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Vicinitas Therapeutics Appoints Christian Hofmann, Ph.D., as Chief Executive Officer

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Tuesday, May 9, 2023
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Vicinitas Therapeutics, a biotechnology company advancing a proprietary targeted protein stabilization platform to develop novel therapeutics in cancer and genetic disorders, today announced that Christian Hofmann, Ph.D., has been appointed as the company’s Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors.

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  • Vicinitas Therapeutics, a biotechnology company advancing a proprietary targeted protein stabilization platform to develop novel therapeutics in cancer and genetic disorders, today announced that Christian Hofmann, Ph.D., has been appointed as the company’s Chief Executive Officer and member of the board of directors.
  • Dr. Hofmann joins Vicinitas from Lycia Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on extracellular protein degradation, where he served as Chief Business Officer.
  • Prior to Genentech, he held business development and portfolio management positions of increasing responsibility at several startups and Roche Diagnostics.
  • “I believe that Vicinitas represents an enormous opportunity to help patients by targeting proteins previously considered undruggable, and I look forward to working alongside the company’s world class team.”

Berkeley SkyDeck Joins UC Berkeley’s Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center to Help Launch Berkeley Faculty-Led Startups

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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The inaugural track, created in partnership with the UC Berkeley Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center (LSEC) through LSEC’s new Venture Grant Program, will assist the UC Berkeley faculty-led teams to launch their own biotech and life sciences startup companies.

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  • The inaugural track, created in partnership with the UC Berkeley Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Center (LSEC) through LSEC’s new Venture Grant Program, will assist the UC Berkeley faculty-led teams to launch their own biotech and life sciences startup companies.
  • The startups will receive investment from the SkyDeck Fund, access to Berkeley SkyDeck’s programming and network, and other critical resources.
  • “Berkeley LSEC and Berkeley SkyDeck share the same goals: to amplify and accelerate the growth of companies with world-changing potential.
  • “UC Berkeley has built a reputation for being a top entrepreneurship school globally, and both Berkeley SkyDeck and LSEC have already significantly contributed to that reputation.

TerraScale Inc. Announces it is an Official Authorized Reseller for Equinix, The World's Digital Infrastructure Company™

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Saturday, April 29, 2023
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 28, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TerraScale Inc. announced today that it has been named authorized reseller for Equinix Inc. the world's digital infrastructure company™. Equinix boasts over 240 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers with an ecosystem of 10,000+ companies including 55%+ of Fortune 500. With the most peers, the most markets and the most traffic, Equinix Internet Exchange® spans over 35 peering exchange points around the globe with traffic peaks that exceed 10 terabits per second (Tbps).

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  • Equinix boasts over 240 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers with an ecosystem of 10,000+ companies including 55%+ of Fortune 500.
  • TerraScale became an authorized reseller for Equinix due to its green infrastructure projects in the United States and Japan and other international markets.
  • I look forward to working with TerraScale to reduce our carbon footprint and create a sustainable future for generations to come."
  • Additionally, as renewable fuel production gains traction, they will play an increasingly important role as reliable backup options.

BRG Launches Digital Economy and Platform Markets Practice

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Thursday, April 27, 2023
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EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the digital transformation sweeps through the traditional economy, global expert services and consulting firm Berkeley Research Group (BRG) announced today that it has launched a Digital Economy and Platform Markets practice composed of the world's foremost digital economy and platform markets experts.

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  • EMERYVILLE, Calif., April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As the digital transformation sweeps through the traditional economy, global expert services and consulting firm Berkeley Research Group (BRG) announced today that it has launched a Digital Economy and Platform Markets practice composed of the world's foremost digital economy and platform markets experts.
  • Led by Dr. David Evans , one of the top testifying experts on matters involving the digital economy and platform markets, the practice will work with the world's leading law firms, advise digital businesses and work with international and US government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice.
  • Dr. Rosa (Romy) Abrantes-Metz and Dr. Richard Schmalensee , top experts in platform economics, and digital businesses, will join the group alongside Evans.
  • "To resolve these disputes, global businesses will need a diverse group of future-looking digital economy experts and leading-edge data analytics capabilities.

Arize AI Debuts Phoenix, the First Open Source Library for Evaluating Large Language Models

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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BERKELEY, Calif., April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arize AI, a market leader in machine learning observability, debuted deeper support on the Arize platform for generative AI and a first-of-its-kind open source observability library for evaluating large language models (LLMs) at its Arize:Observe 2023 summit.

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  • BERKELEY, Calif., April 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Arize AI, a market leader in machine learning observability, debuted deeper support on the Arize platform for generative AI and a first-of-its-kind open source observability library for evaluating large language models (LLMs) at its Arize:Observe 2023 summit.
  • On the other hand, most leading large language models are black boxes that have known issues around hallucination and problematic biases.
  • Available today, Arize Phoenix is the first open source observability library specifically built to help data scientists evaluate outputs from LLMs like OpenAI's GPT-4, Google's Bard, Anthropic's Claude, and others.
  • "Despite calls to halt AI development, the reality is that innovation will continue to accelerate," said Jason Lopatecki, CEO and Co-Founder of Arize AI.

