HANGZHOU, China, July 15, 2020 — Organized by Information Office of Zhejiang Provincial Government and Zhejiang International Channel (ZTV-World), “@Beautiful Zhejiang” Global Short Video Contest is now ready to launch. The contest is seeking short videos no longer than 5 minutes from both home and abroad to show the beautiful landscape, culture, and modernization of the province.
The poster of this contest
The award-winning works will be displayed across the world. Award-winners will automatically get premium membership of Blueberry Video Bloggers’ Alliance @Beautiful Zhejiang, a platform for works exhibition and insight sharing, and be offered priority access to follow-up media events and plenty of resources.
The Contest includes Comprehensive Awards and Individual Awards. The former includes 5 first prizes, 10 second prizes, 15 third prizes, and 30 honorable mentions; the latter includes 1 award for each of the Best Creativity, Best Videography, Best Editing, Best Animation Design, and the Most Popular Work, and several Special Awards for International Collaboration and Excellent Groups.
All works submitted shall reflect the contest’s theme and reveal the historical achievements made in Zhejiang in terms of economy, culture, society and ecology, especially the impressive progress concerning the development of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. Videos can be filmed anywhere around the globe, but elements about Zhejiang are required.
The works should deliver positive energy and can be in the form of a documentary, interview or talk show within 5 minutes. Videos can be filmed in any language, but English or bilingual (Chinese and English) subtitles are required.
Qualified works will be posted online across a wide range of media platforms, including the Wechat, Weibo, Douyin, YouTube, Facebook and Tik-Tok accounts operated by Zhejiang International Channel (ZTV-World) along with Zhejiang Government’s English portal website, In Zhejiang (an English social web service run by Zhejiang Daily), Beautiful Zhejiang Douyin account, Tianmu Video, and overseas collaborative media. Netizens can vote and give likes to their favorite works. The impressions and likes on each platform will be referred to in later review.
The final results will be announced online in mid-September, and an online award ceremony, delivery of certificates and rewards will be held. Excellent works will also be recommended to attend other domestic short video contests.
Registration
Individuals, groups, or institutions can register for the contest as follows:
1. Online registration: Email the works and the registration form (see Appendix) to ztvworld@163.com on or before August 31, 2020 with the subject “Videographer- Works Title – Short Video Contest”.
2. Registration by post: Post your works and registration forms in CD or USB Flash Drive to Zhejiang International Channel (ZTV-World) before August 31, 2020(address: Xinxiangli Building, 2-1 Macheng Road, Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310005, China);
With all the attention that HUAWEI is getting these past few weeks for all the wrong reasons, they are still positive. They are still Malaysia’s biggest hope to our progression toward 5G, they have collaborated with Singapore to bring more contents to their own platform, and they are still innovating on their smartphones. Also, they are still the largest network infrastructure provider in this part of the world.
Driverless cars, on the other hand, is not something that is quite prevalent here. In South East Asia at least, the most we can get is assisted braking. Even radar guided cruise control over here is not something that is readily available. To hear about a driverless car in this neck of the woods is news.
Sadly, we are not getting that technology in Malaysia. The system is placed in Thailand first. It is not a Tesla either. It is completely autonomous with no human input controls within the vehicle at least.
It is not made for commercial purposes either, so you cannot even buy it even if you have millions in the bank. Maybe you can, but that is not the point. The new autonomous vehicle is Thailand’s next step in transforming the nation into a digital one.
Technically the vehicle in question looks nothing more than a metal box on four wheels. That is because, that is all it is – a delivery vehicle to revolutionise the Thailand healthcare industry. No, it is not made to transport human beings as ambulances.
Source: HUAWEI
They are mostly made to transport medical equipment, or medical supplies either within a hospital compound or from one hospital in town to the other. Which also means that this will also be on the road. There is a problem to all these autonomous vehicles however – how are they driven?
