- Awesome, inspirational and educational.
- Busy.
- Intense, but incredibly positive.
- It's been inspiring.
- The AI for Social Impact Programme,
is a great partnership
between the Social Tech Trust
and Microsoft for Startups.
It brings together our belief
that the biggest opportunity for AI
is when we use it to solve the
world's biggest challenges.
- We've created a programme
that enables these purposeful founders
to not only develop
world-class technology,
but also their commercial skills
and their social business acumen.
We help manage their direct
impact to the people they serve
and influence support or
positive change within society.
- FollowApp allows dentists
to automatically track patient progress
after a visit and improve
access to care for all.
- Podium Analytics is an NGO,
committed to reducing
the incidence and impact
of sports injury in young people.
- NeuerEnergy aims to eliminate
harmful emissions globally.
Our app and platform help
businesses manage their change
by clean energy and cut costs.
- C the Signs is a digital platform
that uses artificial intelligence
to help identify patients
at risk of cancer
at the earliest and most
survivable stage of the disease.
- Medicspot improves more consultations
making healthcare accessible
in every community.
We wanted to say goodbye to waiting rooms
and walking alongside the AI
for Social Impact Programme
has been invaluable
for us in that mission.
- CarelQ is an online
chronic disease management platform.
I was actually chronically ill myself.
I met the right doctor.
He immediately understood what was wrong
and gave me a drug and in a
month I was back to normal.
Looking at holistically,
this is an information routing problem.
If we can send information
more effectively
to the right people,
patients can live freely
and clinicians can do what they do best.
- We are excited to see the change
these companies make to the world
and where they will all go next.
To help them on that journey
requires people and
organisations to come together
to create lasting change.
- Working with Microsoft
AI for Social Impact
allowed e-Pharmacy to expand
and optimise our AI safety
prescribing assistant,
so we can support even
more patients at scale.
- The partnership's absolutely
perfect for MediShout.
You're just working
with like-minded people,
people who want to have
an impact in the world.
You can align ideas,
speak to creative people
and see what other
people are doing as well.
- Microsoft and the Social
Tech Trust are helping us
better understand how to deliver
and articulate the impact we
want to create as a company.
- So at SafetyNet, we make technologies
that increase the sustainability
of commercial fishing.
Working with the programme
we're able to get familiar
with all the tools
and to gain access to the
expertise that we need
to do this successfully.
- iLoF is a cloud based
intelligence platform
built to transform drugs company
And we're delighted to
count Microsoft as a partner
in our journey to change healthcare
and make a lasting difference.
- CanSense platform technology
analyses a blood sample
for markers of cancer activity.
Thanks to Microsoft and Social Tech Trust
we're now able to drive
a much needed change
in patient outcomes.
- The Data Analysis Bureau
believe advances in data and AI
will be the greatest
revolution in our time.
And we want our client
to be at the forefront of this revolution.
Our experience in the cohort
has been nothing short of extraordinary
and working alongside the vast expertise
has helped us move forward
in applying advanced data science,
to deliver social impact.
- We need these ventures
and these scalable solutions
that leverage technology
for positive change.
The pandemic has
highlighted many challenges
from health inequalities
to job vulnerability,
but it's recognition that
we need to do something
to build that better.
- The foundation of our
partnership is a shared vision.
To truly exploit the advantages of AI
we have to imagine the
world we want to live in
and then use technology
and artificial intelligence
to make that world a reality.