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Siemens Integrates Amazon Bedrock with Mendix

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LAS VEGAS, NV, Jan 9, 2024 – Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are strengthening their partnership and making it easier for businesses of all sizes and industries to build and scale generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Domain experts in fields such as engineering and manufacturing, as well as logistics, insurance or banking will be able to create new and upgrade existing applications with the most advanced generative AI technology. To make this possible, Siemens is integrating Amazon Bedrock – a service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models from leading AI companies via a single API, along with security, privacy, and responsible AI capabilities – with Mendix, the leading low-code platform that is part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio.

“By integrating Amazon Bedrock into our low-code platform, we are democratizing generative AI technology and empowering everyone to create the applications customers need to become more competitive, resilient, and sustainable,” said Roland Busch, CEO of Siemens. “Making smarter applications without programming expertise accelerates innovation and helps companies to tackle skilled labor shortages.”

“Together, AWS and Siemens are empowering companies worldwide to create new capabilities, solutions, and value with generative AI,” said Adam Selipsky, AWS CEO. “This partnership builds on our 10-year relationship with Siemens, giving customers across all industries the flexible, customizable, secure environment they need to take advantage of new opportunities with generative AI.”

The combination will enable customers to select the generative AI model that best suits their specific use case and quickly and securely incorporate that model into their applications. This will make their development simpler, faster, and more efficient. Previously, when developers wanted to integrate generative AI models, they had to obtain access credentials, and write specialized function code. With the new Mendix-Amazon Bedrock integration, this can now be done with just a few clicks. Teams can create smart, industry-hardened applications without dedicated programming knowledge and users can interact with information easily via a graphical interface and the simplicity of a drag and drop commands.

This innovation allows Mendix customers to apply generative AI to drive productivity within their workforce. For instance, using generative AI, a factory worker can find machine documentation faster, generating relevant visualizations without a need to manually search a database, manuals, and records. A production engineer could also use generative AI to suggest machine adjustments to improve yield, and get suggestions on equipment adjustments, maintenance, or even spare parts to maximize a factory’s productivity.  Customers do not need to build their own AI infrastructure and will be able to harness the power of their company’s data with the highest possible security and privacy, maintaining full control of their data.

Generative AI technology can supercharge applications with features like summarizing and analyzing lengthy technical or legal documents, translating content into different languages, or recognizing images. Financial businesses can integrate automatic fraud detection in their software, while workers in a car factory can improve quality based on AI analysis of millions of data points in the manufacturing line. With access to a choice of foundational models on Amazon Bedrock, users can easily select the best model for their specific task and integrate it with just a few clicks.

The collaboration expands on the long-established partnership between AWS and Siemens to help streamline the use of IT and cloud technology so it can be easily integrated in applications and machine workflows, making it seamless to engage with.

Today, more than 50 million end users worldwide work with more than 200,000 applications built with Mendix’s low-code platform, available as part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio. Low-code platforms are expected to grow substantially over the next years. The technology enables developers to create applications by drag and drop with reusable components and software building blocks, which means they can build more software faster and with smaller teams.

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers easy access to a choice of industry-leading large language models and other foundation models from AI21 Labs, Amazon, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, and Stability AI, along with a broad set of capabilities that customers need to build generative AI applications—simplifying development while supporting privacy and security.  Users can also apply Guardrails to filter undesired content, adhere to responsible AI policies, or finetune their models using Knowledge Bases for Amazon Bedrock to give contextual information from private data sources and more relevant, accurate, and customized responses. The Mendix-Amazon Bedrock integration complements AWS’s other generative AI services, like Amazon CodeWhisperer, a machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps improve developer productivity by generating code recommendations based on developers’ comments in natural language and their code.  Together, the services extend the benefits of generative AI to developers and enterprise users regardless of their programming abilities.

About Siemens AG 

Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a leading technology company focused on industry, infrastructure, transport, and healthcare. From more resource-efficient factories, resilient supply chains, and smarter buildings and grids, to cleaner and more comfortable transportation as well as advanced healthcare, the company creates technology with purpose adding real value for customers. By combining the real and the digital worlds, Siemens empowers its customers to transform their industries and markets, helping them to transform the everyday for billions of people.

In fiscal 2023, which ended on September 30, 2023, the Siemens Group generated revenue of €77.8 billion and net income of €8.5 billion. As of September 30, 2023, the company employed around 320,000 people worldwide. Further information is available on the Internet at www.siemens.com.

