Latinos x AI Hackathon - NYC
100 Latino builders. One full day. Three problems our communities live with every day.
Saturday, October 10 · 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM · Manhattan
During National Hispanic Heritage Month
Free. Food and coffee included. Cash prizes per track.
THE THREE TRACKS
🛂 IMMIGRATION — Papers & Process
Status, documents, and the systems that decide who belongs. Legal aid intake, plain-language explainers for forms that terrify people, interpreter tooling.
🏥 HEALTHCARE — Care Without Barriers
Language, coverage, and access for patients the system was never built for. Interpretation at the point of care, insurance navigation, discharge instructions people can actually read.
💵 FINANCE — Banking the Unbanked
Credit without a financial history, remittances, and bookkeeping for businesses that run on cash.
Cash prize per track — amount to be announced.
YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AN ENGINEER
This room is deliberately mixed.
Immigration attorneys, nurses, community health workers, social workers and financial counselors build alongside engineers — because the teams that win these things are the ones with someone who knows the problem from the inside.
If that's you, you belong here. Come alone and we'll put you on a team at 10am.
SPONSORS
VAPI
JUDGES
Alejandro Soumah — Founder & CEO, Itô Markets. Previously quantitative research and credit trading at Goldman Sachs. Founded RISO Data.
Nino Kakauridze — Business Immigration Attorney. Her practice encompasses employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visa strategies, and the full range of employer-sponsored permanent residence options.
Sofia De la Mora Tostado — Founder & CEO, Intelital. Techstars NYC25. MS Data Science, Columbia. Previously Banco de México.
Leticia Moreno Narcio — A decade in Big Tech in the US. Data & AI at Apple, previously Meta, TikTok and Forbes. Founder building in stealth.
Ozzy (Arturo) Ospina — Wharton MBA, Wall Street, US Marine Corps veteran and angel investor.
Jessily Ramirez — Principal & Founder, CureAI Insights. Previously Boston Children's Hospital. NYC AI Nexus Mentor. Judging the Healthcare track.
MENTORS
Daniel Vargas, MESE — Systems Safety Engineer, autonomous vehicles at NVIDIA.
Neil Mukherjee, MD, FACS — Surgeon at Northwell Health, professor at CUNY School of Medicine.
Roshan Sharma — Founding Engineer. 8x Agentic AI hackathon winner.
Khushi Ranganatha — AI Product & Strategy. Founder, sekovia.app.
Dominique Aubry — Principal, Beacon Insights Group.
Ayon Roy — ML Researcher - Columbia University.
Sharon Rao— Former physician and clinical researcher, ex-COO at MedSchoolBro.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
THE DAY
10:00 AM — Doors, breakfast, team formation
10:30 AM — Opening remarks and track kickoff
11:00 AM — Build begins
1:00 PM — Lunch
5:00 PM — Demos
6:00 PM — Awards and close
HOW IT WORKS
Applications are reviewed. We only accept builders — this is a full-day commitment, not a drop-in.
Teams form on site at 10am. Come alone or bring your team.
Bring a laptop and a charger. We bring everything else.
Nuestra gente. Nuestro código.