A multinational team led by Mahroosh Umer, a young AS level STEM student from Pakistan, has won the AI 4 Good Incubator 2025, a techthon-style competition that drew participants from hundreds of countries.
The five-day global challenge tasked teams with answering a pressing question: “How might we use AI to accelerate the journey to net zero?”
Mahroosh’s team pitched AgriGuard.AI, an AI-powered platform designed to help smallholder farmers adopt climate-smart agricultural practices, improve soil health, and earn additional income through carbon credits. The platform uses satellite imagery and soil data to provide localized, actionable advice, making sustainability both profitable and accessible for farmers.
Mahroosh played a major role in the project by prototyping the solution in Glide, enabling farmers to visualize how the technology could work in real-world conditions. The interactive prototype showed how AI insights could be seamlessly integrated into day-to-day farming decisions.
The AI 4 Good Incubator 2025 attracted innovators from around the world, but it was AgriGuard.AI’s combination of technology, environmental impact, and economic benefit that secured the top prize.