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SAN JOSE, Calif.-Sunday 22 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in clinical communication and workflow solutions, today announced that the wearable Vocera Smartbadge has been named to TIME’s list of the 100 Best Inventions of 2020. Today, TIME revealed its annual list of the 100 Best Inventions that are making the world better, smarter, and even a bit more fun.

For 2020’s list, TIME solicited nominations both from its editors and correspondents around the world and through an online application process. It then evaluated them on factors including originality, effectiveness, ambition and impact. The results: everything from a smarter beehive to a greener tube of toothpaste to the technology that could catalyze a COVID-19 vaccine.

The award-winning Vocera Smartbadge enables hands-free communication and can be worn under personal protective equipment (PPE), minimizing the risk of contamination and helping preserve valuable PPE. A nurse, doctor, or care team member wearing a Smartbadge can initiate communication by simply saying, “OK, Vocera” followed by simple voice commands, like “call infection control team” or “call the emergency response team.” Clinicians can connect and communicate with the right person or group quickly and safely, saving critical time and resources. By simply saying a name, role or team, healthcare workers can collaborate completely hands-free, even in isolation, while scrubbed in, or wearing surgical gloves. During the coronavirus pandemic, hands-free communication technology for hospital workers is a lifeline to reach help and access resources without introducing the risk of infection.

The intelligent and durable Smartbadge was purpose-built for healthcare and integrates with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, including electronic health records, nurse call systems, physiologic monitors and more. A new category of wearable communication, the device combines the hands-free calling capability of the Vocera Badge with smartphone functionality to provide meaningful, real-time information to mobile workers. The device’s 2.4” touchscreen enables clinicians to receive prioritized clinical events, read notifications with patient context, and send secure text messages, to accelerate care and improve patient safety. Additionally, the Smartbadge has a dedicated, one-touch panic button so healthcare staff can get help quickly in emergency situations.

“It is an honor to see the Vocera Smartbadge on the TIME Best Inventions list, especially this year, when it is so important to keep healthcare workers safe while they care for patients during the pandemic,” said Brent Lang, chairman and CEO at Vocera. “Hands-free communication is critical for nurses, doctors, and other care team members to do their jobs, and 2020 has magnified how essential it is for the well-being of healthcare professionals on the frontlines.”

About Vocera

The mission of Vocera Communications, Inc. is to simplify and improve the lives of healthcare professionals, patients, and families while enabling hospitals to enhance quality of care and operational efficiency and humanize the healthcare experience. In 2000, when the company was founded, we began to forever change the way care teams communicate. Today, Vocera offers the leading platform for improving clinical communication and workflow. More than 2,100 facilities worldwide, including nearly 1,700 hospitals and healthcare facilities, have selected our solutions. Care team members use our solutions to communicate and collaborate with co-workers by securely texting or calling, and to be notified of important alerts and alarms. They can choose the right device for their role or task, including smartphones or our hands-free, wearable Vocera Smartbadge and Vocera Badge. They can create a richer, more human connection for patients and their loved ones before, during, and after care using Vocera Ease applications. Interoperability between the Vocera Platform and more than 150 clinical and operational systems helps reduce alarm fatigue; speed up staff response times; and improve patient care, safety, and experience. In addition to healthcare, Vocera solutions are found in luxury hotels, aged care facilities, retail stores, schools, power facilities, libraries, and more. Vocera solutions make mobile workers safer and more effective by enabling them to connect instantly with other people and access resources or information quickly. Vocera has made the list of Forbes 100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America. Learn more at www.vocera.com, and follow @VoceraComm and @VoceraEase on Twitter.

Vocera® and the Vocera logo are trademarks of Vocera Communications, Inc. registered in the United States and other jurisdictions. All other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their respective owners.

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Contacts
Shanna Hearon
Vocera Communications, Inc.
669.999.3368
shearon@vocera.com

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Systematic review highlights importance of component end use, need for more research

HOLLYWOOD, Fla.-Wednesday 18 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association (AMGTA), a global trade group created to foster and promote the environmental benefits of additive manufacturing (AM), announced today the publication of its first commissioned university research project, a literature-based systematic review of the environmental benefits of metal AM. The paper, titled, “State of Knowledge on the Environmental Impacts of Metal Additive Manufacturing” was written by Dr. Jeremy Faludi from Delft University of Technology and Corrie Van Sice from Dartmouth College.

