Resilience Across Frontiers

When disasters occur, responders need real-time information, but resilience starts long before and continues long after the event. Edge AI enables intelligent systems that can anticipate risks, strengthen preparedness, support real-time response, and accelerate recovery, even in low-connectivity, mission-critical environments.

This effort is led by Qualcomm for Good, the company's social impact initiative leveraging breakthrough technologies to expand access across education, healthcare, public safety, the environment, and economic opportunity.

This challenge invites developers and startups who are building intelligent systems that strengthen disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, delivering real-world impact across communities, infrastructure, and critical services.

Call for Innovators

Track A

Developers

Individuals including academics and researchers.

GoalFunctional code and prototypes.

Track B

Startups

Registered entities based in US.

GoalProduction-ready deployments and systems integration.

Purposeful Innovation

This challenge focuses on the intersection of environmental safety and community resilience. The first four areas follow the arc from mitigation to recovery, and the fifth cuts across all of them.

Mitigation

Anticipate and Mitigate Risk

Detect hazards early, reduce exposure, and prevent escalation before disasters occur.

Wildfire detection, environmental sensing, flood and hazard prediction.

Preparedness

Strengthen Preparedness and Planning

Enable data-driven readiness through continuous monitoring, modeling, and early warning systems.

Infrastructure risk modeling, community early warning, habitat and land monitoring.

Response

Enable Real-Time Response

Deliver on-device situational awareness and decision support for responders in dynamic, low-connectivity environments.

On-device computer vision, field intelligence for first responders, low-connectivity operations.

Recovery

Accelerate Recovery and Continuity

Support rapid recovery, infrastructure restoration, and long-term resilience through continuous edge intelligence.

Post-disaster infrastructure monitoring, damage assessment, recovery tracking.

Cross-cutting

Operate in Mission-Critical Environments

Deploy resilient AI across rugged, disconnected, and mission-critical contexts, from communities to aerospace, where reliability and autonomy are essential.

Aerospace, remote infrastructure, extreme environments.

Why Join

Engineering Platforms

Access to advanced hardware and software provided by Qualcomm ecosystem.

Direct Technical Support

Exclusive access to technical experts directly for support during challenge.

Innovation Fast-Track

Opportunity to be considered for a social impact fund grantee through Qualcomm for Good , and/or commercialization pathway, mentorship via Qualcomm Scalar Program.

Tech Stack

Arduino

Edge Impulse

On device AI deployed at ease.

Jury Committee

To be announced

Qualcomm for Good

To be announced

Industry partner

To be announced

Qualcomm for Startups

Judging Rubrics

Track ADevelopers

Innovation35%

Prototype Functionality30%

National Pillar Alignment25%

Team Potential10%

Track BStartups

Commercial Viability30%

Technical Robustness25%

Resilience Impact25%

Integration Feasibility20%

Contests

The Resilient America Preparedness Challenge