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UPDATE Edmonton Startup Week Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation, Founder Success Stories, and Community Building

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EDMONTON, ALBERTA, October 4, 2023— Edmonton Startup Week , the flagship event showcasing entrepreneurship, innovation, and community collaboration, is back for its 10th consecutive year.

Key Points: 
  • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EDMONTON, ALBERTA, October 4, 2023— Edmonton Startup Week , the flagship event showcasing entrepreneurship, innovation, and community collaboration, is back for its 10th consecutive year.
  • “Edmonton Startup Week is part of a dynamic international movement that unites visionaries, problem-solvers, and aspiring entrepreneurs of all stripes, further positioning our city as an inclusive global innovation capital,” said Edmonton Unlimited CEO Catherine Warren.
  • “I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since we originally organized the first Edmonton Startup Week.
  • Happy Startup Week, Edmonton!”  – Mayor Amarjeet Sohi, City of Edmonton
    Launch Party, the keystone event of Edmonton Startup Week, recognizes and showcases ten of Edmonton’s hottest startups on Thursday, October 12, at 6:00 pm at the Edmonton Convention Centre.

Edmonton Startup Week Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation, Founder Success Stories, and Community Building

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Launch Party, Amii, USD, Entrepreneurship, City, Edmonton Convention Centre, University of Alberta, Oil, Cryptocurrency, Video game

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EDMONTON, ALBERTA, October 4, 2023— Edmonton Startup Week , the flagship event showcasing entrepreneurship, innovation, and community collaboration, is back for its 10th consecutive year.

Key Points: 
  • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EDMONTON, ALBERTA, October 4, 2023— Edmonton Startup Week , the flagship event showcasing entrepreneurship, innovation, and community collaboration, is back for its 10th consecutive year.
  • “Edmonton Startup Week is part of a dynamic international movement that unites visionaries, problem-solvers, and aspiring entrepreneurs of all stripes, further positioning our city as an inclusive global innovation capital,” said Edmonton Unlimited CEO Catherine Warren.
  • “I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since we originally organized the first Edmonton Startup Week.
  • Happy Startup Week, Edmonton!”  – Mayor Amarjeet Sohi, City of Edmonton
    Launch Party, the keystone event of Edmonton Startup Week, recognizes and showcases ten of Edmonton’s hottest startups on Thursday, October 12, at 6:00 pm at the Edmonton Convention Centre.

John Carmack and Rich Sutton partner to accelerate development of Artificial General Intelligence 

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Monday, September 25, 2023
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This partnership is the first public milestone for Keen Technologies, following its initial funding announcement in August of 2022.

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  • This partnership is the first public milestone for Keen Technologies, following its initial funding announcement in August of 2022.
  • The initial $20M round was led by Nat Friedman, Danial Gross, Patrick Collision, Tobi Lutke, Jim Keller, Sequoia Capital, and Capital Factory.
  • In December 2022, Carmack departed as consulting CTO at Meta to focus his efforts on AGI.
  • “I am excited to partner with John and the rest of the team at Keen Technologies.

Amii improving network and service resiliency for Canadians

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
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EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) and TELUS are coming together for a five-year collaboration to study and deliver artificial intelligence (AI)-based algorithms and techniques to manage increasingly complex next-generation networks.

Key Points: 
  • Through this collaboration, Amii and TELUS will model various networking and service layers supporting Canada’s critical network infrastructure to better understand their interactions, helping identify potential risks.
  • Together, Amii’s world-leading researchers and TELUS’ national network data, insights, and expertise will help uncover new, cutting-edge applications for artificial intelligence and machine learning to better manage today's complex networks, delivering better outcomes and more resilient networks for Canadians.
  • “Amii is proud to partner with TELUS to leverage our more than 20 years of experience at the leading edge of AI and machine learning (ML) to protect and improve critical network infrastructure for Canadians.
  • “Our partnership with Amii marks an exciting new chapter for Canadian-created intellectual property in the critical area of network resiliency.

Government of Canada launches second phase of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy

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Wednesday, June 22, 2022
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Today, the Honourable Franois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the launch of the second phase of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy.

