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DALLAS, Feb. 22, 2024 – o9, a leading enterprise AI software platform provider for transforming planning and decision-making, today announced that it has joined the World Economic Forum’s Unicorn Community, which unites private start-up companies that are valued at more than $1 billion and is part of its Innovator Communities.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is the international institution for public-private cooperation, connecting communities of leaders around global issues. Its Innovator Communities are a group of the world’s most promising start-ups and scale-ups at the forefront of technological and business model innovation. Comprising three sub-communities, which include the Technology Pioneers, Global Innovators, and Unicorns, the Innovator Communities accompany members start-ups along their growth journey. WEF provides the sub-communities with a platform to engage with public- and private-sector leaders and to contribute new solutions to overcome current crises and build future resiliency. Companies invited to join the Innovator Communities will engage with one or more of the Forum’s centers, as relevant, to help define the global agenda on critical issues.
o9 is joining the community’s Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Supply Chains – one of the Forum’s 10 centers – to engage with prominent policymakers, academics, innovators, civil society representatives, and business leaders and offer unique business insights to address global issues.
“We are honored to join the WEF’s Unicorn Community and look forward to discussing the global challenges we face with the foremost industry leaders, innovators, and policymakers at institutional events throughout the year and during WEF Davos 2025,” said Chakri Gottemukkala, Co-Founder and CEO of o9. “ I look forward to sharing a perspective on how AI technology platforms can be a tool to transform how we approach global issues and empower us to find innovative solutions.”
At WEF Davos 2024, o9 hosted a panel with world leaders to discuss the future of global supply chains. Read more here.
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o9 Solutions is a leading Enterprise Knowledge and AI-powered platform helping companies build Agile, Adaptive & Autonomous Planning & Execution Models for transforming enterprise decision-making in environments of rising volatility and uncertainty. Whether it is improving forecast accuracy, matching demand and supply and driving collaboration across the multi-tier supply chain to improve resilience at optimal costs and inventory, or optimizing new product and commercial initiatives to drive revenue growth and margins, decision-making processes from long-range to tactical to execution horizon can be made faster and smarter and connected on o9’s Digital Brain Platform.
o9 brings together game-changing technology innovations — such as innovative enterprise knowledge graph modeling, big data analytics, advanced algorithms for forecasting, demand/supply balancing, scenario planning, real time learning, collaboration, generative and agentic AI, easy-to-use interfaces and cloud-based delivery, and innovative management methods — as well as organization, process and change management best practices to transform decision-making speed and intelligence.
