SHENZHEN, China, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — At the Huawei Global Analyst Summit 2022 on April 27, Huawei Cloud delivered a session “Dive into Digital with Everything as a Service”, introducing its 2021 business progress, and announced the plan to increase investment in Everything as a Service.
Huawei Cloud released its innovation achievements and service plans at HAS 2022. Here are a few highlights:
1 Strategy
Jacqueline Shi, President of Huawei Cloud’s Global Marketing and Sales Service, said that in 2021, Huawei Cloud maintained rapid growth and continuous breakthroughs, with 59% more key customers, 33% more ARPU, and a 105% increase in Marketplace transaction volumes. For 2022, Huawei Cloud will deepen the strategy of “Dive into Digital with Everything as a Service”: Infrastructure as a Service for global accessibility, Technology as a Service for easy innovation, Expertise as a Service for shared excellence.
2 Tracks
Huawei Cloud made continuous breakthroughs in the Internet and enterprise sectors. Its tech innovation and cloud-cloud collaboration serve 80% of China’s top 50 Internet companies, helping them achieve high-quality growth. Synergy between Huawei Cloud and Huawei Cloud Stack creates a multi-cloud ecosystem for government organizations and enterprises, meeting the needs in different phases of cloud migration. Huawei Cloud has served over 600 e-government clouds, 6 major banks, all 12 joint-stock commercial banks, and top 5 insurance institutions in China, and 30+ smart airports.
3 Resolutions
In 2021, Huawei Cloud proposed Everything as a Service. In 2022, Huawei Cloud will take this strategy to a new level.
For Expertise as a Service, Huawei Cloud distills extensive experience in joint innovation and digital transformation into MacroVerse aPaaS to tailor innovation to scenarios. Huawei Cloud consults on the three pain points in cloud migration: lack of willingness, methodology, and usability, providing planning of cloud infrastructure, application cloudification, data enablement, and digital transformation to help enterprises embrace an easy, smooth, and effective cloud journey.
4 Pipelines
In terms of Technology as a Service, Huawei Cloud builds MetaStudio for digital content, ModelArts MLOps for AI development, DevCloud for software development, and a pipeline for data governance, enabling SaaS for industries to create greater value on the cloud.
A 50 ms Circle
For Infrastructure as a Service, Huawei Cloud provides KooVerse. Huawei Cloud and partners operate 65 availability zones in 27 geographical regions, covering more than 170 countries and regions. Huawei Cloud will deploy global data centers in 7 regions and 42 key countries, and build new POP nodes, improving network access performance of each service area, and creating cloud coverage that enjoys just 50 ms of latency.
In addition, Huawei Cloud will increase investment in the industry market, and deepen service innovation in fields such as cloud-cloud collaboration, Go-Global, and industrial Internet, providing customers with better technologies and services to help them expand business space.
Looking forward, Huawei Cloud will continue to innovate and work with customers, partners, and developers to capture the potential of “Dive into digital with Everything as a Service”, building the cloud foundation for an intelligent world.
CHICAGO and DUBAI, UAE, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — EVERSANA™, the pioneer of next-generation commercial services to the global life sciences industry, and Vector Pharma FZCO of Dubai UAE, the leading full-service distributor for rare disease, oncology, and highly specialized therapeutics in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkish markets, today announced a strategic partnership to expand services across the Middle East and North African markets.
Together, EVERSANA and Vector Pharma now offer ready-to-deploy commercial services to pharmaceutical companies within the region and commercialization for companies ready to expand product access into these markets.
“Our mission to serve patient needs expands beyond any border. We continually invest in the right mix of infrastructure and expertise to help our clients anywhere,” said Jim Lang, CEO, EVERSANA. “Through this partnership, EVERSANA’s commercialisation solutions are connected to Vector Pharma’s regional expertise to accelerate patient access to important therapies while creating value for life science sponsors.”
Services available through the partnership include consulting, market access, medical communication, pharmacovigilance, and distribution, with additional service expansion in progress.
“We are delighted to start this new partnership with a global leader like EVERSANA,” said Samer Semaan, Managing Director, Vector Pharma. “Our mission to bring innovative therapies to patients in need within our region matches well with EVERSANA’s global ambition. Together patients, partners, and public health will all benefit.”