According to its authors, the report “synthesizes existing academic literature comparing the environmental impacts of metal AM with conventional manufacturing methods, and provides context with impacts of common metals and processing methods found in a materials database.” Its goal “is to summarize current knowledge and identify areas where information is sparse, unclear, and much needed.” The full paper is available to AMGTA member companies, other industry stakeholders, and the general public on the AMGTA website at: https://www.amgta.org/resources/.

Key takeaways from the report include that, while “AM generally has much higher carbon footprints per kg of material processed than CM [conventional manufacturing] when considering the direct manufacturing process itself”, but “impacts depend greatly on part geometry—a solid cube will be much lower impact to produce by machining, while a hollow shell or lattice can be lower impact to produce by AM.” The report further recognizes the need for additional life cycle assessment (LCA) studies to quantify environmental impacts: “More LCA studies are necessary to definitively compare metal AM to CM; especially direct comparisons of AM to machining, and especially for technologies such as binder jetting and DED. These LCAs should ideally also include more of the product life cycle.”

“We were pleased to work with Dr. Faludi and Ms. Van Sice on this study,” said Sherry Handel, the Executive Director of the AMGTA. “No one should expect metal AM to be a more sustainable way to manufacture basic metal parts given the focused energy inherent in laser melting, but AM should present a more sustainable course for manufacturing finished precision components.” Ms. Handel continued, “These findings validate the AMGTA’s plans to provide the industry with rigorous, independent, and ongoing research. The AMGTA will continue to commission studies and publish research findings in an effort to update the industry and other key stakeholders on what our eco-footprint is now and what we will need to focus on in the future to be more sustainable.”

About the Researchers

Jeremy Faludi, Ph.D., a leading sustainable engineering researcher, was selected by the AMGTA to oversee this project. Dr. Faludi is assistant professor of design engineering at Delft University of Technology, where he specializes in sustainable design methods and green 3D printing, and adjunct faculty of engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Dr. Faludi earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at University of California Berkeley, a Master of Engineering in Product Design at Stanford University, and a B.A. in Physics from Reed College.

Corrie Van Sice was a senior research engineer at the Faludi Lab at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. Ms. Van Sice managed the Green 3D Printing Lab and assessed AM techniques to define best practices for sustainability in the industry. Before joining the Faludi Lab, she was the lead Materials and Processes R&D Engineer at MakerBot Industries in Brooklyn, NY where she developed and scaled print material manufacturing. Ms. Van Sice earned a Master of Professional Studies from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in 2011.

About AMGTA

The AMGTA was launched in November 2019 to promote the environmental benefits of additive manufacturing (AM) over traditional methods of manufacturing. The AMGTA is a non-commercial, unaffiliated organization open to any additive manufacturer or industry stakeholder that meets certain criteria relating to sustainability of production or process.

Founding Members of the AMGTA include Sintavia, LLC, a leading additive manufacturer focused on the aerospace, defense, and space industry; Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (one of the operating companies under Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation), a supplier of stable industrial gases to a wide variety of global industries; and QC Laboratories, Inc., an industrial and commercial non-destructive testing laboratory focused on AM components.

Participating Members of the AMGTA include AMEXCI AB, Danish AM Hub, EOS, GE Additive, Materialise, National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, Siemens Digital Industries Software, SLM Solutions Inc., and Stryker.

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Contacts
Sherry Handel
+1 954.308.0888
www.amgta.org

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Visa adds new Partner Toolkit and Visa Ready Fintech Enabler certification to Fast Track program

Fast Track program grows 360% year-over-year, supports accelerating industries including digital wallets, financial inclusion, business-to-business (B2B) and digital currency payments

SAN FRANCISCO-Thursday 19 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The COVID-19 pandemic has created major financial challenges for businesses and consumers alike. As money management becomes increasingly digital, fintechs play a pivotal role in helping to restore and rebuild the global economy. To provide increased support for the ecosystem, Visa (NYSE: V) today announced two new components of its fintech Fast Track program:

1. A rich Partner Toolkit to help fintechs accelerate their growth and better serve their customers.

2. A certification program called Visa Ready for Fintech Enablers, which makes it easier for fintechs to quickly connect with certified1 partners for digital issuance and other key services.

Fintech leaders around the world are increasingly choosing to work with Visa across key categories including digital wallets, digital banking, ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’, B2B payments, cross-border remittance, bill payments, payments infrastructure, and person-to-person payments. Recent examples of fintechs partnering with Visa include Affirm, BillGO, Finix, Gojek, PayPal, Rappi, Stripe, Varo Bank, and Venmo, among many others.

