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Wiseband Partners With Rivada for Network Expansion in the Middle East

PRNewswire — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 09:10:57 +0000

Next-Generation Network — the OuterNET^™ — is Key for Secure and Resilient Communications

Rivada Space Networks, a global network company launching a constellation of 600 low-earth-orbit satellites (LEO) to enable secure, global connectivity for governments and enterprises, is partnering with Wiseband, an Emirati satellite services company, to bring secure connectivity solutions to the Middle East region.

Based in UAE and operating across the Middle East and Africa, Wiseband provides customized private satellite networking solutions which are designed to meet high-performance and stringent security requirements. The company currently has connectivity projects in UAE, KSA, Kuwait and Egypt.

Rivada’s global low-latency point-to-point orbital network, the OuterNET^™, is a unique next-generation constellation combining inter-satellite laser links with advanced onboard processing to provide unique routing and switching capabilities and create an optical mesh network in space. This orbital network, in which data stays in space from origin to destination, creates an ultra-secure satellite network with pole-to-pole coverage, offering end-to-end latencies lower than terrestrial fiber over similar long distances. And by routing traffic on a physically separated network, it provides a layer of defense for any organization that needs to securely share data between widely distributed sites.

For Enterprise and Government communications, Rivada’s OuterNET™ will provide an easy-to-deploy network with higher bandwidth and improved security for resilient and more reliable communications services.

Rivada Space Networks is showcasing the OuterNET^™ at the Middle East Space Conference, in Oman from 8^th-10^th January. Rivada’s CEO Declan Ganley will participate in the panel exploring how new satellite networks can play an essential role in bringing connectivity to the Middle East and the prospects for satellite communications services in the region, including:

How the potential of LEO can be unlocked for data networks and services and the opportunities for new business models and end-user services
An ultra-secure network is the ambition for global enterprise and government communications and the dynamic powers of laser communications are key
Partnering with LEO enables Middle Eastern satellite and telecom operators in search of growth to complement and expand services that cannot be supported by GEO alone

Ahmed Hassan, CEO of Wiseband, said: “Wiseband is looking to tap onto Rivada Space Networks’ highly secure point-to-point secure communications network to provide advanced and customizable secure solutions to our existing enterprise customers and to develop the emerging markets in Middle East. The OuterNET^™ is a fully interconnected orbital network which effectively serves as a private network in space, capable of routing traffic at gigabit speeds from one satellite to another with no need for a gateway on earth. We see this as the key infrastructure for the development of the enterprise and government sectors in the Middle East and beyond.”

Declan Ganley, CEO of Rivada Space Networks, said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Wiseband based on their long history and expertise in serving the telecoms sector in Middle East region. Rivada’sOuterNET^™ is what data communications has been waiting for – a game-changing constellation that re-defines connectivity in terms of security, latency, capacity, efficiency, and coverage. As a completely new type of LEO constellation, the OuterNET^™ can provide the Middle East region with a next-generation infrastructure for secure, resilient communications and network expansion.”

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BlueSkeye AI Revolutionizes Clinical Analysis with Mobile Facial and Vocal Tech at CES 2024

PRNewswire — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:38:55 +0000

Health Foundation Platform revolutionizes healthcare with the ability to provide digital health companies more measurable, reliable and secure customer insights quicker than ever before.

UK startup Blueskeye AI is launching its Health Foundation Platform at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Health Foundation Platform makes it easy and quick for health tech companies to integrate clinical grade AI which analyses medically relevant expressed behavior into their products.

This groundbreaking technology uses mobile phones or tablets running advanced machine learning algorithms to analyze facial expressions and vocal behavior to provide digital health companies and their customers with deeper, more measurable and reliable customer insights more securely and faster than ever before.

“By combining computer vision and natural language processing, our Health Foundation Platform can decode the nuances of human emotion and behavior in real-time,” says Professor Michel Valstar, Founding CEO of Blueskeye AI. “Our technology allows us to surface insights that would be impossible to detect with the naked eye or ear, and which are difficult to both quantify and measure.”

