Friday 11 February 2022

TIGERGRAPH CHALLENGE OFFERS US$1 MILLION TO SOLVE WORLD PROBLEMS USING GRAPH TECHNOLOGY

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 10 (Bernama) -- TigerGraph, provider of a leading graph analytics platform, has launched ‘Graph for All Million Dollar Challenge’, a global search for innovative ways to harness the power of graph technology and machine learning to solve real world problems. 

Winners across four main categories will be announced this May at the 2022 Graph + AI Summit, the largest open industry event for graph and AI organised by TigerGraph.

According to a statement, registration is now open and the final submission deadline is on April 20, 2022.

“We’re giving one million dollars to innovators who push the boundaries of graph and AI technology to uncover new, transformational ways to solve real world issues,” said founder and chief executive officer of TigerGraph, Dr Yu Xu.

“The challenge is officially on and we look forward to seeing thousands of registrants, hundreds of mind-blowing entries, and countless new ideas and concepts.”

Entrepreneurs, academics, engineers, and scientists have the freedom to create and use their own problem statement focused on a topic they are dedicated to, or passionate about. Additionally, domain experts from worldwide have contributed problem statements that contestants can select.

A few examples include identify granular concepts that interlink multiple UN Sustainable Development Goals; Model the progression of COVID waves to better predict future waves; and, generate a model for individuals to track their own online information and make better decisions on who has their data, and what is being done with it.

The judging committee includes the world’s brightest and most recognisable data scientists, professors, PhD’s, distinguished engineers, and founders of global companies focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, knowledge graph, and other industry experts with deep knowledge of graph technology, graph use cases, and graph deployments.

The global virtual challenge is open to tech professionals, data scientists, engineers, university students, and researchers interested in discovering what is possible with graph and AI.

Notable partners participating in the challenge include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Google Dev Library, data.world, GitHub, Kubrick Group, Microsoft Azure, Plotly, and Women Who Code.

Contestants will be part of a worldwide competition to solve crucial problems and have an opportunity to share in US$1,000,000 in cash prizes. (US$1 = RM4.184)

For complete rules and resources, and to register, visit https://graphforall.devpost.com/

-- BERNAMA

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