All it takes is one good idea.

This is a precursor to our Tech Jam, we'll be generating ideas of great user experience concepts that could be further developed by creative developers using the PTV Timetable API data.

To be involved in our Idea Sprint, you don’t need to know coding or programming, you just have to think creatively with transport data. The IdeaSprint is a brainstorming session where creative thinkers come up with a game-changing idea that involves PTV data in a way that the public can find easy to engage. Public transport experience is a key aspect of the lives of millions of Victorians. The VicTripathon IdeaSprint is your chance to collaborate to make your mark.

What is VicTripathon?

VicTripathon is a series of events that brings together creative minds, web programmers, coders and anyone interested in the possibility of using Victoria’s live public transport data to improve traveller experience. Public Transport Victoria (PTV) are releasing new real-time data to their Timetable API on May 28 and in a project led by Collabforge, Code for Australia, Open Knowledge Australia and Owl Ventures, are creating a program to encourage development of great digital products that use the new data. The organisers behind VicTripathon are putting the call out to digital innovators and creative thinkers to team up and work out the best ways to use this data.

How will it work?

VicTripathon is made up of three events: the IdeaSprint, the Launch and the Tech Jam. Each event focuses on a different stage of development: work-shopping initial ideas, a public announcement of the project, and a friendly competition to create digital products to best improve traveller experience.

What’s in it for me?

To encourage the best and brightest minds and create the best digital products, we’re offering mentorship and exclusive access to PTV's API developers, mentorships with experts in a range of fields, cash prizes, a workplace and helpers of all kinds. In short, all you need to make a big splash in digital innovation.