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 – 10:00 AM — Doors open: mixer + team formation (breakfast / coffee provided) 10:00 – 10:30 AM — Intros, Demos, official hackathon kickoff (theme, rules, judging criteria) 10:30 – 3:30 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 Join Twilio’s Discord Community https://discord.gg/BPaUvYqQvh