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Lending a Hand with Technology

Discover how technology is making a positive impact on our world! This infographic explores inspiring examples of innovation that are empowering communities, improving lives, and creating a more equitable future. From education and healthcare to accessibility and sustainability, witness the incredible ways technology is lending a hand.

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June 2019 NYTM Lineup

This month we are partnering with Civic Hall to showcase some of NYC’s best civic and social good focused tech! About Our Partner and Sponsor: Civic Hall http://civichall.org @CivicHall (https://twitter.com/CivicHall) Civic Hall is a one-of-a-kind collaboration center for the world’s civic innovators where social entrepreneurs, change-makers, government employees, hackers, academics, journalists, and artists can share knowledge, build tools, and solve problems together. This Month's Incredible Lineup: Motivote @motivoteus motivote.us Rachel Konowitz, Co-Founder + COO Motivote is the first peer-to-peer platform to use gamification, group accountability and real-life rewards to both engage and turn out young voters. Neverware @neverware www.neverware.com Forrest Smith, Director of Product Neverware is the company behind the CloudReady operating system, which enables businesses, schools, and consumers to transform existing hardware into simple, secure, and fast Chrome devices. Pluto @askPluto https://pluto.life Martin Fogelman, Founder & CEO Erica Lee, Executive VP of Growth & Strategy Pluto is an analytics platform designed for companies, built to encourage diversity and inclusivity via interactive workplace data and reporting. Quadrant 2, Inc. @quadrant2inc https://www.quadrant2.us Jason Van Anden, CEO Quadrant 2, led by "Apptivist," founder and CEO Jason Van Anden, works with a range of social justice organizations to build tech solutions which have empowered citizens and activists, non-unionized workers, victims of police misconduct, as well as immigrants facing down ICE agents. VotEd - Riverdale HS @thevotedapp www.thevotedapp.com Nolan Flynn, Will Holzman, Ben Kaufman, Ella Kay, Michael Laret, Ryan McKinney, & Jamie Schreiber; Founders VotEd is an iOS application that affords users the opportunity to make informed votes at all levels of government, by matching them with political candidates based on opinions and current events. BLOC https://www.jointhebloc.com/ Amina Yamusah, CTO BLOC is a career coaching software platform where users can access smart resume templates, save resume versions tailored to specific areas, and receive automated feedback. Pathfinder @PathfinderLabs https://www.pathfinder.vet/ Elana Duffy, Founder + CEO Pathfinder turns qualitative feedback into quantified impact for AI-powered fundraising, program growth, and connected communities. CONTAP AT OUR EVENTS In order to have the best event experience, we've teamed up with Contap Social, a networking app, to help you network with fellow attendees before, during, and after the event. We’re asking all attendees use Contap Social. Since we don’t want you to miss any of the action, we recommend you download and setup Contap Social today using the easy setup steps below. EASY SETUP STEPS 1. Download Contap Social: On your mobile phone, click this link https://contap.app.link/0abov0uOEW to download Contap Social. 2. Setup your profile: Click on the bottom right icon, and tap "edit details" to add your contact information. 3. Join the event: Return to the app's home screen, and tap on the calendar icon in the top-left corner. Then, tap on our event and enter the passcode if prompted, nytech. 4. Start networking: Tap on anyone's profile to swap socials, contact information, and documents! If you have any questions about the app, please email support@contapsocial.com or tweet at @contapsupport.

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Investors look to AI in Education to raise US Literacy, ClimateTech FOMO

Today's TechWithPurpose news summary picks up on: 🔹 AI in education, in particular one that cites the US post-high-school literacy rate of just 34% (at best). 🔹 ClimateTech FOMO 🔹 Weather radar exhaust data and biodiversity, 🔹 14 AI for good institutions 🔹 plus more, including other funding news.

Today’s TechWithPurpose news summary picks up on a couple of articles relating to AI in education, in particular one that cites the US post-high-school literacy rate of just 34% (at best). Also, there’s indicators of ClimateTech FOMO which could be a good thing for Impact Tech companies (or as I call them TechWithPurpose), but could it also be the beginning of a bubble? Plus something on…

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Maker Day November 2016

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eMobility Innovation

In this interview, I speak with Ignacio Estellés about how he used an off-the-shelf toy hover-board to create an emobility solution that is changing lives. Read this article to find out how he did it, and how to get involved. Stay tuned and sign up to my newsletter for more impact leader interviews from the NOAH Conference #impact #noahconference #emobility #techwithpurpose #impacttech

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SDG9 presentation, Water Security, repurposing Big-Oil tech for good

In this week's update a presentation non what is SDG9 and how close are to achieving it, plus other #TechWithPurpose news including: AI and health, water security, greenwashing busted, repurposing big-oil tech for good. Check it out now.

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Sustainability, Greenwashing and other News

Can Bad Companies Do Good? Should big companies with a "questionable sustainable" past be listened to when they talk about their sustainable future, or is it all greenwashing? Plus the regular weekly TechWithPurpose news summary. #Sustainability #TechForGood #ESG

 

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$12 Trillion, AI and health, IoT saves water

In this TechWithPurpose newsletter: ╟ AI Machine Learning that can predict heart attacks ╟ 5 AI Startups focused on renewable energy ╟ Ireland’s FoodWaste plan ╟ IoT startup saves millions of gallons of water ╟ Sustainability Technology market predicted to reach $12 trillion by 2030 ╟ Nigeria invests in animal biotech And more ...

