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Founded in 2012, H2O.ai is on a mission to democratize AI. As the world’s leading agentic AI company, H2O.ai converges Generative and Predictive AI to help enterprises and public sector agencies develop purpose-built GenAI applications on their private data. With a focus on Sovereign AI—secure, compliant, and infrastructure-flexible deployments—H2O.ai delivers solutions that align with the highest standards of data privacy and control. Its open-source technology is trusted by over 20,000 organizations worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 500. H2O.ai powers AI transformation for companies like AT&T, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Singtel, Chipotle, Workday, Progressive Insurance, and NIH. H2O.ai partners include Dell Technologies, Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), NVIDIA, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and VAST. H2O.ai’s AI for Good program supports nonprofit groups, foundations, and communities in advancing education, healthcare, and environmental conservation. With a vibrant community of 2 million data scientists worldwide, H2O.ai aims to co-create valuable AI applications for all users. H2O.ai has raised $256 million from investors, including Commonwealth Bank, NVIDIA, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Capital One, Nexus Ventures and New York Life. Join us on the movement at www.h2o.ai.

Uptake provides industrial intelligence software-as-a-service (SaaS), translating data into smarter operations. Driven by unified data management and industrial data science, Uptake enables and delivers actionable insights that predict asset failure, advance ESG initiatives, mitigate catastrophic risk, optimize maintenance strategy, and protect operator safety. With over 60 patents and recognition by Gartner, Verdantix, the World Economic Forum, CNBC, and Forbes, Uptake is based in Chicago and has a presence around the world. To stay up-to-date on what we’re doing, visit us at www.uptake.com.

Friends Electric is the consultancy of Chris McLellan, a growth marketer and business automation/AI consultant based in Ottawa and Toronto. Chris works mostly with startups and innovation teams within larger organizations to develop growth and automation strategies, teams, and operations.Example 1: Problem: Company X is wants to focus its limited customer service staff on supporting high-value customers. Solution: design and integrate a multi-lingual chatbot to manage lower-tier customer support enquires.Example 2:Problem: Company Y wants to focus its marketing team on high-growth channels (such as Inbound marketing)Solution: implement an AI-based platform to automate (and auto-optimize) all performance-based channels.Example 3:Problem: Company Z is able to make their inside sales team leaner and more effective. Solution: integrate AI-based sales augmentation tools that auto-populate custom data, market information, and sales history.Example 4:Problem: Startup A is in Seed/Series A stage and needs to develop an investable go-to-market strategy.Solution: develop and operationalize a lean, cost-conscious growth strategy with measurable short-term goals.Friends Electric Services:Marketing StratgeyMarketing OperationsPartnership MarketingMarketing Automation (AI-based marketing)Sales Augmentation (AI sales)Customer Service Automation (chatbots)To get in touch, open our chatbot and type "consultant": https://askai.ada.supportChris is also the founder and lead volunteer at Ask AI.Ask AI is an educational nonprofit focusing on building a more inclusive applied artificial intelligence sector in Canada. Ask AI events have featured expert presenters from MaRs, Layer 6 AI, Ada Support, Nudge AI, StackAdapt, and Needls. We also host a podcast and develop a free educational chatbot named"Em".