In case of non-respect of these Rules, the Participant will be immediately disqualified from the program.

 

3. REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM

To take part in the program, we must receive your completed registration by September 30th 2024. To register, the Participant must first have created a user account on the Agorize, and must have truthfully and accurately completed required information, such as full name, email address, etc.

Any registration based on inaccurate, false or incomplete information will result in the Participant’s disqualification. Refusing collection, recording and use of their personal data that is strictly necessary to performing the program will result in the Participant’s disqualification. The Participant is solely responsible for the information he/she provides when registering. Any intentional or unintentional mistake, anomaly or inconsistency, regarding this information, may result in the Participant’s disqualification. The Sponsor reserves the right to proceed with all necessary verifications regarding the Participant’s identity, postal and/or email address.

You must also have accepted the Rules as well as the Terms and Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy, during the creation of your user account and your registration to the program.

Registration for and participation in the program is free, with no purchase or payment obligation.

4. ELIGIBILITY

This program is open and offered solely to:

• Individual Participant representing a company. Individuals aged eighteen (18) years and/or with full legal capacity at the time of registration.

This program is not open to startups from other countries than France, and to startups from the public sector. The startups should be B2B or B2B2C, and post-MVP, with paying clients. The participants should be willing to develop their solution on Microsoft technologies, and be on the Microsoft marketplace.

5. PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM AND PARTICIPATION

The goal of the program is for participants to recieve technical and business support from Microsoft and its partners. The participants must be present to the kickoff, the demo day and to all mandatory events of the program. The startup can but don’t have to use the two seats allocated on the Microsoft bench at Station F.

6. DELIVERABLES

The participants must present the result of the acceleration during the program at the demo day, in form of a powerpoint presentation by the startup founder.

7. PROGRAM PROCESS

Preselection phase

The voters (by expert jury of Microsoft leaders and ecosystem partners - the “Voters”) may evaluate and select the applications based on their content and the following criteria:

• Strength of the Tech Solution

• Potential of the team

• Powered or willing to be powered by Microsoft Azure

• Potential synergies with Microsoft and the program partners

Jury phase

Participants who have been selected to participate in the jury phase will be directly notified by email to the address provided during registration. In the event a Participant does not confirm his/her attendance at the final event, the Sponsor reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify this Participant. This disqualification shall not entitle the Participant to claim any kind of compensation from the Sponsor.

8. BENEFITS FOR SELECTED PARTICIPANTS

Subject to these Terms and Conditions, once confirmed by Sponsor, the selected participants will receive the following:

• 2 Station F offices for the duration of the program

• Tech support: technical workshops, 1:1 technical support experts, mentoring, access to the latest OpenAI models (GPT 3.5, GPT-4), Azure credits and free licenses

• Business support: connecting with the partner ecosystem, supporting your go-to-market strategy

• Visibility: Marketing and communications support via multiple channels

9. COMMUNICATION

The Participant acknowledges and consents that Sponsor may, worldwide and for the duration of the program use the program for publicity, including for Sponsor’s advertising or other marketing purposes, (by any means and through any format (website, advertising banners, social networks, newsletter, press release) now known or unknown to date, free of charge or for a consideration.

As an example, each Participant authorizes the Sponsor to use the photographs taken during the program to disseminate them via any communication medium.

10.CONFIDENTIALITY

The Sponsor has no obligation to keep the information contained in the demo day Deliverables given by the participant confidential. In general terms, when submitting any Deliverables, the Participants understand, agree and accept that any information contained therein may be publicly disclosed by the Sponsor.

Furthermore, Participants acknowledge that the Sponsor may currently or in the future be developing information internally, or receiving information from other parties, that is similar to the information contained in any of the projects. Accordingly, nothing herein shall prohibit the Sponsor from independently acquiring, developing, or having developed for it, products, concepts, systems, services, or techniques that are similar to or compete with the products, concepts, systems or techniques contemplated by or embodied in any Deliverable.

The Participants recognize that other Participants, individuals or entities may have provided to the Sponsor or others, or made public, or may in the future submit, or make public, content that is the same or similar to any piece of information contained in any of the projects. Hence, the Participants acknowledge, agree and accept that the Sponsor shall have the right to use such same or similar materials, and that the Participants will not be entitled to any compensation arising from the Sponsor’s use of such materials.