In this week’s round up of sustainability tech and technologies focused on the UN SDGs, you’ll find AI applied to renewable energies, machine learning (ML) that predicts the most likely time for heart attacks, a prediction that technologies focused on the UN SDGs will be worth $12 trillion by 2030, food waste investment and a water saving IoT startup launches a partnership to save millions of…

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AgriTech Robots, Green Transport, Health

In this #TechWithPurpose news roundup: 🟢 Agritech Robots (including an exclusive funding announcement) 🟢 Green Transportation 🟢 The medical benefits of AI curated music 🟢 Heart scan tech to tackle pandemic backlog 🟢 New SDG extension frameworks 🟢 Opportunity to get in front of Greentech investors and more.

Today there’s a few micro-themes to the TechWithPurpose news: AgriTech Robots, Green Transportation (including and exclusive funding announcement), Health & the NHS. Plus a fascinating set of SDG framework extensions to make the UN SDGs more approachable for jobseekers and an opportunity to meet and pitch to green tech investors. I use the UN SDGs as a framework to focus my work on this site.…

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Five 5G start-ups to watch, Ethical AI and Jobs

In this week's TechWithPurpose news summary - Five 5G start-ups to watch, Ethical AI and Jobs, plus lots more.

In this week’s Tech With Purpose technology news we’ve got jobs to protect against automated weapons, new foodstuffs, ethical AI, a handful of social impact start-ups and five 5G start-ups to watch. The Future of Life Institute (FLI) has a few job postings open, in particular this one that will lead their policy and advocacy efforts on both lethal autonomous weapon systems (lethal AWS) and on…

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More Accessible XR Development, Teaching Nature, Future of Tech4Good

In this week's TechWithPurpose newsletter: - AI and ESG for SME - Tech4Good webinar - open roles at a climate accelerator - social impact startup needs funding and more.

This week’s new summary includes artificial intelligence to help small and medium sized businesses with ESG, a weekly Tech4Good webinar with SAP’s Futurist, open roles in a climate accelerator, a real-world social network that needs funding, addressing the young generation digital divide 1 million at a time, XR and VR for all, and should UK school children be taught about the nature and…

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Orange Power, AI Tech4Pets, ESG Tracking, Green Hydrogen

In this issue of the TechWithPurpose newsletter: - AI Tech4Pets - ESG Tracking Tech - Green Hydrogen takes a leap - Orange Power - Air Pollution and more.

In this week’s Tech With Purpose news summary: Orange-powered electricity, slow progress on UN SDGs, AI improves pet welfare, green hydrogen, air quality and AI helping measure ESG performance. As investors look to assess company value based on issues as wide ranging as carbon emissions, worker relations and boardroom diversity, the hunt is on for accurate, trustworthy data sources that reflect…

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Levels, Tackling the Metabolic Health Crisis with Biowearables

In this #TechLeaderTalks interview I speak with Josh Clemente about his time at SpaceX, Hyperloop and how that inspired him to create biowerable tech to combat the global metabolic health crisis. #TechWithPurpose #HealthTech

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An AgriTech opinion, VR Suicide Prevention, AI tackles food waste & wildfires

In this TechWithPurpose newsletter AI to help predict wildfire hotspots and reduce food waste, VR suicide prevention, AI for Good, artificial blow holes to turn waves into energy and much more.

Today we look at AI to help predict wildfire hotspots, VR in suicide prevention training, Blockchain in architecture, AI to tackle food waste, a call for AI for Good companies and an opinion on “talk vs walk” in AgriTech – too much talk? Don’t forget to sign up for alerts from this site, with every sign up I sponsor a tree to be planted and am hoping to plant a small forest with your support.…

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Cucumbers, Emergency Services and a Bunch of HealthTech AI

This week's tech with purpose news summary ranges from how Microsoft won an Agritech challenge with 50 cucumbers, to improving cervical cancer diagnosis with AI & digital imaging. Plus, AI applications with radio waves, AI with open waves and a NYC company helping save lives that recently closed a Series C and is hiring for a bunch of interesting roles. #HealthTech #MedTech #AI #AgriTech #EmergencyServices #TechWithPurpose

I have quite a bounty of Tech With Purpose news articles for you today, with quite a heavy bias towards AI. But let’s start with an autonomous greenhouse competition which Microsoft won with 50 cucumbers per square meter. Impressive. In addition, there’s a cool company helping emergency services save lives which just raised a nice amount of cash in their Series C, and are recruiting for twenty…

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Ready for Flying Taxis? Security, Privacy, Jobs?

Are you ready for the future of travel with flying taxis? Find out more about these fascinating technologies that are soon to be real, and other #TechWithPurpose news updates here.

Today’s TechWithPurpose newsletter begins with a special feature looking at the future of flying taxis. Click here to jump straight to the news summary, or continue reading for a glimpse of the near future.