Transform Asia
The people, vision, organizations, sectors, and technologies reshaping our fast- growing region.
A new season every week: how Myntra is using data to disrupt the fashion industry
How can we make data fashionable, especially in times of uncertainty?
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Rip Curl barrels ahead with data transformation delivering insight everywhere
The consolidation of data using Power BI has helped them surf through the data wave and be at the top of the game.
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Manila Electric Company: Transformation powered by technology and tradition
COVID-19 has prompted even the most traditional businesses to quickly embrace the “new normal”, and this 117-year-old organization is hitting its stride in its journey of digital transformation.
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The art of augmentation: Human intelligence and artificial intelligence working together
The argument of augmentation sounds like good news for humanity. But will the pessimists be persuaded?
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Komatsu Japan takes its productivity quest global with IoT and AI
Komatsu Japan developed a smart factory platform to visualize and optimize conditions by collecting and analyzing data from the machine tools and robots. This enabled the company to increase production efficiency without extra equipment or personnel.
Real estate and the cloud: Finding and buying a home on your smartphone
Ever imagined buying or renting your dream home all on your smartphone – from anywhere in the world? With the new app created by Centaline, you can now do just that!
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A new way to give driving lessons for autonomous vehicles
Linker Networks’ new AI venture uses an image recognition system that could automate labelling, and train other AI systems, reducing the overall time spent on labelling by 70%.
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A Beacon of change with seismic-smart software
Not sure when’s a safe time to head back to work after an earthquake aftershock? Beacon can estimate how much the ground shook in a particular location, and analyse how vulnerable an infrastructure asset is, before sending out an alert to inform business owners or tenants on whether the building is safe for use.
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Can studying climate change and air pollution help predict TB outbreaks?
With the highest number of cases in the world, TB poses a major public health problem in India. Dr Giri and her students aim to use AI to help predict area of spread of TB and help health agencies tackle this fatal disease an area at a time.
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AI takes on ocean trash: Cleaning up the world’s beaches with the help of data
It starts in 2005: Camden Howitt is surfing off Puerto Escondido on Mexico’s coast when, suddenly, a floating diaper smacks him in the face. He paddles back to shore in disgust, only to stumble upon a discarded toilet seat lying on the sand. When Howitt returns home to New Zealand half a world away, his heart sinks when he sees how much trash is also washing up on its geographically isolated, and once pristine, 15,000-kilometer coastline. His mission became clear: He would dedicate his life to protecting paradise. His company Sustainable Coastlines turned to an AI-powered tool that can capture and categorize beach litter, better determining where to place their efforts.
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Natural disasters and AI: A better chance to save lives
With the help of a grant from Microsoft’s AI for Earth program, researchers like Bai Yanbing of Tohoku University are attempting to harness the power of AI solutions to improve mapping technology so that relief workers might stand a better chance of saving more lives when the next earthquake hits.
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Fishy business: Putting AI to work in crocodile-infested waters
Identifying and counting fish species in the murky waters of Australia’s Darwin Harbor has been tough, laborious, and dangerous. So, researchers have devised an artificial intelligence solution that has incredible potential for marine science around the world.
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AI for Earth: Helping save the planet with data science
Wee Hyong Tok is a data scientist. He has a passion for numbers, a faith in technology – and a mission that might make a superhero think twice. For more than a year now, he has been leading an elite global research team for AI for Earth – a five-year, US$50 million Microsoft initiative that supports, and partners with, environmental groups and researchers. They are tackling some of the world’s most intractable problems by marshaling the immense power of AI, machine learning, and the cloud.
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Why Anil Kumble wants AI to bat for cricket fans
Microsoft is working with Anil Kumble and Spektacom, to incubate and launch Power Bat, the sensor-based technology that provides players, coaches, commentators, fans and viewers with a unique way to engage with the sport and improve their game.
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MakeWhatsNext: Women in Asia Shape our Future
Anita, Bidushi, Felicia, Melisha, and Mikaela come from five different countries in Asia and share a common passion: improving life on Earth using science, tech and engineering. Let’s celebrate all things woman made.
Empathy Vision Model: AI that can see and talk with us about our world
Microsoft unveiled a smartphone app in Japan, featuring a combination of powerful new AI technologies allowing for enhanced sight, hearing, and speech capabilities for Rinna the chatbot to recognize and talk about objects it sees in ways that are similar to how a person would.
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