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Ibro Muharemovic Appointed Head of Autonomous Mobility, Continental North America

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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Technology company Continental has named Ibro Muharemovic as the Head of Autonomous Mobility in North America, effective January 1, 2024.

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  • Technology company Continental has named Ibro Muharemovic as the Head of Autonomous Mobility in North America, effective January 1, 2024.
  • In this pivotal role, Muharemovic will lead the advancement of innovative autonomous driving technologies, a key area in shaping the future of mobility and transportation.
  • “We are proud to name Ibro as head of Autonomous Mobility in North America,” said Aruna Anand, President and CEO, Continental Automotive, North America.
  • In September, Continental celebrated its first anniversary of the Autonomous Mobility manufacturing plant in New Braunfels, Texas.

VISIE™ Inc. Adds Powerhouse Medtech Veterans to Board & Leadership Team to Support Next Phase of Growth

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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Adds Medtech Veterans to Board and Leadership Team: Addie Harris (left), Ashley Libby Diaz, PT, MBA (middle), and Michael Landry (right) (Photo: Business Wire)

Key Points: 
  • Adds Medtech Veterans to Board and Leadership Team: Addie Harris (left), Ashley Libby Diaz, PT, MBA (middle), and Michael Landry (right) (Photo: Business Wire)
    Addie Harris brings a robust history of entrepreneurship in medtech, medical devices, and robotics to the VISIE board.
  • Ashley Libby Diaz, VISIE’s new Head of Marketing, brings 25-plus years of healthcare, medtech, and medical device experience to the organization.
  • “I am thrilled to add such talented and experienced individuals to our board and leadership team.
  • The company has entered a phase of growth the likes of which I have not seen before.

SpruceID Hires Leading Digital Identity Experts Wei Sun and David Kelts, Expanding Executive Leadership

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- SpruceID today announced the hiring of Wei Sun as the VP, Head of Engineering and David Kelts as the Director, Head of Credible Platform. The two will support the SpruceID team in helping to improve access to secure digital identity verification for the future.

Key Points: 
  • The two will support the SpruceID team in helping to improve access to secure digital identity verification for the future.
  • Wei Sun is an experienced executive with deep expertise in transforming tech knowledge, product vision, and customer needs into successful engineering solutions.
  • David brings 20 years of experience in the digital identity space with a focus on real-life mobile driver's license implementations and identity architectures.
  • SpruceID has raised $41.5 million in venture capital funding from leading investors and industry experts such as Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and Okta Ventures.

Splashtop and Canopy Partner to Bring Enhanced Remote Management for IoT Devices

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

As businesses continue to develop and deploy unique hardware solutions, Canopy and Splashtop's partnership provides a timely solution to meet the growing need for comprehensive remote access, support, and management of IoT devices.

Key Points: 
  • As businesses continue to develop and deploy unique hardware solutions, Canopy and Splashtop's partnership provides a timely solution to meet the growing need for comprehensive remote access, support, and management of IoT devices.
  • The synergy between Splashtop and Canopy ensures customers enjoy seamless, swift, and secure access to unattended devices for efficient remote troubleshooting.
  • Industry-Leading IoT Focus: The integration of Splashtop's remote access and support technology into Canopy's specialized RMM platform brings a unique solution to the growing IoT sector that enables powerful remote management of devices in the field.
  • Splashtop remote access and support features are now available across all Canopy license plans including Starter, Advanced, and Premier.

A Splash of Sustainability: Hope Hydration and Wollman Park Partners Quench Central Park

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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Dave Tigue, HOPE Hydration Co-Founder and Head of Engineering, remarked, "Teaming up with Wollman Park Partners to install our HydroStation in Central Park is a significant step in bringing our innovative technology, free water, and sustainability to the communities we care about.

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  • Dave Tigue, HOPE Hydration Co-Founder and Head of Engineering, remarked, "Teaming up with Wollman Park Partners to install our HydroStation in Central Park is a significant step in bringing our innovative technology, free water, and sustainability to the communities we care about.
  • HOPE Hydration and Wollman Park Partners are dedicated to implementing innovative solutions in public parks that enrich the community while promoting sustainable living.
  • "Wollman Rink and Wollman Park Partners (WPP) are excited to partner with HOPE Hydration to offer our guests a sustainable alternative to single-use plastic water bottles," said Bret Pidgeon, General Manager of Wollman Rink.
  • "This partnership with HOPE Hydration exemplifies our shared vision of creating innovative solutions to make fundamental life necessities more accessible."

