Platforms for Leveraging AI Win ISG Startup Challenges
25 July 2024 - 1:30AM
Business Wire
SilkFlo, Kognitos and Ema voted top
technology pitches at ISG events in London and New York
Solutions for helping enterprises manage automation and AI
pipelines, build automated workflows and deploy a universal AI
“employee” won ISG Startup Challenges at recent events in London
and New York hosted by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq:
III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.
ISG Startup Challenges feature entrepreneurs behind innovative
solutions who deliver pitches on how their technology will add the
most value to a business or community. Event judges question the
presenters, and audience members vote for the technology they are
more likely to implement within their own organizations.
Audience members at the ISG Digital Business Summit, June 25–26,
at the Royal Lancaster London Hotel, voted SilkFlo the ISG Startup
Challenge winner. SilkFlo is a SaaS platform for automation and AI
pipeline management. Its founder Alexander Leonida pitched against
Mark Green, CEO and founder of change management provider Change
Rebellion, and Thomas Naylor, founder of business-to-business
directory Hifo.co, which matches buyers and sellers of technology
services and solutions.
“The ISG Market Lens™ Artificial Intelligence Study found the
top enterprise priorities for AI are to create a long-term AI
strategy or roadmap and identify AI use cases that build new
revenue streams or improve customer experience,” said Karen Healy,
partner and global leader of ISG Events. “Given the strong
marketplace interest in harnessing AI, it’s no surprise the ISG
Startup Challenge winners at our events this spring were pitching
solutions for developing, launching and governing AI.”
Erick Pringle, builder, Kognitos, won the Startup Challenge at
the ISG Future Workplace Summit, May 13–14, at the Convene 360
Madison event space in New York City. Kognitos uses natural
language processing automation and large language models to enable
business users to build automated workflows using everyday English.
Additional contestants were Julian Ginsberg, CEO of AI-powered
networking platform Tapply Inc.; Joseph Zarb, president of
cloud-based channel execution sales platform Selgine, and Nachi
Junankar, CEO and founder, Avrio AI, Inc., an AI-powered recruiting
and hiring platform.
At the ISG Xperience Summit, March 18–19, also at Convene 360
Madison in New York City, Kausar Mukadam, senior engineer at Ema,
which deploys a universal AI employee that integrates into existing
enterprise IT infrastructure, was named the Startup Challenge
winner, after pitching against Protik Mukhopadhyay, chief operating
officer of Protecto.ai, which promotes the responsible use of GenAI
for enterprises, and Robert Bradshaw, president of CX business
intelligence provider WiserOwl, LLC.
“ISG Startup Challenges are a platform for entrepreneurs to
speak directly to engaged, motivated and knowledgeable technology
leaders,” Healy said. “The questions and real-time feedback they
receive at ISG events helps them gauge their approach and refine
their strategies as they launch their innovative products and
services. Similarly, attendees at ISG Events can be among the first
in the market to experience the technologies that may be ready to
impact their organization.”
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading
global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business
partner to more than 900 clients, including more than 75 of the
world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping
corporations, public sector organizations, and service and
technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster
growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services,
including AI and automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing
advisory; managed governance and risk services; network carrier
services; strategy and operations design; change management; market
intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006,
and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,600
digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countries—a
global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence,
deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research
and analytical capabilities based on the industry’s most
comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit
www.isg-one.com.
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