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Catch this Ask AI team check-in with Yves Daoust, Founder and CTO at Winter Farm who were awarded $2.9M to use AI/ML to optimize greenhouse-based food production. 

Click here to get all the links and stream the video from our episode post.

Catch this Team Check-in with Greg Johnston, President of Carl Data Solutions, the Vancouver-based predictive analytics startup that recently signed an environmental monitoring deal with Los Angeles Sanitation Districts, a utility that serves over 5.6 million people. 

Get all the links and steam the video version from our episode post:  

https://www.askai.org/post/e41-how-is-ai-powering-environmental-monitoring-in-major-cities

Tune in to this episode of the Ask AI podcast as our host Melissa Kargiannakis sits down with Dr. Alona Fyshe, Assistant Professor at University of Alberta to ask the question: How can brain activity improve how we teach computers to talk?

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Catch this Team Check-in with Ivan Zhang, co-founder at Cohere, the Toronto NLP startup that recently raised $125M in its Series B round and hired an AI leader from Apple to head up its new office in Palo Alto. Get all the links and download as a podcast from our episode post:  

https://www.askai.org/post/e39-how-is-cohere-building-a-global-nlp-powerhouse

The first stethoscope was invented in 1819 by the French physician R.T.H. Laënnec who in described the use of a "perforated wooden cylinder" to transmit sounds from the patient’s chest to the physician’s ear.   

Tune in to this episode of the Ask AI podcast as host Melissa Kargianakkis sits down with Dr. Jacob Jaremko, University of Alberta professor, Canada CIFAR AI Chair, and Co-founder, Medo.ai to ask: 

How is artificial intelligence helping to create a stethoscope for the 21st century?  

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Tune in to this episode of the Ask AI podcast as host Jaxson Khan sits down with Dr. Samuel Aparicio, the Chair in Breast Cancer Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and Head of the BC Cancer Research Institute Department of Breast and Molecular Oncology to ask the question: 

How can AI be used to help predict breast cancer?

Get all the links from our episode post:

https://www.askai.org/post/e37-how-is-ai-being-used-to-help-predict-breast-cancer

Farewell, Jaxson!

He has been a passionate supporter of Canada's Artificial Intelligence sector for many years and we wish him nothing but the best of luck in the future!

We'll miss you lots Jax, please stay in touch!

Medical device manufacturers are now using AI to innovate their products to better assist healthcare providers and improve patient care. But clearly there are risks to be overcome. Tune in to this episode as our Team Check-In host Carolyne Pelletier sits dow with David Boudreau, Director General of Medical Devices at Health Canada to ask the question: How can AI-augmented medical devices be made safer?

Get all the story links and more from our episode post: 

https://www.askai.org/post/e36-check-in-with-medical-devices-team-at-health-canada

Tune in to this episode of the Ask AI podcast as our host Melissa Kargiannakis sits down with Cory Janssen, Co-CEO and Co-founder at AltaML to ask the question: How is applied (and responsible) AI impacting enterprise competitiveness? 

Get all the links from our episode post:  https://www.askai.org/post/e35-how-is-applied-and-responsible-ai-impacting-enterprise-competitiveness 

About AltaML 

Founded in 2018, AltaML (short for Alberta Machine Learning) is a start-up that was initiated, in part, to leverage the World-class AI/ML talent emerging from the University of Alberta (which is also home to Richard Sutton aka the 'father of reinforcement learning'). 

With a mandate to advance the Responsible AI ethos, AltaML’s customers are primarily enterprise organizations in healthcare, oil and gas, and construction that are undergoing a process of digital transformation and looking for predictive value from their data. 

While many healthcare organizations have adopted virtual care to reach patients during COVID-19, these solutions lack the high resolution, scientifically calibrated images, sub-millimeter accuracy, and proper lighting that are critical to remotely assessing and treating wounds.

Tune in to this Team Check-In as host Carolyne Pelletier checks in with Justin Allport, Chief Engineer and Co-Founder at Swift Medical to ask the question: 

How is AI advancing bedside wound treatment (and reducing patient exposure to COVID-19)?

Get podcast download and story links from our episode post: https://www.askai.org/post/e34-how-is-ai-advancing-bedside-wound-treatment

ABOUT ASK AI

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The Ask AI interview with Roxana Sultan, Vice President of Health at Toronto's World-renowned Vector Institute.

Get all the links from our episode post: https://www.askai.org//post/e33-is-ai-poised-to-make-major-breakthroughs-in-healthcare