Aerial
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Demo Aerial Object Detection
Quant Equities Investing
With: Sarasin Bank
User need: Most asset management portfolios were run via a wine and dine method, where a company would ask for investment over lunch. We wanted a data driven method to make stock investment choices.
Challenges: We had a system that took 3 days to run, was inaccurate and could only manage 80 stocks.
Process: Create a information system that could download and manage 100 million pieces of data, and run a billion calculations.
Outcome: We won first prize in Geneva for outperformance, and used our hard won knowledge to start a company.
Market Simulations
With: Eniso Partners
User need: Our quant factor system was successful, but it was a grab bag of all sorts of methodologies. In order to test different portfolio strategies and variations we need to create a “digital twin” of the market.
Challenges: Convincing the CEO that investment was needed when the system was performing well.
Process: Primarily technical, we ran our quant system once a week, from which we would be given directions to buy, sell or rebalance. The system took 6 hours to run, we needed to get a version of it to run once per second, and on an 8 core machine, 8 times a second in order to test the millions of potential variations.
Outcome: Customised investment strategies for different jurisdictions.
Portfolio management
With: Eniso Partners
User need: Differing risk appetites
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Resource management
With: University St. Gallen
User need: Fair allocations
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Managing Startups
With: University St. Gallen
User need: Successfully managing biotech startups
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Visual mapping
With: Altitude Shift
User need: To visually draw ideas, plans, processes
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Immersive AR
With: Altitude Shift
User need: To visually immerse people in a pseudo depressive state
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Medical records
With: Life Letters
User need: To track DNA Tests, DNA itself and DNA results
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DNA marketplace
With: Life Letters
User need: Allow people to control the use of their DNA
Challenges: Managing a Preliminary patents with no real IP.
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DNA analysis
With: Life Letters
User need: Do quick (local) DNA analysis (rather than ship to the US)
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Real time energy
With: Wattwatchers
User need: Prototype real time energy use apps for business customers.
Challenges: A poorly performing backend infrastructure.
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Wellness
With: Tonic
User need: Blood tests for healthy people and performance improvement. Similar to inside tracker
Challenges: User need, Pathology provider agreements
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Aerial
With: Altitude Shift
User need: Automatically analyse and recognise drone images.
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Logistics
With: UTS Business School
User need: Coaching post grad students to consult and provide stragegies for 10x growth.
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AI studio (ongoing)
With: AI Australia
User need: Australia’s need for technology catalysts
Challenges: Build a powerful organisation with many shareholders and partners and no funding.
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Creating the following:
- Vision – why AI – its value
- Business case on “Why startups, Why another hub”
- The studio’s strategy
- The studio’s roadmap
- The studio’s differentiation
- The positioning and focus
- Pitch content
- Networking and relationships
Outcome: (in progress)