Want to be a contest judge?

You can as part of the Audience Choice award at the WPI Venture Forum Five Minute Pitch contest. Dozens of tech companies entered and ten made it to the finals.  Using electronic voting devices, the audience chooses the winner of one of the two prizes. Will you and the Judges agree?

Process / Guidelines

The Pitch Contest consists of two rounds of selection.  In the first round, applications are evaluated anonymously by a group of area business leaders.  Ten finalists will be selected from among the applicants and invited to compete at the Venture Forum’s final meeting of the season, scheduled for 5:30 on June 12, 2012. 

In the final round, each company will be given five minutes to pitch their business to a panel of expert judges and the Forum’s audience who will evaluate the entrepreneur’s presentation skills and overall performance. Each presentation will be followed by a two minute open discussion between the judges and the entrepreneur.  The judges will then rate each business and the audience will do the same.  Once all the pitches are complete, the judges will select the winner of the top prize in a brief and closed deliberation.  An audience prize will be awarded based on the voting results.