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GovExec Announces 2024 Government Hall of Fame Inductees

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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WASHINGTON, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GovExec, the market-leading sales and marketing intelligence company for government leaders and contractors, unveiled today the 2024 Hall of Fame cohort, which the company will recognize during its annual Evening of Honors Gala hosted for the first time at The Anthem in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 2024.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, March 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GovExec, the market-leading sales and marketing intelligence company for government leaders and contractors, unveiled today the 2024 Hall of Fame cohort, which the company will recognize during its annual Evening of Honors Gala hosted for the first time at The Anthem in Washington, D.C., on April 24, 2024.
  • Building on Government Executive's more than 50-year history covering the government and public sector, the Government Hall of Fame has become a staple of its mission to acknowledge the current and former officials and industry stakeholders leading its evolution.
  • "This year's Government Hall of Fame inductees are prime examples of the powerful change public servants can instill.
  • In addition to the Government Hall of Fame's 2024 class, the Fed 100 Awards will be presented at GovExec's Evening of Honors Gala.

New White Paper Calls for 'Value' Re-think in Orthopedic Healthcare

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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MIAMI, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A new white paper has sounded a clarion call for the orthopedic healthcare sector to re-address the way that it considers and establishes value, arguing that the prevalent model of short-term cost-cutting is damaging the entire system.

Key Points: 
  • McKinsey Analysts identify orthopedic care as one of the most prevalent and costly sectors within the US Healthcare System, with estimated annual costs of $350-$400 billion.
  • The sector is under particular pressure right now as it seeks to address the surge of orthopedic procedures resulting from the pandemic backlog.
  • The white paper highlights the practice for surgeons to improvise and design solutions on-the-fly simply because resource constraints leave them without access to the latest tools.
  • Clearly, the longer surgery takes, the higher the costs to the healthcare system in terms of staff time and resources.

New White Paper Calls for 'Value' Re-think in Orthopedic Healthcare

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Patient safety, MD, Elective surgery, Health, Patient, Surgeon, Morale, McKinsey & Company, Hand, Pharmaceutical industry

MIAMI, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A new white paper has sounded a clarion call for the orthopedic healthcare sector to re-address the way that it considers and establishes value, arguing that the prevalent model of short-term cost-cutting is damaging the entire system.

Key Points: 
  • McKinsey Analysts identify orthopedic care as one of the most prevalent and costly sectors within the US Healthcare System, with estimated annual costs of $350-$400 billion.
  • The sector is under particular pressure right now as it seeks to address the surge of orthopedic procedures resulting from the pandemic backlog.
  • The white paper highlights the practice for surgeons to improvise and design solutions on-the-fly simply because resource constraints leave them without access to the latest tools.
  • Clearly, the longer surgery takes, the higher the costs to the healthcare system in terms of staff time and resources.

Amidst Consulting Industry's Turmoil, BlueCloud Soars with Innovative, AI-Driven Focus

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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TAMPA, Fla., March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As the consulting industry faces a turning point with the Big Four announcing significant layoffs, (1) BlueCloud takes a divergent path by implementing a business model, not dissimilar to NVIDIA's organizational success. This model, featuring fewer layers of management and mission-driven teams, contrasts sharply with traditional structures, positioning BlueCloud to navigate economic fluctuations with agility and foresight. "In the wake of recent layoffs within the Big Four, it's imperative to recognize the power of agility and forward-thinking in today's business climate," says Kerem Koca, CEO of BlueCloud.

Key Points: 
  • Amid widespread layoffs in the consulting industry, including the Big Four, BlueCloud distinguishes itself by a NVIDIA-like lean, mission-driven organizational model.
  • Kerem Koca, CEO of BlueCloud, advocates agility and innovation as the foundation for the company's resilience and growth.
  • This strategy has helped BlueCloud to rapidly expand while remaining stable, avoiding the layoffs that are impacting traditional business models.
  • "At BlueCloud, we're committed to a path of innovation and adaptability, which we believe is critical to surviving and thriving amidst market shifts.

Unilever Food Solutions Unveils 'Future Menus 2024'

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Unilever Foods Solutions (UFS) has released its annual trend report, Future Menus 2024, which sets out the eight global trends shaping the food service industry. The key shifts expected in restaurants this year include a rising demand for unexpected flavour combinations, the mainstreaming of plant-based dishes, and a focus on maximising ingredients to reduce food waste in the kitchen.1

Key Points: 
  • ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Unilever Foods Solutions (UFS) has released its annual trend report, Future Menus 2024 , which sets out the eight global trends shaping the food service industry.
  • Star Chen CEO Unilever Food Solutions said: "Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is a business of chefs for chefs.
  • "By providing chefs with products that reduce food preparation time, whilst satisfying growing consumer appetite for on-trend dishes, UFS has seen consistent growth, now accounting for 20% of the Unilever Nutrition business," said Star Chen.
  • Gen Z Is Craving A More Sustainable Food System, McKinsey & Company, 2022.