With the expansion of Visa’s industry leading Fast Track program, fintechs are armed with the tools to become category winners. Fast Track participation has grown 360% year-over-year, and Visa has welcomed hundreds of fintechs2 who are actively engaged in the program.

“It’s thrilling to see fintech partners utilize our programs and network to digitize financial services and improve the lives of the consumers and businesses they touch,” said Terry Angelos, SVP and Global Head of Fintech, Visa. “Through the Fast Track program, we’re providing fintechs with a simple set of tools to bring their products to life. The resources we provide, such as online licensing and card design, have helped make Fast Track the leading program for fintechs.”

Introducing the Fast Track Partner Toolkit

Visa has introduced a Fast Track Partner Toolkit designed specifically for fintech partners who onboard with the program. The toolkit was created to accelerate a company’s growth and provides extraordinary access to Visa’s experts in strategy, marketing, design, risk management, and more. Through the toolkit, partners can leverage educational resources like payments boot camps to help upskill a company’s knowledge of the industry, tap into key strategic resources to craft customized benchmarking studies and utilize Visa’s online card design tools to help build and launch a card into market quickly.

Powering the Digital Issuance Journey with Visa Ready

Visa Ready certification for “Fintech Enablers” is designed to help technology companies build and launch payment solutions that meet Visa's global standards around security and functionality. These companies are in turn helping fintechs around the world build their own products by providing the solutions and expertise they need to get up and running.

Available today, Visa Ready for Fintech Enablers establishes a certified ecosystem of partners who are experts in the capabilities fintechs need to launch and operate products effectively on the Visa network. Recently, the Visa Ready program has added new partners from across the globe— from Sao Paulo to Singapore. New certified processing partners include BPC Radar Payments (Global), Conductor (LAC), FIS (Global), Global Processing Services (GPS) (Global), i2c (Global), Marqeta (Global), and NovoPayment (LAC, NA). Similarly, Visa has certified BIN sponsors across the world that help stand up programs for fintechs including Dock (LAC), Nium (APAC, EU), Railsbank (APAC, EU) and Sutton Bank (NA).

Fast Track Experiences

Of the hundreds of global companies now part of the program, some of the most recent innovators to join Fast Track include:

Digital Wallets: Working with companies like Careem Pay, LINE Pay, Nubi, Paga, PalmPay, Razer, and Vipps, Visa is expanding access to digital payments by meeting evolving consumer preferences for managing their money – and transforming some formerly closed-loop systems limited to certain geographies or functionalities into open ones, giving users greater choice, security and utility.

Advancing Financial Inclusion and Social Impact: Ensuring that consumers and businesses in all parts of the world have access to the financial tools and products to improve their lives is core to Visa’s mission. Companies like CapWay are helping to bring underrepresented communities access to digital payments, while Cuenca provides free accounts that can be opened in under 5 minutes. Daylight is a digital banking platform focused on improving the financial lives of the 30M+ LGBT+ in the U.S. and the first fintech in the U.S. to focus specifically on the LGBT+ community. MPOWER Financing and X1 are pioneering new methods of extending credit to demographics like undergrads and international students. SoLo Funds aims to provide affordable loans for Americans who live paycheck to paycheck, and Tomorrow aims to bring change to the mobile banking sector through its commitment to climate protection, sustainability and economic change.

B2B Payments: Visa is transforming B2B payments, a segment that represents $120 trillion in opportunity3, in its work with Fast Track members in every corner of the world, including: Airwallex, Checkbook.io, GMO-Payment Gateway, Konfio, and Payhawk.

Digital Currency Advancement: Visa is working closely with companies like BlockFi, Crypto.com, eToro Money, Fold, Ternio.io, Zap and ZenGo to connect digital currencies and its existing network of 61 million merchants.

New Enablement Partners: Fast Track is made possible due to collaborations with enablement partners who lay the foundation for fintechs to build their products. Announced today, Galileo, i2c, and Peoples Trust, are becoming part of Fast Track in Canada, joining a class of over 25 enablement partners around the world. From LAC, Visa has new partners like Cacao that offer BIN sponsorship, issuer processing, and program management.