OCSF Celebrates First Anniversary with the Launch of a New Open Data Schema

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Security solutions that utilize the OCSF schema produce data in the same consistent format, so security teams can save time and effort on normalizing the data and get to analyzing it sooner, accelerating time-to-detection.

Key Points: 
  • Security solutions that utilize the OCSF schema produce data in the same consistent format, so security teams can save time and effort on normalizing the data and get to analyzing it sooner, accelerating time-to-detection.
  • Additionally, a growing number of Fortune 500 enterprises and public sector agencies have adopted the OCSF schema for internal use.
  • "The OCSF open framework removes a long-standing obstacle to data exchange that has plagued the security industry for years," said Paul Agbabian, vice-president of security technology leadership at Splunk.
  • “Without a common language, organizations have to analyze security-relevant telemetry and log data using multiple tools, technologies, and vendors.

Golden Gate Ventures Doubles Down on Locofy.ai Investment to Accelerate Go-to-Market for Startups and Enterprises

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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

SINGAPORE, May 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Gate Ventures, a venture capital fund in Southeast Asia (SEA) founded by Silicon Valley natives, has injected a second round of investment into Locofy.ai, a platform that converts graphic designs into working code with AI. Other investors joined the round, including experienced SME technopreneurs from Dropbox, Lottiefiles and Zopim. The US$4.25m investment is one of SEA's largest pre-seed rounds into an AI startup.

Key Points: 
  • Golden Gate Ventures first spotted Locofy.ai's potential early on, identifying the startup's ability to tap into the ever-growing low-code platform market and participating in Locofy.ai's first institutional investment round in 2021.
  • Being FirstIN enables us to help founders ahead of anyone else and yields higher returns for our investors," said Vinnie Lauria, Founding Partner at Golden Gate Ventures.
  • Locofy.ai is one of several strategic AI investments Golden Gate Ventures has made even before the AI fever caught on in the region.
  • The cross-section of users encompassing developers, enterprises, startups, freelancers and student communities already demonstrates its stickiness and ability to integrate seamlessly with other tools," said Justin Hall, Partner at Golden Gate Ventures.

RCM Energy Services Announces the Opening of its New Operation Centre in Germany

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Monday, May 15, 2023

RCM Technologies is proud to announce the opening of the RCM Energy Services Operation Centre in Eschborn / Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Key Points: 
  • RCM Technologies is proud to announce the opening of the RCM Energy Services Operation Centre in Eschborn / Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • The RCM Energy Services team will leverage their established Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) model to serve European clients through the evolution of infrastructure upgrades.
  • Stefan Patz, a highly regarded energy professional, has been appointed General Manager of RCM Energy Services’ operations in Germany.
  • The RCM Energy Services team is passionate about making an impact for our communities and clients as the world moves toward a carbon neutral future.

BNY Mellon's Pershing X Collaborates with Snowflake to Power its Data and Analytics

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Monday, April 10, 2023

NEW YORK, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY Mellon's Pershing X, a technology provider and business unit of BNY Mellon | Pershing (NYSE: BK), and Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, have announced they will bring the Snowflake Data Cloud to Pershing X's suite of data offerings for clients.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY Mellon's Pershing X, a technology provider and business unit of BNY Mellon | Pershing (NYSE: BK), and Snowflake , the Data Cloud company, have announced they will bring the Snowflake Data Cloud to Pershing X's suite of data offerings for clients.
  • Through the Snowflake Financial Services Data Cloud, Pershing X will help clients access their data faster, as well as collect, manage and report their data more efficiently.
  • "Pershing X is working to increase productivity in the financial services industry," said Ainslie Simmonds, President, Pershing X.
  • "We believe the combined power of Snowflake and Pershing X will provide wealth management firms with the data and speed to cultivate better client-advisor relationships."

Head of Engineering at Boll Engineering AG to keynote at Women in CyberSecurity conference

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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

DENVER, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sylvia Schlaphof, head of Engineering and member of the executive board at Boll Engineering AG will deliver a keynote at the WiCyS conference, March 16 to 18 in Denver, Colorado.

Key Points: 
  • Sylvia Schlaphof, head of Engineering and member of the executive board at Boll Engineering AG will deliver a keynote at the WiCyS conference (WiCyS), March 16 to 18 in Denver, Colorado.
  • DENVER, March 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sylvia Schlaphof, head of Engineering and member of the executive board at Boll Engineering AG will deliver a keynote at the WiCyS conference, March 16 to 18 in Denver, Colorado.
  • In 2003, she joined the IT distributor Boll Engineering AG as a security systems engineer.
  • During her 20 years at Boll Engineering AG, she has always made it a point to share her knowledge by training other cybersecurity professionals at the company's training center.