AI Healthcare Hack NYC - by Arya Health & Twilio AI Startup Searchlight
About
Come build the Conversation AI that healthcare actually needs. Healthcare Hack NYC is a one-day, in-person sprint hosted with our friends at Arya Health - a Series A startup reimagining the economics of healthcare services at their NYC office. Our main sponsor is Twilio's AI Startup Searchlight, celebrating startups building the future of voice, conversational AI, and LLM-powered agents. Bring your laptop, form a team, and ship a real AI agent in a single day.
🎯 The Challenge
Build production-ready voice/text AI agents that can carry out a full conversation end-to-end, grounded in domain knowledge and personalized to each caller. Reliability, guardrails, security, and scalability aren't nice-to-haves — they're the prerequisite. You must use Twilio to qualify for sponsor prizes.
Suggested Features:
Telephony — must use Twilio to qualify for prizes
Agent Development Framework — orchestrate and modularize the conversation logic
Model (TTS/STT) — power the conversation with the best voice AI models
Knowledge Base — connect to external sources and data for enriched, grounded context
Caller Info — recognize and personalize the conversation to the individual caller
📅 Schedule
9:30 – 10:45 AM — Doors open: mixer + team formation.
10:45 AM – 11:00 PM — Intros, Demos, official hackathon kickoff (theme, rules, judging criteria)
11:00 – 4:00 PM — 5-hour build sprint (lunch provided)
4:00 – 5:00 PM — Judging and demos
🏆 Prizes
🏆 Grand Prize - $500 Twilio Credit + interview with Arya Health for engineering roles
🥈 Second Place - $300 Twilio Credit + interview with Arya Health for engineering roles
Third Place - $200 Twilio Credit + interview with Arya Health for engineering roles
👨⚖️ Judges
TBA
🙋 Who Should Attend
Engineers looking for their next role
Healthcare operators
Healthcare investors
Hackers who love to build
Our Sponsors
Twilio AI Startup Searchlight - Twilio is powering the telephony layer for this hack and offering credits, sponsor prizes, and a path into their AI Startup Searchlight program for teams who want to keep building.
Hosts
Somya Gupta - The face of NYC startup ecosystem.
Arya Health - Re-imagining the economics of healthcare services