Build with Gemma NYC: On-Device AI for Healthcare is 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 authorization, 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.

Schedule (Saturday, August 1st):

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

Beginners welcome, no healthcare background required. Bring a laptop and an idea.

Requirements

Each team submits by the deadline:

A working live demo (hosted web app, interactive terminal recording, or a functional Kaggle Notebook)
A Kaggle Writeup covering your architecture, how you used Gemma 4, and the challenges you overcame
A public code repository (GitHub or Kaggle Notebook), documented, clearly showing your Gemma 4 implementation

Submissions must make genuine, core use of a Gemma 4 model. All projects are submitted and judged on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/build-with-gemma-nyc-on-device-ai-for-healthcare

Judging (100 points): Gemma Integration (30), Innovation & Impact (30), Functionality (20), Presentation & Writeup (20).

Build with Gemma NYC: On-Device AI for Healthcare

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