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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs

• Joseph K. Hopkins; Senior Managing Partner at The IPRESTIGE Emerge Fund LLC and
CEO, Fallingst Technologies LLC

12.2 Silicon Valley's thriving AI for Good startup – Live pitching session

Online, 9 November 2020

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

Startups:

• EMT Assist: Critical and urgent information is needed to guide emergency medical
services through many procedures and protocols. EMT Assist is a hands-free voice assistant
technology that understands the patient’s unique situation.
• Roybi Robot: ROYBI is a virtual learning system that provides kids with up-to-date content.
Whether you're at home or on the go, its library of resources will keep your child in line
with today's curriculum and beyond.
• Wrench AI: Data-driven A.I. personalization driving acquisition, growth, and engagement.
• Verdant: Verdant AI is an innovation lab and startup studio that advances technological
breakthroughs in AI. Leveraging core competencies in the key areas of engineering
design, AI application development, and analytic product-market fit means Verdant can
accelerate time to market and time to value of AI-driven products.
• Dorothy AI: DorothyAI combines next level, AI-based search and centuries of patent law
experience into a suite of tools that compiles data from a variety of sources in minutes that
would otherwise take weeks to assemble.
• Kin Keepers: Kin-Keepers Elder-ChatGPT uses generative AI to convey the intent of
utterances of those living with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. Our algorithms
make elders living with dementia more confident, less frustrated, and easier to live with.

Judges:

• Sarah Bird; Principal Program Manager, Responsible AI Lead, Emerging Technology and
Research Strategy Lead, Azure AI, Microsoft
• Carlo Tortora Brayda di Belvedere; Executive Chairman, National AI and Cyber Security
ISAO
• Tanya Suarez; Founder, IoT Tribe
• Joseph K. Hopkins; Senior Managing Partner at The IPRESTIGE Emerge Fund LLC and
CEO, Fallingst Technologies LLC

12.3 Experience Estonia's thriving AI startup ecosystem – Live pitching
session

Online, 1 October 2020

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

Startups:
• Sentinel: Sentinel’s NFTPort provides one-stop, simple and developer-friendly NFT
infrastructure & APIs for developers e.g. Stripe for NFTs.
• Lingvist: Lingvist is an EdTech company working to make language learning 10x faster by
using big data and AI. Lingvist maps the knowledge and skills of each learner, adapting
learning materials in real time and creating an experience that is pleasantly and uniquely
challenging for every individual learner. Lingvist has developed exceptional language

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