Unilever Food Solutions Unveils 'Future Menus 2024'

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Unilever Foods Solutions (UFS) has released its annual trend report, Future Menus 2024, which sets out the eight global trends shaping the food service industry. The key shifts expected in restaurants this year include a rising demand for unexpected flavour combinations, the mainstreaming of plant-based dishes, and a focus on maximising ingredients to reduce food waste in the kitchen.1

Key Points: 
  • ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Unilever Foods Solutions (UFS) has released its annual trend report, Future Menus 2024 , which sets out the eight global trends shaping the food service industry.
  • Star Chen CEO Unilever Food Solutions said: "Unilever Food Solutions (UFS) is a business of chefs for chefs.
  • "By providing chefs with products that reduce food preparation time, whilst satisfying growing consumer appetite for on-trend dishes, UFS has seen consistent growth, now accounting for 20% of the Unilever Nutrition business," said Star Chen.
  • Gen Z Is Craving A More Sustainable Food System, McKinsey & Company, 2022.

eClerx Welcomes Michael Hutchison as Principal of Customer Operations

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
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NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- eClerx Services Ltd (ECLX:IN) "eClerx" has announced the appointment of Michael Hutchison as Principal of its Customer Operations division.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- eClerx Services Ltd (ECLX:IN) "eClerx" has announced the appointment of Michael Hutchison as Principal of its Customer Operations division.
  • In his new role, Michael will oversee the customer operations client portfolio, with focus on sustaining organic growth and fostering new client acquisitions globally.
  • It delivers holistic hyper-focused customer support services including frontline CX, field technical operations, omnichannel customer support, analytics services and technology solutions.
  • Speaking about his new role at eClerx, Michael said, "I am delighted to join the team at eClerx and look forward to working with the exceptional teams in the Customer Operations division.

Scholastic Appoints Alix Guerrier and Kaya Henderson to its Board of Directors

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Thursday, March 21, 2024
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NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced that Alix Guerrier and Kaya Henderson were appointed to its board of directors (the "Board") as independent directors, effective March 20, 2024.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, March 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced that Alix Guerrier and Kaya Henderson were appointed to its board of directors (the "Board") as independent directors, effective March 20, 2024.
  • Mr. Guerrier contributes over 20 years of experience in the education sector including as a teacher and an educational technology entrepreneur.
  • Ms. Henderson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of Reconstruction US, a technology company she co-founded and launched in April 2020.
  • Before serving in her current role, Ms. Henderson served as Principal for her consulting company, Kaya Henderson Consulting.

Dataloop to Supercharge Adoption Timeline for Generative AI Applications in Collaboration with NVIDIA

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dataloop AI, an end-to-end, data-centric AI development platform, today announced that it will collaborate with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA  AI Enterprise software platform into its platform to advance the building and refinement of AI applications for businesses.

Key Points: 
  • Dataloop to embed NVIDIA AI in its transformative AI development platform to accelerate time to market, enable sophisticated, highly trained AI applications
    SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Dataloop AI , an end-to-end, data-centric AI development platform, today announced that it will collaborate with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform into its platform to advance the building and refinement of AI applications for businesses.
  • Providing NVIDIA technology on the Dataloop platform means Dataloop customers can use leading AI tools directly on a unified, orchestrated platform.
  • "By combining Dataloop's platform with NVIDIA  AI technologies, we are enhancing AI development and deployment, empowering our customers to leverage high-quality, optimized AI applications."
  • Second, ready-made AI solutions powered by NVIDIA  AI, such as pipelines for LLM applications, including summarization and chatbots, will be available.

Superlinked Raises $9.5 Million Seed From Index Ventures and Theory Ventures to Fill the Gap Between Data and Vector Databases

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Superlinked, the solution for turning complex data into vector embeddings, today announced it has received $9.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Index Ventures, with significant contribution from Theory Ventures. 20Sales, Firestreak and several prominent tech executives also participated. News of the funding comes as Superlinked launches a private alpha of its product and closes enterprise customer contracts to make data accessible for ML systems in information retrieval and feature engineering. The fresh capital will be used to further scale to meet market demand and expand product capabilities, building on Superlinked's technology that makes structured and unstructured data ML-compatible, and therefore useful, for creating new solutions and deriving additional value from data on top of vectors.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Superlinked , the solution for turning complex data into vector embeddings, today announced it has received $9.5 million in seed funding.
  • The round was led by Index Ventures , with significant contribution from Theory Ventures .
  • "We work in tandem with vector databases to put vectors at the center of enterprise data and compute infrastructure, democratizing the power that was once exclusive to a handful of tech giants."
  • "We're very bullish on the future of vector databases, but a significant gap remains in the market.