Clapself Unveils AI Professionals Service

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SACRAMENTO, CA, Jan 3, 2023 – Clapself, a leading AI-powered talent platform, announced the launch of its AI Professionals service. Available immediately, this groundbreaking offering by Clapself provides businesses across industries swift access to exceptional AI talent.

Artificial Intelligence is fast transforming industries. As per a PwC report, 70% of businesses are involved with AI in some way. “Securing specialized talent is critical for businesses to thrive. Acknowledging this growing demand, Clapself proudly introduces its AI Talent services—an exclusive gateway to a pool of top-tier, pre-vetted AI tech professionals,” said Bryan Verduzco, co-founder and chief growth officer of Clapself.

Key Features of Clapself AI Talent Service:

  1. Rapid Deployment: A pre-vetted pool of AI talent ready for immediate deployment.
  2. Specialized Expertise: Experts in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and other specialized domains.
  3. Cost-Efficiency: Need based deployment, without the overheads of permanent hires.
  4. Speed to Market: Accelerated development and reduced time-to-market for AI-powered offerings.
  5. Custom: Flexibility to scale up or down based on project requirements.

According to MarketsandMarkets, the global Artificial Intelligence market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 36.8% to reach USD 1.3T by 2030 from USD 150.2B in 2023. As more organizations are recognizing the transformative potential of AI/ML to improve operational efficiency, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation, the demand for AI skills such as Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and Predictive Analytics has reached unprecedented levels.

“Clapself uses AI to connect customers with the top talent, for meeting project specific needs,” said Ramna Sharma, founder and president of Clapself.

Dave Sanders, chief mentor at Clapself acknowledged the increased demand for the unique AI skillset. “Clapself is well poised to lead the effort to identify and connect with some of the leading experts in this field, providing their clients a competitive advantage to access these limited resources,” he added.

About Clapself, Inc.

Clapself is an AI-powered talent platform where tech professionals engage with enterprises for mutual impact and benefit. The mission of Clapself is to help professionals and enterprises thrive in the new era of work. Headquartered in Sacramento, CA, Clapself is a virtual-first organization.

To learn more, visit website.

LatticeFlow Partners with CertifAI

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ZURICH, Switzerland, Dec 8, 2023 – LatticeFlow, a pioneer in AI safety assessments, partners with CertifAI to ensure safety, efficiency, and reliability of AI models in accordance with current and upcoming regulations.

As organizations rapidly adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions into their business-critical operations, the importance of governance, transparency, and reliability becomes paramount. This collaboration aims to seamlessly integrate LatticeFlow’s technology for conducting data quality and model robustness assessments, all in accordance with the latest ISO standards, into CertifAI’s comprehensive platform for certifying safety, efficiency, and reliability of AI systems. The upcoming EU AI Act is also expected to significantly influence the AI landscape. Post-certification, customers can monitor the performance of production models as new observations are added to training data sets.

Dr. Robert Kilian, CEO and Co-founder of CertifAI, commented on the timeliness and strategic importance of this partnership: “Safe AI development standards and relevant regulations create immediate urgency for organizations to implement effective quality systems including testing obligations. This is especially crucial for highly regulated industries where the deployment of AI systems directly impacts the safety of people’s lives. We have signed this partnership with LatticeFlow to leverage their award-winning technology for conducting AI assessments, which has been proven effective in commercial AI assessments for banks, as well as in governmental organizations. The partnership will further enhance our CertifAI platform to deliver exceptional, state-of-the-art AI audits to our clients.”

“We are thrilled to collaborate with CertifAI in addressing the growing demand for compliance with emerging AI regulations,” said Dr. Petar Tsankov, CEO and Co-founder of LatticeFlow. “CertifAI brings extensive expertise to the table, with the backing of PwC and DEKRA. Under Robert’s skilled leadership, the team is uniquely positioned to move fast in this rapidly evolving space.”

The collaboration between LatticeFlow and CertifAI is a testament to our shared vision of fostering innovation alongside responsible AI development.

About LatticeFlow

LatticeFlow’s robust AI platform enables enterprise teams to build performant, safe, and trustworthy AI at scale. We help teams unlock the full potential of AI by addressing critical model and data issues with automation and intelligent workflows across the AI lifecycle. Focused on automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, and defense. Committed to safety, reliability, and efficiency, LatticeFlow is committed to setting new standards in safety, transparency, and reliability.