Usually an autonomous vehicle gathers data through various cameras and sensors placed around its body panels. These data are stitched through its ‘brains’ or CPU and uploaded to the cloud for further analysis to create detailed information of the road it sees, and the objects around it. The computer within the vehicle will determine how fast it should be going, where it should be heading, and where to place itself to avoid collisions, and find the fastest route to its destination. This also means a more reliable delivery service. Important when it comes to life and death.
There is a crucial component in autonomous vehicle networks though – data. You cannot just collect endless amounts of data and not offload it and back it up somewhere else. You need to share the data, back it up, and retrieve older data for the machine to understand situations better and make decisions based on every other data. For that, you need a stable and fast internet connection. For that you can look at 5G.
In this case, HUAWEI is that big partner that brings on the 5G capabilities required for Thailand’s revolutionary delivery vehicle service for the medical field. Technically that is it, HUAWEI empowering the healthcare segment of Thailand through their 5G. There is a little more than that though.
By effectively transforming the healthcare environment with 5G infrastructures also propels Thailand at the forefront of 5G readiness. While Malaysia is aiming to get 5G to hit the streets as soon as the end of 2020, it seems that Thailand has leaped forward and start taking advantage of 5G in improving their healthcare capacity and capabilities. This is a start to a much bigger 5G future.
What do you think of Malaysia’s progress toward 5G? Which industry do you think should get 5G capabilities first? Let us know in the comments!
MELBOURNE, Australia, July 15, 2020 — In response to the changing demands of consumers and a record peak in online orders during COVID-19, Australia’s largest pharmacy retailer, Chemist Warehouse, has teamed up with Cohesio Group (Körber) to launch a same-day delivery service for its 1.5 million weekly customers.
From L – R: Rizan Mawzoon, Head of Transportation at Cohesio Group, Mark Finocchiaro, Managing Partner and Director at Chemist Warehouse, Edwin Chong, Project Manager and Tim Noakes, Development Lead at Cohesio Group
Established in 2002, Chemist Warehouse has grown to become Australia’s largest pharmacy retailer. Operating more than 500 stores across the nation, the leading retailer now services more than 1.5 million customers and dispenses almost a million prescriptions per week.
Since COVID-19, Chemist Warehouse has experienced a huge increase in online orders, reaching higher levels than previous Black Friday and Christmas peaks.
As a result, the retailer has launched Click and Deliver, a new same-day delivery service from Chemist Warehouse and Cohesio Group to offer customers flexible and convenient delivery options. The new solution will complement the retailer’s previous sophisticated Click and Collect offering.
“We wanted to ensure that we could offer our customers the safest possible option to shop during COVID-19 restrictions. We knew that for many they felt it was a risk to leave their homes and shop in the traditional way, so we approached Cohesio Group to help us develop our existing Click and Collect solution to become a Click and Deliver solution,” Mark Finocchiaro, Managing Partner and Director, Chemist Warehouse Group said.
The solution was developed in four-weeks by Melbourne-based technology provider Cohesio Group and the first stage has been rolled out across all of Chemist Warehouse’s stores in Australia, with New Zealand set to follow.
Chemist Warehouse and Cohesio Group have worked together since 2017, with Chemist Warehouse deploying Cohesio’s dedicated retail software, Ignito, to power its Click and Collect processes.
Since Chemist Warehouse introduced Cohesio’s Ignito software solution in 2017, the retailer has increased order fulfilment throughput rates by up to 30 per cent and has since used the software to fulfil up to 150,000 online orders a month.
In order to gain faster fulfilment times, Cohesio developed a solution whereby the picking and packing of online orders is done in store, instead of from a central distribution centre (DC).
“Chemist Warehouse stores are unique in that they tend to be very large facilities and hold a huge amount of inventory. We recognised that this created the perfect opportunity to fulfil orders in store, rather than from a DC,” Rizan Mawzoon, Head of Transformation at Cohesio Group said.
“This kind of fulfilment is on the rise as e-commerce continues to take up a larger percentage of the retail spend. We knew this kind of approach would work very well for Chemist Warehouse and we’re absolutely thrilled with the results,” Nishan Wijemanne, CEO of Cohesio Group said.
