{"id":3670,"date":"2022-01-31T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2022-01-31T16:41:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T23:41:28","slug":"priya-lakhani-founding-ceo-of-century-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2022\/01\/31\/priya-lakhani-founding-ceo-of-century-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Priya Lakhani, Founding CEO of CENTURY Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Founder\/Leader:<\/strong> Priya Lakhani OBE, is the founder CEO of CENTURY Tech<\/a>, a company that designs AI powered learning tools for all age groups (amongst several other impressive ventures).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her words, CENTURY Tech is \u201cProven to save one day per week per teacher\u201d (Based on a study of K-12 teachers, and the reduction in admin, feedback, and marking provided by this technology). You can watch her pitch her company here: Watch Priya Lakhani Pitch Century Tech<\/a> (Solve – MIT, 2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Venture:<\/strong> Founded in 2014 CENTURY Tech is a platform which provides personalized learning to students through AI and machine learning.\u00a0 It assesses students of all levels and makes suggestions for a learning journey for that student based on their performance using microlessons and videos. The system uses AI to analyze student behaviour, including their focus level, how long they take to get through a lesson and can even even evaluate when a student is more likely to be guessing an answer.\u00a0 It compares behaviour of students using an anonymous database, while the individual student work is kept on another database for security.\u00a0 This is considered a for-profit company, however they have a fee pyramid, where corporate users pay more than higher education, who pay more than public education and in turn, all users help to subsidize learning for chartable causes, such as the education of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.\u00a0 This company argues that it has leveled the playing field for disadvantaged students, showing equal learning impact on disadvantaged children as privately educated ones.\u00a0 The company\u2019s current estimated annual revenue is $14.8M\/year, with contracts in public school systems, businesses and private institutes around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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