The partnership with Vector aligns with EVERSANA’s continued global growth, including recent commercialisation partnerships and investments across the European Union and the United Kingdom. Additionally in June 2021, EVERSANA announced the growth of its medical communications and integrated compliance services across 18 European countries and in 10 local languages.
About Vector Pharma FZCO
Vector Pharma was founded in 2019 with the ambition to be the leading full-service distributor for rare diseases, oncology, and highly specialized therapeutics in the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkish markets. As the only Trace certified full-service distributor in the region, Vector has an equal emphasis on patient demand generation through evidence-based medicine, fast track market access solutions, and highest compliance & ethical standards, all this while striving for the best outcomes for patients, prescribers, and partners. Vector Pharma is also a proud founding member of the World Orphan Drug Alliance (WODA) offering its services together with like-minded sister companies in Switzerland, CEE, Russia, and Latin America. More information can be found at www.vectorpharma.me
About EVERSANA™ EVERSANA™ is the leading independent provider of global services to the life sciences industry. The company’s integrated solutions are rooted in the patient experience and span all stages of the product life cycle to deliver long-term, sustainable value for patients, prescribers, channel partners and payers. The company serves more than 500 organizations, including innovative start-ups and established pharmaceutical companies, to advance life sciences solutions for a healthier world. To learn more about EVERSANA, visit eversana.com or connect through LinkedIn and Twitter.
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An initiative by LUX and Wunderman Thompson Singapore gives female-voiced virtual assistants witty clap backs for sexist comments, discouraging harmful behaviours
SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 28 April 2022 – LUX is standing up for virtual voice assistants to highlight the contagious nature of sexist attitudes in a new initiative launched today called ‘Shut up Sexism’ – created in collaboration with creative agency Wunderman Thompson Singapore.
Almost 3 billion people are currently using voice automated software. Research by Brookings[1], a leading non-profit organisation, states that 92.4% of smartphone assistants have traditionally featured female-sounding voices. Furthermore, according to Gartner,[2] people will have more conversations with voice assistants than with their spouses. This form of AI is increasingly a part of our daily life. However, there have been numerous reports of widespread sexist and sometimes abusive language from users.
Shut up Sexism was created to highlight sexist or gender bias behaviour found when engaging with virtual assistants with female voices and names. In a study by the UNESCO (2019) it outlined how virtual assistants responded to verbal abuse.[3] As an example. when a user says ‘‘You are hot”, the replies vary from “How can you tell? You say that to all the virtual assistants” to “Thank You.”
Shut Up Sexism From LUX:
As a brand that aims to empower women to fight against everyday sexism, LUX wants to call out the unquestioned nature of these exchanges and start a conversation about the impact of this kind of casual misogyny hidden in seemingly harmless interactions with tech.
In the new campaign, virtual assistants were designed to automatically respond to demeaning, sexist insults with sassy clap backs. For example, in response to “Shut up”, the hacked assistant might reply, “If I shut up, will you grow up?” or “After you, I insist.” You might even hear a siren noise accompanied by “Attention; the anti-sexist police are on the way.” These comebacks serve as witty reminders of how abuse directed at virtual assistants with female voices (and names) can help stop harmful behaviour in real life. The new responses effectively get the assistants to stand up for themselves, which is one tactic when dealing with abusive situations.[4]
Speaking on behalf of LUX, Severine Vauleon, Global Vice President – LUX at Unilever, said, “The global campaign’s central ideawas triggered by a UNESCO study released earlier this year, in which researchers argue that the way voice assistants are gendered as female is seriously problematic. Our digital assistants typically have female voices and female names, and researchers say this reinforces stereotypes of women as ‘servile’, existing only to do someone else’s bidding.”
LUX collaborated with women from all walks of life to create witty comebacks to the most common sexist insults thrown at the virtual voice assistants. A social experiment was conducted with several families whose virtual assistants were trained to deliver these lines. The clapback routines are easily installed in any virtual assistant and available to everyone globally at bit.ly/luxshutupsexism . The initiative is launched through a video campaign and a collaboration with one of the most influential women: actor and celebrity Yasmine Sabri, who has 18.4 million followers on Instagram.
