48-hour hackathons EST. MMXV
A TechHub hackathon series · Est. 2015

Build working tech
in one weekend.

MOITUS is the hackathon series of TechHub, Europe’s innovation network. 48 hours, real partner APIs, teams that form on the night — and one rule at the finish line: no slides, working tech only. Grand prizes up to £5,000 plus hardware, cloud credits and accelerator fast-tracks.

Register to attend → How the weekend works
2 flagship events· 2015–2018· 260 builders
48h

Friday-evening kickoff to Sunday-evening pitches.

Open

No experience gate. Teams form on the night.

Live

No slides — demo the app running, or it didn’t happen.

Public

Push to a public repo at the code freeze.

The prize architecture

Cash is the start, not the whole story.

Every MOITUS weekend puts real money on the table — then stacks hardware, cloud credits and a direct line into corporate accelerators on top of it.

grand prize
£5,000
cash, split among the team + VIP experience
headline
in-kind
Hardware + £1,000+ cloud
flagship phones & tablets · cloud credits per team member
the door
Accelerator
fast-track entry into a corporate accelerator programme
Two flagship weekends

The events.

MOITUS runs across the TechHub network with rotating partners. Two flagship editions are documented in full.

2016

Civic Tech & Open-Data Challenge

Public APIs, smarter cities

📅 Friday 22 April 2016 · 48h · DVLA · Google for Startups

£5,000
grand cash pool
120 builders
→
2015

Corporate API Sprint

WebRTC & unified comms on pre-release telco APIs

📅 Friday 25 September 2015 · 48h · BT · Alcatel-Lucent

£5,000
grand prize + BT Tower VIP
140 builders
→
Judged on a 20-point matrix

Objective, not a popularity contest.

Four expert judges score every demo against the same 20-point matrix — technical complexity, whether it actually runs, the experience, and real-world impact. Live, on stage, no slides.

AC
Alexandre Conesa
Head of Jury · Technical Complexity & Architecture
RD
Rafael Duarte
Judge · Working Execution
IH
Dr. Ingrid Halvorsen
Judge · Design & Intuition
MT
Marcus Tenório
Judge · Market & Civic Impact
Meet the judges →

// scoring matrix · 20 pts

Technical Complexity 5 pts
Working Execution 5 pts
Design & Intuition 5 pts
Market / Civic Impact 5 pts

A slick deck over hardcoded mock data does not win. It has to run.

Run by TechHub

Europe’s innovation network — built around events, not products.

MOITUS is the weekend-hackathon series of TechHub, a tech-startup community provider and innovation network founded in London with active hubs across Europe.

Unlike companies built around a single product, TechHub’s whole model is driving innovation through competitive events — from monthly Tuesday Demo Nights to weekend hackathons run with partners like BT, Alcatel-Lucent, DVLA and Google for Startups. Winning teams don’t just take home cash: they get developer hardware, cloud credits, and fast-track entry to corporate accelerator programmes.

Bring a hackathon to your hub → See what teams built

// TechHub innovation network

  • Active hubs in London, Warsaw, Madrid, Bucharest and Riga
  • Hackathons run with partners like BT, Alcatel-Lucent, DVLA and Google for Startups
  • Winners fast-tracked into corporate accelerator programmes
  • Tuesday Demo Nights — 5 minutes, working tech live on stage, no slides

Bring an idea. Leave with something that runs.

260 builders have shipped a working prototype in a single weekend at MOITUS. No slides, no gatekeeping — just 48 hours and a stage.

Register to attend → Read the format