XPRIZE

Discover a future where hunger is history! Meet the visionary teams of XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion, transforming food with sustainable proteins from Austria to China. Join us in Abu Dhabi for a taste of the future. #AspireUAE #XPRIZE #FeedTheNextBillion #FoodSustainability #ATRC

🌟 New Blog Post Alert! 🌟 📖 Sara Keen dives into a recent event jointly hosted by Interspecies Internet Internet and XPRIZE to discuss the criteria and frameworks for decoding animal communication. “...the workshop underscored that we are on the precipice of something big: more research focus, data, and technology are being directed towards animal communication than ever before. As we start to uncover more about our planet and its inhabitants, our understanding of other species will fundamentally change, enabling humans to reimagine our relationships with the natural world.”   🔗 Read the full post below.  https://lnkd.in/dpj_-wag #AI #AnimalCommunication #BehavioralEcology #EthicsInAI #EarthSpeciesProject #Research

We’re passing the phone to… 📱 See some of the many biodiversity and conservation experts and activists who joined us during #XPRIZERainforest finals testing in Amazonas, Brazil! 👀🌱Finals is still underway as teams continue to test out their technology that will help us better understand rainforest biodiversity. 🌱 Peter Houlihan: Houlihan is the XPRIZE EVP, Biodiversity + Conservation and is an accomplished tropical expedition lead. 🌱 Dr. Meredith Palmer: Palmer is a conservation technologist and someone who specializes in eDNA, an important tool for XPRIZE Rainforest finalists in monitoring biodiversity. 🌱 Pedro Hartung: Hartung is the Executive Director of Alana. Alana is the sponsor of XPRIZE Rainforest. 🌱 Kirk Larsen: Larsen is a conservation technology and data expert and is a Biodiversity & Conservation XPRIZE Brain Trust member. 🌱 Dr. Kevin Njabo: Njabo is an XPRIZE Rainforest judge and an expert in diverse areas such as education, ornithology, and emerging tropical diseases. To get a deeper dive into the XPRIZE Rainforest finals, watch our short documentary mini-series here. https://lnkd.in/gFam7QGu cc: Instituto Alana

I am excited to announce a new partnership between UNDP and XPRIZE from the Amazon forest #Brazil!! We will collaborate to... 🌿bring cutting-edge rapid biodiversity survey technologies to local communities, 🌳co-shape future biodiversity challenges 🦋jointly advocate for digital innovation to accelerate nature and climate action. We wish the best to the 6 Rainforest Challenge finalist teams on their last assignment over the next one month: to survey the biodiversity richness of 100 Ha in 24 hours... stay tuned! Midori Paxton Francine Pickup Marcos Neto Robert Opp Peter Houlihan Justin D'Angona Cassie Flynn Josep Garí Doley Tshering Terence Hay-Edie Kaavya Varma Mike Rios Pedro Hartung

The Animals in Translation hybrid workshop, fostering collaboration both digitally and in-person, brought together incredible researchers to tackle pressing questions over two days: 🔍 What are some of the barriers to decoding animal communication? 🧩 What is the relationship between human observation and machine learning models? ✅ How might we define evidence for successful translation? We are preparing to share the transformative outcomes and insights from this event. We'll be releasing a publication featuring our key findings, as well as videos of all the presentations from our incredible speakers.

We are excited to introduce XPRIZE Board Member Cayley Tullman's newest nonprofit, Let Music Fill My World (LMFMW), dedicated to ensuring every child in America has access to music education in their school. https://lnkd.in/gpu6Uf3C   This year, in partnership with John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting, LMFMW established the national Music Matters Challenge, an annual national music competition to promote music as an outlet and tool for young people to break down social barriers, find connection to community, combat rising levels of anxiety and depression, and build resilience to withstand life’s challenges. Participants shared their stories and performed their renditions of the Let Music Fill My World song, written by high school students from Farragut Career Academy in Chicago, IL. Voted on by the public in June 2024, the LMFMW winners included a budding musician who won a $10,000 cash prize and a high school that received a $25,000 grant which they will use to travel to and perform at Carnegie Hall. LMFMW will soon announce the school receiving a $300,000 grant to fund a full-time music teacher for three years!   At XPRIZE, empowering people to harness their creativity, collaboration, and innovative spirit to solve some of the world’s biggest challenges is part of what we do. Tullman sees music as a way to teach and encourage these same values. As LMFMW gears up for next year’s Music Matters Challenge, they welcome collaboration with partners who share the belief that music education is essential for nurturing our future generation's potential.   Learn more here. https://lnkd.in/gUyZC3Bp

Calling all interested #XPRIZEWaterScarcity teams! 💧 Now is your chance to showcase your groundbreaking ideas and cutting-edge technology during our upcoming Team Pitch Webinar on July 31 at 11am ET / 8am PT. Network with fellow innovators, collaborate, recruit, or simply share your tech with our vibrant community. Don't miss this opportunity! If you’re interested in presenting during the XPRIZE Water Scarcity Team Pitch Webinar, email waterscarcity@xprize.org by July 24 with the subject line “Team Pitch Webinar.” Register to join here. https://lnkd.in/gCdicu8M

Mark your calendars for Friday 19th July at 14:00 BST Join our upcoming webinar to discover how BOW’s easy integration of ChatGPT and other AI models can lead to real-world autonomous robotics applications. Explore how the robot-agnostic BOW SDK combined with ChatGPT and object recognition AI provides decision-making and seamless task performance for multiple robots. 🔍 Curious about what’s in store? Check out this highlight from our previous webinar. 🔗 Don't miss out – register now: https://lnkd.in/e-RB5kVP #AI #Robotics #NaturalLanguageProcessing #ChatGPT #Innovation #Webinar #BOW

Early circular #water principles can be found in indigenous practices that embraced a respectful approach to water and to nature as a whole. It was a pleasure to hear Travis Numan from University of Nevada-Reno speak this morning at the #CWESummit! We also watched clips from the new Brave Blue World Foundation documentary, "Our Blue World: A Water Odyssey," which celebrates our connection to water and explores its cultural significance in communities around the world. WEF is proud to be a partner on this impactful project. Panel participants: - WEF Executive Director Ralph Exton - WEF President Aimee’ Killeen - Founding Director, Institute of Ecotechnics Mark Nelson - EVP of Food and Water Waste at XPRIZE Lauren Greenlee

Today, I'm at the Water Environment Federation Circular Water Economy Summit and representing XPRIZE on two panels as we discuss water circularity, water challenges, and the power of our prize model to accelerate innovation and progress.