GovHack (2026)

04/12/2025

🏙️ continues to shine in 2025!
GovHack 2025 – VIC State Awards

This challenge — “Enabling Better Community Housing and Infrastructure Planning” — encouraged teams to imagine smarter, more resilient communities built on data-driven insight. With support from Victoria State Government (Victorian Government) – Government Services, participants delivered clever, thoughtful solutions that impressed across the board.

Here are the standout teams driving innovation in this space:

🏆 WINNER — Deakin Talent
Project: CoBuild
Team members: Srijana Bhusal, Amritjot Singh, BINIL TOM JOSE

🥈 RUNNER-UP — Flowcation
Project: Flowcation – Dynamic Route Optimization System
Team members: Quentin Qi, Karl Wachala, Katrina Veloso, Mathew Reed, Pranit Kasturi, Shu-Hung Lin, Yang Liu

🏅 HONOURABLE MENTION — Query-hub
Project: Query-hub
Team members: David Lei, Elizabeth Leong, Gordon Lei

This year’s Vic entries tackled real-world planning and housing challenges with creativity and precision. The winning ideas reflect exactly what GovHack is all about — using open data to improve how communities live, move, and grow.

🌟 A huge congratulations to all the winners and participants!
Your work helps pave the way for better, more inclusive infrastructure planning across Victoria.

04/12/2025

🏆 Celebrating Our GovHack 2025 Victoria State Award Winners! 🏆

What an incredible weekend of innovation, collaboration, and civic problem-solving! Over 48 hours, teams across Victoria came together to tackle real-world challenges using open data and creative thinking.

We're thrilled to announce the winners of the "Delivering the 20-Minute Neighbourhood Plan" challenge, sponsored by Victoria State Government (Victorian Government) - Government Services:

🥇 WINNER: Flowcation with "Flowcation – Dynamic route optimization system"
Team: Quentin Qi, Karl Wachala, Katrina Veloso, Mathew Reed, Pranit Kasturi, Shu-Hung Lin, Yang Liu

🥈 RUNNER-UP: DataNerd with "KidPool"
Team: Wei Lerr Wong

🎖️ HONOURABLE MENTIONS: Team 2991 with "Victoria Housing Assistant" Team: Yacine Apane, Abdullah Bahri, Aishwarya Nanda Kumar, Huỳnh Thị Chung, Nandan Swamy K

To every participant who coded through the night, debugged with determination, and brought fresh perspectives to civic challenges – you're the heart of GovHack. This is what happens when passionate people come together for the weekend to make a difference.

Huge thanks to Victoria State Government for sponsoring this challenge and championing civic innovation!

01/12/2025

🎉 Announcing the GovHack 2025 ACT State Award Winners! 🎉

We're thrilled to celebrate the incredible innovation shown in the "Optimising Transport Networks for School Kids" challenge, sponsored by Vivanti Consulting!

🏆 WINNER Tech4Coders with "Project-SchoolCarpool"
Congratulations to Balkar Singh, Muskan Bahmba, Samraat Bharanger, and Tashi Tsering for their outstanding solution!

🥈 RUNNER-UP Schoolskipping with "Schoolskipping - Trip planner to skip school speed zones"
Fantastic work by Jamel Rathborne and Belel Rathborne!

🌟 HONOURABLE MENTIONS
Team Tom with "ACT Walking Distances to Government Primary and High Schools"
Great effort by Thomas Martin!

SoloStride with "Step to School"
Excellent work by Mitchell John Stubberfield!

Shadow Mantle with "SchoolRoute"
Amazing collaboration from Tetsuya Reynaldo, Christie Lim, Konstantin Buntsev, Lachlan Tam, Mohammed Amal Al-Raihan, and Zhan Reynaldo!

A huge thank you to all participants for bringing creative solutions to improve school transport networks. Your innovation is shaping safer, smarter communities for our kids! 🚸

Special thanks to Vivanti Consulting for sponsoring this vital challenge.

