AWS Imagine Grant Recipients

Vision Ireland is developing a vision assistant tool that leverages generative AI to provide detailed image descriptions to the blind and visually impaired community, enabling users to independently access and interpret visual information, enhancing beneficiaries interactions, independence, and participation in various aspects of life.

Mental Health Innovations is uniting its extensive data repositories to establish the UK's largest community mental health dataset, derived from the Shout text messaging support service and The Mix's online resource platform for young people. By applying analytics to this comprehensive anonymised collection, they aim to generate actionable insights that will help enhance support services and deepen the understanding of mental health trends nationwide.

Kent Wildlife Trust, in collaboration with Buglife, are expanding their Bugs Matter citizen science app globally to collect invaluable long-term, large-scale data on insect populations, climate change impacts, and habitats. This will aid in understanding the biodiversity crisis, engage the public in conservation, and work towards a vision of humans coexisting with thriving wildlife.

STOP THE TRAFFIK is enhancing their Traffik Analysis Hub, the worlds largest accessible set of information on human trafficking. This will increase the quality and accuracy of the data points, expand language capabilities and integrate open-source datasets in order to drive action, inspire collaboration, and combat modern slavery and human trafficking.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is revamping their data architecture to boost donation revenue and fund health equity initiatives, especially in underserved communities. This digital transformation will unify data sources and use AI/ML to understand constituent behavior, enhance experiences, and develop effective fundraising strategies.

CUES is creating a cutting-edge personalized learning platform tailored to the unique needs of credit union leaders. By using advanced data analytics and AI, the platform delivers customized content to support leadership development, career growth, and deeper member engagement. By providing valuable business insights, it also helps leaders to drive meaningful progress in their organizations.

Geisinger Genomics is integrating population-scale genomic information into routine healthcare and democratizing the use of that data in precision health research. This integration will help to realize the potential of genomic information across the continuum of care, enabling more personalized and effective treatments for patients.

The National Audubon Society is developing a suite of AI, ML, and LLM-powered tools for integration with their mobile app. These tools aim to make bird identification by sight, sound, or photo easier and more enjoyable for a wider audience. By providing these resources, Audubon hopes to empower a new generation of birders who can contribute valuable data on the birds they see. This data will support Audubon’s mission to protect birds and their habitats, both now and in the future.

OpenSecrets is using machine learning to enhance its political contribution database, revolutionizing donor matching accuracy and efficiency. This automated process overcomes data inconsistencies, providing partners with valuable insights into money's influence in politics. 

United Ways of California is supercharging California’s 2-1-1 resource and referral centers using Generative AI. By applying this technology, 2-1-1s specialists are more informed and efficient, connecting people with urgent needs rapidly to resources, and California is more prepared to respond to disasters like fires, floods, and earthquakes.

Wildlife Conservation Society is developing MERMAID (Marine Ecological Research Management AID), an AWS-powered machine learning and open data infrastructure to help scientists and citizen divers quickly analyze coral reef health from underwater images. This effort aims to close the coral reef data gap, supporting 100 governments in identifying and protecting the most climate-resilient reefs worldwide. 

HSR.health is enhancing 'Anna,' a health-focused AI orchestrator. Anna integrates generative AI, advanced data science, and geospatial intelligence into a conversational interface. This tool revolutionizes access to critical health risk insights, uncovers hidden risks, and empowers decision-makers to preemptively address health crises and mitigate economic disruptions across industries.

SSM Health Care Group is developing SmartECHO, an algorithm aimed at advancing cardiac imaging by improving quality, workflow, and communication. Although ECHO technology can now provide comprehensive cardiac profiles, its clinical application has not kept pace with these advancements. SmartECHO intends to bridge this gap between technological capability and practical implementation. 

Earth Genome is creating an AI-powered platform to allow anyone, anywhere to monitor the state of the environment using satellite imagery. By integrating generative AI, remote sensing foundation models, and petabyte-scale imagery, the platform empowers journalists, indigenous peoples, and local stakeholders to quickly and accurately locate, monitor, and expose illegal logging, mining, and other emergent environmental threats.

WestCare is confronting the urgent challenges of the behavioral health industry, including escalating substance use disorders, opioid and fentanyl epidemics, workforce shortages, and rising mental health needs. By integrating AWS AI and DevOps into their Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform, they aim to reduce administrative burdens in order to create more time for behavioral health professionals to focus on delivering life-saving care.

The YMCA of Greater New York is developing a web-based platform with modern frontend technologies and microservice architecture to optimize swim instruction tracking. This YMCA Swim Tracker will use AI/ML to predict trends, classify swimmer and instructor needs, and recommend personalized experiences. The goal is to help New Yorkers learn life-saving swimming skills more efficiently, enhancing water safety.

Relief International (RI) is working to automate the digitization of handwritten health records in South Sudan, enabling health facilities to quickly capture, analyze, and act on critical data. This innovative solution will enhance disease monitoring and treatment protocols for refugee and displaced communities, driving faster, data-driven healthcare decisions.

Connecting for Better Health’s (C4BH) Community Sandbox enables simulated data exchange in a secure cloud environment, where organizations can readily identify, test, validate, and share strategies. The Community Sandbox aims to increase data quality, promote transparency among, and across social and health systems, and replace laborious, point-to-point testing and troubleshooting with an always-learning, agile testing network.

The Rainforest Alliance is developing an AI-powered system to accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture and sustainable landscape management practices globally. This multilingual, app-based platform will use simple 'show me, tell me' interfaces to support farmers on their sustainability journey in their local languages. It will help farmers easily understand and interact with the information, providing them with data and associated recommendations.

The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County created the AWS Public Defense System (AWS-PDS) which is deployed to create client files and then classify, itemize, and simplify the torrent of information, empowering the public defender to not only quickly and efficiently understand the discovery but also to use it effectively for plea negotiations, trials and preventing wrongful convictions. Knowledge is power. In our communities, AWS-PDFS ensures that the mandated defense providers have the tools to identify and confront the injustices of our justice system through cutting-edge data management.