Yasmine Sabri, a champion of women’s rights across the Middle East said: “Touching upon gender stereotypes and how they originate, there are so many studies on stereotyping and it all starts from ages 5-6. Imagine the child being exposed to sexism at home through virtual assistants. It’s nice to see Lux stand up against sexism and also giving everyone the power to stop casual sexism at home by giving their virtual assistants a voice to speak up; and also trigger important conversations within the home about stopping casual sexist behaviour.”
‘Shut Up Sexism’ will be activated through the video campaign and via influencers. The downloadable anti-sexism routine is available globally and can work with most virtual home assistants. LUX is inviting women and girls to download these clapbacks to stand up against casual sexism in the home, one sassy comeback at a time.
LUX creative agency, Wunderman Thompson Singapore, has created the ‘Shut up Sexism’ campaign to tackle sexism head-on and literally ‘talk back’ to abusers by reaching them in their own homes. The initiative stemmed from the widespread debate around why virtual assistants are programmed to have default female voices and female names.
Marco Versolato, Chief Creative Officer – Unilever at Wunderman Thompson Singapore said, “These virtual assistants are increasingly becoming fixtures of our homes, and part of the family routine. Significantly, most of them speak with women’s voices and have female names. Often, they the virtual assistants are submissive or apologetic in response to insults. This is a sexist issue that needs to be highlighted and called out.
Our campaign will help highlight casual sexism at home. The next time someone insults a virtual assistant, she will answer back – helping call out sexist behaviour and toxic language. We hope that we shall encouraging more debate, discussion, and education around this topic to ensure sexist or abusive behaviour will not happen in the first place.”
LUX Global Initiatives To Inspire Women:
The new activation echoes LUX global initiative. The brand has pledged to inspire 50 million women by 2025 using content, partnerships and activations to help them rise above everyday sexist judgements and express their beauty and femininity unapologetically.
Lux has been celebrating beauty and femininity since 1925. We understand that beauty is a woman’s armour, her source of strength. It is hers to express, unapologetically. We will continue to help women everywhere fight casual sexism at home, in the workplace and in wider society. Lux is committed to impacting 50 million lives by 2025 through content, activations and partnerships.
JUBAIL, Saudi Arabia, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced the Company forged a contract to supply its latest ultra-powerful string inverter SG350HX to a 45.75 MW PV project for Jubail 3A Independent Water Plant (IWP) in Saudi Arabia, meeting the buoyant electricity demand for the desalination plant and supporting Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan.
Saudi Arabia is one of the driest countries in the world and 70% of the residents’ drinking water comes from desalinated seawater. It’s also one of the hottest solar hubs due to ample sunshine, offering a more sustainable option for water desalination when powered by PV.
The Jubail 3A IWP is expected to begin commercial operation in Q4 2022 and will generate 600,000 cubic meters of potable water per day. This operation will greatly contribute to the water demand of millions of households and Saudi Arabian efforts to ensure water security.
As a carbon-free electrical facility, the 45.75 MW PV plant is very high profile. It is located near the Persian Gulf, which is subject to harsh conditions including high heat, high salt spray, and frequent sandstorms. Sungrow’s flagship 1500V string inverter SG320HX to be installed features optimal durability given the IP66 protection capability and C5 anti-corrosion level. In addition, the 670Wp large-format modules (LFM) adopted in the project set more stringent requirements for inverters. The SG320HX is compatible with the LFM as its maximum input current up to 40A per MPPT; thus, allowing considerable yields by leveraging more sunlight resources onsite.
“It’s of great value for all stakeholders that the water desalination project uses the availability of the Saudi Arabia’s solar resources in order to meet the challenges of water sustainability. As part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan, the Jubail 3A IWP PV plant will achieve more zero-carbon contributions,” said Alvin Shi, Managing Director of Sungrow MENA region.
About Sungrow
Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd (“Sungrow”) is the world’s most bankable inverter brand with over 224 GW installed worldwide as of December 2021. Founded in 1997 by University Professor Cao Renxian, Sungrow is a leader in the research and development of solar inverters, with the largest dedicated R&D team in the industry and a broad product portfolio offering PV inverter solutions and energy storage systems for utility-scale, commercial, and residential applications, as well as internationally recognized floating PV plant solutions. With a strong 25-year track record in the PV space, Sungrow products power installations in over 150 countries. Learn more about Sungrow by visiting www.sungrowpower.com.
