About ELEVATE AI
Welcome to ELEVATE AI, a pioneering initiative from Ulster University, designed to integrate responsible AI across education, industry, and government sectors.
Through innovative workshops, challenges, and collaboration with industry leaders, ELEVATE empowers students, staff, and professionals to harness AI for innovation, sustainability, and efficiency.
ELEVATE AI focuses on equipping participants with the tools and knowledge to responsibly integrate Generative AI (GEN AI) into real-world applications.
Our goal is to foster a technologically adept community of students, staff, and industry leaders who can drive innovation through AI.
ELEVATE AI for Students
At the Brink: What Should Our City Do?
Participate in a 1-day sustainability sprint challenge with Brink, Kainos, and others.
We are bringing together great minds, great data and great enthusiasm to do something about the challenges facing our city and we'd like you to drive this change.
Using Generative AI as a starting point you can focus on making an impact on the following themes:
- We Live
- We Eat
- We Wear
- We Waste
- We Power
- We Travel
Every citizen on the planet has to deal with each of these themes every day of their lives, and by changing behaviours across each of these aspects of daily life will make a profound change in our impact to our climate.
This is important at the level of business, government, and citizens for us to achieve the necessary changes to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
The quality of our ideas today will define the city we live in tomorrow. Get Inspired.
Take Action.
Be a part of shaping a better Belfast. It's time to explore what could really move the dial for a more sustainable future. Join us to pitch your ideas, hone them with data and support from leading lights in AI and let's build something for the future!
There will be food, entertainment and other prizes and fun to be had on the day, topped of with a little social!
Interested to know more?
As an agency of playing, thinking and acting, Brink! engages with unlikely partners to challenge the status quo with a bit of mischief and fun, translating science through cultural actions and events.
Brink! have created a space that can demonstrate what can happen when we look at our city centre differently – how we can connect with it, make it grow, find space to play, experiment and educate ourselves about how we can make changes to our city in the face of climate change.
ELEVATE for Students
ELEVATE AI: Taking a 'Human-Centered AI' Approach in Strategy Development at Vineyard Compassion
In a groundbreaking collaboration, Vineyard Compassion has been participating in the ELEVATE for Industry project to explore strategic and human centred AI approaches as generative AI's impact grows.
The project continues to focus on several strategic areas to explore the charity's operations in the age of AI. First, exploring policies and data protection measures so as to focus a more 'human centered' future for generative AI aligned to the charities core values. To empower the staff to enable this future, AI training sessions are being conducted, leveraging the concept of self-governing frameworks to guide use and non use in the application of such technologies by staff.
Another focus is the development of an AI Roadmap, which will be aimed at identifying current AI opportunities and help to plan future strategic implementations in key areas where values align and support the delivery of their vision 'to have a transformed and thriving community where poverty is uncommon and unacceptable'.
CEO Ricky Wright shared that "the aim of this pilot and of all of the charity's work is to increase human connectedness. Our values are toward building peoples' worth, hope, and dignity and through our holistic approach we can empower better outcomes'. Exploring how AI can be used for automating the mundane and bringing efficiency gains to processes that free up our staff to do what they do best, is a worthy goal and opportunity.
Looking ahead, the charity is considering an internal AI Council to better understand future impacts, toward guiding Vineyard Compassion in ethical AI use and continued innovation. For more information on Vineyard Compassion please visit: vineyardcompassion.co.uk