Questions to our information technology Mtl inc. Laureates
8 September 2021
Élite NeuroKinetix Inc.
ENK offers a proactive injury prevention solution for amateur contact sports by combining coaching practices, movement analysis, and artificial intelligence, built from scalable and affordable technology.
Questions to Allen A. Champagne
What motivates you and makes you wake up in the morning?
It is both the opportunity to leverage technological advances to promote the involvement of youth in sports, to ensure safer practices by enhancing coaching using affordable and cutting-edge data science, and the objective to reduce sport-related head injuries and optimize fundamental skill development in athletes.
What brought you to entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship has allowed our team to leverage our scientific expertise and knowledge toward scaling the accessibility and innovation behind our findings, as fuel to drive more data-driven methods in sports, and ensure a sustainable model that can be optimized for making an impact in sport-specific injury prevention.
What is the future of AI for SMEs? How will AI transform their operation?
AI has allowed SME to innovate and scale the implementation of data as a tool to optimize products and services, while enabling technology to act as a medium for enabling that growth. AI also opens up the future of technology and has the foundation for optimizing the processes that we use to learn from, gear toward and enhance for the customers, who continue to set the market for our services.
iagree AI
Every day millions of consumers agree to legally binding contracts without reading them, iagree AI invents the intelligent virtual contract manager.
Questions to Charles Lesieur
What motivates you and makes you wake up in the morning?
I am truly motivated by helping consumers avoid “traps” sometimes expensive.
What brought you to entrepreneurship?
It is the intersection between creativity required by innovation and scientific rigour operations that pushed me to become an entrepreneur.
What is the future of AI for SMEs? how will AI transform their operation?
The AI will allow them to automate more processes, reducing their costs, in order to compete with the biggest players in their sector.
Mely.ai
Mely.ai transforms business knowledge into intelligence so that everyone can make informed decisions to achieve business goals.
Questions to Edward Ko
What motivates you and makes you wake up in the morning?
Besides a good cup of coffee, the opportunity to add value for someone in a tangible way and the chance to revolutionize a traditional market are some of the things that get me up in the morning.
What brought you to entrepreneurship?
The possibility to do what I like to do, the way I would like to do it, and to be different from others.
What is the future of AI for SMEs? How will AI transform their operation?
AI transformation will soon be mandatory because the improvement in efficiency will be the next differentiator and the next competitive advantage for SMEs.
Zetane Systems
Zetane Systems is a software technology company specializing in artificial intelligence (AI). Zetane’s proprietary software provides a visual and intuitive workspace for creating technology products in the AI subfields of machine learning, aimed at solving real-world business problems.
Questions to Jason Behrmann
What motivates you and makes you wake up in the morning?
Facing challenges head-on and being able to claim small victories everyday!
What brought you to entrepreneurship?
I became an entrepreneur because I was seeing the need for innovation and I knew that change will not happen on its own but through grit and constant iteration.
What is the future of AI for SMEs? How will AI transform their operation?
SMEs are already benefiting from AI in several ways, and its value today comes from our ability to make accurate predictions and recommendations using common algorithms and large amounts of digital data. For example, for SMEs, the use of automated chat bots, streamlines customer service, or algorithms optimize digital advertising campaigns. In addition, the growing popularity of technology and the associated IT costs will decrease, giving SMEs access to AI with limited resources.