ehsAI, a next wave compliance automation technology provider, today announced that it has been awarded a 2020 EBJ Business Achievement Award for Information Technology by the Environmental Business Journal® (EBJ), a business research publication which has provided strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry since 1988.
ehsAI CEO & Women That Code Panel
On January 28th at 6pmPST please join Margery Moore, CEO of ehsAI on a Women Who Code panel featuring AI leaders and speakers from academia and local companies in conversations on accessibility, diversity, AI ethics, education, and representation of women in technology at all levels.
Women Who Code envisions a world where women are proportionally represented as technical leaders, executives, founders, VCs, board members, and software engineers.
Please register here: https://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-Vancouver/events/274783146/
Breaking News: ehsAI Teams with Jacobs to Bring AI Technology to Digital EHS Compliance Management Solutions
ehsAI Teams with Jacobs to Bring AI Technology to Digital EHS Compliance Management Solutions
ehsAI has signed a new teaming agreement with leading global professional services firm Jacobs to revolutionize Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) compliance. Integrating ehsAI’s innovative artificial intelligence/machine learning technology into Jacobs’ global EHS Information Management offering brings cost savings, improved accuracy and reduced risks for companies worldwide in the chemical, energy, manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, transportation and utility sectors, as well as government organizations.
ehsAI’s multi-lingual platform streamlines compliance by automating conversion of regulatory documents (permits, regulations, standards, procedures, directives, plans, etc.) into discrete compliance requirements up to 100 times faster than current state of the art data entry/processing, while maintaining better than human accuracy and consistency. This includes compliance requirements with the latest OSHA regulations related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Combining our EHS IM experience and software vendor partnerships with ehsAI advanced technology delivers a powerful and cost-effective total compliance solution,” says Lucas Wolfenden, Jacobs’ EHS Information Management Sales Leader.
Along with improved data collection, configuration and integration, the tech-driven solution saves time and overhead, reduces or eliminates financial penalties for non-compliance, decreases corporate environmental risk and inconsistent interpretations, helps achieve sustainability and resiliency targets, and speeds assets to markets.
ehsAI CEO, Margery Moore added, “We are very excited to team with Jacobs as a global partner and bring our advanced EHS compliance solution to forward-looking businesses and organizations.”
Who are the 2020 Environment & Energy Leaders, Innovators, Shaker-uppers & Doers? ehsAI is one!!
2020 E+E 100 (Posted Dec. 7th, 2020)
The annual Environment+Energy Leader (E+E) 100 recognizes those environment and energy “doers” who break trail in creating new solutions, programs, platforms, best practices and products to help their companies – or other companies – achieve greater success in commercial and industrial environment and energy management.
We are pleased to introduce the class of 2020:
Jon Guerster, Chief Executive Officer, Dalkia
Lindsay Tyson, Manager, Energy & Sustainability, DaVita Kidney Care
Keith Ledbetter, Managing Director North America Packaging and Paper, DS Smith
Sergie 'Serg' Albino, MBA, CEO, ecoSPEARS
Christen Blum, Vice President, Renewables & Analytics Advisory, Edison Energy, LLC
Margery Moore, CEO, ehsAI (Moore & Gasperecz Global Inc.)
Deep Chakraborty, CEO, ENACT Systems Inc.
Luke Jacobs, CEO & Co-Founder, Encamp
Marcus Krembs, Head of Sustainability, USA & Canada, Enel North America
Klip Weaver, President, E3 Entegral Solutions
Glen Anderson, PE, President, ETC Group, LLC
Arcady Sosinov, CEO & Founder, FreeWire Technologies
Rob Threlkeld, Global Manager – Sustainable Energy/Supply Reliability, General Motors
Donavan Hornsby, VP & Strategy Executive, Gensuite
Who else made the list? https://lnkd.in/dU9Wu9M
Verdantix Blog: Intelex Acquisition Of ehsAI Points To The Practical Success And Scalability Of AI For EHS
On Thursday November 19th 2020, Intelex, a subsidiary of diversified industrial conglomerate Fortive, announced the acquisition of ehsAI. Established in 2018, ehsAI is led by industry veteran Margery Moore and is headquartered in Canada with approximately 20 employees. The firm has built an artificial intelligence engine which lowers the cost of environmental compliance and has won contracts with customers like APTIM and Mosaic. To facilitate continued rapid innovation and positive engagement with the EHS ecosystem, ehsAI will operate as a standalone business from its HQ in Vancouver. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but the ehsAI shareholders preferred the growth potential offered by the deal with Intelex compared to a Series A funding round with a financial investor.
