MOSCOW and GENEVA, Jan. 27,
2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Five Russian startup companies, four
of which are Skolkovo Foundation residents involved in Sk[ai]HUB,
will pitch their AI-based sustainable solutions at the Russian
track of the AI for Good Global Summit on Wednesday, January 27, a program aimed at
accelerating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). The summit connects AI innovators with problem owners with
the aim of solving global challenges related to
sustainability.
The UN sustainable development program comprises seventeen SDGs
covering three key areas: environment, society and governance.
These tackle problems related to hunger, poverty, health,
education, inequality, sanitation, clean energy, industry,
economics, consumption, climate change, sea and land life, justice,
and partnerships for these goals. The Skolkovo companies' solutions
cover one or several UN SDGs.
Sk[ai]HUB is an ecosystem of support measures and initiatives
created by the Skolkovo Foundation to develop a high-tech AI field
in Russia. The project involves
over 400 AI startups, thirty-two thematic events over three years,
is home to R&D centers belonging to twelve partners, as well as
two supercomputers on the innovation center territory.
As part of the Sk[ai]HUB Global Challenge, experts selected
forty companies from 300 nominees to join the UN AI SDG case map
for the Russian track of the UN program titled "AI for Good." Of
these forty companies, five became laureates and will pitch their
solutions at AI for Good on January
27 at the International Telecom Union, a UN subsidiary.
The companies that are pitching at AI for Good on January 27 are:
- EMBLE – a service that performs monitoring and
functional diagnostics of equine internal organs using DeepSound
AI© neural network technology.
- Botkin.AI – a software-based platform for radiological
studies' analysis using artificial intelligence technologies.
Unlike most solutions on the market in this area, Botkin.AI is
a holistic product that combines AI technologies with the
state-of-the-art results in terms of accuracy, but also IT
technologies, allowing seamless integration into existing processes
of medical organizations and making radiologists benefit from using
it on a daily basis.
- Oz Forensics - helps to reduce costs and biometry fraud
by automating online onboarding and client verification processes.
This is an inhouse development AI platform to detect face biometry
and liveness, ORC of any IDs and forgery recognition in any scans
and photos. Oz Liveness (detection of a real person) helps to
prevent deepfake fraud and spoofing attacks such as mask, fake
video, etc.
- SOL – a distance sign language interpretation platform
that enables deaf people to receive the range of services that are
available on the market for hearing citizens.
- BIOGEOHUB – Software for automatic identification of
biological communities and geomorphological features of the seabed
by photo and video analysis for mapping seascapes and monitoring
ecosystems.
To view the Skolkovo companies' pitches at AI for Good, connect
to the Experience Russia's
Thriving AI Startup Ecosystem livestream.