Using the Health Foundation Platform companies can monitor customer engagement, satisfaction, and even spot the early warning signs of serious illness. The powerful clinical grade AI can be integrated rapidly into digital therapeutics platforms, clinical trial or treatment companion apps, extending their capabilities, making them more powerful and allowing additional services to be offered.

How it works

The Health Foundation Platform uses machine learning embedded in mobile phones or tablets to monitor changes to peoples’ facial and vocal behavior whilst they undertake one of a number of specialist tasks. This data can be used to identify and track emotions. The Platform can also assess fatigue, pain, muscular atrophy, anxiety and depression. It could even identify the early signs of conditions which have an effect on the face or voice, such as, Autism, ADHD, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s.

BlueSkeye collaborates closely with digital health companies to design the optimal assessment for a digital interaction with the user. By undertaking the assessment customers generate rich behavioral data. BlueSkeye’s specialist staff benchmark this data at scale against best current measurement methods to establish the extent to which the technology will reliably enable or enhance the company’s offer. This rigorous approach ensures BlueSkeye’s face and voice analysis AI is suitable for digital health applications before deployment.

The Platform’s core technology is already in use in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) where the company is undertaking a clinical trial of its use for assessing anxiety and depression amongst pregnant women.

Chief Investigator, Dr Neil Nixon, Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Nottingham and Consultant Lead for the Nottingham Specialist Depression Service described the trial as:

“An important trial, assessing the potential for artificial intelligence to detect early indications of perinatal depression. Our partners, including expert patients and clinicians, continue to shape the development of this technology so that positive results will also translate into more effective NHS care.”

BlueSkeye AI is also working with a number of global automotive manufacturers on the integration of the technology into the next generation of intelligent cabins. BlueSkeye also works with FMCG, social robotics and fitness and wellbeing hardware providers.

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“By using BlueSkeye’s clinically validated AI, digital health companies can unlock new levels of insight and understanding of their customers,” says Professor Michel Valstar, Founding CEO of Blueskeye AI. “This paves the way for more personalized, proactive and predictive healthcare as we usher in a new era of next-generation, AI-enabled digital health and wellbeing.”

BlueSkeye will be giving demos of The Health Foundation Platform at CES 2024.

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WiSA E: Exceptional Audio Quality Across Diverse SoCs and CE Audio/Video Platforms

Business Wire — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:58:28 +0000

CES 2024 Demonstrations Show Performance and Versatility of WiSA E technology

WiSA Technologies, Inc. a leading innovator in wireless audio technology for intelligent devices and next-generation home entertainment systems, enters CES 2024 with its WiSA E software being demonstrated on multiple SoCs (System on a Chip), a number of different Wi-Fi chips, and across a wide range of consumer electronics devices. WiSA E’s advanced wireless multichannel audio technology opens exciting new possibilities for emerging product categories, enhancing immersive audio experiences for users enjoying video content.

“We’ve designed WiSA E to be exceptionally versatile and scalable, allowing the technology to seamlessly integrate into a diverse array of products and applications,” said Brett Moyer, CEO of WiSA Technologies. “With all the interest we’ve sparked through our WiSA E licensing program and with the compelling CES 2024 demonstrations showcasing WiSA E technology enabling so many different applications, it is impossible to walk away without realizing the power of WiSA E as the multichannel audio glue capable of connecting the universe of smart devices.”

CES 2024 applications:

WiSA E-enabled HDTV transmitting wirelessly to soundbar eliminates an HDMI audio cable
WiSA E software implemented on an HD projector moves sound to align with the video
WiSA E working in conjunction with Fraunhofer’s upHear’s spatial audio rendering technology to create an optimized sound field for any number of speakers and any speaker location in the room
WiSA Connect enables users to switch from audio source from TV to mobile devices to enjoy in-room immersive audio using WiSA E-enabled speakers
WiSA E-enabled low-cost streaming boxes and mainstream streaming set-top box applications

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Scienaptic AI Partners With DigiFi to Provide Advanced Credit Scoring

Business Wire — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:26:46 +0000

Scienaptic AI, a leading global AI-powered credit decision platform provider, announced its integration partnership with DigiFi, the financial industry’s leading platform for automated digital lending. With this integration, DigiFi clients can seamlessly access Scienaptic’s advanced AI-powered signals for lending.

borrowers expect a seamless lending experience that includes easy credit access and a personalized loan offering. Integrating DigiFi’s loan origination system and Scienaptic’s AI-powered signals will enable financial institutions to automate their lending, approve more loans and increase credit availability for their members. The partnership will increase the adoption of AI for lending and give more members access to fair credit. Lenders leverage Scienaptic AI’s signals to boost approval rates while holding the loss rates constant. Clients typically experience a substantial 15-40% increase in approval rates. The platform also delivers notable advantages such as a significant rise in automated decisions and a decrease in bias across protected consumer classes.