By acquiring ehsAI, Intelex gets its hands on a machine learning application which has proven success in automating the process of translating complex environmental compliance documents into specific compliance requirements. The firm claims customers benefit from cost savings of up to 80% compared to manual coding of regs and permits as well as higher levels of accuracy, complete digitization of paperwork and elimination of duplicated effort for the same site. The practical success of the ehsAI machine learning algorithm is reflected in the willingness of EHS consultancies like AECOM and Jacobs to embed the tool in their workflows. The ehsAI ML engine is also designed to integrate with EHS software applications like Intelex to create compliance action plans and flag non-compliant operations.
In just two years, ehsAI has proven out the viability of its ML engine to process environmental regs and permits. Its ability to ingest, deconstruct, interpret, index and action complex regulatory documents can be applied to numerous other categories of semi-structured documents. Within the EHS domain these include standard operating procedures, guidelines, management procedures and chemical inventories. The content agnostic design of the ML engine means it has impressive scalability to automate the processing of different document types, non-English text and domains outside EHS. Expansion of the ehsAI footprint will only be limited by factors like customer skepticism about AI and the speed at which the ML engine acquires sufficient accuracy to prove success. By deploying ehsAI to Intelex’s 1,300 EHS software customers the rate of penetration should be greatly accelerated.
To learn more about the next generation of EHS digital analytics, read our report: Best Practices For EHS Analytics.
Yaowen Ma, Principal Analyst, Verdantix
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: EHSQ MANAGEMENT JUST GOT SMARTER: INTELEX ACQUIRES DISRUPTIVE COMPLIANCE AUTOMATION PROVIDER ehsAI
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EHSQ MANAGEMENT JUST GOT SMARTER: INTELEX ACQUIRES DISRUPTIVE COMPLIANCE AUTOMATION PROVIDER ehsAI
Acquisition Propels Intelex’s Leadership in Compliance Management With ehsAI’s Automation Technology Enabled Through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
TORONTO, CANADA - November 19, 2020 — Intelex Technologies, ULC, a leading global provider of SaaS- based Environmental, Health, Safety and Quality (EHSQ) management software, today announced that it has acquired ehsAI, a next wave compliance automation technology provider. ehsAI uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning to help organizations greatly reduce the costs and risks of permitting and compliance management.
With this strategic acquisition of an innovator in the emerging AI regulatory content solution market, Intelex deepens its compliance offerings and further extends its EHSQ leadership position. ehsAI offers a unique, AI and Machine Learning-enabled solution on a multilingual platform to address compliance on a global scale. The technology deconstructs, analyzes, interprets, and converts complex EHS regulations, permits, and legal documents into actionable compliance requirements within minutes, rather than days or weeks with traditional manual processes. Through API integrations with EHS software solutions that trigger automated workflows, these compliance activities and thresholds can be tracked, monitored and reported on, delivering completely automated compliance.
“We are thrilled to have ehsAI join Intelex,” said Justin McElhattan, president of Intelex. “ehsAI augments our compliance management solutions and existing regulatory content partnerships. We look forward to innovating in collaboration with ehsAI to solve real customer pains with applied intelligence and advanced analytics. Whether it be compliance for environmental, health, safety, or quality compliance requirements, the possibilities are limitless.”
ehsAI will operate as a Vancouver-based independent business unit and will remain agnostic in its ability to work with any EHS software or EMIS solution to make the revolutionary technology accessible for any organization, not just Intelex customers. ehsAI’s existing customer base spans industries including technology, manufacturing, energy, chemical, construction, pharmaceutical and retail. Notable customers and consulting partners include AECOM, APTIM, Jacobs, Mosaic, as well as several top-tier Fortune 500 companies.
“As a woman-led technology company, being acquired by Intelex and gaining access to broader resources and opportunities within their vast ecosystem is a dream come true,” said Margery Moore, Chief Executive Officer of ehsAI. “We are excited to have the backing of Intelex to accelerate our founding mission of leveraging AI to transform the way organizations manage regulatory compliance. Intelex shares our vision of using cutting edge technology to minimize compliance risks and getting ehsAI into the hands of compliance professionals that need it now.”
The transaction closed on November 18, 2020.
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About Intelex Technologies, ULC
Intelex Technologies, ULC is a global leader in environmental, health, safety and quality (EHSQ) management software. Since 1992, Intelex employees across the globe have been committed to innovating and enabling organizations to send their employees home safely every day, leaving behind a more sustainable world to the generations that follow, and manage quality so that only the safest and highest quality products make it to market. Intelex’s scalable, web-based platform and applications have helped clients across all industries improve business performance, mitigate organization-wide risk, and ensure sustained compliance with internationally accepted standards (e.g. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and OSHAS 18001) and regulatory requirements. Over 1,300 customers in 172 countries trust Intelex to power their EHSQ initiatives. Headquartered in Toronto with regional offices and employees around the world, Intelex became an Industrial Scientific company in 2019. For more information about Intelex, please visit www.intelex.com.