When a customer selects an order on the Chemist Warehouse website or app, the Chemist Warehouse Order Management System (OMS) will check the stock levels in the stores closest to that customer to fulfil the order.
The app will also profile the consumer and recognise if they have previously visited or ordered from a particular local store.
“The system then sends a message to the store inventory team and communicates which orders are for Click and Deliver, and which are for Click and Collect,” Rizan said.
“We recognise the critical role that we play in keeping Australians healthy and giving them access to essential goods for the benefit of their health. We knew we needed to come up with a solution that reduced anxiety and risk for the most vulnerable members of our communities. Cohesio rose to the challenge and we are proud to be able to keep serving our customers with flexible and convenient delivery options,” Mark Finocchiaro, Managing Partner and Director, Chemist Warehouse Group concluded.
Cohesio Group is part of international technology group Körber. Kӧrber’s supply chain expertise, spanning software to materials handling equipment, also includes Aberle, Aberle Software, Cirrus Logistics, Consoveyo, DMLogic, HighJump, inconso, Otimis,Langhammer, Riantics and Voiteq. All companies will transition to the Kӧrber brand in Fall of 2020. Körber is home to more than 2,300 professionals and nearly 100 strategic partners across the globe dedicated to conquering supply chain complexity. With 30+ years of experience, Körber has proven success with thousands of companies worldwide.
About Chemist Warehouse and My Chemist
My Chemist is a group of independent Pharmacies, who share a common philosophy. We are dedicated to the health and wellbeing of you and your family. We have a desire to provide you with the most effective and efficient solutions for health, whilst providing advice and updated information.
Chemist Warehouse continues to be at the forefront of internet pharmacy in Australia. The Chemist Warehouse group now employs over 8000 staff members and is Australia’s largest pharmacy retailer and is rapidly expanding throughout New Zealand.
Cohesio Group, a part of international technology group Körber, is a leading integrator and developer of tech solutions that enable rapid optimisation of workflows and processes and is also an idea generating partner for strategic concepts. With offices across the Asia Pacific, Cohesio Group creates innovative technology transformations that span across supply chain and logistics including warehousing and distribution centres, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, pharmaceutical, FMCG and retail. Cohesio Group’s enterprise-grade solutions range from voice-powered technology that enable hands-free workflows through to new-generation mobility solutions, software applications that provide actionable business insights and retail fulfilment as well as solutions such as Autonomous Mobile Robots that enable automation in distribution centres. Learn more at www.cohesiogroup.com
About the Körber Business Area Supply Chain
Supply chains are growing more complex by the day. Körber uniquely provides a broad range of proven, end-to-end supply chain solutions fitting any business size, strategy or appetite for growth. Capable of delivering not just software, but automation, voice, robotics, and materials handling – plus the expertise to tie it all together. We are a global partner not just for today, but also as the needs of supply chains continue to evolve. Conquer supply chain complexity – with Körber. The Business Area Supply Chain is part of the global technology group Körber. Find out more on www.koerber-supplychain.com
Last week we saw a bunch of things being launched and released. We found out that the OnePlus Nord is coming to Malaysia. We also see the launching of Canon’s all-new, all-conquering their Canon EOS R5 and the Canon EOS R6. The Canon EOS R5 is capable of 8K video recording. It technically has become one of the best mirrorless camera in the market.
The big thing that happened last week though is the announcement of Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked 2020 event happening on the 5th of August 2020. We can expect to see the Samsung Galaxy Note20 in this event. Based on the rumours and leaks too, we can expect Samsung to bring back the Copper colour. Based on the rumours too, the Samsung Galaxy Note20 series will come with 5G capabilities as standard.
The event will also see Samsung releasing their new Active Noise Cancelling earbuds. Alongside that is a bunch of new devices like the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 and Galaxy Tab S7+. Of course, we also can expect Samsung to launch the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5G.
HONG KONG, July 15, 2020 — HUAWEI Video, the video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platform by HUAWEI, is partnering with Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. (Mediacorp), Singapore’s national media network and largest content creator, to provide a variety of original video content on-demand for users in Hong Kong. The video content includes a collection of original television series and lifestyle titles for users to watch conveniently on-the-go.
