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.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$500+ in prizes
+ other prizes
Grand Prize
$500 in cash
1 winner

Second Place
1 winner

Raspberry Pi

Third Place
1 winner

Raspberry Pi

Fourth Place
1 winner

Raspberry Pi

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

Judges

Sadoc Paredes
Vetr Health

Yordanos Kassa
Vetr Health

Judging Criteria

  • Novelty
  • Technical Depth
  • Business Viability
  • Completeness

Questions? Email the hackathon manager

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