In order to achieve net zero before 2050, green energy is indispensable. Enock will lead us to understand green energy in today’s《The Icons》report.

Inexhaustled Energy

Enock said that green energy refers to all resources obtained from nature, such as solar, wind, rain, waves, plants, algae and geothermal heat which are renewable and almost inexhaustible.

“So far humans rely on the energies of gasses and oil, which aren’t renewable but lesser every day; the prices of them, instead, have risen recently. Solar energy can replace 50% to 70% of humans’ energy utilization, so I think the countries which produce more solar energy have more opportunities to reach the net zero before 2050.”

Are solar panels harmful to the environment?

“I heard rumors that manufacturing solar panels will do great damage to the environment.”the reporter of《The Icons》asked.

“There were people who asked about this decades ago. Indeed, some of the retailing of solar panels polluted the environment, even for the recycling and operation.

Enock believes that with the advance of technology and arousal of environment conservation, more experts will focus on this issue and offer technical support. Once we find the substitute retails, solar panels will be the main energy source in the future.

Although the technical problems of manufacturing solar panels still remain, solar energy completely fulfills the 7th goal of SDGs: Affordable and Clean Energy; when solar becomes the main energy, net zero will be reached easily.

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During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,《The Icons》 interviewed Katya Lainé, CEO of TALKR.ai. Understanding how their product: Callbot, helps you be prepared at any time and any places.

AI assistant, as your service 

“TALKR.ai’s Callbot helps organizations improve real-time user interactions by automatically processing requests in real time 24/7.”

Katya Lainé indicated that TALKR.ai empowers companies to transform Call Centers and IVRs with conversational and voice AI into a virtual, hybrid, and automated contact center. TALKR.ai’s assistants are omni channels by design, a  Callbot is connected to all priority channels.

TALKR.ai’s Callbot reaches the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicator 8th: Decent Work and Economic Growth, making businessmen have the ability to maintain relationships with customers from all around the world; indicator 9th: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, using AI to raise the succeed of each deal automatically.

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During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,《The Icons》 interviewed Yehonatan Alfasi, CEO of Theia Vision AI. Understanding how their product saves the sales team’s time.

AI verifies the customers for you

“If your sales team can speak with 100 people a day, then let’s make their time worth more and speak with 100 ‘Accurate’ sales qualified leads a day.”

Yehonatan Alfasi indicated that by placing Theia Vision AI’s sophisticated cameras around your booth, it will be able to recognize the people around it and provide important information that will help salesmen close to their next deal. 

“With our face recognition algorithm and wide industry databases, we target key personas that are relevant to your business. Our appliance positioned in your booth can recognize the best leads for you.”

Theia Vision AI can not only save time for the senior and junior salesmen but also boost the efficiency of every deal, which reaches the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicator 8th: Decent Work and Economic Growth.

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During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,《The Icons》 interviewed Elizabeth Coleon, CMO of Withings. Understanding how their product: U-Scan Urine Analysis, helps human beings to stay healthy easily.

An U-Scan a day, keeps the doctor away

Withings won the 2023 CES Innovation Award with its U-Scan, an urine analysis platform connected to a smartphone.

Elizabeth said that “U-Scan can be installed in a toilet, which allows users to obtain accurate information on their health and urine condition simply by analyzing characteristics in urine, after that U-Scan will send the data to an app which is installed in users’ phones.”

Not only the analysis of health from urine, the U-Scan can give suggestions to the user based on the data which was sent from the device in the toilet. The suggestions include hydration, exercises, diet and even vitamin ingestion. 

U-Scan allows humans to control their own healthiness by themselves, which is in line with the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goal 3rd: Good Health and Well-Being; with less people need the medical supplies, we can not only save the resources for those who in need, but also have a more sustainable life.

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During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,《The Icons》 interviewed the CEO of Verge, Tuomo Lehtimäki. Understanding how their product: Verge TS Electric Superbike, gives the bike lovers an environmental-friendly way to ride motorcycles.

Electric Superbike is in the house!

“We unveil our latest Electric Superbike called Verge TS, which sports a 201 horsepower engine and is able to accelerate from 0 all the way to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds.”

Tuomo Lehtimäki from Estonia showed the yellow Verge TS in the CES exhibition, he mentioned that nowadays there are still plenty of people who love motorcycles, but as the arouse of environment conservation, some of them consider motorcycles are too harmful to the earth, which makes them give up on loving motorcycles.

“My previous works are all related to bikes because I love them so much, but I also love earth. Now I have Verge TS to help me fulfill both wishes. The Verge TS is an electric motorcycle which reduces the consumption of fossil fuels, which means less carbon emissions, and it is quieter than the normal bikes. It is beautiful, quiet, and environmentally friendly.”

Verge TS reaches the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goal 12th: Responsible Consumption and Production; and goal 13th: Climate Actions. It reduces the greenhouse gas, and the dependence of fossil fuels.

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During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,《The Icons》 interviewed the COO of Largo.ai, Céline Udriot. Understanding how their product helps the movie industry to create content easily.

When AI steps into the movie

“Our platform is designed to enhance traditional content creation workflows and help producers, publishers and studios make smarter, more informed decisions.”

According to Céline Udriot, since launching its SaaS platform in 2020, Largo.ai has quickly become a pioneer in bringing AI to the audiovisual industry. Many films using the Largo.ai platform have been released in theaters and on platforms such as Netflix, and some have even been nominated for Oscars.

