MicrosoftJun 2026
The Ad Council built an AI-powered chat experience for its Youth Firearm Injury Prevention campaign, Agree to Agree.,The solution uses Microsoft Copilot Studio as the conversational layer and Azure AI Search with Azure OpenAI, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Functions, and Power Automate to ground responses in vetted campaign resources.,The agent is designed to guide users toward trusted, approved information while avoiding harmful, political, or crisis-escalation content.
Public SectorUnited States The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) serves 11 countries in the Greater Horn of Africa with climate forecasting and early warning services.,To improve reliability after on-premises disruptions and a monolithic setup, ICPAC moved to Google Cloud and adopted a microservices architecture on Google Kubernetes Engine.,ICPAC uses Cloud Run to process geospatial data, automated deployments with Cloud Build and Artifact Registry, and secured data and access with Cloud Storage and IAM.,The organization reports that climate data processing dropped from up to 8 hours to 30 minutes, cloud services costs fell by more than 40%, and the platform now runs 24/7.,ICPAC also plans to use Gemini for conversational interfaces so users can ask questions in local languages.
MicrosoftJun 2026
Facing spiked demand for resident services and limited staff capacity, Aberdeen City Council sought AI solution to automate staff’s most repetitive administrative workload.,Aberdeen City Council deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot across 700 staff serving a diverse portfolio of city services. It is also piloting a telephony solution with Dynamics 365, enabling personalized messaging and resources via Facebook Messenger.,Staff adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot shows documented user gains in work productivity and job satisfaction, along with faster delivery of priority resident services.
Public SectorUnited Kingdom AWSJun 2026
The Met Office built a prototype to turn raw weather data into readable maritime forecasts using Amazon Nova Foundation Models.,The project explores automated text generation for the Shipping Forecast and broader weather services to improve scalability and consistency.
Public SectorUnited Kingdom AWSJun 2026
bol Behörden Online Systemhaus is a German software provider and systems integrator that helps public-sector customers digitize form-management workflows. In collaboration with a city administration, it built FINO to streamline online dog tax registration while meeting German and EU data sovereignty requirements.,FINO is an AI assistant that helps citizens submit government forms online. It supports multilingual interactions, retrieves answers from the city knowledge base, guides applicants through required follow-up steps, and helps validate that the submission is complete before it is sent.
Fort Bend Independent School District serves 78,500 students in 80 schools in Texas and partnered with Now IMS to improve student safety and emergency communications across the district.,The solution lets students anonymously report bullying, suspicious activity, threats, and other dangers, while administrators and law enforcement get a back-end workflow to identify and respond to risks in real time.,The article describes a Gemini Enterprise agent experience deployed for public-safety and collaboration workflows.
Public SectorUnited States New York City Cyber Command (NYC3) built a security log aggregation platform on Google Cloud to keep city security systems available 24/7 and support risk alerts, visualization, and analytics for 100+ city agencies.,The organization adapted Google’s Site Reliability Engineering model, created an internal SRE team, and trained/cross-trained engineers across development, networking, and operations to improve reliability and supportability.,NYC3’s internally developed Juggernaut threat-management system parses real-time cybersecurity data from disparate sources and alerts the team when something seems amiss.
Public SectorUnited States IKE Smart City is a sister company of Orange Barrel Media that provides smart city kiosks connecting cities and people with critical information.,The company integrated Google Maps Platform Air Quality API into its kiosks to provide hyper-local air quality conditions for residents, visitors, and city partners.
Public SectorUnited States Valiance (India) built an AI-powered video intelligence suite on Google Cloud to improve wildlife conservation and civic safety. The platform turns large CCTV and video streams into real-time incident intelligence for public-sector operators.,Its flagship products, Wildlife Eye and CivicEye, use custom computer vision models, multimodal data fusion, and intelligent alerting. CivicEye also lets officers query video footage in natural language through Google AI capabilities.