These Northeastern contest winners have a solution Northeastern London challenge provides an opportunity for high schoolers to help develop real-world solutions. Leonardo Monteforte, one of the winners of the AI Futures Challenge, tours Northeastern University London. So when they entered a five-day contest hosted by Northeastern University London, they put that experience into action. Lyra AI found that many companies are unaware of how their employees are using AI tools or whether they’re using them at all. Throughout the challenge, the standard of entries was exceptional, said Smith, who judged the competition along with two other Lyra AI executives.