About ehsAI
ehsAI is a next wave compliance technology company that uses artificial intelligence and deep learning to help organizations greatly reduce the costs and risks of permitting and compliance. A woman-led business, ehsAI is committed to integrity, diversity, and innovation in developing disruptive solutions that transform environmental, health and safety and compliance management for business. ehsAI serves the technology, manufacturing, energy, chemical, construction, utility, and retail industries. For more information about ehsAI, please visit www.ehsAI.ca. For more information contact Lee Carney, lee@ehsai.ca
INTELEX PR CONTACT FOR THIS RELEASE:
Contact: Roula Vrsic, SVP of Marketing, Intelex Phone: +1.647.539.9551
Email: roula.vrsic@intelex.com
What EHS professionals learned at NAEM 2020 by Marcel Guavera
Last week, NAEM hosted their 28th Annual EHS and Sustainability Management Forum. While this year’s event was a virtual experience, it was chock-full of insights and shared knowledge from leaders in the industry. Due to this crucial time for EHS and the world, it was one we won’t soon forget. Here at ehsAI there were five themes that stood out to us. I’d like to share them here, in hopes that they continue to drive us down an efficient, adaptable, and impactful path.
Read more on our blog by Marcel Guevara:
ehsAI Welcomes New Team Members: Tanis Sanders and Mike Priebe
Team ehsAI keeps growing! This month we welcomed Tanis Sanders to the team, an Environmental Engineer from Toronto, and Mike Priebe, a UI/UX designer. As the team grows we like to highlight these new team members with short interviews so that our customers and partners can get to know them. Please help us to welcome Tanis and Mike!
Tanis Sanders
Tanis is an Environmental Engineer that has been ensuring customer success as well as analyzing the most problematic EHS compliance documents around the globe.
Q: Tanis, please let us know a little bit more about you?
I recently graduated from the University of Guelph in Environmental Engineering. I am a vegetarian, I play hockey and love yoga. I recently completed a 40-day challenge to practice yoga every day. I love watersports, I learned how to waterski when I was 5 years old at my family cottage. I snowboard during the winter and I have my scuba diving certification.
Q: Why did you choose ehsAI?
I chose ehsAI because I went to the NAEM conference in Toronto and was introduced to Margery Moore. I learned about ehsAI’s transformative work and enjoyed talking with Margery. We kept in contact and I followed ehsAI Linkedin to further my interest in environmental compliance and the company.
Q: What original contribution you’re bringing to the team? what are you really proud of?
My contribution to the team is that I have a background in environmental engineering to help the data labeling team further understand the complex nature of regulations, standards, permits, etc. I am bilingual in French, helping with translating written and oral dialogue. I am really proud of my ability to work well on a team. My interpersonal skills assist with communication to others and will contribute to strong customer success.
Q: What is your passion, hobbies?
My passion is reading books and environmental sustainability. I love reading book series and participating in book clubs to converse about the plot. I enjoy advocating for the environment and ensuring large companies do the same. I try to reduce my carbon footprint in my diet, travel and research articles that promote similar beliefs.
Mike Priebe
Mike Priebe joins us as a UI/UX designer. He comes to us from PNI Digital, where he worked on designing features for an enterprise SaaS product working with global clients. Mike has studied New Media Design and Web Development at British Columbia Institute of Technology and Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Mike is passionate about discovering innovative ways to solve complex design problems. At ehsAI, Mike will be leading user experience research and design for our SaaS product that will shape our company’s global vision to transform the way that EHS compliance is managed all around the world.
We asked Mike a couple of questions about his decision to join ehsAI.
Q: Why are you excited to join ehsAI?
At ehsAI I have the opportunity to work with a talented team building a groundbreaking product using artificial intelligence. It's great to be a part of helping businesses excel at compliance to better protect the environment and to maintain healthier and safer workplaces.
Q: What excites you about the role?
In my role I am working with our team to bring an effective and engaging design to our software. I'm excited to be working with such an innovative and intricate product that demands creative solutions and new approaches to user experience and user interface design.
Welcome, Tanis and Mike!
ehsAI: Upcoming Events
Like to learn more about ehsAI? Well, we are very pleased to be participating in a few upcoming events.
