{"id":14307,"date":"2021-06-18T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/ai-pioneers-octopeek-and-idiap-announce-rd-partnership\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:40:18","slug":"ai-pioneers-octopeek-and-idiap-announce-rd-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/ai-pioneers-octopeek-and-idiap-announce-rd-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"AI pioneers Octopeek and Idiap announce R&#038;D partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French company <a href=\"https:\/\/octopeek.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Octopeek<\/a>\u00a0has been providing businesses with big data and AI consulting and training services for the past 10 years. Keen on investing in the research and development of ever more innovative, ethical, and responsible solutions, Octopeek has just announced a partnership with Switzerland\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idiap.ch\/en\/front-page?set_language=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idiap Research Institute<\/a>, a renowned global leader in artificial and perceptual intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will enable Samy Tafasca, a data scientist at Octopeek, to carry out a PhD at Idiap on the topic of multimodal learning based on video data. Under the supervision of Jean-Marc Odobez, head of Idiap\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idiap.ch\/en\/scientific-research\/perception-and-activity-understanding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perception &amp; Activity Understanding research group<\/a>, Tafasca will be able to draw on Idiap\u2019s resources and the support of its research teams.<\/p>\n<h4>The key value of ethical and efficient AI research<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cAt Octopeek, research is quite simply the motor of our ability to innovate,\u201d explained Octopeek co-founder Mahmoud Zakaria in a press release. \u201cThanks to our long-standing proximity with the academic and scientific community, we can accompany companies in their deployment of efficient, ethical AI and big data strategies. The trust that Idiap has placed in us is proof that companies have an active role to play in the technological revolution brought about by the data age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntegrating this partnership will come very naturally to Idiap,\u201d said Jean-Marc Odobez. \u201cThe modeling and analysis of what we call unstructured data, including the information flows contained in video, is a very active research field and one in which Idiap has strong expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The partnership between Idiap and Octopeek was made possible thanks to the Service de l\u2019\u00e9conomie, du tourisme et de l\u2019innovation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vs.ch\/web\/seti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SETI<\/a>) of the canton of Valais, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/the-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GGBa<\/a>. \u201cSETI\u2019s mission, in collaboration with the GGBa, is to identify companies with know-how and potential and with complementarities with our ecosystem,\u201d explained Dominique Luyet, case manager at SETI. \u201cThe objective is to encourage the creation of high-added-value companies and jobs in Valais. The collaboration between Idiap and Octopeek is a perfect example of this, and we naturally hope that it will strengthen the presence of companies such as Octopeek in the canton. 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