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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs

• John O'Shea; Head of Run the Business & Intelligence Transformation, Dell Technologies
• Josh Choi; Director of Business Development, Korea Startup Forum
• Jovan Stojanovic; Founder, Serbian AI Society

12.5 AI for Good Innovation Factory – Live pitching session

Online, 24 July 2020

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

Startups:

• 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.
• 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.
• GoToDigital: Developed a platform to apply deep reinforcement learning to water
challenges
• Warden Machinery: A deep-learning software solution that uses video analysis to boost
efficiency and sustainability in metal production and mining.

Judges:
• Zhi Zhen Qin; Senior Technical Officer, United Nations Office for Project Services
• Bruce Pon; CEO and Co-Founder of BigchainDB GmbH; Co-Founder and Board Member,
Ocean Protocol
• Alex Tsado; Co-Founder & Board Chair, Alliance4ai
• Marta Arsovska Tomovska; Director of the Public Administration Reform and Advisor for
ICT and Innovation, Office of the Prime Minister of Serbia

12.6 AI for Good Innovation Factory – Live pitching session

Online, 26 June 2020

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

Startups:
• AVA.: With AVA, you can monitor and protect the people, places, organizations, buildings,
assets, and things that are most valuable to you.
• Intello Labs: Intello Labs taps into the power of AI, ML, and computer vision to solve one
of the biggest problems our world faces – cutting down food loss. They do so by digitizing
the quality assessment of fresh fruits and vegetables. Intello Labs’ technology transforms
quality processes, making them objective, efficient, and less wasteful.
• Mendel: Mendel’s AI deciphers clinical data with clinician-like logic. It indexes structured
and unstructured data and replaces the complexity of querying with the simplicity of
chatting.
• BioTrillion: BioTrillion is a HealthAI Startup on a mission to radically scale healthcare by
quantifying human physiology with smartphone technology.

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