Comments from Partners:

“Today's digitally-savvy businesses and consumers expect a modern and centralized experience when managing and paying bills — a process that's been locked in the past with inefficient systems,” said Mike Pinto, EVP Enterprise Alliances & Product, BillGO. “When it comes to paying bills, everyone expects instantaneous payments and with Visa we are further extending our ability to offer real-time frictionless bill pay.”

"The mission behind CapWay has always been to provide more financial opportunity, access, and education, particularly for those who have been underserved and overlooked by the traditional banking system,” said Sheena Allen, CEO, CapWay. “We knew Visa was the right partner for our team for reasons outside of the fact that they provide the technology and payments prowess. More importantly, we share the same commitment to social impact that underpins the work we do each day at CapWay, and they have been fully supportive in our work to provide a solution as we are entering a predominately cashless economy.”

“Becoming part of programs like Fast Track and Visa Ready has allowed us to connect with new companies in the ecosystem and help them realize their product visions without compromise,” said Amir Wain, CEO and Founder, i2c. “It’s clear that these programs were built to meet the specific needs of today’s fintechs both large and small and will help everyone in the ecosystem thrive with the tools and partners needed to get to market as quickly, and easily as possible.”

“Giving everyone choice in how and where they pay is essential to our mission of providing people and businesses around the world with access to simple, secure and reliable digital payments,” said Jim Magats, SVP Omni Payments, PayPal. “We’re excited to be partnering with Visa to advance the future of digital payments and help even more customers get faster access to their funds.”

"2021 will be a year when Rappi builds even more opportunities for couriers (Rappitenderos), restaurant partners and small businesses. We face a lot of challenges ahead, but through collaboration, entrepreneurship and technology, we're going to get through them and create progress in our region,” said Simon Borrero, CEO and co-founder, Rappi. "Working with a partner like Visa has been key for us in creating new opportunities across financial services for our partners and users. Visa technology is one of the most recognized in the world and we are proud to be able to have their support as a trusted brand in the markets where we have our digital wallet, as it is only the first step to raise the standard of financial services in Latin America and the Caribbean."

"This is a difficult time for millions of consumers and their communities,” said Colin Walsh, CEO, Varo Bank. “We are proud to be working with partners like Visa to ensure our customers have fast, secure access to their money, and safer payment options like tap-to-pay and mobile wallets, as well as a shared commitment to innovation that will power the future of banking.”

“Today, the ability to pay digitally is no longer just a convenience but a necessity and with Vipps being the leading digital wallet in Norway, reaching 3.8 million users, we are core to ensuring citizens are able to send, pay and receive money at the touch of a button,” said Rune Garborg, CEO, Vipps. “With Visa, we are enabling issuing banks to offer smarter and simplified digital payment services to their customers in Europe and beyond. Together with Visa, we are able to leverage our joint expertise, and experience to give consumers and businesses access to secure, digital commerce, regardless of where they live or what mobile device they have.”

For more information on Visa programs and resources built for the fintech community, visit here.

About Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is the world’s leader in digital payments. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, reliable and secure payment network - enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive. Our advanced global processing network, VisaNet, provides secure and reliable payments around the world, and is capable of handling more than 65,000 transaction messages a second. The company’s relentless focus on innovation is a catalyst for the rapid growth of digital commerce on any device for everyone, everywhere. As the world moves from analog to digital, Visa is applying our brand, products, people, network and scale to reshape the future of commerce. For more information, visit About Visa, visa.com/blog and @VisaNews.

1 Visa Ready partners are vetted and certified based on a specific set of criteria including, but not limited to, their ability to support digital issuance, ability to support multi-tenant architecture and ability to manage risk, among other capabilities.
2 Visa Fast Track Global Data, September 2020
3 Visa Q4 2020 Earnings Call Transcript

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Contacts
Visa Inc.
Caylah Novak
cnovak@visa.com
831-431-3454

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SHENZHEN, China-Saturday 14 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The China Hi-Tech Forum, as an integral part of the ongoing 22nd China Hi-Tech Fair opened on November 11 to present several themed forums in three days, including the "Opening Forum", the "New Era, New Technology and New Economy" forum, the "Emerging Technologies Shaping the World" forum and the “Innovation Leads Future” forum.

View the forums and activities online: http://cis.chtf.com/OnlinePCEN/#/Active

The China Hi-Tech Forum invited Chinese and international academicians, well-known scholars, and senior executives to make multiple rounds of discussions ranging from vision strategy to practical experience.

