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TEDx
October 2023
Jonathan Feldstein got invited to give a TEDx talk, about what he thinks business and political leaders need to consider to have bigger progress with sustainable policies and products. His answer: short-circuiting the reward cycle for sustainable measures. Checkout his talk and the other inspiring speakers on the event page.
ICML 2023
July 2023
Our paper "Parallel Neuro-Symbolic Integration with Concordia" has been accepted at ICML 2023 - a top-tier conference for machine learning and AI. This is the second research paper for bennu.ai! The paper has been presented by Jonathan Feldstein and Modestas Jurčius in Hawaii past week. The paper discusses our latest framework - Concordia - which enables users to combine neural models with logical models significantly reducing the need for data. Checkout the preprint. We welcome any feedback and questions and hope that you try it out yourself on your datasets and models as the framework is entirely model agnostic.
AAAI 2023
February 2023
Jonathan Feldstein, our managing director, came back last week from Washington D.C., where he was invited to give a talk on his latest research in neuro-symbolic AI. The venue was the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Conference one of the most prestigious conferences in AI research. This is the first paper with bennu.ai on it as the affiliation of the researchers. Our goal as an AI and robotics research lab is to continue on developing ground breaking research and publish it for the wider community to learn and benefit from it. If you are interested in our research check out the paper and open-source code.
Converge
November 2022
BENNU.AI was successful at the Converge awards 2022 in the Net-Zero category the award comes with a £10,000 grant award.
ILG Awards
June 2022
BENNU.AI was awarded the "Growth Award" at the ILG Awards 2022. This prize is awarded to the University of Edinburgh related business with the highest growth potential and comes with £5,000 prize money. Check out the other finalists and their fantastic impact driven businesses!
SMART:Scotland
December 2021
BENNU.AI was awarded a £100,000 grant for the development of a smart waste bin by Scottish Enterprise. This award will help us to develop the mechanics, robotics and AI for a smart bin, which sorts waste automatically. (Note: This award has led to the development of JANUS.)
COP26 - Net Zero
November 2021
BENNU.AI was selected as one of Scotland's most promising sustainable start-ups to pitch at the United Nations COP 26 in Glasgow their business for a main Scottish EDGE award. Jonathan successfully convinced the jury consisting of Alison Rose CEO of RBS, entrepreneur and philantropist Sir Tom Hunter, and Judith Cruishank MD Business Banking RBS, and was awarded £50,000.
CISCO Future Tech
November 2021
BENNU.AI participated over the past 6 months at Converge, Scotland's most prestigious program for academic start-ups leading up to the Converge awards. BENNU.AI was selected by CISCO for their promising technology underpinning our smart waste bins. This prize comes with a £5,000 prize and meetings with the CTO at CISCO UK.
Best Innovation
June 2021
BENNU.AI was invited to participate at the Venture Builder Incubator organised by the Bayes Center at the University of Edinburgh. Among the cohort of 26 fantastic entrepreneurs, BENNU.AI was selected as the business with the "Best Innovation". Check out the rest of the cohort!