Avanade provides business technology solutions and managed services that connect insight, innovation and expertise in Microsoft technologies to help customers realize results. Our people have helped thousands of organizations in all industries improve business agility, employee productivity, and customer loyalty. Avanade combines the collective business, technical and industry expertise of its worldwide network of experts with the rigor of an industrialized delivery model to provide high quality solutions using proven and emerging technologies with flexible deployment models–on premises, cloud-based or outsourced. Avanade, which is majority owned by Accenture, was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation and has 15,000 professionals in more than 20 countries.
ChainML has developed Council, an open-source platform for rapidly developing customized generative AI applications using collaborating ‘agents’. The platform enables the robust deployment and monitoring of generative AI models ensuring they can be operated with confidence and accuracy. ChainML works with clients on ideation, education, adoption, and implementation; from an AI product idea to a scalable, affordable, and Web3 enabled deployment.
We are developing a self-service SaaS platform that allows enterprise customers to automate the process of mapping all their customer touchpoints and journeys, cluster their customer personas and predict the future behavior of their customers. Using novel and patent-pending methods in big data mining and analytics, process journey mapping and machine learning, our platform provides a unique approach to analyzing internal and 3rd party enterprise data to offer valuable business insights and prediction tools for churn and Next Best Actions (NBAs). ODAIA simplifies the data ingest and data normalization process from multiple disparate data sources and provides an intuitive dashboard for the visualization of insights and predictions. ODAIA was founded out of the University of Toronto by Professor Periklis Andritsos (PhD), Adjunct Professor Helen Kontozopoulos together with Gaël Bernard, PhD student at University of Lausanne Switzerland, and Philip Poulidis, serial entrepreneur and Silicon Valley technology executive. The work of Dr. Periklis and Gaël has been cited in many research papers, including multiple papers published by the IEEE.
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that provides a data warehouse-as-a-service designed for the cloud. The platform is built for the cloud, focusing on an instant, secure, governed access to an entire network of data, and is built to enable a variety of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications. It combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms, and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. The company was co-founded by Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski, Bob Muglia, and Benoit Dageville in 2012 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.