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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs

Judges:

• Nour Riad; Marketing, Communications and Engagement Manager, FONGIT
• Mostafa Gado; Venture Developer, FoundersLane
• Vitaly Kleban; Co-founder and CTO, Everynet

9.9 Meet the Robotics for Good startups advancing sustainable
development – 3rd session

Online, 11 April 2023

Moderator: Guillem Martínez Roura, AI and Robotics Programme Officer, ITU

Startups:
• ROPCA: ROPCA automates the process of ultrasound imaging and image assessment.
The platform ARTHUR, with the included artificial intelligence product DIANA, present a
solution, to both the increasing number of RA patients, the hospital cost, and the lack of
specialists. Read more here.
• cycleWASH: cycleWASH offers robotics & AI supported cleaning systems and is well known
for advanced bicyle washing systems. Based on the type of bike, cycleWASH uses AI to
adjust the cleaning parameters of the machine such as time and amount of detergent.
• IDEASCANNER: IDEASCANNER Software as a Service (SaaS) provides leaders and
founders a digital tool for analyzing and improving business ideas by themselves at their
fingertips.

Judges:

• John Walsh; Founder and CEO, Red Summit
• Sandra Skaff; Senior Alliances and Ecosystem Manager, NVIDIA
• Hiroaki Kitano; CEO, Sony AI
• Pascale Fund; Director of the Centre for AI Research, Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology

9.10 Meet the Robotics for Good startups advancing sustainable
development – 2nd session

Online, 13 March 2023

Moderator: Pascale Davies, Senior Tech Reporter, Euronews

Startups:

• Needleye Robotics: Needleye is a startup providing biopsy and needle-based therapy
through AI-powered robotics. The system that Needleye proposes is a small AI-guided
robot to carry out biopsy or focal treatment of prostate cancer. Their product combines the
power of AI, ML, and robotics to help radiologists and urologists minimizing the diagnostic
error and achieve a speedy and effective therapy. Read more here.
• WeTechFood: WeTechFood believes that increasing productivity will change how
commercial kitchens are currently operating. Introducing CLX4, the new Restaurant
Kitchen Robot that improves KPIs monitoring and makes it possible to experience a
remarkable improvement by reducing waiting time in kitchen and eliminating human
related costs.

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