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.
The Partnership on AI to Benefit People and Society (Partnership on AI) is a not-for-profit organization, founded by Amazon, Apple, Google/DeepMind, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft. Our goals are to study and formulate best practices on the development, testing, and fielding of AI technologies, advancing the public’s understanding of AI, to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society and identify and foster aspirational efforts in AI for socially beneficial purposes. We actively designed the Partnership on AI to bring together a diverse range of voices from for-profit and non-profit, all of whom share our belief in the tenets and are committed to collaboration and open dialogue on the many opportunities and rising challenges around AI. New partners include: AI Forum of New Zealand (AIFNZ), Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), Centre for Democracy & Tech (CDT), Centre for Internet and Society, India (CIS), Cogitai, Data & Society Research Institute (D&S), Digital Asia Hub, eBay, Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF), Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Intel, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), McKinsey & Company, SAP, Salesforce.com, Sony, UNICEF, Upturn, XPRIZE Foundation and Zalando.
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high-value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,200 lawyers in offices across the United States and Asia, we provide a full array of corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders as well as public and not-for-profit organizations.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory is a globally recognized independent provider of scientific research and contract services relating to the marine environment, increasing understanding of how marine ecosystems function, how the ocean contributes to a thriving society and how this vital resource can be protected for future generations. Listed 8th in the world of the top 30 Research Institutions in Oceanography (Thomson Reuters, 2011), PML collaborates with on average 250 industrial, academic and governmental partners from 50 countries each year. In the UK PML is a designated National Capability Delivery Partner for the Natural Environment Research Council, providing a strategic research capability in marine science.
PointClear Solutions focuses on transforming healthcare delivery through technology innovation that improves user experience. PointClear’s competencies lie at the intersection of product strategy, user experience, clinical insight and technology development. PointClear serves technology, provider and payer markets by building innovative healthcare software for the technology companies that serve them.
PMRI, a non-profit research institute, conducts scientific research to investigate the effects of diet and lifestyle choices on health and disease. The institute's work is rooted in compassion and dedication to service. PMRI achieves its mission through various initiatives: publishing research that informs medical practice and empowers individuals to take personal responsibility for their health, collaborating with leaders in the scientific community, and educating and training health professionals and the public about preventive medicine and the benefits of lifestyle change.
Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world's leading professional association for a growing community of millions of project professionals and global changemakers.
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ProVeg International is a food awareness organization working to transform the global food system by replacing animal-based products with plant-based and cultured alternatives. ProVeg works with decision-making bodies, companies, investors, the media, and the general public to help the world transition to a society and economy that is less reliant on animal agriculture and more sustainable for all humans, animals, and our planet.
<u>Puro.earth</u> is a B2B marketplace, standard and registry focused solely on carbon removal. Our mission is to help voluntary corporate buyers mobilize carbon removal at an industrial scale, so we can reach the potential of removing 10 Gigatons of CO2 a year by 2050. Puro.earth provides carbon removal as a service to corporations, by identifying projects, verifying them, issuing CO2 Removal Certificates (CORCs) and helping buyers create a long-term procurement portfolio to reach net zero.
We provide carbon removal suppliers a way to monetize their climate service by entering the voluntary carbon markets with CORCs. With our <u>Pre-CORC Framework</u> we help early-stage projects get corporate offtake agreements to secure funding and start operations. Aiming at climate and economic impact, Puro.earth is driving forward a global market of carbon negative industries by enabling a new revenue stream to help them scale rapidly.
Quest is a future-focused insight firm. Quest helps brands expand and grow based on data-supported consumer insight and innovation. We help uncover rich insights into the ever changing consumer's mind, heart and behavior.
The Rainforest Kids Challenge is a competition Powered by Design for Change to educate children globally about the importance of the standing rainforest, encourage them to be part of a community that cares about rainforests, and use the simple FIDS framework to take action to restore them for a better world.
We create and organise globally renowned summits, workshops and dinners, bringing together the brightest minds in AI from both industry and academia. At each RE•WORK event, we combine the latest technological innovation with real-world applications and practical case studies.
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) is India’s largest and first private sector company to be featured in Fortune’s Global 500 list of ‘World’s Largest Corporations’ – currently ranking 203rd in terms of revenues, and 110th in terms of profits. Reliance is committed to innovation-led, exponential growth. Our vision has pushed us to achieve global leadership in many of our businesses – including our activities spanning hydrocarbon exploration and production, petroleum refining and marketing, petrochemicals, retail and 4G digital services. Reliance Industries Limited as an organization has adopted the ethos of converting adversity into opportunity and making the impossible possible by challenging conventional wisdom. For more company information, please visit http://www.ril.com/.
The Scripps mission is to seek, teach, and communicate scientific understanding of the oceans, atmosphere, Earth, and other planets for the benefit of society and the environment.
With a mission of Inspiring Conservation of Our Marine Environment, the Seattle Aquarium is one of Washington State’s leading environmental education and stewardship institutions and the region’s green gathering place for discussion and dissemination of information about marine conservation. Accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA), it’s the ninth largest aquarium in the U.S. by attendance and among the top five paid visitor attractions in the Puget Sound region. Since its opening in 1977, the Aquarium has hosted over 23 million visitors and provided marine conservation education to over 1.6 million school children.
Seeker’s core pillars—space, technology and innovation, health, and the environment—each represent substantial issues that matter to a generation looking to take charge of their world. Curious audiences turn to Seeker to learn about the issues that matter to them most, to break down complex subjects, and to make scientific information both relatable and actionable. By turning aspiration into action, our viewers are empowered to understand the science shaping our world and equipped with the information and inspiration needed to shape it.
SENS Research Foundation works to develop, promote, and ensure widespread access to therapies that cure and prevent the diseases and disabilities of aging by comprehensively repairing the damage that builds up in our bodies over time. SRF is redefining the way the world researches and treats age-related ill health, while inspiring the next generation of biomedical scientists.
Royal Dutch Shell plc is incorporated in England and Wales, has its headquarters in The Hague and is listed on the London, Amsterdam, and New York stock exchanges. Shell companies have operations in more than 70 countries and territories with businesses including oil and gas exploration and production; production and marketing of liquefied natural gas and gas to liquids; manufacturing, marketing and shipping of oil products and chemicals and renewable energy projects. For further information, visit www.shell.com.
Shimmer is a leading provider of wearable wireless sensing technology and solutions. Their products and solutions are trusted and utilised by the world's brightest start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, and leading universities - shipping to over 60 countries worldwide. Enabling rapid development of applications, Shimmer provides high quality, scientifically reliable biophysical and movement data in real-time. With complete control over the quality of data capture, interpretation and presentation, Shimmer overcomes the challenges of size, reliable communications and low power consumption.