J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. With $27 trillion of assets under custody and $669 billion in deposits, the Corporate & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.

Bright Data is the industry-leading web data platform. Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and small businesses rely on Bright Data’s solutions to retrieve web data in the most efficient, reliable, and flexible way so they can research, monitor, and analyze it to make better and faster decisions that directly impact their business success.

NEC is a large multinational company headquartered in Japan. Our Israeli Research Center’s mission is to accelerate the identification and adoption of disruptive external technologies for NEC’s business. Using NEC’s own research results, ad-hoc new research, and rapid prototyping, IRC works closely with the BUs in Japan and globally to that goal.

Based in Herzliya, our team of 30+ ‘innovation coaches’ works on applied AI research in the areas of Computer Vision, Healthcare, Cyber defense and new sensing modalities. In particular, we search to break away from the ‘improve over the state of the art (SOTA) by a few percent so you can publish’ and seek to solve specific problems with the accuracy, reliability and explainability required for actual productive real world use.

Over the past 6 years of the center operation we have worked on diverse areas like advanced biometrics, action recognition, traffic safety, medical diagnostics of retinal disease, privacy preserving AI for fintech and fraud detection, and extended reality/metaverse enablement. In all topics, we strive to either ‘make it work in real life’ and/or open new application areas.