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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs

11.11 Experience Russia's thriving AI startup ecosystem – Live pitching
session

Online, 27 January 2021
Moderators:

• Neil Sahota, CEO, ACSILabs Inc
• Ahmed Riad, Business Development Manager at AI for Good, ITU

Startups:
• Oz Forensics: Oz Forensics’ Oz Liveness is a leading facial recognition and authentication
software used by private and public organizations across the globe to lower the risk
of biometric fraud by preventing deepfake and spoofing attacks with 100% accuracy,
validated by the industry’s most rigorous testing standard, ISO 30107 certification.
• Botkin.AI: AI platform for automatic analysis, remote description and routing of medical
images.
• Biogeohab-Uva: Involved in data analysis from photo and video observation for the
monitoring of demersal communities and automatic mapping of marine landscapes.
• Emble: EMBLE is advanced equine tracking system. It uses any low-cost camera mounted
in the stall to analyze complex horse behavior and deliver critical insights. EMBLE uses AI
and advanced computer vision to analyze complex horse behavior and physiology. This
allows to detect early signs of disease and provides insights into horsekeeping processes
that were previously difficult to analyze.
• Sol: Enhancing equality for those with hearing disabilities. The app delivers interpreting
in many ways and uses remote interpreters to make the app more accessible.
• SK Skolkovo: The strategic goal of the Skolkovo Innovation Centre is to concentrate
international intellectual capital, thereby stimulating the development of breakthrough
projects and technologies.

Judges:
• Anna Gishko; Investment Manager, TerraVC
• Surgey Dutov; Business Development Director, Skolkovo Foundation
• Vera Futorjanski; Founder & CEO, Veritas Ventures
• Sasha Cahill; Digital Health Technologies & Serial Entrepreneur, PX Pulse

12 AI for Good Innovation Factory: 2020

12.1 AI for Good Innovation Factory – Grand Finale 2020

Online, 19 November 2020

The Innovation Factory Grand Finale presented the best four AI for Good startups who scored
the highest scores throughout the Innovation Factory pitching this year. These four promising
AI ventures have a great scalability potential for a global impact and are tackling the world’s
greatest challenges with their innovative AI solutions to achieve the SDGs in the fields of waste
management, air quality, children’s malnutrition, and agriculture.

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