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SRM Entertainment Strengthens Product Design Team with Michael Clarida

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Monday, March 18, 2024
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JUPITER, FL, March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SRM Entertainment, Inc., (Nasdaq: SRM) (the “Company” or “SRM”) announced today that Michael Clarida, a visually creative and result oriented specialist with over 25 years of marketplace experience, will lead SRM’s Product Design Team. With extensive experience in product design, toy design, 2D and 3D concepts, apparel, fashion, as well as production spec-pacs, Mr. Clarida has a successful track record of helping to bring the magical inspirations of developers and creatives to life.

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  • Extensive Experience in Product Design, Toy Design, 2D and 3D Concepts
    JUPITER, FL, March 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SRM Entertainment, Inc. , (Nasdaq: SRM) (the “Company” or “SRM”) announced today that Michael Clarida, a visually creative and result oriented specialist with over 25 years of marketplace experience, will lead SRM’s Product Design Team.
  • With extensive experience in product design, toy design, 2D and 3D concepts, apparel, fashion, as well as production spec-pacs, Mr. Clarida has a successful track record of helping to bring the magical inspirations of developers and creatives to life.
  • Mr. Clarida continually discovers new ways of stretching the boundaries of digital storytelling, scuplting and design that allow unique brands and concepts to stand out.
  • “SRM is building a strong design team dedicated to bringing innovative product concepts to life for theme park customers worldwide.

Introducing TigerEye: AI-Powered Strategic Planning and Performance

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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TigerEye was founded with a clear mission: to help companies with the best products win through strategic planning and predictable growth.

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  • TigerEye was founded with a clear mission: to help companies with the best products win through strategic planning and predictable growth.
  • The platform simplifies team expansion and ramp-up time planning, key for sales planning to ensure optimal resource allocation and preparedness.
  • TigerEye will connect with customers’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) to understand spend and simulate the budget required for planning scenarios.
  • A new beta launching soon with NetSuite will bridge the gap between customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning systems and unify strategic and financial planning on a single platform to resolve the challenges of fragmented planning and execution.

NTT to Host Upgrade 2024 Global Research & Innovation Summit

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced plans to hold Upgrade 2024 , NTT’s Global Research & Innovation Summit, on April 10-11, 2024.

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  • NTT Research, Inc. , a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced plans to hold Upgrade 2024 , NTT’s Global Research & Innovation Summit, on April 10-11, 2024.
  • Day 2 (April 11) of Upgrade 2024 will kick-off at the Metreon with remarks by NTT Research President Gomi.
  • The second, on basic research, features NTT Venture Capital (VC) Founding Partner Vab Goel, NTT Senior Executive Vice President CTO Katsuhiko Kawazoe and NTT Research President Gomi.
  • NTT Research invites business leaders, students, academics, researchers and journalists to attend, as well as NTT customers, employees, partners and stakeholders.

Ahead of World Backup Day, Remember That Backups Are Not Just an Annual Event, Says eMazzanti President Carl Mazzanti

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Friday, March 29, 2024
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HOBOKEN, N.J., March 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- On March 31, World Backup Day reminds us to regularly back up our digital data. "Due to increasing Cyber Attacks, organizations should back up, or copy, their digital data frequently to protect against cyber threats," advises Carl Mazzanti, President of eMazzanti Technologies. "IT support providers can create affordable cloud backup and other solutions to prevent data loss from errors, disasters, or Cyber Attacks," he explains.

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  • HOBOKEN, N.J., March 29, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- On March 31, World Backup Day reminds us to regularly back up our digital data.
  • "Due to increasing Cyber Attacks, organizations should back up, or copy, their digital data frequently to protect against cyber threats," advises Carl Mazzanti, President of eMazzanti Technologies .
  • "IT support providers can create affordable cloud backup and other solutions to prevent data loss from errors, disasters, or Cyber Attacks," he explains.
  • "Talk to your Cyber Security partner to find the best backup options for your systems," advises Mazzanti.

Disney Destiny Will Bring Stories of Legendary Disney Heroes and Villains to Life

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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CELEBRATION, Fla., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Disney Cruise Line revealed the first details about its next ship, the Disney Destiny, as it reached a new construction milestone today with a keel laying ceremony at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. With the good luck garnered by this maritime tradition, this ship of legends and lore is beginning to take shape.