About CertifAI

CertifAI, Joint Venture by PwC and DEKRA, is your global partner throughout the entire life cycle of complex AI solutions. They are committed to expand AI Testing and Certification services along the rapidly changing regulatory landscape to assure their clients global market access, mitigate safety risks and gain consumer trust in applications.

Service Insight Expands Insight Platform

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for Biotech, Pharma, Clinical Diagnostic Laboratories

BOSTON, MA, Dec 4, 2023 – Service Insight, a premier provider of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) solutions, has announced the expansion of its groundbreaking Insight Platform into new industries, including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, molecular, and clinical diagnostics. The holistic SaaS Platform, comprising Insight Connect, Insight Cloud, Insight Engine, and Insight Mobile, empowers customers to harness the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at scale, optimizing the efficiency, safety, and sustainability of their operations.

Insightful Twins – advanced digital twins powered by 3D models from Matterport. These virtual replicas offer dimensionally accurate, photorealistic representations of workspaces. But that’s not all – Insightful Twins go beyond visuals, immersing you in interactive experiences that blend IoT device data and insights from machine learning models, paving the way for unprecedented innovation.

In a data-centric era, laboratories in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and diagnostics are increasingly adopting AI to gain a competitive edge and make data-driven decisions. However, many face a significant challenge – the absence of crucial operational data about environments, assets, and scientists.

To bridge this gap, Service Insight introduces the Smart Lab solution, a pivotal capability designed to capture essential missing data for driving AI models that address scientific reproducibility. Fueled by data from IoT sensors and predictions from AI models, insights are visualized in our digital twin platform, enabling Insightful Operations that enhance efficiency, safety, and sustainability.

Anthony Uzzo, CEO of Service Insight, shares his vision: “At Service Insight, our mission is to be a catalyst for digital transformation in how businesses manage their operations. Our expansion into Biotech, Pharma, and Diagnostics is a significant step towards realizing our vision for enabling a connected, intelligent, and sustainable future. We are excited to collaborate with organizations in these industries, offering transformative insights and cutting-edge technology.”

Service Insight is committed to empowering customers across diverse industries by providing innovative AIoT solutions that offer a complete view of their operations on a unified platform. Our mission is to revolutionize operational efficiency, enhance decision-making processes, and drive sustainable practices. Through cutting-edge technology, we aim to be a catalyst for positive change, offering comprehensive insights that transform how businesses manage, monitor, and optimize their operations.

As Service Insight forays into these new industries, our cutting-edge Operations Platform brings a wave of excitement and transformative benefits. Robert Pemberton, CRO of Service Insight, states, “As we launch our revolutionary Laboratory Operations Platform, we are driven by a commitment to redefine operational efficiency, safety, and sustainability for customers. The Insight Platform is a testament to our dedication to innovation, offering comprehensive solutions that empower businesses to navigate the complexities of these critical sectors.”

Transforming Biotech & Pharma Operations

In the Biotech and Pharma sectors, Service Insight introduces tailored solutions to revolutionize discovery, development, and manufacturing. The Insight Platform accelerates drug discovery, providing real-time insights for faster identification of candidates, optimized experimental conditions, and expedited preclinical studies.

Enhanced Quality Control and Regulatory Compliance

For Regulated Laboratories, Service Insight boosts quality control and regulatory compliance. Real-time monitoring ensures adherence to stringent industry standards. Predictive maintenance and automated data analysis promptly address deviations, maintaining product integrity and ensuring compliance.

Sustainable and Cost-Efficient Innovation

In pursuit of sustainability, Service Insight optimizes resource usage, reduces waste, and monitors energy consumption. As the cost of new drugs and diagnostics continue to rise, our solution provides customers with clear insights on opportunities to address sustainability while lowering operational costs.

Elevating Clinical Diagnostics & Hospital Labs

Service Insight introduces AIoT solutions to enhance efficiency and traceability in Clinical Diagnostic and Hospital Labs. Seamless integration with diagnostic equipment streamlines testing processes, improves turnaround times, and provides real-time data for optimized workflows while providing more context on the handling of critical patient samples and reagents.

The vision at Service Insight is to be the driving force behind a connected, intelligent, and sustainable future. Envisioning a world where businesses seamlessly integrate AI and IoT technologies to achieve unparalleled operational excellence, we foster innovation and collaboration. We aspire to be the forefront partner for companies aspiring to elevate their operations, maximize efficiency, and embrace a future of data-driven insights and sustainable practices.