Opening Forum

Focusing on the topic "New Structure, Challenges and Opportunities under the Impact of the Pandemic", Academician Wu Hequan delivered a keynote speech entitled "Internet Technology in 14th Five-Year Plan”. Focusing on “Cooperative Innovation, Development and Win-win", Zheng Yelai, Vice President of Huawei, delivered a speech "Innovation · Inclusiveness, Technology Empowers Smart Upgrade".

“New Era, New Technology and New Economy” forum

Centered on "Development Driven by New Wave of Infrastructure", academicians of the US Academy of Engineering and senior executives from China First Heavy Machinery Group Corporation, New Development Bank, etc. gave keynote speeches and round-table dialogues on how to generate more opportunities with the new wave of infrastructure, and whether it can reshape the economic structure and production relations.

“Emerging Technologies Shaping the World” forum

Discussions were focused on "Hello 2030", "AI+: Computing Power, Cognition and Deep Learning", "Future Communication Technology", "Acceleration and Breakthrough in Life Science", and "Space Economy and Civil Aerospace". Rohit Talva, well-known futurist; Ma Qin, Senior Economist of the World Bank; Xie Dong, Vice President of IBM, and chairman of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) shared their visions on the emerging technologies most likely to lead industry reforms and change the world in the next ten years.

“Innovation Leads Future” forum

The two major topics were "Future Work in Post-pandemic Era" and "Future Life in Post-epidemic Era". Heavyweight guests including Xue Wei, CEO of Fujitsu (China), Liu Min, Vice President of Bosch China, Zhang Chao, General Manager of SAP China, and Wu Junhua, Vice President of iFlytek discussed the Internet of everything, smart manufacturing, industrial Internet, flexible manufacturing, remote work and enterprise digitalization.

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Contacts
Ms. Peggie Wang
China Hi-Tech Fair Organizing Committee Office
Tel.: +86-755-82848962,
wangyq@chtf.com, 654333235@qq.com

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SHENZHEN, China-Thursday 12 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- The 22nd High-Tech Fair (CHTF2020) kicked off at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in Guangdong, China on November 11, 2020. The opening ceremony was attended by academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, global scientists, as well as consuls of Belgium, Austria, Spain, and Poland in China.

With a 140,000m2 exhibition area, the five-day event will gather 3,300 domestic and overseas exhibitors, and present more than 140 activities. The exhibition covers various high-tech fields, including IT, energy conservation, environmental protection, building technology, new energy, new materials, smart medical care, aerospace, optoelectronic display, smart city, and advanced manufacturing. In addition, China High-Tech Forum will be held concurrently, sharing insights of world experts and the latest trends in high-tech development.

At the fair, visitors are dazzled by a large number of innovative high-tech products, such as the glass-based MiniLED that can greatly improve the display effect of LCD products, Corerain’s CAISA chip that can become an important engine in the smart era, and the graphene-reinforced composite coating that can promote the industrial application of new materials. Among them, 69 products were rated as "CHTF2020 Excellent Innovative Products".

In addition, many overseas exhibitors are eye-catching. The Russian delegation brought 17 exhibitors, including Kuzbass State Technical University and Russia Research Institute of Complex Problems of Cardiovascular Disease, to display core technologies involving radio science, 3D printing, nanomaterial, complex cardiovascular diseases, and clean energy.

The Brazilian delegation, participating in the fair for the first time, brought 29 high-tech companies to the online exhibition. They showcased their latest agricultural technologies such as the innovative sugarcane planting system, as well as digital communications, and more.

The China High-Tech Forum, as an integral part of CHTF2020, consists of multiple theme forums such as "New Era, Technology and Economy" and "Emerging Technologies Shaping the World". Academicians, top scientists and economists, as well as senior executives from well-known companies such as IBM, Huawei, Bosch, Fujitsu, Cisco, and China Mobile, delivered speeches and shared insights at the forum, focusing on technological innovation, win-win development, and post-pandemic development mode, etc.

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Contacts
Ms. Peggie Wang
China Hi-Tech Fair Organizing Committee Office
Tel.: +86-755-82848962,
wangyq@chtf.com, 654333235@qq.com

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 L’Institut d’innovation et de technologie a pour objectif de fournir des découvertes scientifiques et des technologies de pointe ayant un impact mondial

Les sept premiers centres spécialisés dans l'innovation en matière de R&D disposerons d’installations de recherche de classe mondiale

Abou Dhabi, Émirats arabes unis-Mardi 10 Novembre 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

Abou Dhabi a inauguré le  Technology Innovation Institute (TII), un centre mondial pionnier en matière de recherche en technologies de pointe, qui s’est engagé à renforcer le statut d'Abou Dhabi et des Émirats arabes unis  en tant que centre mondial de l'innovation et des technologies avancées.

