LWOW Original Winning Teams + Projects of Worth
2019
Winner Overall:
SmartSyndi (sponsored by HSBC)
Syndication made smart. SmartSyndi is a software solution for managing syndicated loans. Powered by blockchain coupled with smart contracts for seamless automation, SmartSyndi provides users with an efficient, convenient and auditable system for managing their syndicated loan transactions.
Jean Carlo Gutierrez, Jordan Suarez, Christina Cheung, Olga Bochkaryova, Stacey Quaye, Chi Hoong Chang, Marcia Narine Weldon, Wojtek, Zaluska, Joe May, Angelo Massagli
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Winner for Best Business Case:
ProPosal (sponsored by iManage)
For smarter business engagements. ProPosal is an AI-driven solution that cuts the response time for request-for-proposals by automatically searching and suggesting best practise answers, using the firm’s most successful proposals as a data source. ProPosal will also identify internal areas of expertise.
Maria Agustina Di Santo, Iris Sveinsdottir, Thanigai Muthusamy, JoAnne Wakeford, Dan Carmel, Laura Whitehead, Caroline Brown, John Fernandez, Marcel Henri, Richard Macklin, Judith Prime, Moray McLaren, Daniela Aranda, Erik Suokas
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Winner for Best Pitch:
Komorebi (sponsored bY The Ferraro Law Firm)
Also, LWOW X Overall Winner of virtual program
Lighting the way. Komorebi is a virtual reality training program for police officers that helps them to acknowledge and recognise the harmful effects of their implicit biases. In turn, this increases empathy towards victims and stimulates continuous learning.
Halldor Thorsteinsson, Sophie Tversky, Mario Vasquez, Elisa Wong, Jitka Coufalova, Pablo Pazos, Rayhan Asat, Sandra Hu, Theo Lister, Robert Millard, Ian Redmond, Magnus Stein, Sharon Yin
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Winner for Best Branding:
STU (SPONSORED BY Accenture)
Helping you love your food for longer. STU is an app that provides consumers with consistent information on food freshness to combat food waste in the home. STU consists of a food tracker, a sniffer, recipes, guidance, and a community function to ensure users are equipped to change their food behaviours. #LWOW2019
Kim Koelmeyer, Sarah Bartrim, Sarah Brickey, Christel Escriva, Wai Ming, Fiona Robson, Amanda Brino, Helga Kristin Audunsdottir, Liz Reiser-Murphy, Yasmine Sadik, Leah Stevenson
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Winner for Best Commercial:
Legal Genie (Sponsored by Link Asset Services + Eversheds Sutherland)
The search is over. Legal Genie is a smart, secure and cost-effective tool that detects email attachments, prompting in-house lawyers to upload them to a centralized, searchable platform. This enables retrieval and review of specific clauses and vital information across 100s of contracts.
Varsha Kashyap, Matthew Mahjour, Matsatsi Diale, Paul Denham, Hoda Mezher, Anna Clarkson, James Batham, Cythia Dahl, Sonja Radovic, Lisa Matsue
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Winner for Best Idea:
VIDI (sponsored by Accenture)
Seeing their Past, Protecting their Future. VIDI is a blockchain-powered platform that allows foster parents, regional lead agencies and case managers to have immediate and easy access to the most current health information for children in Florida's foster care system
Katja Allenspach, Wifredo Fernandez, Wendy Yu, Akkatt Cheriachen, Joanna Gadsby, Edel Kirley, Darrin Meehan, Annette Torres, Naomi Griffin, Bertrand Bussiere, Nareg Frounjian, Preetika Mishra
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Audience Choice Winner:
VIDI (sponsored by Accenture)
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Past Winners
2018
Winner Overall:
Rytmos (Sponsored by Spotify)
Keeping your rhythm alive. A platform providing undiscovered music artists with promotion, gig booking, and legal and business resources
Kwame Adzatia, Brandon Bauman, Catalina Carmona, Joel England, GG Gürbüz, Ana Martinez Valls, Angelo Massagli, Marcia Narine Weldon, Maria Carolina Navias, Diego Torres
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Winner for Best Idea:
Weaver (Sponsored by Miami Law)
Rebuild, Together. A membership-based e-marketplace and matching service for homeowners and low-skill repair workers after natural disasters
Valeriya Anopchenko, Deborah Attolini, Tamar Firon, Ricardo Gali, Aleksandar Jakovljevic, Cliff Larsen, Hanna Lee, Anna Ronkainen, Phyllis Weiss Haserot, Rui Zhu
