The AI and data category of Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honors projects that harness the power of data, machine learning, or artificial intelligence to understand the world and empower change. See the finalists and honorable mentions below, and read about the winner, the AI animal-testing alternative that could prevent unnecessary deaths.
FINALISTS
- AI4Leprosy, Novartis Foundation, Microsoft, and Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
- Autonomous stores, AiFi and Choice Market
- Diversio, Diversio
- Flyways AI Platform, Airspace Intelligence
- Generate Biomedicines, Generate Biomedicines
- Gridsmart, Cubic Transportation Systems
- The Markup, The Markup
- Open Data Program, Capella Space
- Uwazi, Huridocs
- Workforce Management Platform, Legion Technologies
- Zuri, Blue Sky Analytics
HONORABLE MENTIONS
- Action Audio, AKQA
- AI-Enabled Plant Vision Technology, AeroFarms and Nokia Bell Labs
- Allinfra Climate, Allinfra
- Autonomous Speech Recognition software, Speechmatics
- Blueprint, HiredScore
- Censia Talent Intelligence, Censia
- Child Cancer Genetic Material Mapping, Technical University of Denmark
- Cleerly Labs, Cleerly
- Color IQ, Sephora
- Community Impact Platform, SDG&E
- Deduce Identity Network, Deduce
- Digital Innovation in Food Systems, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Digital Green, and the AgStack Foundation
- Dynamic VAV Optimization, Siemens Smart Infrastructure
- Eightfold AI, Eightfold AI
- FarmOS, FarmWise Labs
- Flow Operations, Noodle.ai
- FutureCard, Future
- Glynt, Glynt.ai
- Goodcall Conversational AI, Goodcall
- Google.org Fellowship: COVID-19 Response, Google.org
- Hair Pattern Search, Pinterest
- Herophilus: Harnessing Data and Machine Learning to Unlock Neurotherapeutics Drug Discovery, Herophilus
- Improving the Accuracy and Fairness of Machine Learning Credit Decisions, TruEra and Demyst
- Income Passport, Steady
- Knowledge-as-a-Service Platform, Lynk
- Photonic (super)computing, Lightmatter
- Restor, Google, Restor, Crowther Labs
- Manifest Climate Platform, Manifest Climate
- Measuring Forests with AI, TerraPulse
- Moxie, Embodied
- Omnidian, Omnidian
- OpenAI Codex, OpenAI
- Open-Data Platform for Supply Chains, Crisp
- Pave Commute, RideAmigos
- Pipeline, Pipeline
- Project Guideline, Google, Sama, and Guiding Eyes for the Blind
- Project: SugarFree, DNA
- PSI AI Advisor, Benchmark ESG
- ReefCloud, Accenture and Australian Institute of Marine Science
- ResponderID, Genialis
- Runover Virtual Sensor, Tactile Mobility
- SparkCognition Renewable Suite, SparkCognition
- SustainChain, U.S. Coalition on Sustainability
- Swifty 3, Near Space Labs
- Terradepth, Terradepth
- Trainer, Jigsaw
- Truveta, Truveta
- TumorScope Platform, SimBioSys
- UrbanFootprint, UrbanFootprint
- Whole Body Digital Twin, Twin Health
- Worker-Centric AI, Everguard
CLICK HERE TO VIEW ARTICLE.