The Global Annual Achievement Awards
for Artificial Intelligence
the 3rd Annual Award Winners
The Global Annual Achievement Awards for Artificial Intelligence is now in its third year, and has significantly grown this year, both in terms of the number of categories of award and the number of votes received. These annual awards are to celebrate the various achievements of the AI community in developing new algorithms, products and services across a number of different categories and industries. We also acknowledged the work of startups and individuals who’s focus on AI is advancing the field. This year we have 37 awards across 6 categories covering a range of topics and sectors that shows how diverse the field of AI is and specifically how its application is spreading across many industries.
We are now pleased to announce the Winners of the 3rd AI Achievement Awards
AI RESEARCH AWARDS
Best New Algorithm for AI
Best New Topology for AI
Best Neuroscience / Biology Inspired Research
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Best New Algorithm for AI
Pat Inc has engineered a language independent, meaning based NLU (Natural Language Understanding) system based on the new science of PatomTheory and RRG (Role and Reference Grammar).
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Best New Topology for AI
eeve.ai is a quantum-inspired platform for Natural Language Processing that runs on a graph structured neural network.
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Best Neuroscience / Biology Inspired Research
Applied Brain Research Inc. (ABR) is the maker of Nengo, the leading neuromorphic compiler & runtime for the new generation of neuromorphic AI chips, such as Intel’s Loihi.
AI INDUSTRY AWARDS
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Best AI Startup
Scaled Insights with a unique group of Data Scientists, Psychologists and other Industry Experts have designed a AI solution which delivers Behavioural AI across FinTech. InsurTech, Health Care and Human Resources applications.
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Best use of AI in the Enterprise
Cisco have built their own inhouse Machine Learning platform that they use for their own customer service and next best action.
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Best AI for Social Good or Charity Work
A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects.
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Best Venture Capital Firm for AI
Analytics Ventures is a global venture studio providing end-to-end infrastructure to ideate, plan, form, launch, fund and validate brand new ventures in artificial intelligence.
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Best AI Consultancy
Shaping Tomorrow is the world’s first, multi-award winning, and only AI-driven foresight system that delivers strategic foresight and anticipatory thinking in real-time.
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Best AI Integrator
Over.ai is an AI voice response and virtual agent that Replace the frustrating IVR technology with flexible natural language interactions.
AI TECHNICAL AWARDS
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Best Technical Implementation for AI
Our world-class team is inventing a new way to sift through all the world’s information by combining the best elements from two AI subfields: Information Retrieval and Deep Learning.
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Best Technical Implementation for AI
H2O.ai is the open source leader in AI with the mission to democratize AI for all. H2O.ai is transforming the use of AI with software with its category-creating visionary open source machine learning platform.
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Best Cloud Platform for AI
CognitiveScale’smachine intelligence powered ‚”Cognitive Clouds” help Global 2000 firms create and drive actionable business outcomes from data.
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Best Hardware for AI / Best Hardware Startup for AI
Pure Storage enables customers to quickly adopt next-generation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), to help maximisethe value of their data for a competitive advantage.
AI BUSINESS APPLICATIONS AWARDS
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Best use of AI in Education
Passage AI enables businesses to harness the power of AI-enabled conversational interfaces to bring bottom-line benefits, to better utilize service agents saddled by mundane tasks, and to deliver exceptional customer experience.
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Best use of AI in FinTech or Financial Applications
Previse uses artificial intelligence (AI) to give large corporates the tools and incentives to have their suppliers paid instantly on receipt of an invoice or issuance of a purchase order.
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Best use of AI in Legal Profession
LawGeex’s artificial intelligence solution helps in-house legal teams automate the review and approval of everyday contracts. We enable firms to remove the legal bottleneck, helping them focus on high-value tasks instead of getting lost in the paperwork.
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Best use of AI in Food, Health and Medicine
AifredHealth is an award-winning Montreal-based health technology company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help physicians make better treatment decisions for mental health care.
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Best use of AI for Automation
IBM Global Business Services (GBS) Interactive Experience (IX) Sports and Entertainment is part of the IBM Global Services division and is responsible for the intersection strategy, creativity, and technology to help our clients digitally reinvent their businesses.
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Best use of AI for NLP or NLG
The flagship ConversicaAI Sales Assistant helps companies find and secure customers more quickly and efficiently by automatically contacting, engaging, qualifying, and following up with leads via natural, two-way conversations that take place in multiple languages and through multiple channels.