Next week at the NAEM Forum the ehsAI application will be featured on Tuesday October 20th in the "Technology Transformation and its Impact on EHS". For more information please check out: https://lnkd.in/gv4HQnA
On November 19th, I have the pleasure of speaking at The Open Table Conference with VelocityEHS. Join us for a lively discussion on Shaping The Future of EHS.
https://lnkd.in/gPFMRQX
Register now!
ehsAI welcomes Robin Saxifrage to the team!
We’re thrilled to welcome Robin Saxifrage to the ehsAI team! 🎉
Robin Saxifrage joins us as a Frontend Developer. He joined us from his independent practice, where he specialized in developing and modernizing web applications. Robin is passionate about building quality products that do something never done before. At ehsAI, Robin will be building web applications that will shape our company’s global vision to transform the way that EHS regulations all around the world.
We asked Robin a couple of questions about his decision to join ehsAI:
Q: Why are you excited to join ehsAI?
ehsAI's offerings are unique not only in terms of the unprecedented value they offer, but from a technical perspective as well. With my talented and motivated new colleagues on the R&D team, I'm really looking forward to tackling the challenges involved with scaling a product like this in the market.
Q: What excites you about the role?
The applications I've been tasked with building are unlike anything out there right now. As a passionate problem solver, I'm excited to chart that new territory from both the product and systems design perspectives.
Welcome, Robin!
ehsAI Team Expands: Please welcome the newest additions to our multi-lingual team!
We are very lucky to be based in Vancouver, BC, where there is an abundance of diverse talent. Today, with these new additional rockstars, we are 50% diverse in our workforce.
Please join us in welcoming Mercedes Fraga and Maria Figueroa to our multi-lingual Data Labeling team at ehsAI. We are very happy to have you!
Tell us a little bit about yourself?
Mercedes: I'm from Mallorca, a beautiful Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea. I studied my law degree in Barcelona with the aim of making a better world. Since I finished, I have been working in non-profit organizations as a legal advisor.
Why did you choose to join ehsAI?
Mercedes: I had my first contact with compliance couple of years ago and I know how hard it can be. Being able to process all the EHS documents in minutes sounded like a critical product to me. I am very excited to be part of this amazing project.
What is your passion, hobbies?
Mercedes: My passion is helping people. Traveling, doing outdoor activities, cooking and meeting friends take up my time off.
What contribution are you bringing to the team?
Mercedes: Because regulations are different in every country, I provide ehsAI the pertinent legal advice about compliance and EHS regulations of foreign countries such as European and Latin-American countries.
What are you really proud of?
Mercedes: Something that is exciting within a profession is to provide the best and most efficient solutions to people / companies and when you travel the world and live in a foreign country that equals resilience: the ability to adapt yourself into difficult or adverse situations. Something that ehsAI is doing by providing innovative solutions to the companies and our environment during these challenging times.
Tell us a little bit about yourself?
Maria: I'd really describe myself as a person with a versatile skill-set, a lot of integrity and a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done. I’ve been working for the past six years in the customer service industry. With everything going on in the world, it seems like a great opportunity to challenge myself and develop new skills in a new career.
Why did you choose to join ehsAI?
Maria: I was looking for a career change, and I wanted something where I could be a part of a team, and would also allow me to make a change in this world. I wanted to work for a company where I could focus on professional growth while maintaining a work-life balance. After a few conversations, I realized that ehsAI offered exactly what I was looking for and more.
What is your passion, hobbies?
Maria: I have a variety of hobbies and passions. I would have to say that music in general is my biggest hobby and passion. I absolutely love to sing, and have taken classes for over 3 years, and I have been teaching myself both the piano and the guitar. I also enjoy communicating and because of that I love learning new languages. I am completely fluent in Spanish, English and French and am currently learning German. My goal is to be able to communicate in 10 languages.
What original contribution are you bringing to the team and what are you really proud of?
Maria: I am rather proud of my ability to pick up new things quite quickly, and that I am fluent in three languages so far. I have always been an energetic person. Throughout my work history- this energy has shown itself in my upbeat attitude and ability to keep busy. Work has always been about more than a to-do list for me. I strive to take initiative to help on special projects and day-to-day tasks to ensure tasks get done and no one in the team feels overwhelmed or stressed due to deadlines or whatnot.
Please join me in welcoming these amazing ladies to our multi-lingual Data Labelling team! We are very happy to have you.
For more information please contact: info@ehsai.ca
APTIM and ehsAI Team Up to Revolutionize Asset-Related Compliance Management Using Artificial Intelligence
Leading engineering, integrated maintenance, and permitting expertise combined with AI technology delivers radical cost savings, reduced liability, and improved accuracy for outsourced compliance.
