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Friday 18.09.2026 · 📍Google HQ: 6 Pancras Sq, London N1C 4AG

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Prototype AI-powered solutions for healthcare challenges set by Bupa and AlbionVC · Build with Google MedGemma · After-party drinks with healthtech innovators & funders · Compete for £13,000 prize pool

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📣 Participants: share that you’ve been selected - you can generate an official “I’m going” card for the event here: https://go-spread.com/adeline-health-ai-hackathon

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What is the hackathon?

What happens when you bring AI builders together with Google’s latest medical models, health experts, and the funders behind the next generation of health startups? We’re about to find out.

If you are a founder, engineer, clinician, researcher, healthcare professional or student, this is your opportunity to:

• Work at the frontier of possibility for AI in healthcare with advanced medical models
• Tackle real-world challenges set by health leaders & innovators
• Build solutions with Health AI Developer Foundations, which includes Google MedGemma and other open models.
• Collaborate with experts across AI, healthcare and industry
• Earn recognition from the organisations building the future of health
• Compete for a share of £13,000 in prizes

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Contents:

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The Challenge

Teams will tackle challenges across two tracks. In both tracks, your entry must utilise Health AI Developer Foundations models (which includes MedGemma).

1. Connected Care - From Treating Illness to Preventing It

Challenge Set by Bupa

Healthcare is evolving from treating illness to helping people stay healthy for longer. Bupa already offers a range of preventive healthcare services, from health assessments and genomic healthcare programmes to digital consultations, personalised health programmes and early mental health support. The opportunity isn't to create new preventive services, but to help people discover, understand and engage with the right services at the right time. Build an AI-powered solution that helps people engage with preventive healthcare through more personalised, timely and relevant experiences, empowering them to take action before they become unwell.

2. Pathway Breakdown - Closing the Gaps at Care Handoffs

Challenge set by AlbionVC

Patient pathways lose time and people at the handoffs (referral to diagnosis, diagnosis to treatment), but teams rarely have real-time visibility into where or why. Build something that surfaces this and helps a team act on it.