Machines in the Wild Demo Night: AI x Hardware for Resilience
Building AI tools to enable hardware for accelerating climate adaptation and conserving biodiversity?
Join us in-person on Thursday 25th June for:
5 minute live demos, including from Encode Fellows and ARIA Creators.
'Hot getting hotter' 1 minute takes.
Pizza, beers, and sweet treats.
+ a first look at ARIA's Engineering Ecosystem Resilience seed projects and what the Scoping Our Planet Opportunity Space has next in store.
New models, novel datasets, early stage products, unpolished ideas - expect it all.
We'll be hearing how:
Robots could protect our natural world.
Edge intelligence can enable ecosystem legibility.
+ more
The line-up is open for live demos, so we invite you to come with an idea to share with the group - it must be <5 minutes.
About the organisers:
Pillar VC invests at inception in companies solving the world's greatest challenges. With a significant track record of investing in over 150 companies, with deep university roots throughout, Pillar has raised over $500 million across 4 funds. Pillar VC’s Encode Fellowship, powered by the UK’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), brings together the brightest minds in AI with pioneering scientific research across the UK. Over 12 months, Encode Fellows receive salary, compute and the freedom to build - launching new ventures, tools, research organisations and more.
The Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) is an R&D funding agency created to unlock technological breakthroughs that benefit everyone. Created by an Act of Parliament, and sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology, ARIA funds teams of scientists and engineers to pursue research at the edge of what is scientifically and technologically possible. ARIA’s flagship Activation Partner initiative accelerates this mission, and powers the Encode Fellowship.
Superorganism is the first venture capital firm dedicated to biodiversity. The firm backs early-stage startups building technology solutions that benefit both humans and nature, with an investment focus that spans extinction drivers, climate & biodiversity solutions, and technologies that enable conservation.