– HUAWEI Video, the video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platform by HUAWEI, is partnering with Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. (Mediacorp), Singapore’s national media network and largest content creator, to provide a variety of original video content on-demand for users in Hong Kong. The video content includes a collection of original television series and lifestyle titles for users to watch conveniently on-the-go.
"We are pleased to partner with Mediacorp and onboard their video content into our app. Through this partnership, HUAWEI Video users in Hong Kong will be able to access to Mediacorp’s video content anytime, anywhere. We are continuously committed to enhance our consumers’ mobile experience by bringing the best and varied selections," said the Director of Huawei Asia Pacific Consumer Cloud Service, Shane Shan.
Doreen Neo, Chief Content Officer, Mediacorp said: "We are excited to embark on this endeavour to extend our programmes to HUAWEI’s cosmopolitan consumers. This partnership points to the universal appeal and storytelling strength of Mediacorp productions, with our large library of original content offering something for everyone."
Effective immediately, HUAWEI Video users will be able to stream a gamut of genres from Mediacorp, including contemporary Chinese scripted shows, such as the recent romance megahits My One In A Million and The Distance Between, supernatural suspense series Hello From The Other Sideand the popular police procedural sagaC.L.I.F.; plus vivacious variety and food-focused fare Deluxe-Licious, Food Notes and Markets In Asia.
Meanwhile, an English entertainment experience comes courtesy of lauded long-running dramas KIN and Tanglin; as well as Super Octogenarians, an investigative infotainment series on active ageing amongst spunky seniors in Asia, and light-hearted lifestyle travelogue shows like This Weekend, Remarkable Living and Refugee Chef.
Additionally, HUAWEI Video users in Malaysia will be able to enjoy a simulcast of Mediacorp’s highly anticipated drama, the pugilistic period drama A Quest to Heal, together with Singapore’s Channel 8 starting from 20 July 2020.
The first five episodes for all Mediacorp’s dramas will be available for free preview, after which the content will be exclusively accessible to HUAWEI Subscription Video-on-Demand (SVOD) users. Similarly, all Mediacorp’s lifestyle titles will be available for free viewing for the first two episodes in the HUAWEI Video app.
HUAWEI Video comes pre-installed on HUAWEI devices and offers an extensive library of video content for its users. In addition to Mediacorp, HUAWEI Video has a collection of premium channels including dimsum entertainment, MangoTV, Qello Concert, The Explorers, TVB and more for users to explore and choose. All channels feature multiple language subtitles and are available to play in High Definition (HD) quality. Various local and international content categories within the HUAWEI Video app include dramas, movies, TV series, documentaries, kid’s content and more.
About HUAWEI Mobile Services:
HUAWEI Mobile Services is part of HUAWEI Mobile which aims to provide complete smartphone ecosystem to HUAWEI and HONOR phone users. Our users can enjoy official services such as Mobile Cloud, AppGallery, Video, Themes, ScreenMagazine and etc which comes along with EMUI. HUAWEI Mobile Services covers 650 million users in over 170 countries, serving an ultimate and premium smart living experience to benefit every user. As the era of the fully connected world has arrived, we continue evolving to provide superior user experience and fulfil our commitment to bring the world closer.
Mediacorp is Singapore’s largest content creator and national media network, operating six TV channels, 11 radio stations and multiple digital platforms including CNA, Singapore’s most used news app, and meWATCH, its digital video platform. Its mission is to engage, entertain and enrich audiences by harnessing the power of creativity.
Mediacorp pioneered the development of Singapore’s broadcasting industry, with radio broadcast in 1936 and television broadcast in 1963. Today, it reaches 98% of Singaporeans in four languages weekly and has a growing Asian audience base through CNA as well as entertainment content that is distributed across markets in the region.
The Mediacorp Partner Network brings Mediacorp together with industry-leading brands like ESPN, Edipresse Media, 99.co and VICE to deliver rich content for consumers and effective solutions for advertisers.