DigiFi provides a next-generation loan origination system to banks, credit unions, finance companies and fintechs. DigiFi’s cloud-based platform enables the automated online delivery of multiple consumer lending products through a single platform, driving better customer experiences and lower operating costs. DigiFi was founded in 2017 and has offices in the US and Europe.

“DigiFi is dedicated to empowering lenders to provide digital access to credit that impacts people’s lives, and we love how Scienaptic is helping lenders expand who they can serve,” said Joshua Jersey, CEO and Co-Founder of DigiFi. “The integration of both platforms is an exciting opportunity to bring Scienaptic’s AI-powered credit signals to our clients. As a result, our clients will have the opportunity to incorporate AI into their lending process and make smarter, automated decisions. In addition, this partnership will enhance their borrowers’ experience, increase approvals and expand access to credit.”

Pankaj Jain, Co-Founder & President of Scienaptic AI, said, “We are very excited to partner with DigiFi. Our partnership removes the integration hurdles that prevent lenders from implementing AI. This partnership will increase the adoption of AI and allow more members to access credit. As a result, we will be able to drive faster and smarter loan decisions for financial institutions and empower their members and customers to say “yes” more often.”

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Transcend Unveils Major Expansion to Its Privacy Platform

Business Wire — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 18:41:17 +0000

Transcend’s complete technical privacy platform is the next-generation technology for companies urgently replacing legacy privacy tools.

Transcend, the all-in-one data privacy and governance platform, announced an expansion of its product suite—going even further to help the world’s best brands manage complex privacy compliance challenges. Powering privacy for Fortune 100 companies, the global 2000s, and high-growth start-ups, Transcend easily solves current and future compliance challenges while dramatically increasing compliance, unlocking significant cost savings, and enabling improved user experiences.

Transcend is radically different from legacy privacy management platforms, because it encodes privacy directly into the systems that handle personal data, going beyond checkboxes and human processes to embed governance at the data layer. As the first all-in-one modern privacy platform with built-in automated data discovery & classification, full stack consent, DSR handling, data reports, assessments, AI governance, and more, Transcend now offers access to over a dozen products that support business privacy compliance. All Transcend products and integrations are built and maintained in-house by Transcend’s industry-leading engineering organization – with no white-labeled or acquired solutions. Transcend’s platform enables a seamless experience and easy navigation of the rapidly unfolding privacy frontier.

With this new release, Transcend expands its proven platform three-fold, aligning along five pillars of most urgent need, while reflecting its focus areas of proprietary technology innovation. These pillars are Data Asset Intelligence, Data Discovery & Classification, Autonomous Privacy Operations, Risk Intelligence, and AI Governance. Built on a robust integration network allowing for the precision orchestration of data across technical stacks, the Transcend platform offers industry-leading end-to-end encryption in a proprietary security model that ensures Transcend never sees customer API keys.

“We believe privacy only works when it’s encoded directly into the systems that handle personal data, and we’re on a mission to simplify privacy inside every business,” said Transcend co-founder and CEO Ben Brook. “The world’s best companies choose Transcend because our market-leading technologies don’t just incrementally improve their work, but transform their privacy operations end-to-end with improved compliance, reduced costs, and better user experiences. We’re now the all-in-one platform for switching off legacy manual tools.”

