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Sustain SoCal to Host Groundbreaking Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Event on Feb. 20

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Friday, February 9, 2024

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via InvestorWire -- Sustain Southern California (“Sustain SoCal”) is excited to announce the upcoming Innovating toward Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems event, scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.

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  • NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Feb. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via InvestorWire -- Sustain Southern California (“Sustain SoCal”) is excited to announce the upcoming Innovating toward Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems event, scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024.
  • The event will take place in person at UCI Beall Applied Innovation, located at 5270 California Ave, Irvine, CA 92617.
  • Bringing together years of sustainability experience as well as renowned experts in the innovative agriculture space, this event promises to be a can’t-miss gathering for those interested in sustainable food, farming and the future of agriculture.
  • This is a must-attend event for everyone, especially in Southern California and beyond.”
    For more information and registration details, visit:

Neurona Therapeutics Raises $120M to Advance Groundbreaking Pipeline of Regenerative Cell Therapy Candidates for Chronic Neurological Disorders

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the company’s pipeline of wholly-owned, off-the-shelf cell therapies for multiple indications, including its lead investigational candidate, NRTX-1001.

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  • Proceeds from the financing will be used to advance the company’s pipeline of wholly-owned, off-the-shelf cell therapies for multiple indications, including its lead investigational candidate, NRTX-1001.
  • “Neurona has pioneered development of a fully-differentiated cell therapy for drug-resistant focal epilepsy that is designed to be disease-modifying, repairing the affected neural network, and is yielding very promising initial clinical data.
  • It signifies the conviction that Neurona’s cell therapies have the potential to transform the treatment of previously refractory, devastating neurological disorders.
  • These subjects received a one-time administration of NRTX-1001 as well as temporary immunosuppression to promote the long-term persistence of the cell therapy.

Kou Vue Promoted to Vice President of Operations at BMI

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BMI, a leader in digital conversion technology, is pleased to announce the promotion of Kou Vue to Vice President of Operations. Since joining the company in 2011, Vue has been a cornerstone in BMI's evolution and growth, especially in enhancing the company's digital conversion capabilities.

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  • BMI is pleased to announce that Kou Vue, Production Manager and employee since 2013, has been named Vice President of Operations.
  • SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BMI, a leader in digital conversion technology, is pleased to announce the promotion of Kou Vue to Vice President of Operations.
  • Kou is instrumental in streamlining day-to-day operations and optimizing resource allocation, ensuring that project goals were not only met but often exceeded.
  • Kou's promotion to Vice President of Operations marks a significant milestone in his career and is indicative of BMI's commitment to recognizing and nurturing talent within its ranks.

Leading Neuroscientists Bring Elemind Out of Stealth, Close $12 Million Seed Round for AI-enhanced Neurotech Wearable

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Elemind , the new AI-enhanced neurotech health company, emerged from stealth today, closing a $12M Seed round to further develop its first product ahead of its reveal in the coming months.

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  • Elemind , the new AI-enhanced neurotech health company, emerged from stealth today, closing a $12M Seed round to further develop its first product ahead of its reveal in the coming months.
  • The company’s wearable neurotechnology reads individual brainwaves and guides them in real-time by responding with tailored stimulation.
  • The company partnered with multiple leading research institutions to validate the technology and build applications for it.
  • Clinical trials also demonstrate Elemind is effective at increasing pain thresholds and enhancing sedation ; this study is currently in peer review.

Anne Belinn Joins Alliant Insurance Services’ Employee Benefits Group

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Anne Belinn has joined Alliant Insurance Services as a Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group .

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  • Anne Belinn has joined Alliant Insurance Services as a Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group .
  • Based in the Bay Area, Belinn will provide employee benefits consulting to a wide variety of clients across the nation.
  • “Anne’s niche is helping growing start-ups, mid-sized, and larger mid-sized employers recruit and retain the best talent,” said Kevin Overbey, President, Alliant Employee Benefits.
  • Prior to joining Alliant, Belinn had a lengthy tenure as a Senior Vice President and Partner of a large consulting firm.

Fascination, persistence and optimism: how Fei-Fei Li helped shape the AI revolution in a field dominated by alpha males

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

One of the key figures in this, as a contributor to both the science and the debate, is Fei-Fei Li, Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, and co-director of AI4All, a non-profit organisation promoting diversity and inclusion in the field of AI.

Key Points: 
  • One of the key figures in this, as a contributor to both the science and the debate, is Fei-Fei Li, Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, and co-director of AI4All, a non-profit organisation promoting diversity and inclusion in the field of AI.
  • One thread is the coming-of-age of the science of AI; the other is an account of her own coming-of-age as a scientist.
  • The personal dimension came to the fore, she says, after what was initially a “very nerdy book” was given the thumbs-down by a colleague.