Mediacorp is the recipient of industry accolades including New York Festivals, World Media Festivals, PromaxBDA (World and Asia) and Asian Academy Creative Awards. For more information, please visit Mediacorp.sg.
Monsido Empowers Website Owners to Take Control Of Personal Data on Their Website and Meet Regulatory Requirements
SYDNEY, July 15, 2020 — Monsido, a leader in web governance solutions that enhance user experience, today announced the launch of their Data Privacy module. The new module will allow Monsido customers to automate the management of their websites’ personal data by scanning their domains and identifying potential privacy issues.
With global privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and the Australian Privacy Act (The Privacy Act 1988) in Australia in place, organisations need to be more vigilant with the personal data they collect, process, and store on their websites. It is crucial that organisations take proactive measures like implementing data protection and management software to help guide them through the various regulations.
Monsido’s Data Privacy module enables web and compliance teams to take control of their data privacy with ease by:
Automatically discovering and classifying sensitive information present on websites such as banking details, passport numbers, medical information, and much more
Customising scans based on existing data privacy standards like the GDPR, the Australian Privacy Act, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Prioritising potential issues by identifying the level of risk associated with the different data on websites
Proving their efforts to comply with data privacy standards to the authorities through audit logs and a history centre
Jannik Groentved, CEO of Monsido, said: “It is extremely difficult to avoid giving away personal information on the web today. And once you’ve given your data to an organisation, it can be hard to control where it will be used. Our Data Privacy module will help our customers ensure the best interests of their website visitors and customers by safeguarding their information and managing the personal data they hold to stay in compliance with international regulations.”
About Monsido Monsido is a fast-growing software company founded in 2014 that provides a one-stop web governance solution designed to give website visitors a superior browsing experience. Our time-saving auditing tool provides accurate and insightful information that helps organisations work with confidence to identify content, branding, and accessibility issues. Monsido has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Denmark. For more information, visit www.monsido.com.
Many petroleum, petrochemical, and power industry professionals are enhancing their resumes with advanced API, CWI and NDT online training courses during the pandemic.
HOUSTON, July 15, 2020 — Atlas Training, the leading provider of comprehensive API, CWI & NDT online exam prep training courses, reported today a pandemic related surge in professionals upgrading their credentials by adding new certifications to their resume. Atlas Training allows students to take these guaranteed, industry-leading multimedia courses from anywhere – Atlas has recently extended their online multi-media course access for an entire year.
Hannon McLeod, the president of Atlas Training stated, “Many have realized that if they can’t be at work, that they might as well be constructive and take one of our online training courses to enhance their resume. We all know that when the job market in the oil, petrochemical, chemical and power industries starts to dry up, everyone becomes aware of how important advanced certifications can be. When it comes down to several candidates and only a very few positions, these certs and qualifications become extremely important in determining if a candidate will be chosen to fill an available position.”
Established in Houston in 2014 by Hannon McLeod and Oran Lewis, Atlas API Training provides online and on-site petroleum, petrochemical, and power industries exam preparation courses for advanced industry certification. Over the last several years, Atlas has received multiple requests to expand their offering of advanced API, CWI and NDT certifications and is now developing additional industry-specific training courses that will soon be available.
Our online training courses are designed to give students the best opportunity to pass the critical certification exams. All courses are frequently updated to reflect the most current industry-specific changes and testing parameters. In the effort to service the ever-increasing demand for on-site instruction, AtlasTraining has also expanded their instructor recruitment program. Contact: hannon@atlasapitraining.com. 409-234-1322
Alestra, deploys Bright Pattern Contact Center for nonprofit, CENACED, to offer remote psychological teleassistance services during the pandemic
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 15, 2020 — CENACED, a non-profit healthcare organization, has deployed Bright Pattern as their cloud-based contact center software provider amid the COVID-19 pandemic. CENACED uses Bright Pattern to offer free telehealth services to help citizens in Mexico dealing with stress during the quarantine. They have also moved agents and counselors to a remote model to protect the safety of their employees during the pandemic.