Transcend’s Solutions for Simple Privacy Compliance

Each of Transcend’s solutions can be deployed individually or in combination, enabling Transcend customers to quickly deploy the privacy compliance solution they need to switch out from legacy tools to next-generation technology:

Data Inventory provides a base truth of all silos, datapoints, vendors, purposes, and other metadata—creating a system of record for all data in the business.
Data Lineage offers a real-time view of data flows and the relationship between data silos, enabling proactive data governance and compliance assurance in one seamless solution.
Silo Discovery leverages pre-built plugins to scan, discover, and automatically catalog data stores, SaaS tools, and databases.
Structured Discovery continuously detects and classifies all objects and properties inside a given database.
Unstructured Discovery uncovers and classifies personal data living in non-conventional data models, for comprehensive governance.
DSR Automation is your all-in-one solution for deleting and returning any kind of personal data, across every system, at any scale.
Consent Management collects consent and automates enforcement across every interface, from websites to mobile apps.
Preference Store syncs user consent across any device, with a singular log of all user preference events.
Privacy Center is a secure portal that gives end-customers an intuitive, self-serve way to exercise their data rights.
Contract Scanning extracts privacy terms from vendor agreements, helping compare contractual requirements against system realities.
Assessments enables centralized reviews of AI risk assessments, DPIAs, and vendor risk assessments with pre-built templates that tie directly into a customer’s Data Inventory.
Pathfinder is an AI governance middleware that gives Transcend customers the control and auditability they need for data going in and out of LLMs.
Prompt Manager powers governance prompts to identify risk gaps, extract metadata, and more.

A Truly All-In-One Privacy Compliance Platform

Early privacy tools in the market offered companies low-tech platform approaches to common privacy requirements, including clunky web banners, manual DSR delegation flows, manual surveys and outdated spreadsheets. As the complexity of privacy requirements and data systems evolved, companies began to feel compounding issues of unnecessary repetitive manual tasks, clear compliance gaps, and an out-of-date understanding of where personal data lives. A rise of end-point privacy solutions, or solutions that only handle one aspect of privacy, helped to increase automation in the industry but created inefficient alternatives to the legacy platform. It also left companies without a single unified source of truth to help govern interwoven privacy operations.

companies are urgently switching from legacy solutions to the next-generation technology of Transcend’s all-in-one platform. It’s a full lifecycle of best-in-class automation that ensures modern and seamless privacy operation at scale – from assessments to automatically discovered data systems to automated DSR workflows to corresponding consent opt-outs. With the Transcend All-In-One platform, the world’s best companies experience:

True automation that enhances their privacy transformation, removing manual tasks for legal teams and data owners, and minimizing resource drain.
Significant cost savings by reducing wasted resources from manual tools or switching between different point solutions and saving dollars on promised functionality that doesn’t quite live up to the hype.
Central intelligence for all privacy operations, giving customers the power to quickly go beyond check-the-box compliance while simplifying privacy through every part of a business.

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Wolters Kluwer Leaders Predict Accelerated AI Transformation for Healthcare in 2024

Business Wire — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 10:28:25 +0000

GenAI excitement to spur broader health AI innovation in 2024

As 2024 nears, the healthcare landscape is undergoing unprecedented transformations, particularly with headlines about artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, and Generative AI (GenAI) in particular, promising to reshape how healthcare is delivered. To shed light on anticipated trends and innovations impacting the healthcare industry in 2024, leading experts from across Wolters Kluwer Health offer their expectations for healthcare AI in 2024. Cutting through the hype, the predictions offer a compelling narrative of what’s ahead and guide us toward a more informed, connected, and resilient future in healthcare.

Top 4 impact-drivers for generative AI in 2024

“2024 will be a watershed year for GenAI, particularly in healthcare. Look for solutions emerging in four key areas in 2024: lightening administrative burdens across the hospital; helping sharpen clinicians’ decision-making; boosting the efficiency of medical researchers; and helping the next generation of healthcare workers ramp up proficiency with smarter learning tools.”
Stacey Caywood, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health

GenAI is here to stay: for clinical decision support, easing bottlenecks

“The adoption of artificial intelligence in the clinical setting will continue to evolve, particularly with generative AI for clinical decision support, as healthcare organizations begin piloting and evaluating these solutions for responsible and safe patient care applications. GenAI has the potential to help clinicians make decisions more accurately and efficiently at the point of care.”