Matter becomes mind

  • Her academically trained maternal grandparents found themselves on the wrong side of history during the Cultural Revolution.
  • He was, says Li, the kind of parent a child might design for themselves if left to their own devices.
  • Throughout The Worlds I See, Li reflects on the influence of this parental binary on her advancing career as a scientist.
  • Without her father’s childlike capacity to pay total attention to random phenomena, her research might never have found its innovative path.
  • Her own audacious question – “what is vision about?” – came into focus by degrees.
  • For someone given to describing her enterprise in terms of revelation and revolution, her actual research on vision seems anything but visionary.
  • Matter somehow becomes mind.”

    Read more:
    AI is our ‘Promethean fire': using it wisely means knowing its true nature – and our own minds

What is data?

  • She becomes convinced that the principle can be applied to machine learning.
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk escalated the scale and speed of their research as categories multiplied, from the original ten to thirty, a hundred, a thousand.
  • For Li, the apparently humdrum conviction that learning should be driven by data rather than algorithms arrives as “a moment of epiphany”.
  • Digital agents scan diverse areas of data and exchange what they have learned to generate more sophisticated modes of correlation.

Distributed intelligence

  • Distributed intelligence means distributed opportunities to participate in the co-evolution of human and machine intelligence.
  • Big science and high technology cease to be the exclusive preserve of specialists whose modes of knowledge are beyond the understanding of ordinary people.
  • It is the dedicated school teacher, Li says, who is the real emblem of the future in human technology.
  • She completed high school while supplementing the family income with a $2 an hour job in a Chinese restaurant.
  • Her exams at Princeton were done by special arrangement at the hospital clinic where her mother was undergoing surgery for a deteriorating cardiovascular condition.
  • If Li’s efforts can be seen as a feminist enterprise, it is perhaps because the field in which she works is dominated by male celebrities, who persist in seeing the future as a Darwinian struggle between human and machine intelligence.
  • If there is an overriding theme in The Worlds I See, it is that human and artificial intelligence form a double helix.


Jane Goodall does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Web Real Time Communication (webRTC) Market to grow by USD 66.58 billion from 2022-2027, Increasing adoption of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) to be a major trend - Technavio

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Monday, February 5, 2024

NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The global web real-time communication (webRTC) market size is estimated to grow by USD 66.58 billion from 2022 to 2027, according to Technavio.

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  • NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The global web real-time communication (webRTC) market size is estimated to grow by USD 66.58 billion from 2022 to 2027, according to Technavio.
  • The primary trend driving the Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) market growth is the increasing adoption of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies.
  • Anthology- The company offers web real-time communication solutions under the brand, Blackboard Inc.
    Apple- The company offers web real-time communication solutions such as Apple Safari WebRTC.
  • Global Web Application Firewall Market size is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 18.76% between 2022 and 2027.

Element to Present Data on New Products and Multi-Omics Capabilities at AGBT

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Monday, February 5, 2024

Never before have so many data points been available to researchers at this cost and speed.

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  • Never before have so many data points been available to researchers at this cost and speed.
  • Cloudbreak UltraQ is the industry's first commercial Q50 kit capable of generating 100-fold higher accuracy than currently available published specifications.
  • Trinity is Element's on-board enrichment solution that simplifies targeted sequencing, to provide users with a new level of convenience, flexibility, and performance.
  • AVITI24 streamlines these studies and data collection to enable rapid recursive learning with broad applications across systems biology.

ExaBITS Raises Oversubscribed Round Addressing GPU Shortage in AI

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Friday, February 2, 2024

Oversubscribed Pre-Seed Round

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  • San Francisco, California--(Newsfile Corp. - February 2, 2024) - ExaBITS.ai , a pioneer in the decentralized cloud computing space for AI, is pleased to announce the closing of its oversubscribed pre-seed round.
  • The funding will enable the team to scale the GPU optimization technology to address the shortage of resources that has left AI companies in limbo waiting for available compute or paying inflated rates.
  • As ExaBITS advances in the decentralized computing domain, they invite forward-thinking organizations, AI developers, and GPU owners to join the mission.
  • For those who share the vision of democratizing building and shaping the future of the space, ExaBITS welcomes users to join the new revolution in AI.

Greater Sacramento Economic Council Leads Historic International Delegation Trip to Germany

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Thursday, February 1, 2024

Sacramento, CA, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SACRAMENTO, CA - The Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC) is thrilled to announce its international delegation trip to Germany on Feb. 5 as part of the council’s strategic expansion into the global market.

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  • Sacramento, CA, Feb. 01, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SACRAMENTO, CA - The Greater Sacramento Economic Council (GSEC) is thrilled to announce its international delegation trip to Germany on Feb. 5 as part of the council’s strategic expansion into the global market.
  • This trip signifies a pivotal step in fostering international collaborations for the Sacramento region and partnership with international companies.
  • GSEC is leading a distinguished delegation of more than 20 leaders representing the Sacramento region, including university higher education leaders, elected leaders from Placer County, Roseville and Rocklin as well as representatives from the Sacramento International Airport (SMF) .
  • “These companies open doors, foster collaborations, and position Sacramento as a global player in economic development as we continue to attract and recruit companies to the state capital region.”
    In November GSEC unveiled their new international initiative, ‘Globalizing Greater Sacramento’ to expand international business opportunities and enhance direct air services to the Greater Sacramento region.