About Service Insight

Service Insight is an AIoT platform led by the veteran entrepreneurial team of Robert Pemberton, Anthony Uzzo, and Jim Gregory. By harnessing the power of AI and IoT and incorporating the concept of digital twins, Service Insight empowers businesses across various industries, including Energy, Transportation, Life Sciences, Biopharma, Agtech, and Food and Beverage, by offering digital replicas of their spaces, staff, and assets. The platform’s mission is to enable Smart Operations, fostering increased speed, safety, and sustainability in the era of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

For more information, visit www.serviceinsight.io.

Hitachi Vantara Announces Pentaho+ for GenAI

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SANTA CLARA, CA, Dec 1, 2023 – Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced Pentaho+, an integrated platform from the Pentaho software business designed to help organizations connect, enrich, and transform operations with refined, reliable data necessary for AI and Generative AI (GenAI) accuracy. Automating the work of complex data management with powerful self-service and cloud-agnostic solutions, Pentaho+ helps improve data quality by allowing organizations to effectively oversee data from inception to deployment.

According to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 20231, “Generative AI has had an impact like no other technology in the past decade. The increased productivity for developers and knowledge workers, using systems like ChatGPT, is very real and has caused organizations and industries to rethink their business processes and the value of human resources.” Yet, Harvard Business Review found that “only 3% of companies’ data meets basic quality standards.2”

Improving access to hybrid data distributed across on-premises and public cloud data centers, Pentaho+ connects unstructured, semi-structured and structured formats for a comprehensive view of data assets, providing confidence in mission-critical digital and operational insights amid a surge in generative AI.

“We believe in this age of AI and Machine Learning that if an enterprise isn’t data-fit, it will lose to one who is,” said Maggie Laird, global head of Pentaho Software at Hitachi Vantara. “With Pentaho+, we’re providing the groundwork for universal data intelligence, enabling leaders to provide clean, accurate data with certainty so they can leverage GenAI in ways that can truly impact their business strategy and bottom line.”

Unlocking Business Value with AI-ready Data

Pentaho+ delivers a flexible, modular platform connecting existing and evolving data environments without costly integration or coding. As needs expand, additional functional modules can be easily added. Initial features of Pentaho+ and updates to Pentaho functionality include:

  • Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics: Process batch and streaming data in real time using native containerization to support any deployment environment.  The new integrated platform can easily be hosted on any cloud provider platform, at the core and edge.
  • Pentaho Data Catalog: Pentaho Data Catalog helps discover, identify, categorize and classify data based on meaningful business context resulting in a trusted, data driven organization. An improved user interface leverages the best of Io-Tahoe and Waterline Data technology from previous acquisitions.
  • Pentaho Data Storage Optimizer: Gain more cost control of IT charge backs, performance, and risk of your data for your work processes. Data Storage Optimizer now works with all file systems and S3 containers in addition to Hadoop.

Plans to expand the Pentaho+ platform with additional capabilities for data mastering, data quality, and more can be expected in the coming months.

“With Pentaho, business intelligence, big data and data warehouse managers get the perfect platform for flexible data integration and data preparation as well as for analytics,” said Chris Keller, director of Big Data Analytics & IoT at ITNovum, the leading IT consultant/implementer for Business Open Source & Digital Transformation in Germany. “Thanks to its open architecture, the Pentaho+ Platform can be seamlessly integrated into any existing infrastructure working regardless of where data is located.”

Availability

Pentaho+ is available worldwide now from the Hitachi Digital Marketplace, its global partner network as well as the AWS and Azure marketplaces.

For more information, please visit https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/pentaho-plus-platform.html.

1 Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2023
2 Harvard Business Review: Only 3% of Companies’ Data Meets Basic Quality Standards

About Hitachi Vantara

Hitachi Vantara is transforming the way data fuels innovation. A wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Vantara provides the data foundation the world’s leading innovators rely on. Through data storage, infrastructure systems, cloud management and digital expertise, the company helps customers build the foundation for sustainable business growth.

To learn more, visit www.hitachivantara.com.

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi drives Social Innovation Business, creating a sustainable society through the use of data and technology. They solve customers’ and society’s challenges with Lumada solutions leveraging IT, OT (Operational Technology) and products. Hitachi operates under the business structure of “Digital Systems & Services” – supporting their customers’ digital transformation; “Green Energy & Mobility” – contributing to a decarbonized society through energy and railway systems, and “Connective Industries” – connecting products through digital technology to provide solutions in various industries. Driven by Digital, Green, and Innovation, we aim for growth through co-creation with our customers. The company’s consolidated revenues for fiscal year 2022 (ended March 31, 2023) totaled 10,881.1 billion yen, with 696 consolidated subsidiaries and approximately 320,000 employees worldwide.

