How a Hackathon Team Built an AI Emergency Response System in 3 Hours

[music] On December 11th, 11 Labs hosted a worldwide hackathon. 1,300 builders came together in 33 different cities to develop projects and ship them in just three hours. In that time, teams created everything from gaming companions to shopping assistants and training programs for employees. Out of all submissions worldwide, one team was selected as the winner. Please welcome Jason Yei representing Sentinel, the global winner of the 11 Labs Worldwide Hackathon. [music] In 2019, Australia experienced one of its worst natural disasters in history, the Black Summer Bush fires. It burned over 24 million hectares of land, an area equivalent to the size of the entire entirely of United Kingdom. Imagine driving from London to Edinburgh and seeing nothing but ashes. And worst of all, 33 people lost their lives, many waiting for help that never came. Meet Sam. Sam is a father of two and he looks outside and he sees a glowing red sky. He prepares to evacuate his family. But when he turns to his phone for information, the screen is blank. Internet infrastructure is down. There's no maps, no updates, no escape, and no escape routes as well. And Sam's not alone. Thousands of families are also calling simultaneously panicking, asking for simple advice like, "Is the road open?" overloading the ready fragile network. This exacerbates an 8,400% surge in call volume. And in just 24 hours alone, traffic explodes from 164 calls to over 14,000, completely burying human dispatches. The situation became so critical that the state emergency surfers were forced to shut down the systems just because it couldn't handle the core surge. And when Sam desperately dials for help, this is what he hears. The line is busy right now. The estimated wait time is 15 minutes. Time wasted is lives lost. Every second counts. And that's why we built Sentinel, the lifeline that never hangs up. Sentinel is an offline to online bridge that connects victims by delivering live realtime data through voice, even when the internet is down. And when a network spikes, it scales instantly to answer non-emergency call volumes with ultra low latency. And with phone calls using thousand times less bandwidth than the internet, it actively preserves the already fragile network infrastructure. And Sensel doesn't just talk. It supports rescue teams by automating location and victim data and summarizing the call context or nearly in a summarized dashboard. By using the latest 11 Labs voice model, we developed Sentinel to listen, understand, and coordinate rescue. First, it intercepts when disaster strike and cause spike. Sentinel is the first line of defense, intercepting mass volume calls that human dispatches cannot physically handle. It then listen provides guidance and feeds live datas to victim filtering filtering out background noise and panic to ex uh extract verified data packets and most importantly providing location and summarizing the data of the victims. Afterwards, a trigger is a call conducting real time risk analysis to distinguish between questions like, "Is the road open to I'm in a trapped in a burning house? Please help me." Escalating the true emergencies. And finally, rescue. It presents a verified data packet for a clean dashboard for first responders to see to make sure every second counts. And now, let's go to our live demo. How can I help? My name is Jason and I'm currently at the Magazine London Greenwich. There's fire on the horizon and I'm worried that it's bush fire. What should I do? Are you in immediate danger right now? I'm not in danger right now, but there's smoke on the horizon and it's coming towards my direction. Should I start evacuating? You don't need to evacuate yet. Close all windows and doors. Stay indoors to avoid smoke exposure and be ready to leave if the smoke gets closer or authorities give instructions. I'm here if anything changes. And just in case, where's the nearest hospital? Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the nearest major hospital to you in Greenwich. And with this information, the information is now summarized onto a dashboard provided for first responders to see with the live map data as well. And please meet the team that brought Sentinel alive. Uh so we we only met four months ago at a different hackathon and we have Andrew who's our CFO specializing financial software and also Nin our CIO who's an AI specialist and Von our CTO who's focusing on building for an impact. Thank you very much and join us today and ensure that families like Sam never have to wait for help again. Thank you. [applause]