SXSW Announces Winners of the 2023 Pitch Competition
Summary
The winners were announced Sunday night at an awards ceremony.Reality Defender of New York, which created a deep fake platform, won the Artificial Intelligence, Voice, & Robotics Technologies category. It rewards students for finding jobs and completing real-life and in-game tasks and gamifies the recruitment system.SXD Ai of New York won the Innovative World Technologies category. It aims to make digital media traceable and verifiable to address issues like misinformation, copyright, and royalty distribution.Urban Machine of Oakland, California, won the Smart Cities, Transportation & Sustainability Technologies. They use AI capable robots to reclaim old wood for reuse into locally sourced, premium lumber products.Judges evaluated the companies on Creativity, Potential, Goodness, Functionality, and Team/People. This category emphasized the unique skills and abilities it takes to funnel the whole mission and energy into a mere minute of time.The Best in DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) award went to CreditRich, a company that rounds up users spare change to pay their bills intelligently and optimize credit scores.