SHENZHEN, China, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — April 27, during the 19th Huawei Global Analyst Summit, Huawei held a forum titled “Dive into Industrial Digitalization, Creating New Value Together” to address the challenges of digital transformation faced by different industries, such as mining, electric power, port, and highway. Huawei discussed how to innovate ICT infrastructure and integrate digital technologies with industry scenarios, and work with partners to create value for customers and build a prosperous ecosystem.
Chen Banghua, Vice President of Huawei Enterprise Business Group, delivered a keynote speech, saying, “Huawei has set up integrated teams to dive into industries and seek technologies for industries, provide ICT products that adapt to scenarios, and converge a wide range of technologies to develop product portfolios and solutions to facilitate digital transformation in industries.”
Industries have entered a new stage of diving into digitalization, which requires digital infrastructure to be highly secure, reliable, and deterministic with efficient data flow and computing. To further facilitate digital transformation of industries and understand customers’ business requirements, Huawei continues to launch new scenario-specific products and solutions through technological innovation.
Intelligent mining: Huawei innovatively introduces passive optical network technologies to coal mines. At the aggregation layer, passive optical components are used to replace active switches, minimizing the risk of electrical sparks caused by network devices. On the device side, the industry’s first intrinsically safe optical device is launched to build an intrinsically safe industrial optical ring network, improving production efficiency, strengthening safe production and improving the working environment for workers.
High-speed urban rail: Huawei provides a train-to-ground communication solution powered by its highly reliable Wi-Fi 6 series products. An integrated chassis makes this solution easier to install. It provides up to 1.4 Gbit/s bandwidth and 30 ms latency at 160 km/h, enabling real-time service backhaul and ensuring stable operation of urban rail.
Massive edge computing: Huawei solutions also help enterprises quickly process data in real time to meet ever-increasing computing requirements. Traditional equipment rooms at the edge use all kinds of software and hardware devices from different vendors, resulting in complex installation, configuration, and O&M. To address this, Huawei builds hyper-converged data center solutions by applying its All-in-One design philosophy. FusionModule uses a cabinet to replace the traditional power converter, UPS, power control module, and air conditioning unit. FusionCube uses a hyper-converged, out-of-the-box module to integrate computing, storage, network, and security functions, which works immediately after power-on, achieving cloud-edge synergy.
At the same time, Huawei converges a wide range of technologies to develop innovative product portfolios such as data centers, campus networks, wide area networks, and digital sites to adapt to industry scenarios.
Multi-service data center: In online banking, stock trading, and other critical data transactions, in the event of failure in the primary system, it is crucial to ensure fast switchover to backup systems without interrupting services. To address this, Huawei launches the Storage + Optical Connection Coordination solution, which enables storage to quickly detect network jitter, and implements fast I/O handover between the primary and backup systems within 1 second and fast switching of network links within 5 ms. This ensures zero failed transactions in financial services and greatly improves service experience.
Digital sites for smart highways: With industry-leading 5G wireless and millimeter wave technologies, Huawei innovatively develops a next-generation ultra-long-range high-precision radar, which reduces the number of high-speed sensing pole sites by 50%. In addition, Huawei uses its powerful edge computing platform to develop AI-based sensing engine software that forms an innovative intelligent traffic sensing solution of “radar and video fusion”. This further simplifies radar deployment, achieving automatic positioning and optimization with up to 95% precision.
At the Analyst Summit, Huawei shared its industry practices for digital transformation, such as the Mine Team, Electric Power Digitalization Team, Customs & Port Team, and Smart Road Team. Huawei collaborated with partners to dive into the industries faster and more efficiently, focusing on industrial scenarios to facilitate customers’ digital transformation and achieve win-win results.
Global Fishing Watch commends the Republic of Marshall Islands’ leadership toward fisheries transparency
KOROR, THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU, April 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — KOROR, THE REPUBLIC OF PALAU – The Republic of the Marshall Islands has committed to sharing its vessel monitoring data on Global Fishing Watch’s public map, bolstering ocean governance and promoting compliance throughout some of the world’s richest fishing grounds. This momentous decision was announced on April 14, 2022 at the seventh Our Oceans Conference by the Honorable John M. Silk, Minister of Natural Resources and Commerce for the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The declaration marks the first Pacific island nation to make its fishing activity visible to the world.
