(Photo: pedestrian paradise in the rain by Keromi Keroyama)

Love to Code? Love to Travel?

MasterCard is scouring London for the best tech entrepreneurs to battle it out in a Hackathon to create digitial products that enhance the way we travel.

MasterCard Trip Hack is a weekend long competition where you create an idea, turn it into a digital product and pitch it to senior figures from MasterCard and their partners, British Airways and Transport for London. The competition is open to entrepreneurs, developers, designers, marketers, bloggers… anyone with big ideas on how to revolutionalise travel.

Register as a pre-formed team or as an individual looking to join one. Over the weekend you will receive advice and guidance from a host of experts as you create and make your product from scratch. MasterCard, British Airways and Transport for London will give the teams access to each of their APIs, to allow them to create and build new technology.

Sunday 5th June is pitch day, where the winning idea will receive £10,000, business support from The Traveltech Lab and a slot to pitch your idea at a high profile event during London Tech Week.

We’ll provide the venue, the wifi and the all-important food and drink to keep you going. All you need is a creative brain, a sharp mind and the ablity to collaborate as part of a winning team.