"The knowledge and processes, and employee equity, support, and wellness programs we see at Sama have set the bar for all of our other vendors."
"The team quickly learned to distinguish between waste objects, which differ greatly from region to region. Communication channels remained open for feedback, with a continuous open discussion about how efforts were progressing."

Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, video, and other data used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems. Their expertise includes having a global crowd of over one million skilled contractors who speak over 180 languages and dialects, in over 70,000 locations and 130 countries, and the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform. Their reliable training data gives leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, healthcare, and governments the confidence to deploy world-class AI products. Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices globally.
Cortical.io provides natural language understanding (NLU) solutions that enable large enterprises to automate the extraction, monitoring, and analysis of key information from any kind of text data. By understanding the meaning of text, Cortical.io Retina software reduces the time and effort it takes to complete business-critical data search and review processes. Many repetitive and error-prone manual steps are eliminated, freeing up valuable resources to focus on higher-value tasks. Cortical.io solutions can be quickly trained without supervision in the specialized vocabulary of any business domain and in multiple languages. Their enterprise-grade technology is implemented at multiple Fortune 100 businesses, covering a wide spectrum of use cases. Their unique approach is inspired by the latest findings on the way the brain processes information. It helps businesses solve many open NLU challenges like meaning-based filtering of terabytes of unstructured text data, real-time topic detection in social media, or semantic search over millions of documents across languages. Their work has been featured in The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg, and Gartner.
Pachyderm is an open source data science platform that combines Data Lineage with End-to-End Pipelines on Kubernetes, engineered for the enterprise. And It’s open source. Pachyderm is an enterprise-grade, open source data science platform that makes explainable, repeatable, and scalable ML/AI a reality. Their platform brings together version control for data with the tools to build scalable end-to-end ML/AI pipelines while empowering users to use any language, framework, or tool they want. What makes Pachyderm a natural choice for data science teams is that they can iterate quickly and know that everything is tracked and 100% reproducible.











