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Stay Home and Share Happiness – the International Day of Families with Glico’s CACAO STORY 360 and GLICODE

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SINGAPORE, May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Glico Asia Pacific announced that two online learning resources “Cacao Story 360” and “GLICODE” are now available to the public to help children enjoy learning at home in conjunction with the International Day of Families on May 15.

Stay Home and Share Happiness, the International Day of Families with Glico’s CACAO STORY 360 and GLICODE
Stay Home and Share Happiness, the International Day of Families with Glico’s CACAO STORY 360 and GLICODE

Amid the prolonged impact due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many people might feel anxious or stressed out with uncertainty. Especially families with younger children may have problems thinking about how to entertain their children with indoor activities or to set up a conducive environment for home-based learning. In response to such concerns, Glico offers these two digital contents. A 360-degree video called Cacao Story 360 bring users on a journey to learn about cocoa beans. GLICODE is an educational tool with which people can enjoy learning basic coding skills using Glico’s chocolate snack, Pocky. The product’s core value is ‘Share happiness!’. Glico delivers these contents to users so that they can spend quality time with their family through such experiences.

Cacao Journey to Become Chocolate – CACAO STORY 360

Cacao Story 360 is a VR (virtual reality) content which allows users to learn how cacao beans are grown, harvested and transferred all the way to be ready for chocolate making. The video has been taken at a cacao bean plantation in Ecuador, one of the places Glico sources for Pocky production. Users can embark on a virtual tour to enjoy viewing a vast cacao plantation, rustic townscapes and the entire process from harvesting to shipping cocoa beans as well as interviews with the farmers. A dynamic aerial drone footage makes users feel as if they are visiting and seeing the place. Users can enjoy a 360°virtual video with their mobile devices. VR goggles will enhance the viewer’s experience even further.

Originally created for limited viewership, it is made available to everyone so that more people can enjoy this content in such a difficult situation.

Sweet Coding e-learning with Pocky – GLICODE

The other tool is an educational app called GLICODE which allows users to learn basic coding skills in a fun way using Pocky. By arranging Pocky in different sequences, you can learn three basic coding fundamentals, SEQUENCE, LOOP and IF via GLICODE. GLICODE stages increase in difficulty as users progress and learn new coding principles. Coding is all about problem solving and there are many ways to reach the goal. Try and come up with an unique solution.

Since its initial launch in 2016 in Japan, GLICODE has generated attention in and outside of Japan. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan has also officially adopted GLICODE to be part of the ‘Popularisation of Programming’ initiative to integrate computer science education into elementary school curriculums since 2016.

GLICODE has been translated into English in 2017 and into Thai in 2018 to share the joy of learning with as many people as possible. GLICODE is now not only enjoyed at home but used as a learning resource at many elementary schools or institutions in Japan and Singapore.

“We believe that we are offering an opportunity to experience Pocky’s core value, ‘Share happiness!’ to our customers with these two contents even while Stay-at-Home order is set in place,” said HIROHISA TAMAI, Assistant Global Brand Manager, Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. “Parents are stressed out with not being able to take their kids for outdoor activities and have them go to school. Currently we cannot shoot new videos in a situation where social distancing is required. After we thought about how we can support people with Pocky and what kind of occasions ‘Share happiness!’ can be offered to customers during this restricted period, we came up with the idea of delivering these existing contents, instead of simply delivering an encouraging message or video.”

Glico supports family bonding time by delivering ‘Share happiness!’ through fun and educational digital contents. Glico stands with families in getting through this tough time by practicing social distancing together.

#PockyVirtualTravel #OnlineEducationwithPocky #Sharehappiness

About Cacao Story 360

Cacao Story 360 is a digital video content with which users can virtually travel to a plantation and learn about cacao. Users can view a series of 9 videos and 1 interview with local farmers with their mobile phones.

* This content is available for mobile devices only.
* English is the only language available.

https://cp.glico.jp/glicodrone/738q4p5j2/en/pc.html

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About GLICODE

GLICODE is an app which allows users to learn basic coding skills in a fun way using Pocky. It is for sure to be enjoyed by not only children but also parents! Let’s clear all 39 stages! BTW… Remember to wash your hands before and after playing GLICODE!