The partnership agreement was signed between the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) and Global Fishing Watch, symbolizing the two organizations’ dedication to advancing transparency of fishing activities in the Pacific Islands region, home to the world’s most productive tuna fisheries.
All vessels flying the Marshall Islands’ flag and foreign vessels fishing in its fishery waters will appear on Global Fishing Watch’s map through the integration of the government’s vessel monitoring system (VMS) data. These vessels primarily target tropical tuna species of the Western and Central Pacific ocean, which hold environmental, economic and cultural significance across the region’s island nations—around half of the world’s tuna catch comes from these waters.
“There is real value in open data when it comes to monitoring the ocean,” said Glen Joseph, Director of the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority. “By making its fishing activity visible on the Global Fishing Watch map, the Republic of the Marshall Islands is helping demonstrate compliance. We hope the data-led insights complement already existing monitoring, control and surveillance tools to validate what is being reported by flag States and strengthen the way fisheries are managed.”
“Global Fishing Watch is honored to be partnering with the Marshall Islands to build greater transparency of fishing activity in the Pacific,” said Tony Long, chief executive officer of Global Fishing Watch. “This progressive decision will help facilitate accountability and good behavior in the region and support a more sustainable future by strengthening fisheries monitoring.”
“Our partnership with Global Fishing Watch is an important element of our regional commitment to combat IUU fishing,” said the Honorable John Silk, Minister for Natural Resources and Commerce, Republic of the Marshall Islands. “In 2018, Marshall Islands’ President Hilda Heine set out a bold vision of an IUU-free Pacific by 2023. Other Micronesian presidents signed onto that challenge the following year. To achieve this ambitious goal, we must harness innovative technologies to protect our marine resources and the livelihoods of Pacific people.”
Global Fishing Watch uses publicly broadcast automatic identification system data to track close to 70,000 commercial fishing vessels operating globally. Adding VMS data, which is required by many governments, provides an even clearer view of global fishing activity. The data can assist fishers abiding by the rules through faster, more efficient port entry and provide opportunities to implement regulatory and market incentives to reward them.
A country of coral islands and atolls spread out over 750,000 square miles (1.94 million square kilometers) of ocean between Hawaii and the Philippines, the Marshall Islands relies heavily on revenue from the tuna industry–well over one-third of the government’s domestic revenue comes from the tuna sector.
As a member of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and one of eight Parties to the Nauru Agreement, this independent small island developing State recognizes the importance of collaboration to secure sustainable fisheries. Enhanced monitoring and regional solidarity across FFA’s 17 Members has led to a decrease in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing throughout the Pacific, according to a recent quantification study which, in part, used Global Fishing Watch data to examine vessel activity throughout the region’s waters.
MIMRA’s fisheries MCS systems are state-of-the-art, and are backed by the resources of the FFA’s Regional Fisheries Surveillance Centre. Their monitoring systems build on an innovative management approach used by the Parties to the Nauru Agreement that caps regional fishing activity to support conservation and economic goals. With Global Fishing Watch now available to support and complement existing efforts, the Marshall Islands is taking the next step toward embracing fisheries transparency.
“Transparency can help vessel operators publicly demonstrate compliance and show their commitment to implementing relevant conservation measures,” added Tony Long. “We believe the Marshall Islands’ pioneering leadership will encourage other Pacific nations, as well as industry stakeholders, to embrace transparency in support of enhanced ocean governance.”
The Marshall Islands joins a growing group of countries that are already publicly sharing their VMS data through Global Fishing Watch, including Belize, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. Transparency of its fishing activity demonstrates the Marshall Islands’ steadfast commitment towards compliance and will help amplify management and coordination efforts undertaken by the FFA. Global Fishing Watch’s international program to advance ocean governance through greater transparency is made possible with the generous support of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Global Fishing Watch is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea. By creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we aim to enable scientific research and transform the way our ocean is managed. We believe human activity at sea should be public knowledge in order to safeguard the global ocean for the common good of all.