 L’institut est le pilier de la recherche appliquée du Conseil de recherche sur les technologies avancées (ATRC), qui a été récemment créé pour définir les priorités de recherche et de développement (R&D) à Abou Dhabi.

Il vise à fournir des découvertes scientifiques et des technologies de pointe qui ont un impact mondial. Il innove rapidement dans ses sept centres de recherche dédiés initiaux, qui disposent chacun des installations de recherche de classe mondiale.

Les  sept premiers domaines d'intérêt sont : la recherche quantique, la robotique autonome, la cryptographie, les matériaux avancés, la sécurité numérique, l'énergie dirigée et les systèmes sécurisés.

Son Excellence Faisal Al Bannai, Secrétaire général du Conseil de recherche sur les technologies avancées, a déclaré que l'institut permettrait à positionner Abou Dhabi et les Émirats arabes unis en tant que centre mondial pour la recherche sur les technologies avancées.

"Technology Innovation Institute est un centre de recherche pionnier qui développe des technologies révolutionnaires et transformatives ayant des cas d'utilisation pratiques et un impact mondial. L'institut nous permet de repousser les frontières de la connaissance plus loin que jamais au profit de la science, de la société, de l'économie et de l'environnement", a-t-il souligné.

Des équipes de scientifiques et de chercheurs internationaux  du monde entier ont rejoint l'institut  dans les deux mois suivant la première réunion du conseil d'administration en août 2020. Cette communauté intellectuelle contribuera à la construction d'un écosystème de recherche et développement (R&D) à Abou Dhabi et aux Émirats arabes unis.

TII stimulera également la recherche appliquée, le développement de la propriété intellectuelle et les partenariats universitaires et industriels. Il a déjà commencé à travailler sur plus de 25 projets de collaboration à long terme grâce à des partenariats avec plus de 20 universités de renommée mondiale.

Il est important de noter que l'institut aura la flexibilité de faire progresser rapidement la recherche, avec une feuille de route de recherche définie, un financement engagé à long terme et la capacité de prendre des décisions efficaces dans un environnement en évolution rapide.

TII est l'un des deux piliers d'ATRC, qui a été créé en mai 2020 pour élargir l'étendue et la profondeur d'un écosystème de R&D déjà florissant à Abou Dhabi. Rassemblant des leaders interdisciplinaires en matière de recherche et de technologie, ATRC cultive une communauté de recherche collaborative, accélère l'innovation et la découverte et favorise une culture de recherches.

À propos de Technology Innovation Institute (TII) :

Technology Innovation Institute, le pilier dédié à la recherche appliquée du Conseil de recherche sur les technologies avancées (ATRC), est un centre mondial de recherche et de développement pionnier qui se concentre sur la recherche appliquée et les capacités technologiques du nouvel âge. L'institut dispose de sept centres de recherche initiaux dédiés, dans les domaines de la robotique quantique et autonome, de la cryptographie, des matériaux avancés, de la sécurité numérique, de l’énergie dirigée et des systèmes sécurisés. En travaillant avec des talents exceptionnels, des universités, des instituts de recherche et des partenaires industriels  du monde entier, l'institut connecte une communauté intellectuelle et contribue à l'expansion de l'écosystème de R&D à Abou Dhabi et aux Émirats arabes unis. L’institut renforce le statut d’Abou Dhabi et des Émirats arabes unis en tant que centre mondial de l’innovation et contribue au développement plus large d’une économie fondée sur la connaissance.

Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez consulter le site électronique suivant : www.tii.ae

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Contacts

Technology Innovation Institute

Aisha Shaikh, +971 55 542 3718

Aisha.Shaikh@tii.ae

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HILLSBORO, Ore.-Monday 9 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Radisys® Corporation, a global leader of open telecom solutions, today announced its showcase of end-to-end digital engagement solutions at the virtual AfricaCom 2020, taking place November 9-12. Radisys will demonstrate its real-time communication and digital engagement platforms and applications designed to bridge the digital divide in emerging regions. In addition, Radisys’ Aniel Jhingoeri and Reliance Jio’s Nathan Smith will lead a fireside chat focused on enabling mobile operators to provide greater access to broadband services in emerging and rural markets. To learn more about these solutions, visit Radisys’ virtual booth during AfricaCom 2020.

