Deadline: 17-Dec-21
Are you a female innovator in the AI field and based in Australia or New Zealand? If yes, then apply for Women in AI Awards 2022.
WAI Awards 2022 will honour the top Australian and New Zealand women in AI: the pioneers who are taking the road less travelled; the women who are paving the way for others to reach even further and to dare to dream even bigger.
The WAI Awards 2022 will be prestigious in their recognition and vital in building the credibility and exposure for women in AI in Australia and New Zealand.
Award Categories
- AI in Health: includes aged care and disability services
- AI in Mining
- AI in Law
- AI in Finance: includes insurance and superannuation
- AI in Agribusiness
- AI in Cyber Security
- AI in Education
- AI in Defence: includes geospatial data/AI
- AI in Infrastructure: includes transportation, energy, renewable energy, water services, telecommunications,waste management and smart cities
- AI in Manufacturing
- AI in Creative Industries
- AI in Sport
- AI in Climate: includes data management, impact predictions, risk analyses
- AI in Innovation: includes any ground-breaking, new and emerging AI process or technology in additional fields not mentioned in the industry sectors
The WAI Award categories will recognise and honour achievements based on the following AI technologies:
- Speech, image and video recognition
- Autonomous objects
- Natural language processing
- Conversational agents
- Prescriptive modelling
- Virtual and augmented creativity
- Smart automation
- Advanced simulation
- Data monitoring
- Complex analytics and predictions
- Robotics
- Machine-learning
- Additive manufacturing.
- IoT
Award Details
- $30,000 Prize Pool
- Grand Award Winner – $12,000
- Grand Award first runner-up – $8,000
- Grand Award second runner-up – $6,000
- Australia – New Zealand WAI Trailblazer – $4,000
Criteria
Each of the 14 award categories have judging criteria based on:
- Innovation
- Leadership and inspiring potential
- Global potential and impact
- Ability for the AI solution to do good for the community and its citizens
Eligibility Criteria
Inspiring women who are working, leading, creating or demonstrating innovation in AI in the following sectors:
- Industry
- Government
- Universities
- Research institutes
- Startups
- NGOs
For more information, visit https://www.womeninai.co/waiawards2022aus-nz