AI Healthcare Hack NYC - by Arya Health & Twilio AI Startup Searchlight

Description

​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 service