“The capabilities of AI will far outpace the scaled-up adoption of AI applications, which are constrained by workflow, competing priorities and economic considerations driving uptake. We expect most of the uptake to be dominated by existing workflow applications such as EMRs and related services like documentation, although operational applications such as nurse scheduling, revenue cycle management, and prior authorization will also get an AI boost.”
Peter Bonis, MD, Chief Medical Officer of Wolters Kluwer Health

Building trust into healthcare GenAI: content quality is the critical driver in 2024

“Leveraging GenAI with clinical decision support could provide a way for providers to make faster and better decisions. We predict as healthcare explores GenAI and patient care, the source and vetting of the underlying content will become a key factor in the speed in which it is deployed. It is said that innovation happens at the speed of trust – in healthcare that trust is based on the quality of the underlying content and its evidence base.”
Greg Samios, President & Chief Executive Officer of Clinical Effectiveness at Wolters Kluwer Health

From rat’s nest to ready: taming health data for AI prime-time

“Health organizations are making it a strategic priority to extract more value from the volumes of data they’re moving to the cloud. One big health data target in 2024? Training AI models on all that data. To make it happen however, they’ll first need to untangle a rat’s nest of messy data. In the race to build data-rich AI models in ’24, many will turn to AI-driven terminology tech that speeds normalization of data, making it ready for prime-time.”
Brian Laberge, Solutions Engineer, Health Language at Wolters Kluwer Health

The AI has to be right: the role of AI in nursing education

“In 2024, we will see students and professors continue to experiment with the use of AI in education. Both students and educators are looking for ways to improve the traditional workflows of the classroom. By leveraging AI, faculty can reduce some of the workload burden with development of lesson plans, and more efficiently testing student knowledge and adjusting learning accordingly. For students, the proper use of AI can give them access to trusted learning materials in an easier to find, and digestible, conversational format.”

“Education companies will act as fast movers since they are already dealing with time-pressed students – who are also savvy consumers – who expect to be engaged and leverage personalized study resources. For medical and nursing education, the AI has to be right – students must graduate clinically competent and confident, and they cannot learn from content that is not evidence-based, current and accurate. While there are many discussions and pilots happening currently, 2024 will be the year we see both of these groups push their institutions for real-life implementations.”
Julie Stegman, Vice President, Health Learning & Practice at Wolters Kluwer Health

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Building the future on Wolters Kluwer’s solid AI foundation

In healthcare, trust is at the center of every interaction. A recent Wolters Kluwer survey found consumers worry about a lack of transparency in the origins of information being used by GenAI. Most need to know the company behind the GenAI has a long track record in healthcare.

Around 50% of Wolters Kluwer’s digital revenues now come from products that leverage artificial intelligence. Wolters Kluwer products, services and expert solutions are based on a foundation of trust, transparency, and responsibility – in line with the company’s values. Wolters Kluwer’s AI Principles guide the design, development, and deployment of advanced technologies in helping customers solve their most complex problems—in healthcare and beyond.

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BlackBerry Unveils Cutting-Edge Automotive Solutions with BlackBerry IVY at CES 2024

PRNewswire — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:25:48 +0000

Automotive software partners from around the world illustrate the breadth of in-vehicle innovation enabled by the BlackBerry IVY platform

At CES 2024, BlackBerry Limited will be showcasing the breadth and power of its BlackBerry IVY® connected vehicle data platform through in-vehicle and virtualized demos with a range of ecosystem partners. The BlackBerry IVY platform enables developers across industries to design and deploy insights-enabled automotive services more quickly, leveraging in-vehicle AI-enabled processing and a developer-friendly platform. This ease of development has led to a growing diversity of solutions developed on the BlackBerry IVY platform, giving automakers new opportunities to quickly enable additional services to differentiate and potentially monetize the connected car.

This year’s IVY™ showcase at CES will feature a wide array of mobility applications; IVY powered in-vehicle AI demonstrations will include:

Michelin’s tire wear monitoring solution with real-time integration to its consumer retail network
COMPREDICT hardware sensor replacement solutions, utilizing virtual sensors to create cost savings and monetize vehicle health insights.
Intelligent in-cabin experiences powered by Cinemo, CorrActions, CarIQ, idrive, and emotion3D.
Next generation insurance solutions, such as First Notification of Loss and Collision Reconstruction featured by Nexar, and crash analytics and driver scoring by CerebrumX.
Intelligent vehicle cybersecurity & quality insights powered by Upstream Security.