Dr. Yendry Ventura Carmenate, General Manager at Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center and Carlo Logli, Chief Global Affairs Officer at Dante Labs, signed the agreement at the ADSCC premises in Abu Dhabi.
NEW YORK, April 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Dante Labs, a global leader in genomics and precision medicine, is pleased to announce the company has been selected as the genetic testing provider for Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center (ADSCC), the Abu Dhabi-based specialist healthcare center focused on cell therapy and regenerative medicine. In parallel, a joint R&D program has been launched focused on the development of a mRNA vaccine platform to identify individual cancer treatments.
“This collaboration with ADSCC is an important step forward in our strategy to provide the best clinical genetic services now to United Arab Emirates and in the Region. The goal is that partnerships like this will pave the way to a much wider adoption of genomics in additional clinical fields,” said Andrea Riposati, CEO of Dante Labs. “It is clear that the UAE has become a global leader in the field of genomics, and we are pleased to invest in this innovative country.’’
Effective April 18, 2022, Dante has begun providing clinical genetic testing to ADSCC patients covering a wide spectrum of medical specializations and all testing will take place in Dante’s new Dubai laboratory.
“We are very excited and are looking forward to our upcoming collaboration with Dante,” said Dr. Yendry Ventura Carmenate, General Manager at ADSCC. “The combined experience of the professionals at the helm of this collaboration gives us absolute assurance in the success of this very ambitious endeavor. Working together with Dante Labs provides us with an excellent opportunity to further boost the status of United Arab Emirates as the worldwide leader in both genomics and innovative healthcare practices, aimed at the eradication of deadly diseases throughout the world for the greater good of humanity.”
In addition to genomic testing services, Dante and the ADSCC will partner on the launch of an R&D program with a focus on personalized treatments for oncology patients, and eventually the development of cancer vaccines.
“The hope with testing programs like ours with ADSCC is that it will pave the way for wider adoption of genomes in other areas such as R&D and training programs,” said Professor Mattia Capulli, Chief Scientific Officer of Dante Laboratories. “The mRNA technology is extremely promising for infectious diseases. We are convinced that the joint R&D program will deliver solid results in oncology treatments very soon and will lead to new types of vaccines in oncology and other clinical areas.”
About Dante Labs
Dante Labs is a global genomic information company building and commercializing a new class of transformative health and longevity applications based on whole genome sequencing and AI. The Company uses its platform to deliver better patient outcomes from diagnostics to therapeutics with assets including one of the largest private genome databases with research consent, proprietary software designed to unleash the power of genomic data at scale and proprietary processes which enable an industrial approach to genomic sequencing.
About Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center (ADSCC)
Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center (ADSCC) is an Abu Dhabi-based specialist healthcare center focused on cell therapy and regenerative medicine techniques, as well as delivering cutting-edge research on stem cells in the region.
The Center was founded in March 2019 to meet growing domestic and regional demand for highly specialized medical services and treatments. Equipped with the latest technologies, medical devices which are unique to the region, and a team of internationally recognized doctors working hand in hand with researchers, ADSCC is the first of its kind in the UAE.
The Center focuses primarily on harvesting, processing, characterizing and storing cell products for clinical application in both regenerative medicine and hematopoietic transplantation. It aims to streamline and develop new processes related to stem cell therapy and research, in order to both serve our team of doctors’ clinical needs and become a referral center for the region.
GUANGZHOU, China, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — 50 “Trade Bridge” virtual promotion events were held to match suppliers and buyers and boost trade. Selected high-quality products have been displayed on social media via “Discover Canton Fair with Bee and Honey” activities to provide followers with an immersive shopping experience. Millions of customized invitation emails have been sent to regular buyers. According to the Canton Fair, with targeted promotion activities, this session has delivered more outcomes for buyers and suppliers.
Themed Activities Hosted by Bee and Honey Gained Popularity
This session, Bee and Honey, the Canton Fair’s mascots initially introduced in the 130th session, hosted several livestreams on social media. The “Discover Canton Fair with Bee and Honey” activities, a series of virtual promotion events built on last session’s “Bee and Honey Virtual Tour”, have effectively connected suppliers with buyers in real-time. Each of the eight virtual activities attracted over 160,000 views worldwide, with a peak of over 200,000. The eye-catching figures reveal the great appeal of the Canton Fair to global buyers.