A recent poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the pandemic has negatively affected the mental health of 56 percent of adults. In April, texts to a US federal emergency mental-health line were up 1,000 percent from the year before. The situation is particularly dire for certain vulnerable groups—health-care workers, COVID-19 patients with severe cases, and people who have lost loved ones. CENACED is working with Bright Pattern, Alestra, and Bright Pattern partner, Call It Once, to bring telehealth counseling services to impacted people in Mexico to help people deal with the current health crisis.
CENACED offers free psychological telecare to people who have symptoms of stress derived from quarantine and with Bright Pattern’s virtual call center technology are now handling 120 cases per hour and serving almost 50,000 people per month. Alestra, Bright Pattern, and Call It Once joined CENACED in this critical initiative, enabling a teleassistance contact center in the cloud as shown in this video showing the solution in action. Per CENACED this cloud contact center was deployed in “record time” and is “a technology initiative that changes lives”:
“Bright Pattern has helped global companies during the pandemic by providing a 100% virtual platform allowing customers to seamlessly transition to remote teams,” said Michael McCloskey, CEO of Bright Pattern. “Countries in both Asia and Europe have also used Bright Pattern to help with COVID contact tracing but this is the first Bright Pattern powered contact center that is helping offer telehealth services during the pandemic as well.”
“Today, the world is facing challenging times. People and companies are taking the lead in collaborating in a more personalized way leveraging innovative technology,” said Ana Llano, Regional Manager, Latin America, Bright Pattern. “With our help, CENACED was able to deploy a hybrid contact center with onsite and remote agents quickly thanks to the ease-of-use of the Bright Pattern platform. Agents were ready to provide personalized virtual counseling services and psychological teleassistance to Mexican citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. At Bright Pattern, we are proud to collaborate with our partners and help CENACED with this innovative use of technology focused on helping people and keeping agents safe at home.”
Bright Pattern Virtual Call Center Bright Pattern’s cloud-based virtual call center solution for remote agents delivers all of the benefits of a traditional contact center solution while providing the additional benefits of the flexibility gained through the use of remote workers. Our virtual contact center software solution allows your organization to “flex” during peak or low times, recruit talent from any geography, and deliver a complete omnichannel customer experience. In addition, Bright Pattern provides a powerful omnichannel quality management solution that allows you to score 100% of all customer interactions and manage agent performance to better manage remote workers. This combination of advanced omnichannel virtual contact center software with embedded quality management makes Bright Pattern the clear choice for delivering the best customer and agent experience.
Bright Pattern Cloud Contact Center Features:
Business Continuity – Keep your business going no matter what interruptions local offices or business settings face. Bright Pattern has a robust system designed to ensure uninterrupted continuity in the case of a local disaster or facility interruption.
Scalability – Bright Pattern cloud call center software allows you to easily supplement your existing workforce with additional remote agents in minimal time.
Deploy in Days – Bright Pattern was rated #1 by G2 Crowd for quickest time to deploy out of all CCaaS vendors in the industry with the highest ROI and ROI payback time. Bright Pattern Cloud Contact Center can be deployed in days instead of the weeks it takes most CCaaS vendors.
Geographic flexibility – allow agents to access the exact same information that they would typically access in their offices from anywhere with a stable internet connection.
Maintain voice quality across geographies – Bright Pattern’s Automatic Call Distribution (ACD) software routes callers to the optimal agent.
Built in Quality Assurance – Monitor 100% of interactions regardless of channel with AI-powered quality management with sentiment and speech analytics for automated quality assurance in real-time across the globe.
Data Privacy – Fully compliant with international regulations including PCI DSS, HIPAA, DGPR, TCPA, and SOC.
If you are experiencing a spike in calls as a result of the outbreak or need to deploy a remote workforce, Bright Pattern is prepared to deliver consultations and cloud services to existing and new customers. Please contact us at marketing@brightpattern.com, call 925-548-0532, or request a demo.
