Algorithm application teams competed and blossomed, with over 300 teams participating in the Second Screening on Best Practices of Applied Algorithms (BPAA), covering more than 10 countries and regions worldwide. It is reported that, as of July 31, the Second Screening on Best Practices of Applied Algorithms (BPAA) Organizing Committee received a total of 321 valid registration project materials, which is nearly 40% more than the number of the first BPAA. Algorithm teams from global AI companies, professional algorithm development and application institutions, and academic research-based institutions are in heated participation, covering 14 countries and regions such as the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, and 34 domestic cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, Hefei, and Nanjing. The panel of expert judges said that the quality of the second BPAA entries was generally higher than that of the first screening, with more significant implementation and application effects, which better demonstrated the algorithm application team and its project style.
At present, the registration phase of the application for the Second Screening on Best Practices of Applied Algorithms (BPAA) in 2022, which is sponsored by the Office of the Organizing Committee of the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, supported by the People's Government of Shanghai Putuo District, and organized by Shanghai AI Industry Association and Dataway, has been successfully completed. After a strict review and evaluation by the expert jury, one hundred projects will be selected to pass the preliminary round. On August 13, the Second Screening on Best Practices of Applied Algorithms (BPAA) Organizing Committee officially released "the Second Screening on Best Practices of Applied Algorithms (BPAA)'s TOP 100".
The competition attaches great importance to the cultivation of the algorithm industry and supports projects and teams with multiple awards. The project teams who are selected to be in the global TOP 100 will receive multiple incentives. First, there is an opportunity to obtain comprehensive, multi-disciplinary and three-dimensional support in the direction of competition awards, policy support, ecological communication, etc., and have the opportunity to get the industrial landing related policies and financial support from Shanghai Putuo District; Secondly, there is opportunity to be selected into the 100 algorithm products list and 100 exemplary cases of algorithm application in the key areas of digital transformation of Shanghai city with demonstration and promotion effect. Thirdly, you will receive a calculation card provided by BPAA's "Eco-partner", Ascend AI (use period is 3 months and valid for 1 year).
A jury of senior experts strictly assesses and selects quality projects with professionalism, rigor and scientificity. In the preliminary stage, the Second Screening on Best Practices of Applied Algorithms (BPAA) Organizing Committee will invite expert judges who are deeply involved in the field of artificial intelligence and big data to participate in the evaluation. The expert jury strictly abides by the standardized process, taking validity, innovation, applicability as the core three dimensions, combining the industry characteristics and development trend of five major tracks: public algorithm, financial algorithm, medical algorithm, industrial algorithm, and commercial algorithm, to independently, objectively, fairly, and scientifically evaluate and score each project, and then after the review of the organizing committee, finally select "the Second Screening on Best Practices of Applied Algorithms (BPAA)'s TOP 100".
With the announcement of the TOP 100, the second BPAA's TOP 100 competition will be officially launched. The second BPAA track semifinals will be held from August 19 to 21 to select the global top 50 through an online road show. The track finals will be held on August 31, with one gold medal and two silver medals awarded to each track. The BPAA finals will be held on September 1 in conjunction with the 5th WAIC to determine one final BPAA Grand Prize.
Best Practices of Applied Algorithms (BPAA) is committed to promoting the industrialization of algorithms, gathering international algorithm resources, disseminating algorithm practice benchmarks, cultivating the best algorithm teams, building algorithm industry ecology, constructing Shanghai Algorithm Valley SAV, and building a global algorithm highland. It is believed that under the benchmarking, leading and demonstration role of the TOP 100 project team, BPAA will further deepen the important enabling and driving role of AI in digital transformation, provide development space and strong support for more innovative talents in algorithm application, and build an algorithm industrialization ecosystem in China.