Seattle DGX Spark Hackathon winners: search-rescue mapping and voice healthcare apps
NVIDIA Developer · youtube · 2026-09-09
NVIDIA Developer Community interviews winning teams from the Seattle DGX Spark Hack, all running locally on Acer Veriton GN100 systems powered by the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip:
- Kerberos (See Track winner): a shared spatial-awareness system for search-and-rescue, uniting responders, robots, and drones on one live map;
- VELA (Do Track winner): a voice-first healthcare action system that compares paths to care and requires explicit user consent before consequential actions;
- Both teams demo live and walk through how they built their projects across vision, speech, retrieval, simulation, and agent workflows.
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