About Bright Pattern Bright Pattern provides the simplest and most powerful AI-powered omnichannel contact center software for innovative midsize and enterprise companies. With the purpose of making customer service brighter, easier, and faster than ever before, Bright Pattern offers the only true omnichannel cloud platform with embedded AI that can be deployed quickly and nimbly by business users—without costly professional services. Bright Pattern allows companies to offer an effortless and personal customer experience across channels like voice, text, chat, email, video, messengers, and bots. Bright Pattern also allows companies to measure and act on every interaction on every channel via embedded AI omnichannel quality management. The company was founded by a team of industry veterans who pioneered the leading contact center solutions and today are delivering an architecture for the future with an advanced cloud-first approach. Bright Pattern’s cloud contact center solution is used globally in over 26 countries and 12 languages.
About Alestra Alestra is a Mexican IT Services company headquartered in San Pedro Garza García, in Greater Monterrey, Mexico.It is a subsidiary of the Mexican conglomerate Alfa and provides IT solutions for the corporate sector in Mexico. Alestra reported revenues of $415 million for 2014.
About CENACED CENACED is a non-profit, plural, autonomous, and inclusive civil society organization, with no political or religious aims and always open to anyone who wants to join efforts to improve the living conditions of the population in vulnerable conditions. CENACED is dedicated to promoting and strengthening a greater culture of prevention, health self-care, and self-protection in cases of disasters and epidemiological contingencies.
About Call IT Once Call IT Once is made up of highly experienced professionals for contact center management and the continuous improvement of contact center processes and strategies.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 2020 — AI Healthcare company Presagen has developed a novel Federated Learning technique that can create better performing AI than traditional centralized training approaches.
Lines connect a selection of major global cities revealing a world wide network. Maps courtesy: NASA and CIA World Databank IIDifferent Angles:
Federated Learning is a technique that allows AI to train on data distributed in different locations throughout the world, without having to move or centralize the data, in order to protect data privacy. Presagen’s patent-pending approach, called Decentralized AI Training, has AI traveling to the data rather than data traveling to the AI.
Presagen’s Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Dr Jonathan Hall said “With Decentralized AI Training, the AI travels to the data, trains, and then moves to the next data source. Only the AI, which represents general learnings from the data, is shared, and never the private data themselves. This allows our team to train AI on private patient data that we never see.”
An unexpected and exciting result showed that Decentralized AI Training can achieve greater accuracy than training on the same data using the traditional centralized approach. When the data are of poor quality, the technique becomes self-correcting and accuracy improvements of over 10% have been achieved.
Dr Michelle Perugini, Co-Founder and CEO said “This result is critical for developing commercial AI products. Real world problems like healthcare are not Kaggle competitions. Data are inherently poor quality due to subjectivity or clinical uncertainty. Importantly, when you cannot personally see or verify the data, you are exposed to adversarial attacks where data contributors intentionally insert poor quality data. It is important for the AI to handle these situations robustly and automatically for you. This reduces the need to manually process, clean and verify data, which is a huge expense for AI companies, and can also infringe on the privacy of patients.”
A CB Insights Report, Artificial Intelligence Trends To Watch In 2020, quotes the CEO of Google Sundar Pichai saying “On user privacy and control, it’s always been a big focus for us…Initiative is underway for example like federated learning for almost three years…I think it’s one of the most important areas we are working on.”
Google has its own patented Federated Learning technique originally designed for running AI on individual mobile phones. Presagen’s alternative technique was designed for distributed nodes and clusters of unbalanced data from data sources (e.g. clinics), ensuring no movement or sharing of private data whilst maintaining scalability and efficiency.
Presagen Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Dr Don Perugini said “Federated Learning will become pivotal for AI companies operating in the healthcare industry to build commercially scalable AI medical products. Scalable and unbiased AI need diverse datasets to train on, which represent different patient demographics and clinical settings. However, health privacy laws in many countries prevent private clinical data leaving the country of origin. Federated Learning allows AI to train on a globally diverse dataset, without having to move or centralize the data, to create AI products that clinics and patients anywhere in the world can use and rely on.”
