Celebrating Truth and Reconciliation Day – 2022
On this day— only the second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, kama.ai wishes to recognize the good things that have happened over the last 12 months. Firstly, we must acknowledge that the first Truth and Reconciliation Day in...
Kama.ai mentioned in 2022 Gartner® Maverick* Research: Time to Turn Down VoC and Turn Up VoS
According to this Gartner report, "technology companies spanning consumer products and often B2B solutions (like human resources solutions, financial services, cyber-physical and solutions leveraging AI/ML) must rein in VoC before it runs amok....
Attract and Retain Employees and Customers with Well-Executed ESG Strategies
“Throughout the past years, society has seen a shift in values. We are seeing an increased desire by companies to demonstrate their social responsibility. This demand for a deeper organizational connection is what is guiding customers' and...
kama.ai CEO opens Collision conference on National Indigenous People’s Day
Kama.ai was thrilled to be able to join the many incredible startups and growing tech innovators at the 2022 Collision Conference in Toronto. On opening night, Brian Ritchie, CEO of kama.ai, spoke about the company’s unique technology and how it...
kama.ai Vows to Mitigate the Colonizing Effects of AI
TORONTO – Collision Conference - June 21, 2022 – Kama.AI, an Indigenous-owned ArtificialIntelligence company, enables Indigenous communities to take a leadership role in ArtificialIntelligence and related technologies, countering the colonizing...
Decolonizing AI: Indigenous Voices Breaking Through the Digital Divide
The month of June is National Indigenous History Month here in Canada. It is a month that seeks to bring to light the voices, stories, and history of Indigenous Peoples. It is these very voices that have been continually sidelined in the...
kama.ai CEO speaks at Spring Members Meeting of the Conference Board of Canada
Last week the Corporate Indigenous Relations Council, an executive council of the Conference Board of Canada held their 2-day, 2022 Spring Members meeting to discuss “UNDRIP Legislation: Implications for The Evolving Corporate-Indigenous Agreement...
Kama.ai concludes Virtual Health Assistant Feasibility Study with Mushkegowuk Cree Communities
We are pleased to announce the completion of kama.ai’s Feasibility Study of a ‘Virtual Health Assistant’ for First Nations and Remote Communities. A summary of the report was presented to Mushkegowuk Council at its Health Conference with its member...
kama.ai Brings More Humanity to its Emotional Intelligence Experience
We are excited to announce kama.ai has released a new feature that enables the integration of live chat help desk applications, including Salesforce and those offered by other Customer Relationship Management platforms. As always, kama DEI...
The Emergence of AI in the Mental Health Industry
As a result of the global pandemic, we have been grappling with new levels of stress, grief, and isolation. “According to the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), 77% of adults in Canada are reporting feeling negative emotions as a result of...
kama DEI Recognized in Gartner Emotion AI Global Roundup
We were extremely pleased to have kama DEI identified by world-leading research firm Gartner as one of 18 Emotion AI technology vendors. In their December 2021 report "Competitive Landscape: Emotion AI Technologies, Worldwide" by Annette...
kama.ai Honours the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
On June 3rd, 2021, the Canadian government passed legislation to identify September 30th, 2021, as a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to commemorate the historical and current impacts of residential schools. This was one of the...
New AI Capabilities are Paving the Way for Advanced Virtual Assistants
“New AI Capabilities are Paving the Way for Advanced Virtual Assistants” is kama.ai’s newest white paper, examining the various technical innovations which are evolving AVA capabilities, specifically Emotion AI. It provides use-case examples from...
Kama.ai CEO, Brian Ritchie, Elected to Kerry’s Place Board of Directors
kama.ai’s CEO and founder, Brian Ritchie, has been announced as one of the newest Directors to join the Kerry’s Place Board of Directors. Kerry’s Place is “Canada’s largest service provider to families with children, adolescents, and adults, with...
Kama.ai Selected as Finalist for CAMSC Technology and Innovation Award
kama.ai is proud to announce they have been selected as one of the finalists for the CAMSC Technology and Innovation Award. The award goes out to “An Aboriginal or Minority owned business that stands out for its innovative new technology-based...
Kama.ai announces the final closing of Seed B3 Investment Round
TORONTO – August 12, 2021 – kama.ai is proud to announce the final closing of its seed B3 investment round on July 30th, 2021. Subscriptions were primarily taken up by kama.ai’s existing shareholder group but also included a number of new...
Indigenous History Month: Interview with CEO, Brian Ritchie
This month is Indigenous History Month, and more specifically, today, June 21st is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. In celebration of the occasion, I wanted to explore how Indigenous culture and values have shaped our company by way of an...
The Composable Enterprise – The Future of IT Business Systems
Enterprises' back-office system architecture strategy has twisted and turned over the decades since the digital uprise of the 20th century. In the early days, systems tended to be in-house, proprietary platforms. Following this, monolithic or...
Leveraging Emotion AI to Enhance Your Enterprise’s “Total Experience”
In the report released in December 2020, titled ‘Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2021: Total Experience”, Gartner states that “Total Experience (TX) is a strategy that creates superior shared experiences by interlinking the multiexperience...
Artificial Intelligence and Wellbeing
The World Health Organization has declared mental illness the leading cause of disability, affecting more than 970 million people worldwide. Here in Canada, one in two Canadians struggle with mental illness before reaching 40, an alarming...
Barriers to AI Implementation
There are certain barriers to AI implementation within large, medium, and small enterprises alike. Though it has become a business imperative, the rapidly evolving landscape of technology can render the process of digital transformation an...
Press Release: kama.ai Provided with COVID-19 Funding
TORONTO – February 24, 2021 – Two Rivers Community Development Centre, an organization dedicated to helping First Nation businesses and Indigenous entrepreneurs grow and flourish, today confirmed funding to Kama.AI, a Toronto-based Indigenous tech...
Israel Patent
kama.ai is pleased to announce that on September 1, 2020, it was awarded the patent for its values-based natural language Designed Emotional Intelligence® platform in the Israeli market. Brian Ritchie, Founder, and CEO of kama.ai commented that...
kama.ai Releases EI for 3rd Party Bots
kama.ai is pleased to announce the commercial release of kama DEI-as-a-Service for 3rd Party Bots or, KaaS 3PB, expanding the Emotional Intelligence (EI) capabilities of digital conversations. Chatbots, or more precisely the back-end AI services...
Dear Customers and Partners
The constantly changing global COVID-19 situation is creating tremendous impact and uncertainty – this is a time filled with concern for family, friends, and coworkers, but it is also a time of concern for our future. Our hearts and thoughts are...
Seed Funding Press Release
kama.ai is pleased to announce the initial closing of its Seed B and B2 rounds of an investment adding over $500,000 of new funds. The proceeds from this investment are being used to advance the development and commercialization of KDC’s Designed...
Smartdesk and kama.ai Strategic Alliance
kama.ai and SmartDesk CRM Inc. announce strategic cooperation to bring small and medium-sized enterprises personalized conversational intelligence to SmartDesk’s already feature-rich marketing hub. The two Canadian companies also have an agreement...