Additional partners will be showcasing how BlackBerry IVY powers next generation digital cockpits and intelligent fleet management services. Demonstrations include:

MIH Consortium will feature its intelligent fleet capabilities, with IVY insights, from Electra Vehicles, COMPREDICT, and CerebrumX
Mitsubishi Electric will showcase its FLEXConnect™ advanced vehicle cockpit system in a Cadillac Escalade
Intellias will showcase its IntelliKit 2.0 solution which is centered around the Qualcomm SA8295 with QNX Real Time Operating System (RTOS), QNX Hypervisor, and pre-processing connected vehicle insights with BlackBerry IVY.

“The IVY Ecosystem has grown rapidly, and now embraces an impressive range of applications that are set to change the mobility business and the in-car experience by harnessing the power of connected vehicle data,” said Vito Giallorenzo, Senior Vice President & General Manager, BlackBerry IVY. “We’re looking forward to demonstrating the many and varied ways that our ecosystem members are innovating on the IVY platform and how it has enabled them to easily develop and scale their solutions.”

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SambaNova DataScale Selected for SoftBank Corp.’s Generative AI Computing Platform

Business Wire — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 14:26:38 +0000

SambaNova’s unique reconfigurable dataflow architecture adapted to meet the challenges of conventional systems

SambaNova Systems, makers of the only purpose-built, full stack AI platform, announced that SambaNova DataScale is one of the technologies selected for utilization in SoftBank Corp.’s top level* computing platform for the development of generative AI. Cotofure Corporation is supporting the implementation of SambaNova DataScale.

Founded in Silicon Valley in 2017 and funded by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 (SVF2) in 2021, SambaNova provides a full stack dedicated AI infrastructure, from AI chip to pre-trained foundation models based on a unique reconfigurable dataflow architecture.

Hironobu Tamba, Vice President, Data Platform Strategy Division Head, Technology Unit at SoftBank Corp., said: “To realize its corporate philosophy, ‘Information Revolution — Happiness for everyone’, SoftBank announced its long-term vision to provide next-generation social infrastructure essential for the development of a digital society in May 2023. To advance this long-term vision, SoftBank is constructing a computing platform for the development of generative AI. The addition of SambaNova’s innovative technology to this computing platform will enable us to accelerate our innovations.”

Toyoshi Takahashi, President of Cotofure Corporation, said: “We are pleased to be a reseller of SambaNova Systems, which provides a computational foundation for generative AI development that leverages its unique architecture. We look forward to contributing to the development of generative AI services that match Japanese culture and business practices. We also expect to be able to develop applications more quickly and cost-effectively by utilizing SambaNova’s system, which is the optimal computational platform for foundation model.”

“AI is transforming industries as dramatically as the internet did — innovators are leaping ahead by deploying an AI ‘backbone’ that will power the next 10 years of application development,” stated Rodrigo Liang, cofounder, and CEO of SambaNova Systems. “We are delighted to be partnering with SoftBank in the development of one of Japan’s leading computing platforms.”

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Collaboration between Dun & Bradstreet and IBM to Fuel Responsible Generative AI Solutions

AIT News Desk — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:30:16 +0000

Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, and IBM, have announced a strategic collaboration that will bring together Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Cloud and IBM’s watsonx to help organizations responsibly expand their use of generative AI. Dun & Bradstreet also intends to leverage watsonx for its workflows and solutions, supported by IBM Consulting.

Through this collaboration, Dun & Bradstreet and IBM aim to develop offerings for clients to use in their native workflows to drive generative AI adoption that can help achieve growth and efficiency across a variety of business functions. The offerings will leverage watsonx, IBM’s next-generation AI and data platform, and draw upon Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Cloud, containing more than half a billion private and public companies, market-leading Identity Resolution, including the D-U-N-S® Number and the company’s generative AI capabilities.

