48-hour hackathons EST. MMXV
Two flagship weekends since 2015

The events.

MOITUS weekends run across the TechHub network with rotating corporate and civic partners. Below are the two flagship editions in full — the brief, the stack, the prize architecture and the winning teams.

2016
Event 02 / 02
WeekendFriday 22 April 201648 hours · 22–24 Apr 2016
PartnersDVLA · Google for Startups
VenueTechHub Network
Attendees~120
WinnerTeam OPENLANE
Public APIs, smarter cities

Civic Tech & Open-Data Challenge

Across TechHub’s network, teams used newly exposed government transport, transit and vehicle-licensing open APIs to build smarter public-infrastructure tools — transit optimizers and identity-verification mockups — heavily integrated with Google Cloud Platform and early machine-learning libraries.

// tech stack & focus

  • Open Government APIs
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Early ML libraries

// prize architecture

Grand prize £5,000 — cash pool (typically £2,500–£5,000)
Category Best Hardware Hack (Raspberry Pi / IoT)
Category Most Impactful Civic Application
Category Best Technical Architecture
→ see Team OPENLANE’s winning build
2015
Event 01 / 02
WeekendFriday 25 September 201548 hours · 25–27 Sep 2015
PartnersBT · Alcatel-Lucent
VenueTechHub London
Attendees~140
WinnerTeam RINGFREE
WebRTC & unified comms on pre-release telco APIs

Corporate API Sprint

From a Friday-evening kickoff to Sunday-evening pitches, developers, UI/UX designers and systems architects built next-generation WebRTC communications tools, automated customer-service bots and unified-communications apps on raw, pre-release telecommunications APIs.

// tech stack & focus

  • WebRTC
  • Pre-release telco APIs
  • Unified comms

// prize architecture

Grand prize £5,000 — split among the team, plus a private VIP experience at the BT Tower
Category High-end developer hardware (flagship phones & tablets)
Category Cloud computing credits — £1,000+ per team member
Category Fast-track entry to a corporate accelerator programme
→ see Team RINGFREE’s winning build

Want the playbook, not just the highlights?

The full 48-hour timeline, the judging matrix and the ops checklist are on the format page.

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