Senior Finalist Sidney Hough (Team Uproot) from USA speaks with Sonia Tagare at Oracle's Agnews Campus in Santa Clara, CA during Technovation's World Pitch Summit 2019. #theCUBE #WorldPitch19 #WomenInTech @SiliconANGLE theCUBE @Technovation Neural networking helps eliminate invasive plants Californian team Uproot took second place in its group with an AgTech app that uses artificial intelligence to identify unwanted plants amongst farm crops. “What happens is noxious weeds often out-compete crops for nutrients,” said Sidney Hough of Team Uproot. “So, we’re delivering an integrated solution to help farmers manage noxious weeds on their farms.” The app has three components: live plant identification using the mobile device’s camera, an information database on the plant and how to control it, and a monitoring feature to track locations of weeds and record dispersal patterns over time. “I love coding,” Hough said. “But I didn’t realize that companies can’t live by code alone.” She credits Technovation with teaching her how to create a business strategy and marketing plan for Uproot. “In the next five years, our goal would be to take the app nationwide [and] to train our model on more species,” Hough stated.