November's Entrepreneurs Monthly Meet-up welcomes start-ups from the AI sector
For November's Entrepreneurs Monthly Meet-up, the Brett Centre for Entrepreneurship invited local entrepreneurs to talk about their experiences of starting-up and running businesses in the AI sector demonstrating how AI is being used in variety of different settings.
Local students, graduates and entrepreneurs heard first from Alex Keyter, a University of Liverpool (UoL) alumni and founder of Generative Minds, a training and consultancy business whose mission it is to ensure that nobody is left behind with AI. As an AI engineer and software developer turned educator and public speaker, Alex is passionate about supporting others to thrive by leveraging technology for good and has a particular focus on working with organisations that have social impact.
Alex explained that having been diagnosed with ADHD two years ago, he started using ChatGPT as a creative outlet, asking AI to translate song lyrics and create poetry verses. Later he used the tool to apply for a grant with Liverpool’s Waste Recycling Authority to run community clothing swap shops that helped prevent clothing waste in the city. He soon realised that AI helped structure his ideas which led Alex to setting up his business Generative Minds to help organisations identify areas of their work that could benefit from the use of AI tools and then set out a plan to teach their members how to access and use these technologies.
The focus then turned to how AI has created opportunities for other local entrepreneurs starting with Adam Galloway, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Lola Cares a Liverpool health-tech start-up business. With funding from SFC Capital Adam developed and commercialised a unique digital assistant, Lola Cares to tackle the issues of loneliness and isolation in the social care sector. It works by helping individuals facing challenges such as dementia, autism, and acquired brain injuries, providing companionship and connecting them with their loved ones and carers.
Alex also interviewed UoL graduates and founders of AI-based Scholar Saver, Vipashyana Srivastava and Ashish Sandhu. They shared their experience of setting up their business and creating the first ever AI-based financial management app for students, discussing the support they received from the UoL and other parties within the Liverpool City Region.
Finally, Operations Manager Rachel Siner from Baltic Ventures, a tech-accelerator not-for-profit company spoke about the ways they help early stage digital-tech businesses with their Accelerator and Launchpad programmes.
Are you based in Liverpool? Interested in entrepreneurship and networking with entrepreneurs? Join our free-to-attend Entrepreneurs Monthly Meet-up organised by the Brett Centre for Entrepreneurship.