Madrid aims to give a boost to entrepreneurs working on AI initiatives. For the third year, the Madrid City Council has called for the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Technologies Awards, with the aim of promoting the adoption of these tools and improving the performance of the products and services provided by these companies.
In this third edition, the Madrid City Council wants to continue recognizing startups and professionals who excel in the sector. "The Madrid City Council wants to facilitate the activity of innovative startups and SMEs in the city, specifically in the field of one of the technologies that can most strongly contribute to the necessary digital transformation of society, such as artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies," it explains. "Through these instruments, the Department of Economy, Innovation, and Finance seeks to promote, among other things, the improvement of Madrid's positioning as a center where companies specializing in the most advanced technologies are located, serving as an attraction for talent and investment, generating demand, and collectively boosting all organizations located in the city's area of influence," it adds.
The city council proposes a series of challenges to be addressed using artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. There are 12 different ones:
- Enhanced Accessibility: Develop an IoT and AI system to improve accessibility for people with disabilities to physical environments, such as shopping centers, sports facilities, or recreational facilities.
- Smart Sports Stadiums: Integration models of network-connected devices and sensors to collect real-time data and improve operational efficiency, security, and overall fan experience.
- Virtual Teacher-Student Interaction: Establish a digital twin for education, creating collaborative environments between teachers and students with AI algorithms to adapt the learning process for each student.
- Sustainable Mobility: Create an AI and data management model that provides dynamic predictions of future traffic flows and manages routes in real-time to promote sustainable mobility.
- Traffic Optimization in Low-Emission Zones: Develop an AI and data management platform that provides real-time information on parking for private vehicles and freight transport to reduce search times and pollution in low-emission zones.
- Detection of Unwanted Loneliness: Develop a deep learning and NLP model to detect unwanted loneliness in young and elderly people. Identify signs of isolation and emotional distress with natural language and text analysis in both voice and digital messages.
- Detection of Bullying in Schools: Develop an AI model capable of identifying patterns and risk situations related to bullying in school environments.
- Smart Urban Waste Management: Create AI and IoT systems to optimize waste collection based on citizen patterns and synergies with other services, including dynamic route generation.
- Urban Carbon Footprint: Develop an AI and machine learning model to calculate a city's carbon footprint based on integrating various data to propose emission mitigation strategies and provide precise tools to reduce carbon emissions.
- Virtual Assistants for Tourism: Develop virtual assistants for tourists using natural language processing and machine learning to improve multilingual interaction and offer personalized recommendations.
- Accessibility to Urban Spaces: Develop a platform that integrates urban accessibility analysis, AI, and citizen participation to generate activity maps aimed at various population segments, such as families with young children, people with disabilities, and adults.
- Disease Prediction: Develop a model that uses AI and other disruptive technologies to predict diseases, make early diagnoses, and improve the monitoring of patients with chronic illnesses.
40,000 Euros per Project
Interested parties have until September 16 to submit their applications.
Entrepreneurs, micro-enterprises, and small businesses with tax residency in Spain, solutions to the proposed challenges, and a technological maturity level between TRL1-TRL7 can participate in the initiative. Additionally, the Madrid City Council offers a prize of 40,000 euros to the winner of each of the twelve categories. First, an independent technical committee will evaluate the projects, and then a jury of experts in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies will vote to select the winners.
The terms and conditions can be consulted here.