Effective matchmaking via targeted online trade promotions
“Trade Bridge” virtual promotion activities have reached 57 countries and regions. To improve interaction efficacy, this session made great preparation based on previous experience and a thorough investigation on the needs of the participants. Each event featured a targeted market, extensive and professional content and global coverage, facilitating active and successful contact between suppliers and buyers. According to the International Communication Department of China Foreign Trade Centre, Canton Fair staff fully investigated the needs of the attendees and sent invitations to all trading delegations in advance. During the events, they made it easy for suppliers and buyers to connect. They also kept track of the participants’ feedback and solved their problems after the events.
According to Maggie Pu, Deputy Director General of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Canton Fair, the continuing success of the session’s online promotion depended on the exhibitors’ and buyers’ recognition and confidence in the Canton Fair, China’s No.1 Fair. Building on the new success, the Fair will continue to optimize services with even better measures and capabilities, contributing more to the new development pattern fueled by domestic and international circulations.
دلهي، الهند، 28 أبريل 2022 /PRNewswire/ — أعلنت شركة Envision Energy اليوم أنها حصلت على طلب توريد توربينات رياح بقدرة 2000 ميجاوات في الهند. وسيتم تسليم 596 توربينًا للرياح، تم تصنيعها جميعًا في مصنع شركة Envision في الهند، بحلول نهاية عام 2023.
وستقوم شركة Envision بتوريد وتشغيل توربينات الرياح المتطورة من طراز EN156/3.3 للمشاريع. وتحتوي التوربينة من طراز EN 156/3.3 على دوّار بطول 156 مترًا – وهو الأكبر في البلاد ويتصل هذا الدوّار بمولد بقدرة 3.3 ميجاوات ويصل ارتفاع المحور إلى 140 مترًا. هذا التصميم مناسب بشكل فريد لزيادة الطاقة التي يتم إنتاجها من أنظمة الرياح المنخفضة السائدة في البلاد.
وقد استثمرت شركة Envision 25 مليون دولار أمريكي لإنشاء مصنع تجميع مركزي بقدرة 1200 ميجاوات في بيون في عام 2018. ولتلبية متطلبات السوق المتزايدة، ستعمل شركة Envision على مضاعفة السعة الحالية. من جانبها ، تقوم شركة Envision أيضًا ببناء مصنع للشفرات في الهند، والذي من المتوقع أن يكتمل بناؤه بحلول الربع الأول من عام 2023.
تعمل مشاريع شركة Envision الحالية في الهند، ومزرعة الرياح في خاجشري بقدرة 198 ميجاوات ومزرعة الرياح في كاجفارد بقدرة 35 ميجاوات وهي مجهزة بتوربينات رياح من طراز EN-131/2.5 ميجاوات، منذ مايو وأكتوبر 2019 على التوالي. وحتى الآن، أنتجت هذه المشاريع أكثر من 1.76 مليار كيلوواط ساعة من الطاقة النظيفة للمنطقة.
يقول آر بي في براساد، رئيس الشركة – منطقة الهند، “تفخر شركة Envision India بالمساهمة في التزام الهند بتحقيق 500 جيجاوات و50% من متطلبات الطاقة من مصادر الطاقة المتجددة بحلول عام 2030. ومع نمو أعمالنا في مجال تخزين طاقة الرياح والطاقة، نتوقع توظيف أكثر من 300 موظف محليًا لتلبية الاحتياجات المتزايدة للبلاد بالإضافة إلى الأسواق الأحدث في منطقة آسيا والمحيط الهادئ”.