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Best use of AI for the Senses (Vision, Sound, Smell, Touch)
Audio Analytic is the pioneer of AI sound recognition, enabling consumer technology companies to embed a sense of hearing (beyond speech and music) into next-generation products.
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Best use of AI in the Arts & Entertainment
MXX is a creative AI technology company. We have built the world’s first AI engine that atomises, re-constructs and edits any music to video, instantly.
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Best use of AI in Insurance
Flyreel’s the Property AI, a scalable platform that works to extend insurance carrier capabilities across the value chain.
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Best use of AI in Retail
Symphony RetailAIis a global provider of artificial intelligence-enabled decision platforms, solutions and customer-centric insights that drive validated growth for retailers and CPG manufacturers, from customer intelligence to personalized marketing, to merchandising and category management, and supply chain and retail operations.
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Best use of AI in Fashion
Our proprietary suite of serialisation, platform, and Artificial Intelligence technologies allows anyone with a smartphone or web access to authenticate a product in seconds, anywhere in the world.
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Best use of AI in Security and CyberCrime Protection
Darktrace is the world’s leading AI company for cyber defense. Created by mathematicians, the Enterprise Immune System uses machine learning and AI algorithms to detect and respond to cyber-threats across diverse digital environments, including cloud and virtualized networks, IoT and industrial control systems.
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Best use of AI in Marketing and Advertising
The Lexalytics Intelligence Platform‚ processes, analyzes and provides insights around a company’s text data, i.e., surveys, call logs, social media posts, message boards, comments, etc.
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Best use of AI for IoT
Umbo Computer Vision is an artificial intelligence company developing autonomous video security at enterprise scale.
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Best use of AI for Self Driving Vehicles
The AE100 integrates three core components: the world’s first agile MOEMS LiDAR, pre-fused and bore-sighted with a low-light HD video camera; distributed artificial intelligence; and software-definable and extensible hardware.
AI CUSTOMER APPLICATIONS AWARDS
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Best use of AI in Customer Service
Gluru MIND is the intelligent information retrieval engine for customer experience. It is designed to collect, receive and send information in the natural language.
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Best use of AI for Personal Assistant
Intuition Robotics is the creator of ElliQ, the Active Aging Companion, which helps older adults stay active and engaged with a proactive social robot that overcomes the digital divide.
AI SPECIAL AWARDS
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Award for Journalism and Analysis
Francesco Corea
Francesco is a technologist and has a background as a researcher/data scientist. He’s currently working with startups on both sides and as part of his job he writes on Medium very detailed analysis and outlines on AI and data related topics
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AI Application / Product of the Year
Entrupy is a hardware-enabled SaaS company that uses computer vision algorithms and microscopy to bring trust to transactions of high-value physical goods.
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AI Company of the Year
Node is the first AI-powered discovery engine that connects people with opportunity at massive scale.
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AI Person of the Year
Or Shani
Or founded Albert Technologies (formerly Adgorithms) in 2010 and has led the company as CEO for eight years. He is the visionary behind Albert, the company’s signature artificial-intelligence based marketing and advertising platform.
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Our Special Achievement Award
Microsoft Seeing AI
A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR WINNERS
We wish to say a big congratulations to all of our Awards Winners this year. We are so very pleased to have given awards to so many amazing organisations all of whom are advancing the field of Artificial Intelligence.
We hope these Awards are a small but welcomed acknowledgement of the great work that is being done across the world by so many people and companies. There are over 4,000 companies working on Artificial Intelligence with several billion dollars of venture capital invested to help develop the field. It is our aim that these Awards in some small way also help to support the AI Community by sharing the great work being done with those interested in the field of AI.
THANKS
A BIG THANKS to our Volunteer Judges, our Partners and to Everyone who submitted Nominations.
Firstly a big thanks to our team of volunteer judges, this year has been our first year with a team of judges and it have been a very positive experience, and given the number of awards and nominations, they provided some very much needed support.
A huge thanks to our events partner, AI & Robotics Events air.events, and specifically Christina and Chris.
We would also like to thank everyone that took the time to register their nominations for companies and individuals across the different categories and awards. Without your support, these awards would not be possible, so thank you all very much for voting.
We had so many worthy nominations this year, which meant it was very difficult for our judges to decide on the winners.
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