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Winner for Best Presentation:
Kite (Sponsored by Janders Dean)
A community-based support platform. A platform integrating local communities and social support networks to help at-risk Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth with case management
Eric Fiszelson, Lisa Gluckstein, Brent Liang, Erika Ly, Joe May, Justin North, Kgabo Senyatsi
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Winner for Best Business Case:
ALSO Winner Overall, LWOW X
Redemption League (sponsored by the Ferraro Law Firm)
Map your way to independence. A mapping tool to help prisoners map their way to independence by connecting them to networks, available housing, and employment opportunities after release
Daniela Aranda, Christiana Couto, Sara Couture, Andres Jara, Ruby Klett, Raechel Lobo, Ross Mullane, Jessica Rebarber, Leah Stevenson
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Winner for Best Commercial:
WALBot (Sponsored by HSBC)
Keep your Knowledge at Hand. A bot optimizing in-house knowledge management by automatically identifying, tagging, and uploading external legal advice
James Batham, Matt Bauer, Richard Crabb, Bruno Dotto, Pedro Gil Arboli, Margaret McGrath, Martin Palomino, Christian Rioult, Rob Rosen, Ines Spinnato
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Winner, Neota Logic Prize:
SERO (Sponsored by LegalMosaic)
The link between Fintech startups and GDPR compliance. A platform equipping fintech startups with customized, cost-effective information, tools, and resources to achieve GDPR compliance
Layan Al Saleh, Irfan Arif, Stephanie Buschta, John Flood, Camila Mingo, David O'Donovan, Ruchi Priya Rawat, Peter Sudbury, Wojtek Zaluska
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2017
Winner Overall:
ITHACA (Sponsored by Janders Dean)
Offer your hand. Ithaca is a not for profit web app which seeks to overcome the difficulties faced by refugees in obtaining legal assistance. Ithaca connects refugees with lawyers based upon expertise and needs whilst also providing a platform for the storage and access of legal information and documentation.
Joshua Ajamu, James Dong, Zack Knechtel, Moray McLaren, Joseph May, Justin North, Liz Rieser-Murphy, Courtney Rickersey, Richard Zhang
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Winner for Substance:
Clear Loan (Sponsored by Pinsent Masons)
The future of the financial services is clear. Clear Loan is a training tool for borrowers and an analytics tool for banks. We help reduce consumer complaints raised against banks through educating the consumer and help banks provide standardized evidence of compliance related to borrower complaints' raised during the lending process.
Aslihan Alparsian, Stacy Bairner, Orlando Conetta, Michelle Fox, Stephen Makin, Russell Mascarenhas, James Peters, Caio Santos
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Winner for Creativity:
Creative license (Sponsored by Bupa)
Write away, the right way. Creative Licence is a user-friendly, AI-based solution that gives marketeers instant feedback on high risk words and phrases as they type. It helps make sure that the copy which comes to the legal team for sign off is already high quality, freeing that team from correcting the same basic errors over and over again and letting them focus on the content that presents the highest risk. It’s like having a lawyer, a compliance officer and a brand guardian in the room with your marketeers, giving them tips as they type.
Claire Atkinson, Bertrand Bussiere, Laura Callava, Preetha Chakrabarti, Hannah-Elisabeth Dellemann, Laurene Drossart, Alexandra Eadie, Diego Gomez Palacio Borboa, Peggy Hollander, Jennifer Li, Janina Stansson, Emma Zipper
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Winner for Viability:
LEA (sponsored by the (Eversheds)
Leave it to LEA, your Legal Expertise Aggregator. LEA is an app that helps declutter your life by aggregating and curating all your relevant legal news and industry updates in one place.
Trinidad Alonso, James Batham, Carin Holmes, Clifford Larsen, Peter Lederer, Lukas Mansky, Ben McLeod, Marcia Narine, Stacy Ruegelin, Inés Spinnato
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Vide
Vide is a DIY biographical video app to present and humanize the defendant's story to the judge during court proceedings.
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