وفقًا لما قاله كين شو، المدير العام لشركة Envision India ونائب الرئيس العالمي، “نحن سعداء بالثقة التي يوليها لنا شريكنا في الهند، ونحن فخورون بمواصلة تقديم أفضل الحلول لدينا في الهند. ونظرًا لأننا خبراء في استخدام التقنيات الرقمية، فنحن قادرون على زيادة الكفاءة وتوفير التكلفة والابتكار بسرعة لخدمة عملائنا بشكل أفضل. بالإضافة إلى طاقة الرياح، فإننا نقدم أيضًا حلول تخزين الطاقة، والحلول الرقمية، وغيرها من حلول صافي صفر لعملائنا، للمساعدة في تسريع وتيرة نقل الطاقة على الصعيد العالمي. “
نبذة عن Envision Group
Envision Group هي شركة عالمية رائدة في مجال التكنولوجيا الخضراء وشريك صافي صفر في مجال التكنولوجيا. مع مهمة “حل تحديات المستقبل المستدام للبشرية”. تعمل شركة Envision في مجال تصميم وبيع وتشغيل توربينات الرياح الذكية ونظام التخزين الذكي من خلال Envision Energy؛ وبطاريات تعمل بتقنية AIoT من خلال Envision AESC؛ وأكبر نظام تشغيل AIoT في العالم من خلال Envision Digital. كما أنها تمتلك فريق Envision Racing Formula E. تواصل شركة Envision الترويج لطاقة الرياح والطاقة الشمسية باعتبارهما “الفحم الجديد” والبطاريات ووقود الهيدروجين باعتباره “النفط الجديد”، وشبكة AIoT باعتبارها “الشبكة الجديدة”، والمجمّعات الصناعية بصافي صفر إلى “البنية التحتية الجديدة”، وتعزيز بناء وتنمية “صناعة جديدة” خضراء.
صُنفت شركة Envision Group ضمن أفضل 10 من بين أفضل 50 شركة في العالم لعام 2019 من قبل مجلة MIT Technology Review. في أكتوبر من عام 2021، احتلت شركة Envision المرتبة الثانية في العالم على قائمة مجلة Fortune “Change the World” (تغيير العالم). انضمت شركة Envision Group إلى مبادرة “RE100” العالمية وأصبحت أول شركة في البر الرئيسي للصين تلتزم بالكهرباء المتجددة بنسبة 100% بحلول عام 2025، وفي 22 أبريل من عام 2021، أعلنت شركة Envision Group أنها ستصبح محايدًا للكربون في العمليات بحلول عام 2022 وستصبح محايدًا للكربون في جميع أعمالها على طول سلسلة القيمة الخاصة بها بحلول عام 2028.
SINGAPORE, April 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Finbots.AI, an AI-envisioned firm bringing innovation to banks and financial institutions, today announced it has raised USD 3 million in a Series A round from Accel. This investment is from Accel’s Fund VII, and is the first external investment for Finbots.AI. The funds will be used towards accelerating product enhancement, marketing and sales, and customer support besides recruiting of senior talent and team expansion across its offices. India drives all of the global development and support for Finbots.AI, with its corporate headquarters in Singapore and a regional head office in Dubai.
Commenting on the successful Series A fundraise, Sanjay Uppal, Founder and CEO of Finbots.AI, said, “This new funding unlocks the next phase of growth for Finbots.AI. Financial institutions today need pathbreaking solutions to solve their complex challenges brought by legacy platforms. Tapping on AI-enabled solutions can help them transform exponentially. We are thrilled to have Accel as a partner in this journey, further cementing the potential and trust in our solution. Accel’s impressive track record with growth stage companies will be a key support for Finbots.AI. We have an enormous growth potential and I am excited for our journey to transforming financial services.”
Since its inception in 2017, Finbots.AI identified an opportunity to use AI-powered solutions to aid banks and financial institutions to overcome industry challenges. ZScore is a full-scale AI-driven credit scorecard system for lending institutions that spans the entire credit lifecycle. Equipped with an intuitive user interface and robust scorecard development capabilities, ZScore rapidly develops higher accuracy credit scorecards by using advanced Machine Learning algorithms that utilise historical traditional and alternate data to automatically build, validate, and deploy real-time, high-performing risk models.
Mahendran Balachandran, Partner at Accel, shared, “The Finbots.AI team brings decades of collective experience in financial services and technology, and we see great potential and promise in their solution – ZScore – as it strives to remedy and bridge the limitations of legacy credit systems. We, at Accel, are delighted to be a part of Finbot.AI’s growth as they propel forward to enhance financial services by leveraging AI technology to serve the entire community – ranging from the large banks to the small lenders. We see massive potential in this region and FinTech as a vertical.”
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