Applications Now Open for the ABA TECHSHOW 2023 Startup Alley and Pitch Competition « ABA TECHSHOW

In its 6 several years so far, the Startup Alley competition at ABA TECHSHOW has assisted catapult the achievement of a prolonged record of lawful technological know-how startups. Now the competitiveness is returning for its seventh year, and programs formally open up now to enter for a place at TECHSHOW 2023, which takes location in Chicago March 1-4.

Out of all the entries obtained, 15 startups will be chosen to take part in a are living pitch competitors that will be the opening event of this year’s TECHSHOW. In addition to the pitch competition, the 15 finalists will be highlighted as exhibitors in a specific Startup Alley part of the meeting exhibit corridor.

Again this 12 months, I will be coordinating the competition, in collaboration with the TECHSHOW board. Study on for whole facts.

How Will the Startups Be Chosen?

The levels of competition begins these days. Startups interested in collaborating ought to complete this software type. Programs ought to be received by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

From all purposes obtained, a panel of five judges will decide on 25 finalists. This year’s judges are:

• Jeannine Lambert, TECHSHOW 2023 co-chair.
• Gyi Tsakalakis, TECHSHOW 2023 co-chair.
• Sofia Lingos, TECHSHOW 2023 co-vice-chair.
• Cynthia Thomas, TECHSHOW 2023 co-vice-chair.
• Bob Ambrogi, Startup Alley organizer.

On Jan. 17, 2023, descriptions of every of the 25 finalists will be posted on the ABA TECHSHOW website, Over the Law and LawSites, and visitors will be invited to vote for their favorites. The 15 startups that acquire the most votes will be picked for Startup Alley. Winners will be declared on Jan. 31.

What Are the Criteria for Making use of?

The competition is confined to startups that meet the subsequent requirements:

• Your solution or service is focused to attorneys or lawful pros, not to consumers.
• Your enterprise has never ever in advance of exhibited at a countrywide legal technology conference.
• Your company has achieved some demonstrable traction, both in users or financing.
• You have been not a single of the prior years’ winners picked to existing at Startup Alley in 2017-2022.

In addition, your company should be impressive, indicating that it addresses a want not achieved by other goods or solutions now on the market place or that it does so in a way not now completed by some others.

What Takes place If My Corporation Is Chosen?

The 15 successful finalists will facial area of in a Are living pitch competitors that is TECHSHOW’s signature opening night time party. Every single startup will have 2.5 minutes to existing its pitch in front of an viewers of TECHSHOW attendees. At the conclusion of the pitches, attendees will vote to decide on the most innovative company as the winner.

In addition, all 15 startups will be delivered place at a discounted cost to show their solution or assistance in a special Startup Alley found within TECHSHOW’s show corridor.

• Each individual startup will be provided house in a uniform, pre-installed booth. You will not want (or be permitted) to provide a booth of your individual.
• Each individual startup will be liable for the booth charge of $1,500. This is a significant reduction off the common booth expense. You are welcome to search for sponsors to underwrite all or part of this price.
• Each and every startup is liable for its very own journey and lodge expenditures to Chicago.

What Do Startups Get Out of This?

ABA TECHSHOW is one of the world’s pre-eminent authorized technological innovation conferences. All of the individuals attain exposure to a massive and diverse viewers of authorized pros, together with practitioners, academics, consultants and others. In addition, TECHSHOW’s audience incorporates legal journalists, bloggers, field analysts and buyers.

The winner of the opening evening pitch competitors will obtain:

• Totally free 10×10 booth place at the 2024 TECHSHOW.
• No cost 12-thirty day period listing on the ABA Lawful Technology Source Center’s Buyer’s Guidebook.
• $5,000 credit rating to use toward marketing in ABA Regulation Observe Division media.
• A profile of the business on my LawSites blog site.

Moreover, every of the 15 finalists will acquire a cost-free a person-year premium listing in the LawNext Legal Technological know-how Listing.

There is no expense to apply and the application variety is reasonably painless to comprehensive. We appear ahead to reading through your submissions.

Questions? Send them my way.

Bob Ambrogi

Bob is a lawyer, veteran legal journalist, and award-successful blogger and podcaster. In 2011, he was named to the inaugural Fastcase 50, honoring “the law’s smartest, most brave innovators, techies, visionaries and leaders.” Earlier in his vocation, he was editor-in-main of various legal publications, which includes The Nationwide Law Journal, and editorial director of ALM’s Litigation Solutions Division.