How can legal knowledge in a global corporation become more accessible, interactive, and user-friendly? Siemens brought this question to Munich Hacking Legal 2026 as main sponsor. The legal tech hackathon is organized jointly by START Munich, the Liquid Legal Institute, and the Legal Tech Colab, an initiative of UnternehmerTUM, the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice, and TUM Venture Labs.
From 438 applications by students and young professionals in IT, law, and economics, we selected 94 hackers. Under the patronage of State Minister Eisenreich and with further sponsoring partners such as BMW, EQS, and Eltemate, the teams came together in Munich. The team with the longest journey traveled all the way from Toronto, Canada.
Siemens brought a real challenge from the everyday work of its legal department. Legal playbooks bundle negotiation knowledge, standard positions, and decision rules. In practice, however, this knowledge is often stored in static Word and Excel documents. The challenge: How can AI turn these into a “living playbook” – an interactive knowledge base that provides legal guidance, continuously learns from new experiences, and makes legal know-how easier to access worldwide?
Six interdisciplinary teams from tech, economics, and law took on the challenge and worked intensively on solutions for 24 hours. Coaches from the Siemens legal department, who know the problem from their daily work, supported them. The result was prototypes and MVPs that show how legal knowledge can become dynamic, interactive, and tangible – inspiration and new ways of thinking rather than finished products.
This is the principle behind Munich Hacking Legal: Companies bring a real challenge from their everyday work – concrete practical questions rather than hypothetical case studies. Interdisciplinary teams of talents who have grown up with AI tools and AI-native thinking work on these challenges in a short time. The result: a different perspective on a familiar problem, fresh ideas for internal processes, and direct exchange with the best talents of tomorrow.
The next Munich Hacking Legal takes place from April 23 to 25, 2027
At Munich Hacking Legal 2027, you can bring your own challenge and benefit from the creativity of interdisciplinary teams. The Legal Tech Colab currently supports 30 startups with market-ready legal tech products – and brings together companies, talents, and new technologies.
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