About the challenge

Come build the conversational 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.

Get started

Build a conversational agent that handles a real healthcare workflow — patient intake, scheduling, reminders, insurance verification, caregiver follow-up — from hello to done. Suggested building blocks:

• 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

• Idea uniqueness (1-5)
  how original and non-obvious the concept is
• Technical Implementation (1–5)
  does it actually work end-to-end, and how well was it built
• Team Explanation (1–5)
  how clearly the team explains the problem, solution, and how it works
• UI/UX (1–5)
  usability and quality of the experience