Mind the Tech London 2024"By the end of the century, 5% of the world's population will be created by IVF"
Mind the Tech London 2024
"By the end of the century, 5% of the world's population will be created by IVF"
This is what Daniella Gilboa, Co-Founder and CEO of AIVF, said at Calcalist and Bank Leumi’s Mind the Tech London conference. The company aims to optimize and improve in vitro fertilization treatments using AI
Daniella Gilboa
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"By the end of the century, about 5% of the world's population will be IVF children," said Daniella Gilboa, Co-Founder and CEO of AIVF, whose goal is to optimize and improve IVF treatments using artificial intelligence, at Calcalist and Bank Leumi’s Mind the Tech London 2024 conference.
Gilboa presented the huge gap that exists between the demand for fertility treatments and the existing supply in the world, and the solution that her company offers to this problem. According to her, "Our mission is to reduce the time to achieve pregnancy, or as the taxi driver who brought me here this morning said: 'Less time and money to pregnancy.'" She stated that while the average number of IVF treatments required to get pregnant currently stands at about 2.5 treatment cycles, AIVF's solution has an average of 1.6 cycles.
Gilboa presented alarming data on the gap between demand and supply in the field of fertility treatments: "We are talking about 15 million cycles that need to be done. This is the demand compared to the 3 million cycles that are actually being done, and the demand is only increasing."
Gilboa explained the difficulty in choosing the appropriate embryo and presented the audience with a picture of embryos: "You see here ten embryos that look quite similar. Each of them has a different chance of achieving pregnancy. We scientists and IVF experts don't really know how to solve this problem, but AI does."
According to her, the solution to the problem lies in the use of advanced technologies: "What we have done in the last two years is develop an operating system that digitizes the entire IVF clinic from the patient, to the clinic, to the doctor. Everything is now undergoing a digital transformation."
Gilboa added that the system is already being used in clinics around the world, including across Europe, South Korea, Brazil, the USA and soon also in Israel. According to her, the significant innovation is the launch of AIVF clinics: "This is the way to solve the limited supply - with digital transformation and AI-driven clinics, more and more clinics can be added."
Gilboa referred to the history of artificial intelligence in this context: "In 1950, Alan Turing presented the first ever concept of learning machines. It was amazing. And in 2024, when we became best friends with ChatGPT, our team showed that artificial intelligence can recognize different features in the developing embryo, which cannot be seen with the eye."
"We aim to shorten the period of time it takes to get pregnant, and the huge cost of getting pregnant," concluded Gilboa. "We also want to strengthen the communication between patients and doctors and remove entry barriers to this beautiful procedure."
Watch her full presentation in the video above.