Presagen’s Federated Learning is supported by Presagen’s AI Open Projects initiative, which is currently focused on the underserved women’s health sector (Femtech). Presagen announces a call out for “projects”, which are specific medical products that are being developed, to clinics globally to contribute data. Annotated and verified data from clinics, in a pre-specified format, can be “connected” easily by clinics via the drag and drop function onto Presagen’s online Clinical Data Portal. Data remain on secure local cloud servers within the country of origin, ready for decentralized AI training. This also shifts the effort of data labeling and pre-processing onto to clinics, who have the right expertise, which eliminates the large cost and barrier for AI companies. In return for contributing labeled data and clinical trial support, Presagen offers royalties on the global sales of the product once commercialized. This allows clinics of any size, anywhere, to monetize their data without the technical or commercial cost and risk.
Presagen’s first AI medical product, Life Whisperer, is already in use globally by IVF clinics. Life Whisperer uses AI to identify which embryos in IVF are likely to lead to a successful pregnancy. The assessment is conducted on single static images of embryos. In a published international clinical study Life Whisperer performed 25% better than current manual embryo assessment methods. Life Whisperer was built on globally diverse data from clinics in multiple countries.
Presagen has recently developed a range of patent-pending AI technologies which drives a fundamental paradigm shift in developing commercially scalable AI products for real-world problems, that apply beyond healthcare and to AI more generally.
Dr Michelle Perugini said “We are excited that over the coming weeks and months we will present to the world the suite of technologies which we believe advance the field of AI. These technologies will allow Presagen to build scalable AI products that are more commercially viable and technically superior, and thus market dominating. This is vital in Presagen’s journey to become world-leaders in AI Enhanced Healthcare and a dominant player in the AI in Femtech market globally. More importantly we see it as an opportunity to change, lead, and dominate the AI industry more broadly.”
– Bannggood ‘Restart a Good Life’ Summer Prime Sale featuring digital coupons, gifts giveaway and special offers on a variety of essentials for home, school and outdoor activities runs from July 3 through July 26, 2020
GUANGZHOU, China, July 14, 2020 — Banggood, a leading cross-border e-commerce retailer, has kicked off its Summer Prime Sale on July 9th, and saw a 50% sales growth compared with the same period last year for the first 48 hours.
Products of XIAOMI, BlitzWolf, Eachine, DJI and Huawei became the most popular items in the first wave of the campaign, among which XIAOMI’s Redmi Note 8 stood out as the top seller with more than 50,000 pieces sold in the first 48 hours at the price of $125.99, which was the lowest online. The sales amount of product categories such as Home Appliances, Phones & Telecommunication, Sports & Outdoors, Consumer Electrics and more, have been doubled comparing with the same period last year. The sales number of Computers and Office category in the first 4 hours has exceeded that of the whole day last year.
The Summer Prime Sale is Banggood’s largest-scale sales campaign since this year and has attracted active participation of users globally. Banggood has integrated its supply chain to provide popular products with great discounts and digital coupons worth USD60 million to its users, which is available on PC, mobile and app of Banggood from July 11th. The company also launched Banggood Express, a self-operated air freight route and opened more than 37 local warehouses in countries and areas such as the United States, Europe and Australia to shorten the delivery time.
On July 21st to 24th, when the Summer Prime Sale will come to its peak with best deals and discounts, Banggood will host a 72-hour time-limited live-streaming session – the Banggood LIVESTREAM. 14 influencers from different countries will participant into this online event, and viewers joining it will have a chance to receive digital coupons and snap up their favorite products at the lowest price.
Founded in 2006, Banggood is a leading e-commerce company running its website www.banggood.com and pages on other platforms to offer tens of millions of registered users more than 500,000 types of products, covering from consumer electronics to clothing. Banggood is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, the city of the supply chain, with a global reach in North America, Europe, Asian Pacific, South America and the Middle East. For more information, please visit: https://www.banggood.com/aboutBanggood.html
Media Contact Zoeh Zheng Phone: +86-134-5028-6595 Email: pr@Banggood.com