For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company’s website at www.hitachi.com.

IBM Advances Geospatial AI to Address Climate Challenges

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YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, NY, Nov 30, 2023 – IBM today announced new efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies, including IBM’s geospatial foundation model developed in collaboration with NASA, to climate efforts including analysis of urban heat islands in the United Arab Emirates (UAE); reforestation across Kenya; and climate resiliency in the United Kingdom (UK).

IBM continues to advance its AI model strategy in part through the creation, training, fine-tuning and open-sourcing of foundation models – models that can be used for different tasks and apply information from one situation to another – designed for domains beyond natural language, including geospatial applications.

These models, which are trained on geospatial information such as satellite images, present a unique opportunity to address climate change because unlike traditional AI models tailored for specialized tasks, geospatial foundation models – encompassing satellite and weather data – create knowledge representations from petabytes and exabytes of climate-relevant data that can facilitate accelerated and streamlined discovery of environmental insights and solutions. These models can also be fine-tuned and applied across a multitude of areas driving or revealing climate change, from flood detection to fire scars.

“Climate change is a real and pressing issue that we must find new ways to address as quickly and efficiently as possible, including through today’s most advanced AI technologies,” said Alessandro Curioni, IBM fellow and vice president, Accelerated Discovery at IBM. “AI foundation models utilizing geospatial data can be a game-changer because they allow us to better understand, prepare and address the many climate-related events effecting the health of our planet in a manner and speed never before seen. We are hopeful these technologies can help accelerate the rate at which we derive and apply solutions for a safer and healthier planet for future generations.”

Analyzing urban heat islands in the UAE

By the end of this century, many cities will likely experience disruptive and excessive heat waves if GHG emissions continue at high levels. To develop sustainable and equitable plans to keep cities habitable, the rising heat levels must be accurately mapped and addressed.

IBM and the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) are pioneering an attempt to apply foundation models to the mapping of urban heat islands – areas with significantly higher temperatures compared to surrounding locations. This innovative research specifically applies a fine-tuned version of IBM’s geospatial foundation model to understand the urban environment in Abu Dhabi and how the underlying landscape in the UAE impacts the formation of urban heat islands.

To date, the model has informed efforts that have succeeded in a reduction of heat island effects in the region by more than 3oC (5.4 F)1. Going forward, the model is expected to continue to provide unique insights that inform the development of urban design strategies designed to help reduce urban heat stress in changing climates.

Professor Tim Baldwin, MBZUAI Acting Provost, said: “Our collaboration with IBM marks a groundbreaking effort to utilize foundational AI models in analyzing and identifying solutions to urban heat islands for Abu Dhabi and parts of the UAE, a region which is particularly affected by climate change. This research underscores the vital role of AI in tackling global issues, emphasizing the urgency of continued exploration and innovation. By harnessing the power of AI, we are not merely addressing challenges; we are proactively shaping solutions for a sustainable future. In a world confronted by unprecedented challenges, MBZUAI stands at the forefront of pioneering research in AI, recognizing the transformative power it holds.”

Advancing reforestation and water sustainability in Kenya

In December 2022, President of Kenya H.E. D.R William Ruto unveiled the National Tree Growing and Restoration Campaign designed to plant 15 billion trees across Kenya by 2032, including in areas of critically affected water towers – forested landscapes that retain water and source many rivers throughout Kenya. While water towers account for about three quarters of the nation’s water resources, deforestation is contributing to increasing water scarcity in these regions.

IBM and the Kenyan government’s office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change Ali Mohamed have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the National Tree Growing and Restoration Campaign through a new “adopt-a-water-tower” initiative. The effort will be fueled by a new digital platform that leverages IBM’s geospatial foundation model to enable users to track and visualize tree planting and tree growing activities in specific water tower areas. Local developers can also create fine-tuned models combining the IBM geospatial model with their own localized information to monitor forest restoration and measure above-ground biomass such as sequestered carbon, ultimately mobilizing on-the-ground efforts to plant more trees across Kenya’s water tower regions.

