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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs

Figure 5: Taylor Shead, Founder and CEO of Stemuli receiving the winner award from
Seizo Onoe, TSB Director at ITU

Moderators:

• Pascale Davies, Senior Tech Reporter, Euronews
• Brandon Andrews, Co-Founder, Gauge

Startups:
• Stemuli: A generative gaming platform that redefines continuous learning through
immersive experiences and personalized pathways. Stemuli helps individuals discover
careers, learn academic and workforce skills, and have fun with their peers in an engaging
open world. With only 18% of K-12 curriculum aligning with workforce needs and 86% of
economically disadvantaged students lacking post-secondary credentials, the platform
addresses critical gaps in the current education system. Read more here.
• Bioniks: Bioniks is a social enterprise striving to facilitate humanity in every field of life. It
is a symbol of hope for the individuals with disabilities – giving them a helping hand in the
form of prosthetics. Artificial limbs or prosthetic limbs produced by Bioniks are the most
advanced available in Pakistan. Read more here.
• Finapp: Finapp has designed and patented the next generation of Cosmic Ray Neutron
Sensing (CRNS) probes that use cosmic rays to measure water without contact, on a large-
scale, in depth and continuously. This is the Finapp revolution: particle physics at the
service of environmental sustainability. Read more here.
• Wandercraft: Wandercraft, featured on The Robot Report, develops, manufactures and
markets autonomous walking exoskeletons. The first version, Atalante, was commercialized
in 2019 and is used by rehabilitation and neurology hospitals in Europe and the USA.
Atalante offers many patients innovative care based on realistic, hands-free multidirectional
locomotion. Read more here.

Judges:

• Heidi Bianca Roddenberry; Board Chair, Roddenberry Foundation

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