{"id":17339,"date":"2019-10-29T15:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/manulife-partners-with-quebec-ai-institute-on-health-financial-wellness-research-138054"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:00:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:00:46","slug":"manulife-partners-with-quebec-ai-institute-on-health-financial-wellness-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2019\/10\/29\/manulife-partners-with-quebec-ai-institute-on-health-financial-wellness-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Manulife partners with Quebec AI institute on health, financial wellness research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AI-and-woman_79876443_Salmon-123-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Manulife partners with Quebec AI institute on health, financial wellness research\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 29, 2019 <\/p>\n<p>Manulife Financial Corp. is teaming up with Mila, a Quebec artificial intelligence institute, on health and financial wellness research projects.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;partnership will allow the insurer to&nbsp;beef up its AI and advanced analytics capabilities and to \u201cdeliver on its commitment to help make decisions easier and lives better,\u201d noted a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration will provide&nbsp;Manulife with access to a variety of startups connected to top universities, expand its pool of data scientists and redefine its customer experience, said&nbsp;Richard Payette, president and chief executive officer of Manuvie Quebec.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-and-partner-accelerating-ai-developments-in-quebec-123149\">Caisse and partner looking to accelerate AI developments in Quebec<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is yet another way in which we are using digitization and innovation to put customers first and improve how they interact with us to ensure we exceed their expectations and deliver on our ambition to become a digital, customer-centric market leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mila was co-founded by AI expert Yoshua Bengio and developed by&nbsp;Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and McGill University, along with \u00c9cole Polytechnique de Montr\u00e9al and HEC Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/manulife-partners-with-quebec-ai-institute-on-health-financial-wellness-research-138054\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;October 29, 2019 Manulife Financial Corp. is teaming up with Mila, a Quebec artificial intelligence institute, on health and financial wellness research projects. The&nbsp;partnership will allow the insurer to&nbsp;beef up its AI and advanced&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}