On March 20, First Woman Jill Biden delivered remarks on the AWS IMAGINE: Nonprofit Convention at Amazon Net Companies, Inc. (AWS) in Arlington, Virginia. The annual occasion brings collectively leaders from nonprofit, know-how, and healthcare organizations from throughout the nation to debate how know-how can speed up mission outcomes. Dr. Biden highlighted efforts to advance ladies’s well being analysis and innovation, together with by means of her work main the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, which goals to essentially change how the US approaches and funds ladies’s well being analysis.
“In November, Joe and I launched the first-ever White Home Initiative on Ladies’s Well being Analysis, with a transparent objective: to essentially change how our nation approaches and funds analysis on ladies’s well being,” stated First Woman Jill Biden. “When our nonprofits come along with universities, entrepreneurs, buyers, and metropolis and state leaders to drive innovation you’ve confirmed there’s nothing that’s past our capability. I encourage you to harness that very same spirit of discovery and ambition to tackle the subsequent nice well being care problem of our time—discovering modern options in ladies’s well being.”
“It was an honor to welcome the First Woman to HQ2. Dr. Biden outlined an inspirational imaginative and prescient for a way know-how is remodeling healthcare and well being analysis,” stated Dave Levy, VP, AWS worldwide public sector. “AWS is dedicated to serving to advance that imaginative and prescient by enabling innovation that helps our authorities, nonprofits, and different public sector clients enhance healthcare supply in the US and around the globe.”
AWS helps nonprofits unlock the complete potential of the AWS Cloud and leverage cutting-edge applied sciences reminiscent of generative AI, analytics, and edge computing to drive innovation and ship optimistic influence in areas starting from preserving the well being of our planet to discovering cures for uncommon illnesses. By the course of the occasion, nonprofit leaders shared inspiring tales of how AWS know-how helps organizations accomplish their distinctive missions sooner. There have been examples of nonprofits utilizing generative AI to offer help to organizations addressing psychological well being and humanitarian crises; leveraging excessive efficiency computing to research large quantities of knowledge to forecast dangers and interventions that defend the planet; and utilizing machine studying to democratize entry to well being analysis and velocity up analysis into most cancers and infectious illnesses.
Michael Hund, CEO of EB Analysis Partnership, a nonprofit devoted to discovering a remedy for a uncommon illness impacting kids, mirrored on Dr. Biden’s message, saying, “As a nonprofit chief, listening to the First Woman tackle the nonprofit sector instantly and talk her ardour for decreasing structural and systemic inequities in well being, and particularly ladies’s well being, offered highly effective inspiration for all of us pursuing bold targets, like discovering cures, defending the planet, and scaling very important companies to so many around the globe.”
AWS additionally announced that new funding shall be out there by means of the AWS IMAGINE Grant for nonprofit and nonprofit well being organizations utilizing generative AI of their pursuit of large-scale tasks. The AWS IMAGINE Grant Pathfinder – Generative AI award might present as much as $200,000 in monetary help and as much as $100,000 in AWS Promotional Credit score, alongside an engagement with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, to leverage this know-how for significant influence.
Along with Dr. Biden, the keynote stage featured Allyson Fryhoff, managing director of the AWS World Healthcare and Nonprofit crew; Bourhan Yassin, CEO of Rainforest Connection; and Chris Anderson, curator of TED. From delivering scaled options that defend our pure world to setting audacious targets and timelines to seek out cures for uncommon illnesses, these leaders highlighted the significance of leveraging know-how to speed up necessary nonprofit missions. The occasion included plenty of instructional classes on necessary know-how purposes, together with the right way to construct a powerful knowledge basis, the purposeful use of AI in a human-centered and accountable method, and demos and technical workshops that includes AWS generative AI companies reminiscent of Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q.
Dr. Biden mentioned the White Home’s dedication to advancing ladies’s well being and analysis. AWS shares this dedication, together with by prioritizing cloud-based options aimed toward rising entry to care for girls’s well being. In January 2024, AWS increased its total commitment to the AWS Well being Fairness Initiative to $60 million to allow the missions of consumers reminiscent of Jacaranda Well being, which is leveraging AWS AI and machine studying instruments to empower ladies to hunt well timed, applicable maternal healthcare throughout Sub-Saharan Africa by means of two-way SMS textual content exchanges.
AWS stays devoted to collaborating with nonprofit and well being organizations globally to determine and implement the suitable know-how options for his or her causes and communities. Assessment extra info on AWS IMAGINE: Nonprofit conference.