Key Points: 
  • Today, the Honourable Franois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced the launch of the second phase of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy.
  • The second phase of the Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy will help harness the full potential of AI to benefit Canadians and accelerate trustworthy technology development, while fostering diversity and cooperation across the AI domain.
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) is the use of computer systems to do things that normally require human intelligence.
  • Since 2017, over 100 top researchers have been recruited as Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chairs, half of whom are international researchers drawn to Canada by the strategy and its investments.

AI Redefined Welcomes New Hires, Continues Commercial & Research Expansion

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022
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These hires reflect AIRs commitment to expanding its commercial and research footprint.

Key Points: 
  • These hires reflect AIRs commitment to expanding its commercial and research footprint.
  • Taylor will lead AIRs contributions to the growing body of research in AI training techniques like multi-agent reinforcement learning and human-in-the-loop learning.
  • Taylor is Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Fellow-in-Residence at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) and Associate Professor of Computing Science at the University of Alberta.
  • AI Redefined (AIR) is a company that builds software to foster continuous learning between humans and machines.

These companies are leading change in AI by supporting the AI4Good Lab

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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
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The Lab open doors in AI for people of marginalized gender identities, including but not limited to transgender women, cisgender women, and non-binary people.

Key Points: 
  • The Lab open doors in AI for people of marginalized gender identities, including but not limited to transgender women, cisgender women, and non-binary people.
  • By supporting emerging talent in the AI industry, the Lab aims to build a more diverse and inclusive culture in AI with social good as its driving force.
  • The mentorship, workshops, and recruitment opportunities provided by the sponsors are designed to help the participants start their careers in AI.
  • The Lab is honored to be joined by organizations that are driven towards diversity, inclusion, and social good.

DrugBank: A Future of Medicine Startup Boasting 12M+ Users Secures Successful Raise to Solve the World's Exponentially-Growing Biomedical Data Problem

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Monday, April 11, 2022
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Commercial interest surged and, recognizing the potential of AI and machine learning in data-driven medicine, DrugBank began commercialization.

Key Points: 
  • Commercial interest surged and, recognizing the potential of AI and machine learning in data-driven medicine, DrugBank began commercialization.
  • Community:DrugBank has 12M+ global users annually and developers have built 300+ open source and GitHub projects using DrugBank.
  • "DrugBank will become a critical infrastructure for healthcare and change the way medicine is done", adds Mike Wilson, DrugBank CEO.
  • Utilizing artificial intelligence, their team of experts gather, author, verify, and structure the latest biomedical information into one knowledge platform.

Innovate Edmonton Introduces Edmonton’s Newest Innovation Destination

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022
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Edmontons newest innovation destination is scheduled to open downtown in fall 2022 as the first home of Innovate Edmonton.

Key Points: 
  • Edmontons newest innovation destination is scheduled to open downtown in fall 2022 as the first home of Innovate Edmonton.
  • Edmontons newest innovation destination aims to be an inclusive and welcoming environment for innovators in every sector, at all stages of growth, across every demographic and will reflect Edmontons innovation success and diversity.
  • With its inviting street-level location, Innovate Edmonton also aims to put innovation in the public realm and create a flagship for Edmontons global innovation brand.
  • Edmontons newest innovation destination will contribute to the innovation identity of our city and showcase Edmontons innovators as engines for solving global issues, said Ashif Mawji, Chair of the Edmonton Police Foundation and Community Safety and Wellness Accelerator, funded in part by Innovate Edmonton.

Unique business accelerator to grow tech-based ventures that improve community safety and wellness

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Thursday, September 23, 2021
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This accelerator will leverage technology, data, artificial intelligence/machine learning to devise and deploy workable community safety and wellness solutions.

Key Points: 
  • This accelerator will leverage technology, data, artificial intelligence/machine learning to devise and deploy workable community safety and wellness solutions.
  • A group of Alberta investors will form a fund to invest in ventures coming through the accelerator.
  • Participating companies will be selected accordingly to the criteria set by the Community Safety and Wellness Accelerator with their service delivery partner, Alchemist Accelerator.
  • Also, ventures from around the world can come here to help further their business through an accelerator offering a unique opportunity in the social space.