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  • The design theme of the Disney Destiny, sister to the Disney Wish and Disney Treasure, will be "Heroes and Villains," drawing on the legacy of beloved Disney stories, characters and theme park attractions, to forge a cruise vacation that will empower guests to embrace their own calling aboard every unforgettable voyage.
  • The Disney Cruise Line and Walt Disney Imagineering teams were inspired by the dynamic duality of every great Disney story, where opposing forces of light and dark drive characters to rise to their purpose, when developing the Disney Destiny.
  • To embody and embolden the theme, Disney also unveiled brand-new filigree artwork for the bow of the Disney Destiny, continuing a beloved Disney Cruise Line design tradition.
  • "The Disney Destiny will celebrate our most legendary Disney stories and characters, bringing them to life in new and exciting ways exclusively for Disney Cruise Line guests," said Sharon Siskie, senior vice president and general manager, Disney Cruise Line.

Alliance for OpenUSD Launches Materials & Geometry Working Groups, Forms New Liaison Relationship

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), an organization dedicated to fostering the standardization, development, evolution, and growth of Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), today announced the formation of a new Materials Working Group, a new Geometry Working Group, and a new collaboration with the Academy Software Foundation (ASWF), as well as 8 new members.

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  • Standardizing material definitions within OpenUSD will facilitate seamless collaboration for look development across multiple tools, applications, and renderers.
  • New Geometry Working Group to Standardize USD Surfaces, Shapes, and Volumes for Virtual & Physical Worlds
    Building upon ongoing work in the Core Specification Working Group, the new Geometry Working Group will draft specifications for describing surfaces, shapes, and volumes in USD for both virtual and physical worlds.
  • All of these areas are critical to formalizing OpenUSD geometry specifications across industries.
  • AOUSD working groups will collaborate with ASWF USD working groups on OpenUSD and on material interchange through ASWF's MaterialX project.

See the Future at GTC 2024: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang to Unveil Latest Breakthroughs in Accelerated Computing, Generative AI and Robotics

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
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NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the keynote from the SAP Center on Monday, March 18, at 1 p.m. Pacific time.

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  • NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the keynote from the SAP Center on Monday, March 18, at 1 p.m. Pacific time.
  • Since Huang first highlighted machine learning in his 2014 GTC keynote , NVIDIA has been at the forefront of the AI revolution.
  • “Generative AI has moved to center stage as governments, industries and organizations everywhere look to harness its transformative capabilities,” Huang said.
  • From generative AI to robotics to automotive, GTC attendees can interact with dozens of state-of-the-art demos, see the latest autonomous vehicle technology and explore how generative AI will impact virtually every industry.

'SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE' SCORES BEST FEATURE ANNIE ALONG WITH SIX OTHER CATEGORIES AT THE 51ST ANNIE AWARDS™

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Sunday, February 18, 2024
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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won Best Feature honors at the 51st Annie Awards™ celebration Saturday night on the campus of UCLA.

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  • LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Pictures Animation's Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won Best Feature honors at the 51st Annie Awards™ celebration Saturday night on the campus of UCLA.
  • Best Independent Feature was presented to Robot Dreams (Arcadia Motion Pictures).
  • Best Special Production was presented to Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie (Wildbrain Studios in association with Apple), Best Short Subject was presented to WAR IS OVER!
  • Best Character Animation – Feature went to The Boy and the Heron (Studio Ghibli Distributed by GKIDS) and Best Character Animation – Live Action was presented to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

Visionary Data Value Futurist Michael Clark Joins DrumWave's Advisory Board to Advance the Data Ownership Rights Movement

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Thursday, February 15, 2024
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- DrumWave, a high-tech company that is designing and developing the rails for the new data economy, today announced the appointment of Michael Clark as the newest member of its global advisory board. Clark, who currently serves as the Head of Global Digital Transformation and Futurist at Mastercard based in Dubai, will add his visionary insights and strategic acumen to help DrumWave achieve its pioneering 2024 roadmap.

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  • The company's input has been influential in crafting the world's first framework (the Data Empowerment Law in Brazil) to grant people data ownership rights.
  • With the advent of data ownership rights, the future will be formed by ground-breaking business and technology developments," said Clark.
  • Michael Clark 's visionary insights are helping to redefine the value and data landscape and have established him as a go-to authority on the emerging data economy.
  • Clark has previously served in strategic advisory roles for numerous global financial institutions and established fintechs around the world.

Crown Institute Partners With Pixar to Launch Learning App for Children Based on Disney and Pixar’s Animated Film Inside Out

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Tuesday, February 13, 2024
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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240213879095/en/
    The Renée Crown Wellness Institute partners with Pixar to launch learning app for children based on Disney and Pixar's animated film Inside Out.
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    InsideU was collaboratively designed with youth using unique characters and narratives from Pixar’s Inside Out.
  • While playing the app, children meet the “Mind Worker” who guides them through the program and helps them to understand their emotions.
  • That film nearly a decade ago had an impact on Dr. Sam Hubley, a psychologist and researcher at the Crown Institute.