“Largo.ai allows the movie industries to reach the goal by four services, Producers Suite: screenplay analysis, project package optimisation, character analysis and casting proposition, and financial forecasts. Largo.ai Market: AI-powered matchmaking between projects seeking financing and distributors and financiers. Distributors Suite: insights on the greenlighting, comparables, financial forecasts, sales estimates, and distribution strategy. SOFY.TV: content distribution on our channels. SVOD platform and TV channel available for content shorter than 40 minutes.”

Largo.ai uses artificial intelligence to give every man and woman equal opportunity to create the movies, reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goal 5th: Gender Equality; goal 8th: Decent Work and Economic Growth; goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure.

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In 2013, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the main reason (95%) of global warming is human. In order to prevent the rise of temperature, IPCC formulated “2050 Net Zero” for the whole world to implement.

《The Icons》invited Enock Ebbah, expert of net-zero, to talk about 2050 net-zero for us.

2050 is approaching, can net zero succeed?

“The net-zero aims to control the temperature of the earth, keep the temperature rise within 1.5°C, reduce carbon emissions with various industries and countries, and achieve the target globally by 2050.”

Enock said that net-zero needs to be gradually executed; 2050 is only a more realistic deadline for the world, so that countries and companies can arrange plans for carbon reduction in stages, and it can also allow the advanced countries to take the lead.

“Many phased plans have already been implemented. For example, by 2030, all new buildings must achieve the net-zero building standard for reducing the carbon emissions”

Enock mentioned that the way for companies to achieve net-zero can is through the “Science Based Targets initiative” (SBTi); SBTi is a set of scientific processes to help companies reduce carbon emissions, through CFV and feasible targets to reduce the impact on the environment.

“Net-zero is imperative, but we can’t rush it. Enterprises and governments can implement short-term goals first, and each of us can do our part by using public transportation or reducing consumption of high-carbon-emission foods. By that, the world will slowly reach net zero by 2050.”

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During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,《The Icons》 interviewed the Marketing Manager of Doing Lab, SangKyun Park. Understanding how their product: FoodLens & DietCameraAI, can keep a healthy diet.

Knowing everything through a photo!

“Click! FoodLens incorporates big data and AI analysis of every cuisines’ photo to be aware of the cailores and way of cooking for each of them. It can even show you the info of the recipe, where-to-buy the ingredients and their prices, makes you a masterchef at home. In addition, FoodLens can be widely used in medical healthcare because it can analyze food composition and calories, which is very important for those who need strict diet control, such as diabetic patients.”

SangKyun Park shared with《The Icons》that they want to give people an easier and healthier solution to control their diet, which is the ideal concept they’re promoting.

DietCameraAI is the extension of Foodlens, like a food calendar that automatically calculates the calories everyday with daily food’s photos. Besides that, the AI can offer suggestions with the analysis of your diet, making you healthier by adjusting your diet.

The services which Doing Lab offered reach the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goal 3rd: Good Health and Well-Being, with big data analysis to establish a healthy, controllable, sustainable diet, and improve the life of humans.  

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During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), 《The Icons》interviewed the Founder of Stroma WorkSafe, Anil Uzengi, to understand how their cutting-edge product: Edge AI Manufacturing Safety Protection, can reduce workers’ danger.

An AI monitor is safer than a helmet!

“Through AI vision sensors and safety software to aid health & safety managers in understanding and preventing leading causes of accidents. Stroma WorkSafe’s AI analyzes human behavior to reduce ergonomic strain and detect attention levels to observe and advise users by ensuring safety and compliance around machinery and vehicles.”

Stroma WorkSafe can keep an eye on every employee’s attention, fatigue and physical condition in the workplace, so that the supervisor can track the status of them at any time to ensure work safety. Combined with the existing infrastructure, Stroma WorkSafe can also detect and track the utilization of protective equipment to prevent fatal accidents.

“Edge AI Manufacturing Safety Protection uses computer ​​vision to track the use and access of each dangerous appliance. When our AI recognizes a violation of taking dangerous appliances, it will set an alarm and send email or other messages to the supervisor to avoid dangerous situations.”

The services provided by Edge AI Manufacturing Safety Protection are in line with the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goal 8th: Decent Work and Economic Growth; and goal 9th: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. The use of equipment and the physical and mental health of workers which are monitored by AI creates a safe and ideal working environment and promotes the growth and development of industry and commerce.

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During the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas,《The Icons》 interviewed Taylor Dutton, Business Development Manager of Stone Soup Tech. Understanding how their product: Digital Dryads, reaches the ESG.

AI systems save the forest!

“Digital Dryads uses our proprietary AI and machine learning to stop illegal deforestation in Romania. It is currently in use by the Romanian government and we are in talks with the Ghana forestry commission to get it set up there as well.”

Taylor indicated that by using satellite imaging, they can analyze where logging is taking place, then with Digital Dryads tied into local security cameras allow them both manually and automatically scan logging trucks to determine where they are coming from by direction, who is driving the truck by license plate, and the volume of timber harvested by AI scanning. 

“This way if you have a permit and are going over your harvest limit or if you have no permit at all, we are able to catch you. This has commercial applications as well, since normally you would have to count and calculate the volume of lumber harvested by hand, this allows companies to automate the process and unload their timber much faster.”

AI not only helps humans, but also protects forests, which is in line with the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) goal 12th: Responsible Consumption and Production; goal 15th: Life on Land; making the Earth a more Sustainable Environment .

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