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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs

The four startups had the chance to present their solutions before a jury of experts who evaluated
their pitches and selected the top winner. Investors and innovation experts announced possible
partnerships and potential funding.

Figure 9: Presenting the awards to the winner of Innovation Factory, Greyparrot

Moderator: Ahmed Riad, Business Development Manager at AI for Good, ITU

Startups:
• Greyparrot: Greyparrot, the leader in AI waste analytics, is applying AI to globally scale
recycling and save millions of tonnes of waste from landfills and incinerators. By providing
deeper, more intelligent insights about waste stream composition and financial value,
Greyparrot is helping the waste sector recover more value from waste processing lines
and reduce the environmental impact of waste. Read more here.
• Citibeats: Citibeats leverages their real time feedback to help you make informed decisions
and anticipate their needs. Through ethical artificial intelligence that uses NLP and ML to
process large quantities of unstructured data, Citibeats gathers actionable insights on
the population's concerns related to key impact areas, such as sustainable development,
financial inclusion, natural disaster response, migration, social policy, gender equality,
vaccine demand, and hate speech policy. Read more here.
• Child Growth Monitor: Child Growth Monitor’s mission is to provide organizations working
on Zero Hunger with quick and accurate data on child malnutrition in the most ethical way.
Leveraging the power of AI to solve global hunger, to solve limitations of traditional child
measurements, with highest standards in data protection. Read more here.
• HawaDawa: Hawa Dawa lets you know the air quality in your environment anytime and
anywhere. It crowd-sources the data on an interactive & real time city map letting you know
when and where air pollution is bad. Read more here.

Judges:
• Stephen Ibaraki; Chairman & Managing General Partner, REDDS Capital
• Sarah Bird; Principal Program Manager, Responsible AI Lead, Emerging Technology and
Research Strategy Lead, Azure AI, Microsoft

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