Pitch Day is all about the solutions of our 10 finalists: During the Roundtables you as audience will have the opportunity to discuss the solutions of the finalists with them. During the award ceremony we will briefly introduce all the finalists and our High ranking NATO officials will hand out the Public Voting award en the Jury Award.
The schedule ( in CEST)
Main event
16.00- 16.25Roundtables - Virtual Environment
Roundtable session 1
All 10 finalists will host their own Roundtable to discuss their solution with a small audience. To ensure that there is a valuable discussion on each table, the amount of spots are limited. We will ask you to register after registering for your ticket to select your preferred Roundtable
16.30 - 16.55Roundtables - Virtual Environment
Roundtable session 2
All 10 finalists will host their own Roundtable to discuss their solution with a small audience. To ensure that there is a valuable discussion on each table, the amount of spots are limited. We will ask you to register after registering for your ticket to select your preferred Roundtable
17.00 - 17.45Main stage - Virtual Environment
Award Ceremony
A quick and snappy presentation of the 10 finalists, the presentation of the Public Voting Award and in the end the verdict of the Jury about the winner of the NATO Innovation Challenge 2020
In depth program
13.45 - 16.00:Main stage - Virtual Environment
Finalist pitches
10 finalist, 10 pitches. During the Finalists pitches the Finalists will pitch their solution during a 6 minute pitch, after that the 9 jury members will ask the hard questions to make sure they all have the necessary information to make a final verdict who the Winner of the NATO Innovation challenge 2020 is
16.00 - 16.40Virtual Deliberation Room
Jury Deliberation
After the 10 pitches, the jury will gather in their virtual board room to discuss the pitches and decide on the winner of the NATO Innovation Challenge 2020.
The Roundtables topics:
Name:
John D McHugh
Automated detection of potential misinformation and disinformation for Videos and Photos
Eyewitness videos and photos are a valuable source of intelligence, especially in fast moving crisis situations, but only if they can be verified. Traditional verifications processes are manual, slow, and inconsistent, which is why Verifeye Media has automated the process, applying digital forensics to verify
Name:
JJ Wilson
Adyton Co-Founder
Data-driven accountability for the distributed, joint environment
Ideation of ways to transform the daily accountability process in pyramid organizations for distributed and dispersed workforces using technology; addressing how this technology can be leveraged in both day to day processes, crisis events, and rapid response; group exploration of critical capabilities to provide the flexibility and adaptability necessary for the multi-national allied force interoperability environment
Name:
Jeroen van Disseldorp
CEO, Axual
Information sharing is key during a crisis: come share use cases
COVID19 resulted in great but scattered initiatives. We designed a data platform where health care workers, politicians and researchers come together and collaborate. We help them to make better decisions faster.
Discuss platform functionalities, users, use cases and how to start a movement. Join us to make our dream reality!
Name:
Adam Luaces
COO, Big Rock Technologies
Big Rock Technologies’ Autonomous Aerial Supply Chain Innovation
Our unmanned no-touch medical delivery-drones and state-of-the-art drone-repositories transport medical parcels, critical supply packages, and essential equipment.
The autonomous point-to-point delivery networks are both ‘click and collect” and sterile, reducing the need for recipients to wait for deliveries, and eliminating the risk of infection of diseases like COVID-19.
Name:
John Goolgasian
Chief Operating Officer
“Augmenting Intelligence and Operations with Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Driven Global Threat and Risk Assessments”
“Hyperion (commercial SaaS risk and threat assessment platform):
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- Automates intelligence and operational assessments
- Derives global insight related to stability and disruptive activities
- Analyzes and visualizes content around threat themes
- Applies machine learning algorithms to assess security risk/activity at the country, region, and city echelons on real-time events”
Name:
Jason Carayanniotis
Machine learning for detection of disinformation
False information actively undermines trusted sources regarding COVID-19 and has been spreading at an alarming rate during this pandemic. Using state of the art machine learning, it is now possible to automatically detect and respond to this harmful disinformation on social media platforms. This round-table will explore IMRSV Data Labs’ proposed solution.
Name:
King Ma
Data/Systems Analyst at Complex System Inc.
Context-aware information fusion verification framework for situation assessment
We invite you to discuss about our solution, a decision support system, which incorporates artificial intelligence and information fusion from different sources of data to verify authenticity, analyze content of the sources and deliver predictive insights. Risks and Challenges along with potential applications to social media and COVID-19.
Name:
Ramee Mossa
CEO, TriStar Multicopters
X2 Drone – Providing military reconnaissance and maintaining emergency supply lines
TriStar’s X2 project drones can carry payloads of up to 20KGs, or surveillance sensors like zoom, thermal and optical cameras for up to 2 hours, and with a range of up to 50 KMs. Our drones can reestablish emergency supply lines and offer real time situational awareness in emergency situations.
Name:
Chris Garcia
Social Media Analytics Developer, POLARes
iTRUST (Integrated TRUstworthy Situational Tableau)
iTRUST is a humanitarian crisis decision-support platform that uses AI to extract trustworthy information from multiple sources and combine it into a reliable, real-time situational awareness. iTRUST projects observed trends into the future, highlighting the most likely situation evolution, and then recommends the most effective action plan using advanced optimization.
Name:
Andreas Hedskog
Founder and Head of Products and Innovation, 4C Strategies
Digitalizing Crisis Management in the Age of COVID-19
With disinformation campaigns on the rise, organisations need a better way to collect, verify, and visualise crisis information. This roundtable explores how tools like the Exonaut Common Operating Picture solution can support decision-makers in the COVID-19 response, and what lies ahead in the digitalization of crisis management.