

Build with Gemma NYC: On-Device AI for Healthcare
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.
Schedule (Sat, July 25):
11:00 AM — Doors, check-in, kickoff
12:00 PM — Build begins
5:00 PM — Submissions lock
5:00 PM — Live demos + judging
6:00 PM — Winners announced
Powered by Gemma 4. Submissions run on Kaggle.
Sponsors welcome. If you or your company would like to get involved, email me at [email protected]