Baton Rouge, LA; Vancouver, BC, Sept. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- APTIM, a leading engineering, integrated maintenance and comprehensive consulting services firm, and ehsAI, a cutting edge compliance technology company using AI/deep learning to greatly reduce compliance costs, are partnering to revolutionize compliance solutions for commercial, retail, industrial, utility, energy and government clients. Combining an integrated asset management program from APTIM and collaborative consulting expertise with ehsAI’s next wave artificial intelligence and patent-pending deep learning technology creates an unmatched, innovative digital solution for outsourced environmental compliance for federal, state, and local regulations and related documents.
Highly competitive companies look for opportunities to outsource compliance management and free up resources for higher value work. Traditionally, compliance with regulations and related documents requires extensive manual review, data entry labor and administrative costs to convert permits, regulations and standards into individual requirements, tasks, and reports. Work that is often slow, inconsistent, and error prone, especially across multiple facility asset portfolios.
The APTIM/ehsAI compliance solution uses deep learning to automate review and analysis of complex legal regulatory documents into compliance requirements in minutes. This advanced technology solution is 100X faster and 10X more cost-effective, while maintaining over 97% data accuracy. This means much faster document and permit compilation, review and filing, significantly reduced labor costs – one person can do the work of 10 – and minimized liability exposure due to greater reporting accuracy and reliability. For example, an industrial company’s compliance management team recently took more than 7.5 days to manually review and prepare a single permit. With the AI-based solution, review and permit preparation would be completed in an hour.
Innovative buying options include a self-serve SaaS platform that customers can use themselves or a managed service offering. Both scenarios are well-suited for remote business work environments prevalent in the downturned COVID-19 economy. The partnership serves US and Canada-based companies.
Major commercial, retail, industrial, and technology companies as well as utilities and retail giants with hundreds of locations have experienced compliance management savings and cost-reductions of up to 80% with improved accuracy. With the added advantage of liberating talent resources to further improve efficiency, profitability, and the corporate bottom line.
According to Heather Royston, President – Environmental, APTIM, “Leveraging our integrated engineering, maintenance, and environmental compliance experience with ehsAI technology seamlessly creates a compelling, innovative, and cost-effective compliance solution for today and well into the future.”
Margery Moore, CEO ehsAI added, “We are extremely pleased to partner with global leader APTIM as they are an early adapter of AI and share our commitment to innovative technology and next wave digital solutions. Together we provide breakthrough compliance assurance, drastically reduced costs to help derive greater business value.”
About APTIM
APTIM is a leading global provider of environmental engineering and remediation, energy management, infrastructure EPC services, integrated maintenance services, program management, and disaster response and recovery for private sector and government customers. In environmental services, we specialize in providing program management, compliance, auditing, and permitting assistance to our customers in a variety of industries. (For assistance: www.APTIM.com or ehsAI@aptim.com)
APTIM Contact: Greg Butler, Director of Operations
Phone: 913-317-2629
greg.butler@aptim.com
About ehsAI
ehsAI is a next wave compliance technology company that uses artificial intelligence and deep learning to help organizations greatly reduce the costs and risks of permitting and compliance. A woman-led business, ehsAI is committed to integrity, diversity, and innovation in developing disruptive solutions that transform environmental, health and safety and compliance management for business. ehsAI serves the technology, manufacturing, energy, chemical, construction, utility, and retail industries. (For assistance: info@ehsAI.ca or www.ehsai.ca)
ehsAI Contact: Lee Carney, COO
Phone: 604-786-1434
info@ehsai.ca
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brian.sacco@aptim.comWelcoming Amir Tahmasbi PhD to the ehsAI team!
We’re thrilled to welcome Amir Tahmasbi PhD to the team! 🎉 In the short time that Amir has been with ehsAI his contribution has been a key component of our continued success.
Amir Tahmasbi joins us as a Machine Learning Engineer. He joined us from Dapper Labs, where he worked as a data scientist on analytics services including building Backend data pipelines and statistical analysis on Blockchain games data. Amir got his PhD from Simon Fraser University, working on data modelling and optimization tools for battery systems. Amir is passionate about Big Data, NLP, and building data pipelines. In ehsAI, Amir will be building disruptive AI solutions that will shape our company’s global vision to transform the way that EHS regulations are managed all around the world.
We asked Amir a couple of questions about his decision to join ehsAI:
Q: Why are you excited to join ehsAI?
In ehsAI I have the opportunity to work on developing innovative solutions to bring AI to the environment, health and safety (EHS) domain. ehsAI is taking a lead in this domain and I am super excited to be a part of the team.
Q: What excites you about the role?