01/12/2025

🌟 Victoria, you’ve raised the bar again!
GovHack 2025 – VIC State Awards

This year’s Victorian challenge — “Data-Driven Reduction in Gambling Harm for Stronger Community Resilience” — brought together brilliant minds determined to create safer, more informed communities.
With the support of Victoria State Government – Government Services, teams delivered thoughtful, data-anchored solutions that truly impressed.

Here are the standout innovators from the 2025 VIC State Awards:

🏆 WINNER — RadGrads
Project: StimuLess
Team members: Leon Sun, Rafiq Muhammad Rashdan, Riley Purcel, Sam Halford

🥈 RUNNER-UP — PlaySmart
Project: PlaySmart
Team members: Nathan, Jehru Harris

🏅 HONOURABLE MENTIONS — Allianz Tech
Project: Project X – Level Up Life
Team members: Huu Toan Nguyen, Anuj S, Emmanuel Jose Saldana Moran,
Minh Hieu Tran

The depth of thinking this year was remarkable. Tackling gambling harm through data innovation isn’t just technically challenging — it’s socially important. The solutions presented show how open data can empower communities, improve wellbeing, and drive smarter public outcomes.

A huge congratulations to every participant. Your creativity and commitment demonstrate exactly why GovHack continues to be a cornerstone of civic innovation across Australia.

🚀 Well done to all the winners and honourable mention teams!
Your impact will be felt far beyond the hackathon weekend.

28/11/2025

🎉 Celebrating Innovation in the Top End!
GovHack 2025 – NT State Awards

The didn’t hold back this year. Brilliant ideas, bold creativity, and a strong focus on trust and data integrity defined the “Accurate and Trustworthy Chatbot for Data Interactions” challenge — proudly sponsored by Northern Territory Government.

Today, we celebrate the teams who stood out from an incredibly competitive field:

🏆WINNER — Nova Era
Project: Nova Era
Team members: Vo Nguyen Hao, Huong Thao Trinh, Nguyen Duy Nguyen Ho, Phong Tran Thanh, Son Lam Nguyen, Thi Thuy Trang Tran

🥈 RUNNER-UP — NTelligence
Project: NTelligence
Team members: Rafsan Rahman, Nawal Fatima, Ahsan Saeed

🏅 HONOURABLE MENTIONS
ASTRA — An Accurate and Trustworthy Chatbot for Data Interactions
Team: Saugat Poudel, Amrit Niure, Aseem Neupane, Fateen Rahman, Mahathir Md Taief, Mehraab Ferdouse, Syed Haroon Ahmad

Croc and Chips — CiteQuery
Team: Kar Keat Koh, Le Quynh Nhu Doan, Ngoc Cuong Hoang, Phuong Tran Tran, Thi Xuan Thanh Tran, Tianhui Ke, Tien Minh Nguyen

A huge shout-out to every participant who tackled this challenge. Trustworthy AI is one of the most important frontiers in public-sector innovation, and the NT teams delivered solutions with heart, rigour, and technical depth.

🚀 Congratulations to all the winners and honourable mentions!
Your work is helping shape a more transparent, data-driven future for Australia.

04/09/2025

✨ GovHack 2025 Wrap-Up ✨

That’s a wrap for Hack to the Future! 🚀
Here’s what we achieved together this year:

📊 Hack to Future Stats

1,208 Registrations (267 Connections + 43 Conference + 898 Competition)

543 Profiles

403 Projects

306 Entries (against challenges)

115 Volunteers

33 Mentors

29 Events

27 Sponsors & Partners

18 Challenges

12 Cities

💡 Thank you to everyone — participants, mentors, volunteers, sponsors, and partners — who made this possible. The energy, collaboration, and creativity you brought shows the power of open innovation in action.

29/08/2025

🚀 GovHack 2025 starts today!

This incredible event is only possible because of the phenomenal support from our sponsors and partners. 🙏 Thank you for believing in innovation, collaboration, and the power of open data.