11.INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Definitions. For the purposes of this section,

• "Intellectual Property Rights" refer to any copyright or other rights over a brand, a design or a model, a patent and, more generally, any element, (including trade secrets and knowhow), that may be protected by national and/or international laws or conventions on intellectual property (“Intellectual Property Rights”)

• “Previous Rights” refer to any Intellectual Property Rights and/or any associated know-how held by the Participants before the start date of the program (“Previous Rights”)

• “Creations” refer to any software (including source and object code software), database, technical specifications, text, design, model, information, knowledge, method, process or product, as well as any resulting elements and/or processes likely or otherwise to be protected according to national and/or international laws or conventions on intellectual property developed by any Participant as a part of any submitted deliverable throughout the program (“Creations”).

Warranty of non-infringement. When submitting any Deliverable, at any stage of the program, each Participant guarantees to Sponsor that he/she is the co/owner and/or co/holder of the Intellectual Property Rights regarding all or part of the Creations contained in the Deliverables submitted at any stage of the program, and that he/she has obtained all rights and permissions regarding all pre-existing Creations and any elements of the Deliverables for which he/she does not hold the relevant rights.

Each Participant guarantees (i) that his/her contribution is original and unprecedented; (ii) that it does not infringe upon the copyright or any Intellectual Property Rights of any third party; (iii) that all the elements of which his/her submissions are formed, as well as all pieces of contributions and information communicated in the submission presentation documents are accurate, reliable and complete; and (iv) that the submission of the relevant Deliverables does not constitute an act of unfair competition of any kind.

It is compulsory for Participants to indicate the source of any pre-existing Creations of whichever nature and on whichever support that are included in any submitted deliverable. Any Deliverable involving several Participants constitutes a collaborative work and it should be treated as such in accordance with the applicable regulation in force.

Liability. Sponsor cannot be held liable for any infringement of the above provisions by Participants. Each Participant shall indemnify the Sponsor against any disturbance, action, claim, opposition and demand or eviction attempt from any third party in connection with any Creation in the Deliverables (Intellectual Property Rights included).

By submitting a Deliverable and participating in this program, you are not granting the Sponsor any rights to any intellectual property supporting all of part of the Deliverable and the Sponsor makes no claim to ownership of your Deliverable or any intellectual property that it may contain.

12.MODIFICATION OF RULES, SUSPENSION AND CANCELLATION OF THE PROGRAM

The Sponsor reserves the right to amend these Rules at any time, including the program duration in case of operational imperatives, without prior notice to Participants regarding the enforcement or the validity of these amendments. Participants are encouraged to consult these Rules regularly. Participants expressly waive all claims or disputes related to any amendment to these Rules by the Sponsor.

Should any paragraph of these Rules be declared or judged illegal, unenforceable or void by a court decision, the paragraph in question will be considered null and void, but all other unaffected paragraphs will be enforced within the limits of the law.

Program Cancellation or Suspension. The Sponsor reserves the right in its discretion, to (i) cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the program and these Rules, for any reason, at any time and without any liability, and (ii) to limit or restrict participation in the program. The Sponsor will not be held liable for the modification, cancellation or suspension of the program and no compensation or remuneration will be due to the Participants.

13.PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION

Participation in the program requires the communication of the Participant's personal data ("Personal Data").

Participant’s personal data is subject to processing within the meaning of the regulations on the protection of personal data (The EU 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation and the Council of 27 April 2016, known as GDPR) for which the Sponsor defines the purposes and means and is, as such, “Data controller” within the meaning of the GDPR.

The purposes of the processing are:

• To meet the organization of the challenge needs

• To organize the intermediation between the Participant and the Sponsor, to ensure identification, communication and preservation of the exchanges with the Participant

In accordance with the provisions of the GDPR, the Sponsor undertakes to implement organizational and technical security measures in order to protect all Participant’s Personal Data. The Sponsor undertakes these measures to allow the exercise of Participants’ rights from GDPR.

14.APPLICABLE LAW AND DISPUTES RESOLUTION

The program and any action related thereto shall be governed by the law applicable to France.

In case of persistent litigation beyond a period of fifteen (15) days after the Participant has filed a claim, the Sponsor and the Participant undertake to submit their dispute to an amicable conciliation prior to any legal proceedings. The party wishing to initiate conciliation shall inform the other party by means of a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt in which it will inform of its intentions and will explain the cause. If no agreement is reached between the parties within thirty (30) days after receipt of the registered letter, the parties regain their freedom of action.

In case of persistent disagreement on the application or interpretation of the Rules, and in the absence of an amicable settlement, any dispute that may arise between the parties, will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts to which the parties expressly grant jurisdiction, even in the case of multiple defendants, in summary proceedings, appeal by guarantee or by motion or any other jurisdiction.