News Highlights

Radisys’ demonstrations at AfricaCom include the following:

Radisys Reach Smart Feature Phone and ReachCast Media Cable:

The Radisys Reach smart feature phone is a premium-quality white-label handset that delivers smartphone capabilities while priced for the masses, allowing customers in rural and emerging markets to take advantage of dependable mobile and broadband services. Radisys Reach is designed to help mobile operators bridge the global economic and digital divide, enabling them to provide access to affordable mobile and broadband services by offering a device fully integrated with leading-edge capabilities, digital experiences and a full suite of meaningful apps aimed to maximize subscriber internet usage and elevate the customer experience. Radisys will also demonstrate the phone with ReachCast, a media cable that enables subscribers to convert any TV into a smart TV and allow media on their smart feature phone to play on their TV with no additional equipment needed.

Engage Virtual Assistant (EVA):

Radisys’ EVA, the world’s first app-less AI-powered 3-in-1 (video, voice, text) bot, for digital customer interactions and experiences, including ecommerce, consumer brand engagement and customer service. EVA can be deployed to improve automated customer service and increase personalization in a range of different markets. This demonstration highlights the EVA bot’s ability to assist customers with questions about banking and financial services in a personalized manner through video, voice and text- with a brand ambassador or customer service agent rather than a computer-generated avatar.

Smart Home Demonstration:

Radisys will demonstrate a range of digital endpoints, including customer-premises equipment, IoT sensors and gateways, all of which enable service providers to deliver the full potential of a connected smart home.

TM Forum Catalyst “Ready Telco One” Project Highlights:

Radisys partnered with several industry leaders in a collaborative project as part of the TM Forum’s Catalyst “Ready Telco One” program. The “Ready Telco One” project was created to streamline a customer’s digital activities while improving communication service providers' (CSPs) engagement with and retention of customers. Radisys’ Engage Media Server provided the speech-enabled user interaction intelligence and virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) foundation for the Catalyst project.

Nathan Smith, Vice President of Product and Business Development, Reliance Jio and Aniel Jhingoeri, Head of EMEA Sales and Embedded Platforms and Digital Endpoints business unit, Radisys

Join Aniel Jhingoeri and Nathan Smith on November 11, 2020 from 11:30am – 11:55am for a fireside chat, “Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural and Emerging Markets.”

“Radisys is playing a critical role in enabling service providers to monetize mobile connectivity in emerging markets, while enabling people living in these regions to gain access to powerful and affordable devices and applications that can change how they work, live, learn and play,” said Aniel Jhingoeri, Head of EMEA Sales and Embedded Platforms and Digital Endpoints business unit. “Our new Smart Feature Phone provides a holistic solution for operators, delivering rich digital experiences and enabling subscriber growth, new revenue streams and increased broadband usage, all while providing people with the connectivity options and applications needed to fully participate in a global society. Radisys continues to expand its solution ecosystem while simultaneously solidifying its role as a strategic partner for operators.”

To see the technology demonstrations, or to meet with Radisys’ digital engagement experts during AfricaCom, contact open@radisys.com.

About Radisys

Radisys is a global leader in open telecom solutions and services. Its disaggregated platforms and integration services leverage open reference architectures and standards combined with open software and hardware, enabling service providers to drive open digital transformation. Radisys offers an end-to-end solutions portfolio from digital end points, to disaggregated and open access and core solutions, to immersive digital applications and engagement platforms. Its world-class and experienced network services organization delivers full lifecycle services to help service providers build and operate highly scalable and high-performance networks at optimum total cost of ownership. For more information, visit www.Radisys.com.

Radisys® is a registered trademark of Radisys. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Expanding presence in Saudi Arabia

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-Tuesday 3 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExaGrid®, the industry’s only Tiered Backup Storage solution, today announced that it is continuing to expand globally to meet demand for its backup storage solution. The company continues to grow its market share position.

ExaGrid currently has field sales offices across the United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, Nordics, Benelux, Singapore, Australia and over 20 other regions. ExaGrid has continued to add global sales teams and now covers over 30 countries worldwide. The company will continue to expand its global reach with the goal of covering over 50 countries in 2022.

