Partners
Partners play a hands-on role in our prizes—co-designing competitions, supporting operations, and helping scale solutions with their expertise, resources, and global reach.
1t.org is the World Economic Forum’s Trillion Tree Platform, serving a global movement to conserve, restore and grow 1 trillion trees by 2030, in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. We drive change by mobilizing the private sector, accelerating restoration in key regions, and empowering a new generation of ecopreneurs. 1t.org was launched in January 2020, at the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The team at 350Solutions has been evaluating and developing innovative technologies that impact our environment for over 60 years combined. We’ve developed testing protocols for innovations that have not yet been rigorously tested. We’ve managed multi-million dollar demonstration programs for new innovations. And we’ve been on the developer’s side, too — working from proof of concept to large demonstrations.
3BLACKDOT (3BD) is an Influencer-driven Collective, Studio, Production and Marketing company that delivers audience engagement, brand value, and entertainment properties that harnesses the power of Influencer communities around the world. For more information, click here.
3M applies science in collaborative ways to improve lives daily. With $32 billion in sales, the company’s 96,000 employees connect with customers all around the world. 3M invests about 6 percent of its sales into research and development – an investment that helps produce more than 3,000 patents each year. 3M owns 51 technology platforms, which range from adhesives and abrasives, to ceramics and nanotechnology. 3M's more than 8,500 scientists around the world share and combine these technologies across all its businesses to create a steady stream of unique products for customers.
3M is helping the world respond to COVID-19 at a time when the pandemic has created unprecedented demand for critical products. During this global crisis, the safety of our employees and the public, including health care workers and first responders fighting COVID-19, is our highest priority. We are making more respirators than ever before. Since January, we have doubled global N95 respirator production and are on track to increase our capacity to produce N95 and other respirators to 2 billion per year globally by the end of 2020.
The Academy for Health & Lifespan Research envisions a world where breakthroughs in longevity are accelerated and made accessible. This is achieved through the innovative collaboration of the most brilliant researchers, laboratories, academic institutions, regulators, and drug companies.
AFARA collaborates to build resilient, sustainable companies and economies. We are a multidisciplinary team who work closely with our clients to solve complex problems, make better decisions, and convert those decisions into actions to deliver resilient, sustainable outcomes. Our clients include governments, oil and gas companies, diversified forestry products companies, and not-for-profit organizations.
Affectiva, an MIT Media Lab spin-off, is the pioneer in Emotion AI, the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Affectiva’s mission is to bring emotional intelligence to the digital world with emotion recognition technology that senses and analyzes facial expressions of emotion. Our patented software uses computer vision, deep learning and the world’s largest emotion database of 4.7 million faces analyzed in 75 countries. Affectiva’s SDKs and APIs enable developers to add emotion-sensing and analytics to their own apps, games, devices and digital experiences. Affectiva is used by more than 1,400 brands to gather insight and analytics in consumer emotional engagement.
Afrolongevity is a nonprofit subsidiary project of Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions (TAFFD) that avails systemic approaches for understanding, translating and educating Africans on the ethical methods of achieving a healthy life span.
The 2nd AI for Good Global Summit at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, 15-17 May 2018, will take action to ensure that Artificial Intelligence (AI) accelerates progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The summit is organized by ITU in partnership with the XPRIZE Foundation, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and sister United Nations agencies including UNESCO, UNICEF, UNIDO, Global Pulse, UNICRI, UNODA, UNIDIR and UNODC. The AI for Good series is the leading United Nations platform for dialogue on AI. The action-oriented 2018 summit will identify practical applications of AI and supporting strategies to improve the quality and sustainability of life on our planet. Learn more here.
AI World Conference and Expo is focused on the state of the practice of artificial intelligence in the enterprise. Now in our third year, the 3-day conference and expo are designed for business and technology executives who want to learn about innovative implementations of AI in the enterprise.
AI World Government provides a comprehensive three-day forum to educate and inform public sector agencies on the strategic and tactical benefits of deploying AI and cognitive technologies. With AI technology at the forefront of our everyday lives, data-driven government services are now possible from federal, state, and local agencies. AI World Government gathers leaders from across government, technology innovation, business, and research to present the state of the practice and state of the technology to assist the public sector in leveraging advanced intelligent technologies to enhance government services.
AirMiners Launchpad accelerates founders towards gigaton scale carbon removal. The program helps founders establish their team, develop business strategy, roadmap their tech, and connect to the broader carbon removal network.
The Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI) is one of the top drone research programs in the United States, and one of the seven FAA-designated unmanned aircraft systems test sites established to develop and test drone technology.
The Alberta Carbon Conversion Technology Centre is the first demonstration scale CO2 test facility attached to an operating natural gas-fueled power plant where multiple carbon utilization technologies can be concurrently tested under real world conditions. Operated by InnoTech Alberta, a subsidiary of Alberta Innovates, the Centre focuses on the development and deployment of technologies that can turn CO2 into valuable products.
ANA is Japan’s five-star international airline with 83 international routes and 116 domestic routes. Founded in 1952, ANA bridges the divide between places, people and their cultures. The airline prides itself on providing passengers with a unique and flawless journey through the airline’s relentless drive towards excellence, innovation and creativity. To learn more, click here.
The Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) is a collaborative partnership of academic institutions, state and federal resource managers, and private sector companies dedicated to fostering the development and adoption of effective and reliable sensors and sensor platforms for environmental monitoring and long-term stewardship of coastal and ocean resources. ACT goals include: (a) rapidly and effectively transition emerging technologies to operational use; (b) maintain a dialogue among technology users, developers, and providers; (c) identify technology needs and novel tools and approaches to meet those needs; (d) document technology performance and potential; and (e) provide U.S. IOOS with information required for the deployment of reliable and cost-effective networks.
Allied Vision is one of the leading camera manufacturers worldwide in the machine vision market. They will be offering in-kind hardware support to teams and a discount to qualified competitors.
Alpha Intelligence Capital (AIC) is an entrepreneurs-led, entrepreneurs-invested, global closed-end private venture capital fund. AIC invests in deep Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) technology-based companies. AI is the science of self-learning software algorithms that execute tasks otherwise typically performed by humans, or that substantially augment human intelligence.
"Inspiring a Cultural Change to Transform Human Health”
The Alliance for Longevity Science, Arts & Entertainment (ALSAE) — pronounced “All Say” — is a pioneering nonprofit organization dedicated to uniting science and culture to help advance the field working to cure and prevent the chronic disease of aging.
By merging the groundbreaking innovations of longevity science with the transformative power of arts and entertainment, ALSAE aims to inspire a global cultural shift—one that redefines how we understand aging, health, and the possibilities of medical progress.
Through collaborations with creators, storytellers, and scientists, ALSAE fosters cultural change and accelerates efforts to cure age-related diseases such as Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
The Alzheimer’s Association stands as the foremost voluntary health organization in Alzheimer's care, support, and research. Its mission is centered on eliminating Alzheimer’s disease through advancing research, providing and enhancing care and support for those affected, and reducing the risk of dementia by promoting brain health. The Association envisions a world free from Alzheimer’s and all other forms of dementia.