In my role, I am working on building scalable AI solutions that will serve our customers in turning complex EHS documents into succinct compliance requirements. It’s a unique role where not only I work on research and development of AI solutions, I implement Production-Ready Machine Learning Systems as well.
Welcome Amir!
ehsAI accepted into NAEM.org Affiliates Council
We are so pleased to have been accepted into the NAEM Affiliates Council (AC). This amazing organization has been the launchpad for ehsAI. Margery Moore, CEO, “is very happy to be back on the AC and contribute to the evolution of our industry.”
If you are a leading environment, health and safety, and sustainability (EHS&S) consulting firm or service provider looking to position your company as a go-to strategic partner for industry leaders, then the AC is for you. Joining NAEM's Affiliates Council is a valued opportunity for you to actively contribute your deep technical expertise and insightful ideas to NAEM's conferences, online forums and benchmarking content. Being a member affords you unique access to key corporate decision-makers and elevate your brand, apply to join the Affiliates Council today by emailing briana@naem.org.
To learn more about NAEM and what companies are members, please check out: https://www.naem.org/
Margery Moore, CEO of ehsAI invited to be part of a panel on "Digital Transformation in EHS: Leading the way to the Next Normal" hosted by Environment & Energy Leader and Cority-Enviance
Join Environment & Energy Leader and Cority-Enviance on Wednesday July 8th at 2pmEST/11amPST to discuss a whole range of challenges and opportunities digital transformation brings to the EHS profession. Register here.
Companies are beginning to reopen and enter into a new phase – the ‘next normal’ while the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have significant effects on the economy and how business is conducted. Many companies are revisiting their business continuity plans and looking for ways to minimize risks, increase efficiency, improve sustainability and decrease operational costs. It’s become more important than ever before to rethink old operating models and merge technology with strategy. Companies are asking themselves critical questions like:
Can our teams work remotely and communicate effectively
How can we streamline processes and gain cost efficiencies?
Are there innovative ways we can meet our compliance obligations?
How do we ensure strong institutional knowledge transfer during times of uncertainty?
Digital transformation is more than a buzzword – it’s the key to ensuring organizational resilience and helping EHS teams do more with less. From artificial intelligence to software applications and mobile devices, there is technology out there that can help companies gain operational efficiencies while managing their air, water and waste programs. As work becomes more digitized, real-time data can increasingly be analyzed and used to further mitigate risk and decrease costs. We are seeing an acceleration in EHS investment right now as companies face increasing visibility into their environmental performance and look to safely bring their employees back to work.
Join this webinar to:
Discover innovative ways to use technology to support your EHS goals
Learn strategies to engage key stakeholders and make a successful business case for EHS technology
Hear how leaders in the oil & gas, utility, manufacturing and other industries are utilizing technology in their EHS programs
Speakers
Christine Wyman McCarty, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cority
Christine is a senior product marketing manager at Cority, responsible for helping shape innovative product solutions with a deep understanding market needs. Christine has worked in cloud-based SaaS compliance software for over a decade where she has helped corporations find the value in digitizing processes and workflows. Christine has experience in both product management and implementation of B2B enterprise software for large corporate clients. Christine holds an undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and a Masters degree in Information Science from Simmons University.
Stephanie Harden, EHS Systems Manager, Koch Industries
Stephanie Harden is the EHS Systems Manager for Koch Company Services where her team helps EHS professionals and the subsidiaries of Koch Industries, Inc. transform the way EHS customers think about data. Making data work for environmental professionals has been a part of Stephanie’s entire career. Her team is focused on supporting EHS capabilities in simplifying and improving work processes through automation and the elimination of duplication.
Stephanie has been working in data since early in her career as an Environmental Scientist where she drove innovation by eliminating the use of spreadsheet by promoting the use of out-of-the-box solutions that allow EHS professionals to easily access and view their data to make decisions. At Koch she has worked with EHS professions to eliminate paper forms, paper reporting and PowerPoint displays by driving the organization toward Business Intelligence tools that requires lest time for them to manage and focus on higher value work. Based in Wichita, Kansas, Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America with annual revenues as high as $115 billion, according to Forbes. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining, chemicals, grain processing and biofuels; forest and consumer products; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; electronic components; commodity trading; minerals; energy; ranching; glass; and investments.
Margery Moore, CEO, ehsAI
Margery Moore is CEO at ehsAI. Before starting her own tech start-up in AI and Machine Learning based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Margery designed and developed multiple EHS commercial products for Bloomberg BNA. She has a BSc. and Masters in Environmental Data Management, is an informal advisor to the National Association of Environmental Managers and ACCO, and in her spare time she is President of the Salt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education & Action, an environmental charity in BC, Canada.
