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Hi there,
I hope you and yours are doing well. Now more than ever, the Amii team are taking time to connect with one another to stay motivated during these challenging times. Recently, we participated in the Extra Life gaming marathon to raise money for the Stollery Children's Foundation. I'm grateful for the opportunity to lead a caring team who truly demonstrate our mission and values each day.
This month, we're thrilled to announce a new accelerator stream for early-stage startups: Supply Chain AI West. Made possible with funding from SCALE AI, this program is designed to accelerate high-performing technical teams working in the supply chain space. We're on the lookout for 10 ventures to join us for intensive coaching and training in 2021.
Our commitment to reducing GHG emissions continues with the REMI, Reducing Emissions through Machine Intelligence, program. Applications are now open for our Agriculture Spring 2021 cohort. I look forward to learning more about innovations in the agri-tech industry as we onboard new clients to this program.
See you over video chat soon,
Cam
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November 19: Virtual AI Meetup
Gather with the brightest minds in the AI community from Edmonton and beyond at Amii’s Virtual AI Meetup! Learn about the latest tools and techniques in machine learning, and explore topics that researchers and industry professionals are thinking about or working on. November features Nirav Raiyani (Research Engineer - Process & Machine Learning at Ntwist) and Jasmine Wang (Founder & CEO of copysmith.ai).
November 20: AI Seminar – Emilie Kaufmann
This talk will revolve around two performance criteria that have been studied in the context of episodic reinforcement learning: an old one, Best Policy Identification (BPI) [Fiechter, 1994], and a new one, Reward Free Exploration (RFE) [Jin et al., 2020].
RSVP today!
December 4: AI Seminar – Cynthia Rudin
Models and their predictions are often made easier to understand by adding interpretability constraints. These constraints make the model simpler, but can make optimization harder. In this talk, Cynthia asks: can we show that a simple-but-accurate machine learning model might exist for our problem, before actually finding it? She presents an easy calculation to check for the possibility of a simpler model, indicating that simpler-but-accurate models do exist in practice more often than one might think.
RSVP today!
See a full list of Amii and partner events on our Events page.
Supply Chain AI West is Amii’s first accelerator stream and is focused on creating the disciplined environment required for founders to establish an AI strategic direction and begin execution while bringing together a community of experts to provide advice and access to their extended networks.
Programming is designed to expose startups and early-stage founders to the opportunities available to create AI-powered supply chains, and includes:
Supply Chain AI West is available to 10 ventures that share SCALE AI and Amii’s vision of positioning Canada as a global leader in AI and supply chain management. To make up the cohort of 10 ventures, Amii is seeking seven startups. Additionally, up to three places will be considered for early-stage founders looking for a de-risked and supportive environment to begin their business through participation in a cohort-based program.
May 16th 2024
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Amii and New Harvest are excited to announce phase two of their research collaboration focused on applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in cellular agriculture. The new phase initiates a year-long project with an open call to researchers and experts specializing in cellular agriculture and machine learning who want to apply ML solutions to solve the challenges in the field.
May 7th 2024
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Check out the advancements being presented by Amii researchers at the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representation.
May 2nd 2024
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Read our monthly update on Alberta’s growing machine intelligence ecosystem and exciting opportunities to get involved.
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