Build with Gemma NYC: On-Device AI for Healthcare
📍 One World Trade Center, New York, United StatesAbout
A one-day, in-person hackathon building the next generation of healthcare tools with Google's open Gemma 4 models. Approved and prize-funded by Google's Gemma team, with a $2,000 prize pool distributed via Kaggle. Healthcare has the hardest privacy constraints in software, and Gemma 4 is built for exactly that: it runs locally, so patient data never has to leave the device. You'll have one day to ship a working prototype and demo it live. Three tracks: Voice for Care — scribes, intake, triage, reminders, and accessible, multilingual patient communication. Agentic Care Copilots — agents that automate healthcare admin like prior auth, referrals, and scheduling. On-Device Private Health Tools — fully offline tools where patient data never touches the cloud. Scope: decision-support tools for documentation, navigation, accessibility, triage, and education. Not diagnosis or treatment. Synthetic or public data only. What to bring: a laptop, and any healthcare problem you're excited to tackle. Beginners welcome, no healthcare background required. Judges: Margaux Benoit — Enterprise Sales Director at Nabla, healthcare AI GTM (Judge & Mentor) Sharon Rao, MD — COO at MedSchoolBro, Medicine x Technology (Judge) Padam Kataria — Tross, building AI automation for healthcare workflows (Judge & Mentor) Bonnie Cao — Healthcare Consultant at Trinity Life Sciences (Judge) Mina Abdulla — Founder at Genee, ex-Google (Judge) Mentors: 🔹 Meet Shah - CTO at Tross & Ex-YC Founding Engineer (Healthcare Integration Specialist) 🔹 Margaux Benoit - Enterprise Sales Director at Nabla (Healthcare AI GTM) 🔹 Xingye Chen - PhD Candidate at NYU Langone Health (Biomedical Imaging & Digital Health) 🔹 Bailey Morgan, CCC-SLP Morgan - Chief of Staff at Groth Pain & Spine & Healthtech Growth Leader 🔹 Joseph Borrello (Joe) Borrello, PhD - Biomedical Engineer & Product Designer at @Wolfco Design 🔹 Roshan Sharma - AI Engineer & 6x Agentic AI Hackathon Champion 🔹 Khushi Ranganatha - AI Engineer, Voice Agent Specialist & Founder of sekovia.app Schedule (Saturday, August 1): 10:00 — Doors open, check-in, coffee 10:30 — Kickoff 11:00 — Build begins 1:00 — Lunch 3:00 — Mentor check-ins 3:45 — Submissions lock 4:00 — Live presentations and judging 5:30 — Winners announced Powered by Gemma 4. Submissions run on Kaggle. Sponsors:
Tavily — real-time web search and data APIs for AI agents. Providing API credits and a dedicated hacker guide for all participants. Twilio — APIs for voice, SMS, and patient communication. A natural fit for the Voice for Care track. Cerebras — the fastest AI inference available. Providing temporary Gemma 4 access on Cerebras for all participants during the event. Daytona — providing API credits for all participants. Venue Partner Celonis — the leader in process intelligence. Hosting Build with Gemma NYC at One World Trade Center. Want to get involved? We're looking for a few more sponsors to support venue and food for this free, open community event. If you or your company would like to join, email me at chris@ziora-copilot.com.