Developer Builds AI Disaster Relief Agent Using Gemini, Gemma, and Veo for Google Hackathon

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A developer created Needflare, an autonomous emergency intelligence and logistics platform, as an entry for the Google Cloud All Things Agentic Hackathon. The system addresses two critical gaps in disaster response: overwhelmed emergency dispatchers and the risk of leaking sensitive personal information over open communication channels. Needflare uses a three-tier architecture running on Google Cloud, integrating Gemini 3.7 Flash, Gemma 4, and Veo 3.1 to triage field reports, auto-dispatch supply convoys, and generate non-verbal survival video guides for victims. The platform scrubs personally identifiable information directly on volunteers' devices before transmitting data, and can operate offline using local heuristics when connectivity is lost. State is persisted in Google Cloud Firestore, and the backend scales automatically to handle sudden surges in disaster-related traffic.

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