The India Innovation Series is building India's largest hackathon series to proffer the young talents an opportunity to showcase their talent on a single platform between Corporates, Technology Enthusiasts & Citizens and help to create technical solutions to solve the major issues emerging in our society. The IncubateIND's India Innovation series travels to 20 cities across India and generates enthusiasm and passion in the young potentials of India to serve towards a technically advanced and smarter nation. Mr.Pankaj Sharma is a final year engineering student pursuing his B.Tech in CSE branch from Maharishi Arvind Institute Of Engineering and Technology, Jaipur. He is working towards generating innovative ideas to solve the real-world problems originating in our society. He was the first runner up at IncubateIND's India Innovation series held in Jaipur on 28th & 29th September 2019 at Arya College of Engineering & I.T In an interaction with Techxty, let's see what Mr.Pankaj talks about his experience.

If you're a lover of coffee, it will come as unpleasant news that the price of coffee could potentially spike in the near future. Climate change and deforestation are threatening some of the biggest coffee species in the world, but AI could potentially help keep coffee relatively affordable. The combined forces of deforestation and climate change are threatening the production of many species of coffee, including the common Arabica species, which can be found in many of the most prolific blends and brews. Coffee farmers around the globe are having to deal with rising temperatures and the problems that are associated with them, such as periods of drought. One recent study published in the journals Global Change Biology and Science Advances found that there were substantial risks to many wild coffee species, with around 60% of 124 different wild coffee species being vulnerable to extinction.

Notwithstanding the question of bias, AI can have a positive social impact - for example, by automating large amounts of processes that currently depend on human labor but exact a steep cost on the individuals performing that labor. One such instance is identifying and stopping the spread of child abuse images on the dark web. Another example of AI's ability to relieve pressure on human agents and produce better outcomes us provided by Annie MOORE, developed by researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Lund. The software matches refugees to locations based on their needs and skills and the availability of resources and opportunities, and is increasing the likelihood of someone finding employment within three months by more than 20 per cent as well as improving their chances of integrating into their new communities. This data processing power is also, through machine learning, accelerating the development of new models for understanding how the world is changing - ClimateAI, for instance, has developed a forecasting engine for the agriculture and energy sectors that can model the impact of climate change on asset values over time periods ranging from a single season to an entire decade.

Amsterdam-based ING, a multinational banking and financial services corporation, has joined a group of organizations to promote the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Netherlands. The project is part of a nationwide plan to halt a brain drain of talented AI professionals to the US and China. The Dutch bank will co-fund five AI-focused academic positions in collaboration with several universities in the Netherlands, and help promote a national course on AI to increase awareness and adoption. Kickstart AI will be participating in a series of "super challenge" projects that address important societal issues, including healthcare and mobility. Görkem Köseoğlu, ING's chief analytics officer, stated: "For the competitiveness for Dutch companies and the Dutch education system, we are joining forces with four other large Dutch companies to not only work on supporting universities, start-ups and SMEs, but also to help raise awareness with the Dutch public about the opportunities and risks of AI."

Zoomcar, the self-drive mobility platform has just launched what it claims is India's first driver- monitoring system for the passenger vehicle segment. Called the Driver Score Tech Stack, the AI-powered algorithm with machine learning capabilities tracks the mechanical specs of the car being driven, the driving style of the customer and identifies critical events of driving and rates it on a scale of 0-100. The scoring system can give real-time feedback to drivers in the advent of rash-driving to help them adjust their behaviour. Within the first month of its launch, the driver score has successfully reduced accident rates by 20 percent, and maintenance and servicing cost by 25 percent for Zoomcar. The company says the driver score is not a new product in the automobile industry.

For Telangana, information technology (IT) plays a significant role in its GDP. Overall services continue to contribute the maximum – around 55 per cent – of which IT contributes about 40 per cet in the state's GDP. Now, with emerging technologies such as AI and ML playing a defining role, the state is looking to leverage these frontier technologies to strengthen public service delivery and tech innovation. In an exclusive interview with ETGovernment's Mohd Ujaley, Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary - IT, Electronics & Communication Department said: "Emerging Technologies is the one area where we are making real advancement. In Telangana, these frontier technologies are being explored by different government departments to improve governance, public service delivery and creation of new jobs."

The Mabu robot, with its small yellow body and friendly expression, serves, literally, as the face of the care management startup Catalia Health. The most innovative part of the company's solution, however, lies behind Mabu's large blue eyes. Catalia Health's software incorporates expertise in psychology, artificial intelligence, and medical treatment plans to help patients manage their chronic conditions. The result is a sophisticated robot companion that uses daily conversations to give patients tips, medication reminders, and information on their condition while relaying relevant data to care providers. The information exchange can also take place on patients' mobile phones.

Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) is soaring in the healthcare industry, according to a recent Optum survey of 500 US healthcare executives from hospitals, health plans, life sciences organizations, and pharmaceutical and device companies. The survey found an 88% increase this year in the number of healthcare leaders who said their organizations are implementing an AI strategy compared to 2018. Sixty-two percent of the respondents said they had implemented such a strategy, up from 33% last year. The average organization expected to invest $39.7 million in AI over the next 5 years ― $7.3 million more than was estimated last year, Optum found. Many respondents also anticipated a return on investment (ROI) in the near term.

Canada's Chief Information Officers (CIO) Strategy Council has published a new set of national standards for the use of artificial intelligence. The standards are meant to aid organizations on how to use developing technologies. The council acknowledges that artificial intelligence is misunderstood, but that companies are attempting to implement it within their organizations. The main focus of the standards is to specify the "minimum requirements in protecting human values and incorporating ethics in the design and use of automated decision systems." According to the standards, AI should drive inclusive growth and benefit people and the planet.

Artificial intelligence can help us to solve some of society's most difficult challenges and create a safer, healthier and more prosperous world for all. I've already shared the exciting possibilities in the fields of healthcare and agriculture in previous posts. But there may be no area where the possibilities are more interesting – or more important – than Education and skills. From personalized learning that takes advantage of AI to adapt teaching methods and materials to the needs of individual students, to automated grading that frees teachers from the drudgery of assessing tests so they have more time to work with students, to intelligent systems that are transforming how learners find and interact with information, the opportunities to improve Education outcomes and accessibility will be truly transformational. There are many classrooms around the world where educators teach very diverse groups of students from different cultures, who speak multiple languages.