As part of its expansion into more markets, ExaGrid now has Territory Managers in Israel, Dubai and most recently Saudi Arabia. Some of ExaGrid’s latest success stories are from key accounts in this region, including NMC Healthcare, Palestine Investment Bank and Quds Bank.

“We have been steadily gaining global momentum in the market. The increase in demand in the Middle East region has encouraged us to hire and form new and strategic distributor and reseller relationships.” said Bill Andrews, CEO and President of ExaGrid. “We focus on the US, Canada, Latin America, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) as well as Asia Pacific. We have worldwide local presence. The good news is that organizations worldwide perform backups 5 nights per week and all use the same backup applications such as Veeam, Commvault, Veritas NetBackup, Oracle RMAN, SQL Dumps, IBM Spectrum Protect, HYCU, Zerto and others. ExaGrid supports over 25 backup applications and utilities with its Tiered Backup Storage architecture. The market is truly horizontal, and the requirements are the same everywhere on the globe.”

ExaGrid’s published customer success stories and enterprise stories number over 330, more than all other vendors in the space combined. These stories demonstrate how satisfied customers are with ExaGrid’s unique architectural approach, differentiated product, and unrivalled customer support. Customers consistently state that not only is the product best-in-class, but ‘it just works.’

About ExaGrid

ExaGrid provides tiered backup storage with a unique disk-cache Landing Zone, long-term retention repository, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s Landing Zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. The retention repository offers the lowest cost for long-term retention. ExaGrid’s scale-out architecture includes full appliances and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades and product obsolescence. Visit us at exagrid.com or connect with us on LinkedIn. See what our customers have to say about their own ExaGrid experiences and why they now spend significantly less time on backup in our customer success stories.

ExaGrid is a registered trademark of ExaGrid Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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Partnership Will Provide Coastal Nations with Data to Help Improve Ocean Quality

REDLANDS, Calif.-Thursday 5 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, today announced a new free and open tool it is making available for countries seeking to improve their coastal waters. The tool uses real-time analysis enabling countries to monitor coastal water quality and use that information to guide policy and reduce pollution from land sources.

A team from Esri, the United Nations Environment Programme, and GEO Blue Planet partnered to develop this new statistical approach using satellite data and geospatial technology in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) to prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds by 2025. The team received the 2020 GEO (Group on Earth Observations) SDG Award for the Special Category, Collaboration in recognition of the new tool they built.

“We believe open science is good science, and a way to reassert science as a global public good,” said Dawn Wright, Esri chief scientist. “This collaboration demonstrates that philosophy by sharing the jointly developed methodology and the resulting data in an accessible way.”

Many countries depend on the health of their coastal ecosystems to drive their economies (tourism, fisheries, natural resources) and provide sustainable food sources to their populations. The use of fertilizers and other chemicals that run off the land and into the coastal ocean have been shown to cause blooms in marine algae that can disrupt ecosystems and human health. By measuring above-normal concentrations of marine algae, this new analysis provides a starting point to achieve the SDG target of limiting marine pollution.

This project empowers countries, especially developing nations, with the information they need to understand potential impacts on coastal water quality, address those impacts, and have routinely updated data to understand and report their progress to the United Nations as part of the SDG initiative. While governments and organizations around the world are already able to conduct these analyses, this project transforms the raw global data into actionable information to make it easier for them to make better-informed decisions.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations, require timely and objective reporting, and metrics are typically self-reported by each country. However, many nations do not have the capacity or capability to conduct ongoing environmental analyses. This collaboration provides automated analysis for every coastal country in the world.

The GEO SDG awards program, which honored this collaboration, recognizes excellence in sustainable development practices, analysis, and reporting through the use of Earth observations. The awards recognize productivity, ingenuity, proficiency, novelty, and exemplary communications of results and experiences in the use of Earth observations for the SDGs.

This partnership’s methodology, now included in the UN’s Global Manual for Ocean Statistics, can also be applied in other environments where it is needed and modified to work on many geographic scales. To see the initial analysis results and information products, visit the hub site at chlorophyll-esrioceans.hub.arcgis.com.

About Esri

Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969, Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations including 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, all 50 state governments, more than half of all counties (large and small), and 87 of the Forbes Top 100 Colleges in the U.S., as well as all 15 Executive Departments of the U.S. Government and dozens of independent agencies. With its pioneering commitment to geospatial information technology, Esri engineers the most advanced solutions for digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics. Visit us at esri.com.

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