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Identifying and scaling AI startups for SDGs

12.8 AI for Good Webinar Series. Innovation Factory Episode 1:
COVID-19: Combining crowdsourcing and AI to tackle the
pandemic

Online, 20 May 2020

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

Crowdsourcing is often associated with the darker side of AI: clickworkers in sweatshops
filtering out illegal content from social media sites, to help train bots that will ultimately make
the clickworkers redundant. In this session, we look at some of the more positive synergies
between AI and crowdsourcing, through the lens of the coronavirus pandemic.

Online crowdsourced events such as the EUvsVirus hackathon held in April 2020 with over
20,000 participants have proliferated under the current global lockdown, bringing with them
new lessons for how AI can contribute to better organizing large scale collaborations between
humans. At the scale of citizen-driven science for Covid, projects have emerged that combine
AI and crowdsourcing to extract vital information from the flood of literature being produced or
train algorithms that can analyse social media for important trends. This panel will discuss how
AI can help crowds achieve more, how crowds can help improve AI, and where this marriage of
people and machines might have the most impact on Covid-related research and innovation.

Panelists:

• Barbara Pernici; Professor, Politecnico di Milano
• Isidro Laso Ballesteros; Deputy Head of Unit, European Innovation Council
• Maite Lopez; Professor, University of Barcelona
• Sharada Mohanty; CEO & Co-Founder, AIcrowd

12.9 AI for Good Innovation Factory – Live pitching session 1

Online, 15 May 2020

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.
• IVOW: IVOW created CultureGraph, which is a smart tool that provides real-time cultural
insights to help enterprises create more effective and efficient experiences for consumer
audiences. The search, map, calendar, and top trending tools offer human-to-human and
bot-to-human insight into cultural holidays, food, music, arts, sports, and festivals at any
moment in time.
• 1DOC3: 1DOC3 is the health and wellness app focused on protecting and caring for
the well-being of your employees in minutes. The app helps companies take care of the
physical, mental and nutritional health of their employees and their families, generating a
positive social and economic impact for everyone. Read more here.
• EQ4ALL: Q4ALL was established to remove societal barriers that prohibit DHH (Deaf or
Hard of Hearing) individuals from accessing information, education, communication, and

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