Pitch teams will present their innovations in 3-minute pitches. For each of the tracks, judges will select the top three innovations pitched by the presenting teams. Pitch A includes two separate tracks. The first track focuses on innovations that help civil rights governmental agencies improve their administrative and operational effectiveness to determine whether consumer have been harmed. The second track focuses on innovations that improve and enhance the investigative processes to make sound determinations about potential violations of civil rights laws. 

Pitch A Tracks:
•    Track 1: Innovations that help civil rights, housing, or financial services governmental agencies improve operational efficiencies, such as streamlining processes, automating tasks, leveraging data analytics, enhancing communications tasks, increasing transparency, making information more accessible to persons with disabilities, etc.
    
•    Track 2: Innovations that improve and enhance [the effectiveness of] investigative processes such as detecting bias in mortgage portfolios, processing complaint intake, identifying discriminatory advertisements, identifying discriminatory phrases in appraisal reports, or determining if an algorithm generates a disparate impact.