Welcoming Marcel Guevara to the ehsAI Team
ehsAI is very excited to announce the addition of Marcel Guevara to the team. Marcel joined us several months ago and has been instrumental in our ability to evolve ehsAI quickly and work with our growing list of customers. Marcel came to us from AECOM Canada, where he was head of Permitting & Compliance for Western Canada.
Take a moment to get to know Marcel.
Marcel Guevara, EHS Regulatory Director at ehsAI (Moore & Gasperecz Global Inc.)
What made you leave corporate life and join a tech start-up like ehsAI?
I enjoyed the stability and predictability of corporate life, as well as the big professional network always available to help in large projects. But at the same time, I was missing the flexibility, impetus and speed of small and creative start-ups or small companies that challenge my capabilities and creativity. Since the first interview with ehsAI, I felt the immense dynamism and cleverness of ehsAI.
How do you see your EHS experience being applied to the growth and success of ehsAI?
Over my 25+ years in the EHS field, I have accumulated a wide and diverse experience. Being responsible for large O&G operations, I understood the complexity of the EHS regulatory framework. As a consultant/auditor, I understood the needs of multiple industries such as mining, energy, manufacturing, etc. I'm excited and confident that with my understanding of EHS challenges and opportunities I'll be able to collaborate with the AI team to help improve current tools and processes, as well as develop new ones. The more and better tools that we develop to facilitate the work of EHS colleagues, to allow industries to better comply with legal requirements, and to improve EHS performance overall; the growth and success of ehsAI is guaranteed.
What really excites you about the role?
I always have been passionate about the application of knowledge to solve real-life problems and improve processes. I’m excited about being part of the pragmatic approach of ehsAI to provide needed solutions to the EHS field. I’m also enthusiastic about being able to be involved in the entire lifecycle of products/projects, from the brainstorm to identify problems to solve, the development of tools to solve them, up to the delivery of solutions to clients.
Environmental Business Journal interview's CEO of ehsAI
CANADIAN STARTUP MOORE AND GASPERECZ GLOBAL DEPLOYS AI TO EHS
Moore and Gasperecz Global Inc. is a Vancouver, BC-based corporation that is disrupting the Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) compliance market with their cloud-based Machine Learning product called, ehsAI (www.ehsai.ca). Due to overlapping jurisdictions and the sheer number of regulations, compliance is a complex and costly process globally. Today, companies do this work internally or hire consultants or lawyers to de- construct EHS legal documents into compliance requirements and tasks. Documents that the trademarked ehsAI deconstructs include regulations, permits, plans, and standards for any industry sector.
ehsAI is serving retail, tech, chemicals, oil/gas and energy verticals, in support of compliance assurance, auditing, compliance certification, and populating EHS Software platforms like Intelex, Enablon, VelocityEHS, and many others.
ehsAI makes it far less expensive to determine a company’s compliance requirements while delivering more accurate, granular, and consistent compliance data 10x faster than a human. A user can go from permit to compliance checklist in minutes, cutting the cost and admin bur- den of compliance by up to 80%.
Margery Moore, CEO & Founder, started the company with partner and co-founder, Greg Gasperecz. Greg was the originator of the EHS Software platform Enviance that was acquired by Battery Ventures in 2015. Margery comes from Bloomberg BNA where she designed and commercialized multiple products for the EHS market. She has a Masters in EHS Data Management from the University of Victoria. She has her own environmental charity in BC called I-SEA and sits on several industry boards and working groups to bring AI and ML to the EHS profession, strategically and thoughtfully. In July 2019 she appeared as a panelist at EBJ’s Paci c Northwest Environmental Industry Summit in Seattle.
EBJ: Can you provide an overview on how ehsAI is used by customers?
MM: ehsAI is thin, light, and easy to insert into any EHS compliance work flow. Our customers use ehsAI to populate EHS Software platforms in a fraction of the time it would take without ehsAI; they accelerate audit prep by reviewing/deconstructing critical documents into compliance checklists on-demand; they create compliance registries for ISO 14001 or to meet other standards; and, customers use ehsAI to quickly determine if a company is compliant with their regulatory obligations during M&A activities. Companies need this support all throughout the year, making ehsAI an EHS professional’s best friend.
EBJ: What is the real value that you provide to your customers using Ma- chine Learning/NLP?
MM: We can produce data that is more accurate than a human, more granular, while providing a more consistent interpretation every single time. We do that 10x faster than doing it manually. Manual deconstruction of permits and regs into compliance requirements is the exact type of manual, repetitive, error prone, fork-in- the-eye boring work that Machine Learn- ing/NLP is perfectly suited for. ehsAI eliminates the administrative burden of EHS compliance so professionals can get on with the important work.
