Ukraine, Russian Federation and Belarus.

Persons designated on sanctions lists by the European Union, the Czech Republic, the United Nations or the U.S. Government, and individuals associated or linked with such designated persons.

Employees of the Organizer and/or affiliates and persons who were employees of the Organizer and/or affiliates in the period from October 11, 2023 to March 01, 2024, other persons involved in the organization of the Competition, as well as their family members.

4.1. Entrants shall register before the March, 08 by filling-in an online registration form available at https://lp.jetbrains.com/ai-fest/

4.2. All mandatory fields are required to be filled in by every Entrant.

4.3. By registering, Entrants shall acknowledge having read and agreed with the Regulations on the Competition available at https://lp.jetbrains.com/ai-fest/regulations

Machine Learning Category

Entrants must use machine learning to create a model that predicts the name of the function based on the source code. The score will be calculated based on scoring metrics for the entrants’ predictions, which should be uploaded to the platform as a submission.

Additionally, there could be additional rules regarding the task that will be declared on the platform

The competition description, dataset, and scoring metrics will be made available on the platform at 6 p.m. (CET) on the 1st of March.

Information about the competition platform will be provided via email up until the 1st of February.

Engineering Category

(i) What to Create: Entrants must build an AI teacher assistant that uses Grazie API

(ii) 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/or expressed in the text description.

(iii) Platforms: A submitted Project must run on the platform for which it is intended and which is specified in the Submission Requirements.

(iv) New & Existing: Projects must be either newly created by the Entrant or, if the Project existed prior to the Submission Period, must have been significantly updated after the start of the Submission Period.

(v) Third Party Integrations: If a Project integrates any third-party SDK, APIs and/or data, Entrant must be authorized to use them.

(vi) Testing: The Entrant must make the Project available free of charge and without any restriction, for testing, evaluation and use by the Organizer.

Submission Requirements. Submissions to the hackathon must meet the following requirements:

• Include a Project built with the required developer tools and meets the above Project Requirements.
• Include a text description that should explain the new features and functionality of your Project.
• Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the submission:
• should be less than three (3) minutes
• should include footage that shows the Project functioning on the device for which it was built
• 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, or copyrighted music or other material unless the Entrant has permission to use such material.
• Be the original work of the submitter, be solely owned by the submitter, and not violate the IP rights of any other person or entity.

Access must be provided to an Entrant’s working Project for judging and testing by providing a link to a website, functioning demo, or a test build. If Entrant’s website is private, Entrant must include login credentials in its testing instructions.

Language Requirements

All Submission materials must be in English or, if not in English, the Entrant must provide an English translation of the demonstration video, text description, and testing instructions as well as all other materials submitted.

Team Representation

If a team is entering the Competetion, they must appoint and authorize one individual (the “Representative”) to represent, act, and enter a Submission, on their behalf. The Representative must meet the eligibility requirements above. By entering a Submission on the Competition Website 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.

Intellectual Property in the Submission: Your Submission must: (a) be your (or your Team, or Organization’s) original work product; (b) be solely owned by you, your Team, your Organization with no other person or entity having any right or interest in it; and (c) not violate the intellectual property rights or other rights including but not limited to copyright, trademark, patent, contract, and/or privacy rights, of any other person or entity. An Entrant may contract with a third party for technical assistance to create the Submission provided the Submission components are solely the Entrant’s work product and the result of the Entrant’s ideas and creativity, and the Entrant owns all rights to them. An Entrant may submit a Submission that includes the use of open source software or hardware, provided the Entrant complies with applicable open source licenses and, as part of the Submission, creates software that enhances and builds upon the features and functionality included in the underlying open source product. By entering the Competition, you represent, warrant, and agree that your Submission meets these requirements.

Financial or Preferential Support: A Project must not have been developed, or derived from a Project developed, with financial or preferential support from the Sponsor or Administrator. Such Projects include, but are not limited to, those that received funding or investment for their development, were developed under contract, or received a commercial license, from the Sponsor or Administrator any time prior to the end of Hackathon Submission Period. The Sponsor, at their sole discretion, may disqualify a Project, if awarding a prize to the Project would create a real or apparent conflict of interest.

Eligible submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges selected by the Organizer (the “Judges”). Judges may be employees of the sponsor or third parties, may or may not be listed individually on the Competition Website, and may change before or during the Judging Period. Judging may take place in two stages with one or more panels of Judges, at the discretion of the Organizer.

Based on the evaluation results, the Judges shall determine the Winners and Prize-Winners, who have taken prize-winning places. The decision of the Judges shall be reflected in the Competition Results Statement (hereinafter the Statement).

All submissions remain the intellectual property of the individuals who developed them. By submitting an entry, entrants grant Organizer an irrevocable, unconditional, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual licence to use, display, modify, and distribute entries, solutions and/or feedbacks voluntarily made available to the Organizer of the Hackathon. Entrants agree that the Organiser shall have the right to promote entries, solutions and submission and use the name, likeness, voice and image of all individuals contributing to a submission, in any materials promoting or publicising the hackathon and its results, during the Competition Period and for three years thereafter.

Some Submission components may be displayed to the public. Other Submission materials may be viewed by the Organizer and judges for screening and evaluation. 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.

Prizes are provided by the Competition Organizer.

Winners shall get the following Prizes according to the prize-winning places taken by them:

Machine Learning Category:

FIRST PLACE — A voucher for the JetBrains shop worth 150 euros;

SECOND PLACE — A voucher for the JetBrains shop worth 100 euros;

THIRD PLACE — A voucher for the JetBrains shop worth 50 euros;

Engineering Category:

FIRST PLACE — Six vouchers for the JetBrains shop worth 150 euros;

SECOND PLACE — Six vouchers for the JetBrains shop worth 100 euros;

THIRD PLACE — Six vouchers for the JetBrains shop worth 50 euros.