Dun & Bradstreet’s Ask Procurement™ is one of the new solutions that IBM and Dun & Bradstreet intend to bring to market. Ask Procurement will be designed to help empower procurement professionals to unlock new data and insights with a 360-degree view into all aspects of a company’s business relationships to help increase savings, reduce time, and mitigate the potential for risk. The solution is expected to leverage the D&B AiBE™ platform which will feature watsonx supported models and other generative AI capabilities fueled by Dun & Bradstreet’s vast Data Cloud. Slated for delivery in the first half of next year, Ask Procurement will be able to be integrated with Dun & Bradstreet solutions or an enterprises’ existing ERP or procurement solution.

“At Dun & Bradstreet, being a trusted data partner and a responsible AI partner to organizations are synonymous,” said Ginny Gomez, President, North America, Dun & Bradstreet. “As two trusted brands that bring nearly 300 years of combined experience to the businesses we serve, Dun & Bradstreet and IBM are ideally suited to help companies responsibly navigate the rapidly evolving generative AI space because we know their business environments and processes well. And with hundreds of thousands of organizations globally relying on us everyday, we believe there is no better company than Dun & Bradstreet to lead the industry and our clients into the future.”

Through the collaboration, D&B.AI™ Labs, IBM Consulting, and IBM Expert Labs teams will leverage the IBM Garage methodology to build AI use cases, implement watsonx, and develop applications that help address employee productivity, enhance customer experiences, mitigate business-to-business risks, automate workflows, and optimize efficiency.

“The transformative power of generative AI for business is wholly dependent upon data that is accurate, trusted, and targeted for enterprise use cases,” said Rob Thomas, Senior Vice President, Software, and Chief Commercial Officer, IBM. “We plan to bring solutions to market that combine IBM’s best-in-class AI and data platform and consulting services with Dun & Bradstreet’s supply chain expertise and vast sets of trusted data. Together, we can empower clients to responsibly build AI-powered solutions and confidently scale their use of generative AI to achieve their business objectives.”

This relationship is underpinned by principles of trust, responsibility, transparency, and explainability. The foundation of this relationship is powered by Dun & Bradstreet’s trusted and proprietary data and innovative AI-informed solutions, and IBM’s decades-long work ushering powerful new technologies, including AI, responsibly and with clear purpose.

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IBM Teams with Top Universities for Quantum Education in Japan, South Korea, and the U.S.

AIT News Desk — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:21:29 +0000

IBM announced the company intends to engage with Keio University, The University of Tokyo, Yonsei University, Seoul National University, and The University of Chicago to work together to support quantum education activities in Japan, Korea, and the United States. IBM intends to deliver educational offerings, in combination with contributions from each of the participating universities, to advance the training of up to 40,000 students over the next 10 years to prepare them for the quantum workforce and promote the growth of a global quantum ecosystem.

Quantum computing offers a different approach to computation which may solve problems that are intractable. A skilled quantum workforce is critical to growing the quantum industry that will lead to economic development through leveraging quantum computing technology. Currently, people trained and skilled in quantum computing are needed as more higher-education and research institutions, national labs, and industries adopt quantum computing. To address the increasing demands of a growing quantum workforce, IBM and the five universities in Japan, Korea, and the U.S. intend to collaborate on the education of new and future generations of quantum computing users.

This international initiative may include materials for educators from broad disciplines of science and technology such as physics, computer science, engineering, math, life sciences, and chemistry departments. To prepare for era of quantum utility, and the coming era of quantum-centric supercomputing, the universities and IBM are focused on preparing a workforce capable of using the latest quantum computing technologies for scientific discovery and to explore industry applications that create new value in specific domains.

IBM intends to participate with the universities to develop a robust quantum curriculum to teach the next generation of computational scientists, who will be able to use quantum computers as a scientific tool. And all parties involved, whether individually or collectively, have the resources to engage in educator training, course material development, and community-driven educational events, including mentorships, joint summer programs, exchange programs and distinguished lecture programs.

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“This monumental trilateral collaboration between IBM and some of the world’s leading universities in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, is a significant step forward in quantum education, ensuring our continued technical leadership, and epitomizes the spirit of international cooperation and technological progress that are essential in interconnected world. By fostering a robust quantum workforce and supporting groundbreaking research, we are not only enhancing academic excellence but also contributing to economic development and technological innovation on a global scale.” Rahm Emanuel, U.S. Ambassador to Japan.

