Amii Monthly News - June 2024

Hi there,

The Amii Startup team was in Toronto last week for the final Collision conference. 

The team met with more than 100 startups over the four-day conference, as well as a number of investors who are looking to grow the industry.

Startups are a huge part of the AI ecosystem. According to Deloitte, more than 670 Canadian AI startups have received investment deals of at least $1 million USD in the past four years, putting Canada near the top globally for AI company funding per capita.

Supporting startups to leverage AI is also an important part of the work we do at Amii. 

We know startups face unique challenges and opportunities when it comes to machine learning. We’ve designed our Level Up program to offer Founders and CTOs customized coaching designed to help them advance their AI capabilities and their business.

We are currently accepting applications for the next Level Up cohort. If you know a startup that might benefit from this fully subsidized program, encourage them to apply!

Applications are open until July 8. 

We’re excited for another year of Level Up, and we’d love to see you there!

Hope to connect with you soon,

June Highlights

Community & Industry Updates:

• Want to know how you can prepare your startup to make use of machine learning? Our own Adam Danyleyko, Product Owner of Startups, looked at some of the unique challenges facing startups and how to address them. 
• Amii CEO Cam Linke shared insights with Forbes about the exciting potential of smart prosthetic devices powered by reinforcement learning. Read more about it here.
• Cam was also on a panel of experts at the BIO International Convention in San Diego, where he spoke on how Amii is leveraging AI to make advancements in biotech and biopharma. 
• Congrats to two Amii alum companies — SketchDeck. ai & QuoteToMe — for winning at the Edmonton and Winnipeg Startup TNT Summits.
  
  

Research Updates:

• Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Ross Mitchell says the impact of AI on personal health care will be “massive”. Check out this video where he discusses how machine learning can analyze medical images and notes, leading to better outcomes.
• AI insights from the top of Earth's atmosphere! The latest episode of the Approximately Correct Podcast features Marlos C. Machado talking about using RL in an ever-changing world, and the importance (and challenges) of continual learning.

Training Updates:

• Ready to take your startup's use of machine learning to the next stage? Level Up is our year-long CTO coaching program that helps startups make better ML decisions faster. Applications close July 8.
• Registration is open for ML Foundations 1, a crash course in AI & machine learning. Sign up now for the July 4 class.
• Build on that knowledge with a more technical focus in ML Foundations 2. Sign up for the July 11 class.
  
  

Career Opportunities

• New Harvest and Amii are looking for an innovative scientist to address a promising research question at the intersection of machine learning and cellular agriculture during a dedicated residency position for one year. Apply for the Machine Learning Resident position today.
• We're also looking for a Machine Learning Resident interested in building different NLP applications. Get in touch!
• The University of Alberta is looking for a postdoctoral fellow focused on machine learning in medicine, who will work with Russ Greiner's lab and Amii.
• The University of Alberta is also searching for a postdoctoral position in Computational Psychiatry.
• Amii and the University of Alberta are actively recruiting new faculty members to join our interdisciplinary research program. We have an open role for an AI Applied to Science, Healthcare, or Society

Keep up-to-date on all of our open postings on our Career Opportunities page. 

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