Rules

• Seats are limited to 53 workstations.
  
• Participants must check in no later than 8:00am Monday, May 2 to participate.
• Come on your own or create a team. We also want to encourage collaboration among attendees so if you find a team or person with a valuable asset to support your idea/concept, feel free to team up when you arrive. Teams: only 1 person needs to register on behalf of all participants.
• All participants must be in the building during the event. No remote hacking will be permitted.
  
• Participants must provide their own laptops, and mobile/tablet devices for use during the event.
  
• All laptops will remain within the hosting facility for the duration of the event, to include overnight, even if the participant does not stay overnight.
• Mobile phones and tablets are not required to remain in the facility overnight.
  
• External hard drives are permitted for the hacking event itself. USB sticks are allowed to be used for your personal laptops.
  
• Power strips and internet cables will be provided by AEgis Technologies.
  
• As much as we appreciate people’s interest, no one will be allowed inside the event other than participants, sponsor representatives, subject matter experts and invited media. No spectators please!
  
• US citizens only!
  
• Must be 18 years of age or older
  

• Each participant and/or participant team will present their product or solution to the group on Tuesday afternoon.
  
• Presentation will be 3 – 5 minutes long. Representatives from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, GEOHuntsville, the city of Huntsville, Cummings Research Park, Innovate Huntsville, and others will be the primary audience for the presentations.
• No formal presentation is required. Demos of your product or solution will follow this general outline: introduce yourself/teammate, introduce your concept, identify what tools you used, explain (loosely) how you derived your solution and what problem you are solving.
  
• Presentations require direct connect from your laptop to the projection system. USB sticks are not permitted for presentation purposes.