LOCALHOST 2.0
Build an AI agent for medicine. Solo. Six hours.
Saturday, September 12, 9am to 4pm
Doug Meijer Medical Innovation Building
109 Michigan St NW, 4th floor, Grand Rapids
Pick any medical process and build an agent for it. Intake, triage, charting, scheduling, records requests, prior auth, discharge follow up, lab result explanations, med reconciliation. Clinical or administrative, human or veterinary, patient facing or staff facing.
Free form beyond that. Any stack, any model, local or hosted. No required APIs, no required frameworks.
We're running this in a medical innovation building on the Medical Mile, surrounded by hospitals and research labs. Healthcare is what this city builds, so that's what we're building for.
Solo, not teams. Everyone builds their own project. No group to find, nothing to organize. Show up alone and you're fine.
9:00 Doors, check in, food
9:30 Kickoff
9:45 Build
3:00 Demos, judging, awards
4:00 Done
Free. Food and drinks covered. Bring a laptop and a charger. No experience bar, any major welcome. Part of Tech Week GR.
1st place: $500. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th: Raspberry Pi.
RSVP: lu.ma/myjmltns
Requirements
Submission requirements
Two items, both due by 3:00pm when demos start.
1. Public GitHub repo
Your code, public and viewable by judges. Include a README with:
What medical process your agent handles
How to run it
What stack you used
2. Video demo, 3 minutes max
Show the agent actually running. Screen recording is fine, narration optional, polish not required. Upload anywhere judges can view it (YouTube unlisted, Loom, Drive with link sharing on).
Lead with the working product. If it only works on one happy path, show that path.
Submit both links via [your submission form or Devpost link] before 3:00pm. Late submissions aren't judged.
Requirements for the project itself
Built from scratch today. Libraries, templates, and boilerplate are fine; pre-existing projects are not.
Solo work.
Addresses a medical process, broadly defined.
No real patient data. Synthetic or fake data only.
Two practical notes:
Tell people to start recording by 2:30. The most common way a finished project fails to place is that the builder ran out of time on the video. Say it at kickoff and again at 2:00.
You need a submission destination. The requirements say "submit both links" but there's no form yet. A Google Form with four fields (name, repo URL, video URL, one-line description) takes two minutes to make and gives judges a single sheet to score from. Without it you'll be collecting links over Slack and in person while demos are running.
Prizes
Grand Prize
Second Place
Raspberry Pi
Third Place
Raspberry Pi
Fourth Place
Raspberry Pi
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
Judges
Sadoc Paredes
Vetr Health
Yordanos Kassa
Vetr Health
Judging Criteria
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Novelty
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Technical Depth
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Business Viability
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Completeness
Questions? Email the hackathon manager
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