The winners.
Two flagship weekends, two teams that walked on stage with something that actually ran. Portraits are stylized and anonymized in keeping with our privacy policy — the builders are real; their likenesses are not published.
Team OPENLANE
A live transit optimizer that fused DVLA vehicle-licensing and local transport open APIs on Google Cloud, predicting congestion and re-routing buses in real time — with a civic dashboard a council officer could read at a glance.
“We didn’t build a nicer bus app. We showed a council how to move real vehicles differently, from data they already publish.”
Team RINGFREE
A browser-to-browser WebRTC support desk on BT and Alcatel-Lucent pre-release APIs — no phone number, no plugin. A customer clicks “call”, an agent answers in the browser, and an automated bot triages the queue while they wait.
“Working comms, in the browser, on APIs that weren’t even public yet — and it actually connected on stage. That was the whole game.”
One builder took the top prize twice.
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