The President’s Spokesperson, Mr. Hussein Mohamed, MBS, said: “We recognize that technology plays a pivotal role in unlocking our full potential, optimizing resource utilization, and seizing opportunities. It serves as a means to ensure that we harness our resources most effectively to drive our grassroots-driven economic transformation agenda. Through our partnership with IBM, we have the capability of harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and geospatial data to advance our climate ambitions. These ambitions include planting 15 billion trees, rejuvenating our vital water towers, fostering increased collaboration with the private sector to promote a just energy transition for communities around our forests. Simultaneously, this collaboration will enhance our capacity to equitably participate in the carbon economy. The potential of this collaboration extends beyond our borders and has the capacity to be replicated in other nations seeking to enhance their forest cover while also improving the economic and health well-being of their communities.”

Elevating climate resiliency across the United Kingdom

In 2021, IBM and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre collaborated to explore the application of next-generation technologies including AI from IBM to address climate risk and resiliency across the UK.

Now, IBM, STFC and Royal HaskoningDHV, a global consulting engineering company, have collaborated to establish a new service, leveraging IBM’s geospatial AI tools, that seeks to automate and scale climate risk assessment processes for organizations. The service’s first use case will focus on the aviation sector, in which IBM’s geospatial AI will assess impacts weather-related issues, including:

  • Short-term impact of extreme weather on aviation operations.
  • Long-term impact of climate change on future airport operations and infrastructure.

In addition, IBM and STFC Hartree Centre, through the Hartree National Centre for Digital Innovation, are advancing a new area of research with Dark Matter Labs and Lucidminds, as part of their TreesAI project. The research project will apply IBM geospatial AI technologies to their Green Urban Scenarios (GUS) model to map urban locations where trees can be planted to help alleviate the risk of surface water flooding. The effort will eventually inform an end-to-end digital planning platform for urban planners, project developers and green urban investors across the UK.

Kate Royse, director at STFC’s Hartree Centre, said: “There has never been a more important time to prepare for the challenges posed by climate change, both from an industrial and societal perspective. Here at STFC’s Hartree Centre we’re excited to be working with IBM and Royal HaskoningDHV, using advanced AI technologies to help the aviation industry prepare for climate risks, and become more resilient against the effects of extreme weather. Equally, our collaboration with IBM and Dark Matter Labs on the TreesAI project through our HNCDI programme will enable smarter decisions based on accurately predicting and managing flood risk, which is critical to all future city planning. Advanced AI technologies are key driver in enabling us to build a more resilient world against the adverse impacts of climate change.”

Djeevan Schiferli, climate intelligence business strategist, Royal HaskoningDHV said: “Operational and strategic planners in every company require a clear understanding of how weather and climate-related incidents affect their business operations. By harnessing AI and geospatial data, we will super charge our climate risk assessments on a global scale.”

Chloe Treger, TreesAI UK Lead, said: “Over 300,000 properties are at risk of surface-water flooding. Without action, this figure is set to almost double by 2055 due to climate change and urbanisation. Through our collaboration with IBM and STFC, we have been able to observe how trees contribute to reducing surface water flooding risks across the city under different scenarios, using GUS. This has enabled us and our partners to make the business case for tree planting and maintenance. After a successful pilot in Glasgow, we are now looking for further locations to embed this powerful data-enabled decision-making tool.”

Extending NASA collaboration to apply generative AI to weather

Beyond their initial commitment to build and deploy a geospatial foundation model, IBM and NASA have also announced work on a new, separate AI foundation model for weather and climate. By applying AI technology from IBM, the model aims to improve the accuracy, speed and affordability of weather forecasting and other climate applications. Sample applications of the model not only include forecasting, but also super-resolution downscaling, identifying conditions conducive to wildfires, and predicting meteorological phenomena. IBM researchers will work alongside NASA domain experts to train and validate the model.

IBM at COP28

These latest efforts and IBM’s role at COP28 builds on the company’s long history of action, research, and advocacy around the environment. IBM issued its first environmental policy more than 50 years ago, in 1971, and published a formal position on climate change in 2007. IBM is also a founding member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Science-Policy-Business Forum on the Environment and the Climate Leadership Council, and supports communities vulnerable to climate change and other environmental issues through initiatives like the IBM Sustainability Accelerator.

To follow IBM at COP28, please visit: https://www.ibm.com/events/unfccc-cop

About IBM

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs, and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service.

1 https://ai4good.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/FE2022-Urban-Forests-for-Carbon-Sequestration-and-Heat-Island.pdf