💙 National Sponsors and Partners

Your support empowers thousands of passionate innovators across Australia and New Zealand to come together, learn, and create solutions that can drive meaningful change.

🌟 Regional Sponsors

You make it possible for GovHack to unite brilliant minds and deliver a world-class hackathon experience.

🌱Event, Venue and Community Partners

Thank you for opening your doors and giving participants the space to dream, design, and build ideas that matter.Your networks, encouragement, and resources fuel GovHack’s community spirit at every level.

Together, you’re not just supporting an event, you’re growing a movement of problem-solvers and changemakers ready to hack the future.

❤️ Thank you all for making GovHack 2025 possible.

Now let’s get started!

29/08/2025

🙌 To all our incredible GovHack 2025 participants — this one’s for you!
🚀 Our event kicks off very soon — tonight, both online and in-person! We can’t wait to see you there.

A huge thank you to everyone who has contributed challenges, mentored, or supported GovHack this year. Your efforts are what make this event possible, bringing together a diverse mix of people united by a shared passion for innovation and collaboration. 🙌

Here are some quick things to know for your GovHack experience:

1️⃣ When does it all begin?
Venues will start welcoming people from 5 pm today onwards.

2️⃣ Where is it happening in person?
You can find all venue competition details here on Hackerspace. https://hackerspace.govhack.org/competition_events
Simply click on the state or territory you're interested in attending and you'll have all the details.

3️⃣ Got last-minute questions?
Feel free to reach out to any of our regional leads at [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].

💡 Whether you’re joining in person or online, we can’t wait to see the amazing ideas you’ll bring to life.

28/08/2025

👏 A huge thank you to our GovHack 2025 sponsors across Victoria, Northern Territory, and the Australian Capital Territory!

🌟 In Victoria, we’re proud to have incredible supporters backing innovation and collaboration.
🌟 In the Northern Territory, we’re grateful to the NT Government for empowering brilliant minds to tackle real-world challenges with open data.
🌟 In the ACT, a big thank you to Vivanti for joining us as a Silver Sponsor and helping drive creativity and future-ready solutions.
🌟 At the national level, Infosys — we are deeply grateful to our long-term sponsor for their incredible support and unwavering commitment to our journey.

Your support means so much — it enables thousands of thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers across Australia and New Zealand to come together, share ideas, and build projects that can shape the future. 💡🚀

Together, we’re making GovHack 2025 an event where innovation thrives.

28/08/2025

🎉 GovHack starts TOMORROW!

Are you ready to solve real-world challenges, meet awesome people, and turn government data into innovation?

Whether you’re a coder, designer, storyteller, student, or entrepreneur — there’s a place for you at GovHack.

🧠 Build something bold.
🤝 Join a team or bring your own.
🏆 Compete for prizes, fun, and impact.

📍 It’s free. It’s exciting. And it’s happening across Australia & NZ.
🚀 Don’t miss your chance — register now:
👉 hackerspace.govhack.org

27/08/2025

💙 We are truly grateful to have Infosys supporting GovHack 2025. 💙

Your sponsorship does more than help us run the event — it enables thousands of passionate innovators, thinkers, and creators across Australia and New Zealand to come together, learn, and build solutions that can create meaningful change for our communities.

Thank you, Infosys, for believing in the power of open data, collaboration, and the incredible potential of people working together. Your support makes a real difference, and we couldn’t be more excited to have you on this journey with us. 🙌

27/08/2025

🎉 GovHack starts THIS WEEKEND!

At GovHack, we believe in the power of young minds to shape the future.

Each year, thousands of students, first-time hackers, and young professionals from across Australia and New Zealand join GovHack — bringing bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and fearless energy to tackle real-world challenges using open data.

Still haven’t registered?
You still can — right up until we begin!

🗓️ 29–31 August
💻 Free & open to all
📍 In-person or online

Get ready to collaborate, code, design, and create real-world solutions powered by open data.

🔗 Don’t miss out: https://hackerspace.govhack.org

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