“Since the Camp David agreements, cooperation between Korea, the U.S. and Japan has expanded to various fields such as the security, economy, high-tech, health and cyber. I believe there is a true call for collaboration between the three countries, especially in high-tech fields such as quantum computing. announcement of the plan to train human resources and establish a research and industrial ecosystem in the quantum field will serve as a meaningful starting point for the trilateral high-tech cooperation. And I trust this will bring about substantial benefits for the people of the three countries through more investment and job creation.” Yun Duk-min, South Korea Ambassador to Japan.

“Keio has been a pioneer in quantum research and education for more than 20 years. Now is the right time to rethink how we train the scientists and engineers for careers in this growing field, and we are excited to work with IBM and with other top universities in the creation and use of the next generation of educational materials. Blending our online courses with hands-on exercises using IBM’s materials will improve recruitment, the rate of learning, and retention among our ‘quantum native’ students.” Professor Kohei Itoh, President, Keio University.

“Among the various research fields, quantum computing, which excels at calculating equations containing many complex combinations, is expected to play a key role in the future of an advanced information-oriented and knowledge-intensive society and has been one of the most important fields that we emphasize at UTokyo, and we believe it very important to train the quantum professionals of tomorrow, quantum natives. Therefore, we aim to foster quantum natives and develop ‘human capital’ that will lead quantum research in social implementation, industrial applications, and academic fields, by promoting education on quantum computing throughout the entire university. The education program starts with first-year undergraduate students, using actual quantum computing equipment, including the state-of-the-art IBM Quantum machines, even with those new to quantum mechanics. It extends to senior undergraduate and graduate courses in sciences, engineering, and information science by implementing educational programs that are seamlessly organized through undergraduate and postgraduate courses. In this collaboration in quantum education among the universities in the U.S., Japan, and South Korea, we will make use of our respective strengths to contribute to the further promotion of quantum education and the solution of social issues.” Dr. Teruo Fujii, President, The University of Tokyo.

“With the goal to create a robust quantum computing ecosystem, Yonsei University plans to introduce IBM Quantum System One for the first time in Korea in 2024. This collaboration is anticipated to significantly contribute to the foundational framework of both domestic and international quantum computing ecosystems. Simultaneously, it should play a pivotal role in the training of experts and the facilitation of cutting-edge research within the quantum computing domain. The collaboration with IBM is poised to synergize with Yonsei University’s existing prowess in education and research, yielding a combined effect that will propel the development in the field of quantum computing.” Professor Seoung Hwan Suh, President, Yonsei University.

“Seoul National University is at the center of quantum science and technology in Korea, with over 30 groups working on the core problems of broad scientific and technological issues. More recently, we have been working to build a stronger research community at the SNU campus by bringing them together under a single organization. This new organization will lead our efforts in this fast-developing and vibrant field of quantum science and technologies. Our collaboration with IBM and four other affiliated universities in Korea, Japan, and the U.S. will boost our efforts. We look forward to working with IBM in the coming years.” Professor Hong Lim Ryu, President, Seoul National University.

“The University of Chicago was an early pioneer of the field of quantum engineering, and was the first university in the U.S. to award graduate degrees in this emerging area of technology. With other partners in the Chicago region, UChicago has strived to develop a vibrant ecosystem for quantum technologies that is attracting companies and investments from around the world. These developments have underscored the need for a talented workforce. The University of Chicago is excited and proud to partner with IBM, and to build on its long-standing ties to Keio University, Yonsei University, Seoul National University, and The University of Tokyo, to deliver world-class educational programs that will prepare thousands of students for jobs and opportunities in quantum information sciences.” Paul Alivisatos, President, the University of Chicago.

“With the recent demonstrations that quantum computers at a scale of more than 100 qubits are capable of being used as scientific tools to deliver insights reaching beyond leading classical approaches, we have an even greater need to educate today’s students to join the growing quantum workforce. This effort intends to provide Keio University, the University of Tokyo, Yonsei University, Seoul National University, and the University of Chicago with IBM’s latest and most advanced quantum education materials is a crucial step toward exploring useful quantum applications.” Darío Gil, Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research.

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