Business and Academia Leaders Join to Host Inaugural Blockchain Research Symposium

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Thursday, April 20, 2023
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ByteTrade Lab , infrastructure provider for the decentralized and user-controlled web, has partnered with the University of Texas-Austin, Blockchain Initiative to host the inaugural Blockchain Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at the University of Texas-Austin’s Mulva Auditorium.

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  • ByteTrade Lab , infrastructure provider for the decentralized and user-controlled web, has partnered with the University of Texas-Austin, Blockchain Initiative to host the inaugural Blockchain Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at the University of Texas-Austin’s Mulva Auditorium.
  • The day-long academic conference with top researchers in Blockchain technology and Web 3.0 aims to bring together builders, developers and industry leaders who are driving the creation and adoption of Blockchain.
  • “Our goal for the Blockchain Research Symposium is to bring together bright Blockchain enthusiasts working on the development of the next era of the internet,” said ByteTrade Labs CEO Dr. Lucas Lu.
  • “For Bytetrade Lab, that is building infrastructure for Web3 and enabling users to control their own data.

Santa Cruz County Bank Hires Michael Davis Luong

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Cruz County Bank (OTCQX: SCZC), today announced Michael Davis Luong has joined the bank as Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager for the Bank's Silicon Valley region.

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  • SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Cruz County Bank (OTCQX: SCZC), today announced Michael Davis Luong has joined the bank as Vice President and Senior Relationship Manager for the Bank's Silicon Valley region.
  • Mr. Luong served as Commercial Real Estate Relationship Manager for Meriwest Credit Union and as First Vice President and Regional Sales Manager of Northern California for CTBC Bank Corporation.
  • Mr. Luong obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Comparative Corporate Management from University of California, Berkeley.
  • Jon Sisk, Executive Vice President and Chief Banking Officer, remarked, "We are thrilled to welcome Michael to the Bank's Silicon Valley team.

Storyblok partners with UC Berkeley to design the future of digital content

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Storyblok, the content management system (CMS) category leader that empowers both developers and marketing teams to create better content experiences across all digital channels, today announced the results of a design challenge conducted in partnership with UC Berkeley's Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. Students and alumni with backgrounds in areas like human-computer interaction, cognitive science, and mechanical engineering were asked to develop concepts imagining what the future of websites and digital content will look like.

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  • Thirty participants were organized into five teams for a two-day design sprint guided by Jacobs design instructors Kuan-Ju Wu and Chris Myers .
  • "In this design challenge, we embarked on a journey to explore what the future holds for digital content and our relationship with it.
  • Storyblok was built to be a future-proof CMS that's ready for whatever the future may bring, so we thought it would be interesting to partner with UC Berkeley to get an early look at the future of digital content.
  • We look forward to the time when these concepts become a reality," said Dominik Angerer, Co-Founder and CEO of Storyblok.

Inaugural Confidential Computing Summit Features Advancements in Data Privacy, Confidential Computing and Data Clean Rooms

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Opaque Systems, the pioneers of secure multi-party analytics and AI for Confidential Computing, and the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), today announced the keynote speakers for the inaugural Confidential Computing Summit, which is set to take place in San Francisco on June 29, 2023. Most notably, the Summit features speakers from major organizations leading breakthrough innovations in data privacy, confidential computing and data clean rooms.

Key Points: 
  • Most notably, the Summit features speakers from major organizations leading breakthrough innovations in data privacy, confidential computing and data clean rooms.
  • The Summit attendees will hear from leading experts in data privacy, private multi-party analytics, confidential computing cloud platforms and confidential data use cases including Microsoft Azure, Intel, VMware, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Opaque Systems, Anjuna, Fortanix, and more.
  • Keynotes and speaker highlights include:
    State of the Confidential Computing Market – Raluca Ada Popa, Assoc.
  • Confidential Computing provides a solution using TEEs or 'enclaves' that encrypt data during computation, isolating it from access, exposure and threats.

GreaterHeat's Accelerator-Asia Paves the Way for Decentralized Enterprise Storage on Filecoin at Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023

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Monday, April 17, 2023
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Singapore, April 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GreaterHeat, a Singapore-based Web3 infrastructure provider, announced the launch of the Decentralized Storage Providers Accelerator-Asia (DSPA-Asia) at the highly anticipated Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023.

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  • Singapore, April 17, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GreaterHeat, a Singapore-based Web3 infrastructure provider, announced the launch of the Decentralized Storage Providers Accelerator-Asia (DSPA-Asia) at the highly anticipated Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023.
  • DSPA-Asia is a business incubator designed to empower Asia Web3 storage businesses to learn, grow, and thrive.
  • GreaterHeat's Chairman and CEO, David Li, has announced that the company's top priority for 2023 is to provide Web3 decentralized cloud storage solutions to businesses and individuals.
  • Since 2022, GreaterHeat has successfully delivered decentralized Web3 cloud storage solutions to US, Canadian, and European companies using Filecoin, the world’s largest decentralized storage network.