Aifred Health: In the Media

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6 min readFeb 12, 2018

Feature article by Robotics Business Review on Aifred Health’s advancement in AI XPRIZE.

Aifred Health part of new cohort of Fondations Montreal Grant+ recipients.

Aifred Health chosen as one of 10 tech startups for Centech’s Propulsion program.

Concordia reports on District 3 Innovation Centre success with Aifred Health and Nectar.

Short article on Aifred Health being awarded the Projet par Excellence by Forces Avenir.

VentureBeat article on Aifred Health receiving the $35 000 XPRIZE milestone award in 2018.

XPRIZE announcement of the 30 teams advancing in the competition as of November 2018.

Engineering & Technology magazine interviewed our co-founder Sonia Israel about deep learning, psychiatry, and mental healthcare. These are a few of our favourite things.

LaPresse article detailing the upcoming NeurIPS conference, and some highlights in the Montreal AI community in 2018.

Our CTO Robert Fratila was interviewed as one of five entrepreneurs in AI to keep an eye on. Who are we to disagree with Forbes?

Announcement of Aifred Health as a 2018 Joule Innovation Grant Program recipient from the Canadian Medical Association.

Announcement from Elevate Tech Fest for the AI startup finalists competing in the $1M ElevateR Pitch competition. (Spoiler alert: we placed second in the competition and had the amazing opportunity to pitch on the main stage!)

Montreal Neurological Institute piece on the rapidly expanding field of neuroinformatics containing tidbits of AI-health-tech-startup wisdom from co-founder Sonia Israel.

Artificial Intelligence in Business article discussing the need for data-driven techniques to improve depression treatment selection and the importance of integrating clinical and engineering expertise with social considerations to develop useful AI applications.

Aifred Health co-founder Dr. David Benrimoh discussing our mission to address depression by improving treatment selection efficacy on Future Tech Podcast.

McGill Alumni News story on startups in the XPRIZE competition launched by McGill alumni.

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Co-founder Sonia Israel selected as one of the twenty-five Canadian entrepreneurs invited to the Youth Can Do It! initiative in Ottawa.

La Presse article discussing the impact of Quebec AI on the pharmaceutical industry.

Announcement of Aifred Health as the recipient of the “Best Application in Healthcare” at the 2018 AIconics Awards celebrating innovation in AI.

McGill Med e-News article describing the results of the McGill Clinical Innovation Competition (CLIC) and Hakim Family Prize event — Aifred Health was awarded the second place in the competition.

Fierce Pharma article discussing the importance of collaboration between pharmaceutical researchers, clinicians, and AI developers.

Wall Street Journal article about AI approaches to improve mental health treament.

Financial Post article about Aifred Health, Erudite AI, and Wikinet representing Canadian and Quebec AI innovation.

Odgers Berndtson article detailing our Meticulous Transparency framework for ethical AI development.

Knowledge One article about various groups in Montreal contributing to the city’s rising profile on the AI world stage.

NVIDIA blog article about our use of GPU-accelerated deep learning to improve depression treatment efficacy.

Massive article describing how Aifred Health is using deep learning to improve depression treatment.

EE Times article describing the results of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE 2017 Round at the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference 2017, where we received a Milestone Award as one of the Top 2 teams in the competition.

McGill Med-E News published our press release for our ranking in the Top 10 teams in the 2017 round of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE.

Robotics Business Review article on the Top 2 teams recognized in the 2017 round of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE Competition.

CBC Spark interview with Sonia Israel, our co-founder and Director of Scientific Partnerships, on using AI to improve depression treatment.

NeuroTechX interview with Sonia Israel, co-founder and Director of Scientific Partnerships, and Kelly Perlman, co-founder and Director of Research, on the origins of Aifred Health as a company.

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