EBJ: And is it only targeted to Environmental Health and Safety related documents or can it be used for a wide variety of documents?
MM: Our current algorithms are trained on specific types of data and documents; EHS permits, regs, standards, plans, etc., but we can deconstruct any document that uses ‘command and control’ syntax. We will be expanding beyond EHS into adjacent areas that are also prime targets for digitalization. We are very ex- cited to roll out additional ‘ehsAI’ products for non-English speaking countries on our language agnostic cutting-edge AI platform later this year.
EBJ: What type of plans do you offer? Are they subscription based or do you sell the software? And are they dependent on the number of people that use the software or what other variables do you take into account for pricing?
We price by the page for documents processed through ehsAI’s cloud. Users have complete control over all of their documents via the ehsAI Portal. We’ll be introducing a SaaS offering, i.e. X$/month for unlimited usage, later in 2020. (Note: SaaS offering was launched May 1st, 2020)
EBJ: What type of clients do you currently have? And which people within an organization are using your products?
MM: We have clients from multiple industry verticals including technology, retail, chemicals, forestry, rail, mining, oil and gas, energy, and utilities. This diversity of customer verticals provides us with a very broad set of documents and training data that improves our accuracy and scope continually.
We are therefore able to support all EHS professionals from the Facility man- ager to Global Director, and everyone in between. One non-EHS job title that is consistently reaching out to us are Directors and Vice-Presidents of Digital Innovation. ehsAI is a perfect quick win for these folks who are looking for process effciency tools like ehsAI that can be used across the organization.
EBJ: When did you found the company and how did you realize that this type of product could bring a lot of value to the industry?
MM: I founded the company in March of 2018. After building a proof-of-concept that was well received by early adaptors, we decided to raise capital and proceed with full commercialization. Since March of 2018 we have completed multiple fund- ing rounds, launched ehsAI commercially, and hired an “AI Dream Team”. It’s a great team excited about solving this big challenge.
EBJ: What other Artificial Intelligence applications are having a big impact in the environmental industry?
MM: There are many! A company called Fracta that uses AI to monitor pipeline integrity is one example that I really love. Some EHS Software companies are employing advanced analytics to mine years of incident data to help predict when an accident might happen. That’s a game-changer. I’m also involved in, and in awe of, the Biomimicry Institute work with AI. That work has great promise to positively impact product design and production that will also have transformative effects on companies, communities and the planet.
EBJ: How do you think that Artificial Intelligence will evolve in the next 10 years?
MM: Let me first answer by pointing out this at this incredible moment in time, we are seeing the digitalization of work happening along side the reduction in EHS staff sizes in departments. These conditions, along with others, are allowing companies like ours to succeed.
In ten years using AI-enabled tools will be the norm and we will see AI, ML, and NLP talent found in every company. This transformative change will impact how everyone works every day. I see extremely promising projects coming out of the tech, research, academic and healthcare realms that will change our lives for the good.
Environmental Business Journal, REPRINT
Interview was conducted in October of 2019 and published in April of 2020.
Verdantix Releases Briefing, May 5th, 2020 "ehsAI Seeks To Accelerate EHS Compliance Management Through Automation"
Just released today by Verdantix:
"ehsAI Seeks To Accelerate EHS Compliance Management Through Automation"
This report is intended for EHS executives and forms one in a series covering vendors in the EHS software and technology markets. ehsAI is a new entrant in the mature market of EHS compliance and was founded by experienced executives in the IT and EHS regulatory content market industry. Its premise is that machine learning and artificial intelligence can automate and minimize the costs associated with maintaining regulatory compliance. ehsAI’s cloud-hosted solutions help firms to rapidly adapt to complex and fast-changing regulations and is best suited to firms in high EHS risk industries seeking to quickly establish or strengthen compliance management processes.
PUBLISHED: 05 MAY 2020 BY RODOLPHE D’ARJUZON, YAOWEN MA
For more information or to order the report go the Verdantix website.
ehsAI Makes the 2020 Emerging Rocket List
Ready to Rocket List: ICT Emerging Rocket 2020
April 14th, 2020
Ready To Rocket is a unique business recognition list that profiles technology companies with the greatest potential for revenue growth. Each year, based on analysis of trends that will drive growth in the information technology sector, Rocket Builders identifies the top private companies that are best positioned to capitalize on the trends for growth. This selection methodology has been an accurate predictor of growth with "Ready to Rocket" companies exceeding the industry growth rate and “Emerging Rocket” companies most likely to gain investment.
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