Get coding today! Download GLICODE at:

About Glico Group

Ever since the launch in 1922 of the nutritious, Glico nutritious caramel in its distinctive red box, the business activities of Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. adhered to the corporate philosophy of “Enhancing people’s health through food.” Upon the 70th anniversary of the Glico Group in 1992, this same spirit and dedication was incorporated into the revised corporate philosophy of “A Wholesome Life in the Best of Taste.” Glico caramel – the company’s first product – incorporates the innovative creativeness of Mr. Riichi Ezaki, the company’s founder. Ever since the beginning, the entire staff has likewise been heartily dedicated to further enhancing people’s health and quality of life. This has led to the expansion of business lines beyond confectionery to include ice cream products, processed foods, desserts, milk products, baby formula, food ingredients, and raw materials for cosmetic and health products.

https://www.glico.com/global/

About Glico Asia Pacific

Regional headquarters Glico Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. was established in Singapore in 2017 to further our business across the APAC region. The region comprises of offices in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam which support the development and sales of confectionery and ice cream products for the Asia Pacific.

https://www.glico.com/sg/

About Pocky

Pocky Chocolate was released in 1966 and promoted as the world’s first chocolate stick biscuit. Pocky is so shareable that you’ll want to share it with your friends and family any time, and anywhere. Pocky is all about ‘Share happiness!’ Let’s all share Pocky and bring happiness around the world.

http://pocky.glico.com/info/

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Frost & Sullivan Assesses the Top 21 Global Risks that Threaten the Next Decade

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Inability to mitigate global risks such as rise of infectious diseases like COVID-19 can adversely impact businesses, societies, and economies

SANTA CLARA, California, May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Global Future Risks—Future-proofing Your Strategies, 2030, provides a compelling analysis that will help stakeholders understand the impact of future risks through the short, medium and long terms, and equip them to act on clear growth opportunities. The study presents over 80 growth opportunities arising from 21 risks, which will help policymakers, businesses and individuals take immediate tactical and strategic actions and draw plans to lower impact. Unpreparedness to address these challenges, which are looming across the globe, will adversely impact businesses, societies, economies, cultures, and personal lives.

Global Future Risks
Global Future Risks

For further information on this analysis, please visit: http://frost.ly/43o

“Risks are now increasingly interconnected, which, if amplified, can trigger a ripple effect across industries, regions, and diverse stakeholder groups. Therefore, mitigating them will involve measures to quantify relevant risks, estimate the probability of occurrence and the adoption of a cohesive, interdisciplinary, and multipronged approach,” said Murali Krishnan, Visionary Innovation Group Senior Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

Krishnan added: “With an estimated 200 billion connected devices by 2030, the risk of sophisticated cyberattacks will escalate. Therefore, companies should invest in future-casting tools that help identify the impact of such risks to their business, thereby detecting vulnerabilities and avoiding disruptions.”

“Over 40 million Americans are at risk of flooding from rivers, nearly 300,000 have lost their lives to the COVID pandemic, and close to $1 billion in costs will be borne annually by economies as they become victims to cyberattacks. The stakes are high, claiming both lives and resources. Businesses must look to invest in early warning systems that help future-proof them against the known and the unknown. Understanding risks and its levers can become a growth opportunity if used as a tool to create value,” noted Archana Vidyasekar, Visionary Innovation Group Research Director at Frost & Sullivan.

To tap into growth opportunities emerging from the short-, mid- and long-term risks, organizations can focus on the following areas:

Short-term risks

  • Privacy and disinformation risks: Organizations must adopt a “privacy-by-design” approach, which goes beyond accepted privacy standards and assumes global regulatory compliance.
  • Rise of infectious diseases: Advanced technologies such as next-generation sequencing (NGS) and CRISPR-based diagnostics will enable new approaches in the treatment of infectious diseases.
  • Water crisis: Innovation in agricultural practices such as vertical farming and optimized crop selection can play an important role in reducing the ongoing water crisis.

Mid-term risks

  • Urbanization: Urbanization stress will trigger the demand for smart solutions such as intelligent grid control and electrification, smart buildings, and smart storage solutions.
  • Climate change risks: Organizations will emphasize investments in buildings with net-zero energy consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions will increase minimally.

Long-term risks

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) as a threat: AI can be a strong reason for the polarization of jobs across the world, but investing in collaborative computational capabilities can help allocate an ideal division of tasks between humans and robots based on their distinct capabilities and deployment costs.
  • National identity crisis: Great business opportunities exist in providing digital authentication of eGovernment services such as digitization of birth, marriage, and death certificates, passports, and driving licenses.

Global Future Risks—Future-proofing Your Strategies, 2030 is the latest addition to Frost & Sullivan’s Visionary Innovation research and analyses available through the Frost & Sullivan Leadership Council, which helps organizations identify a continuous flow of growth opportunities to succeed in an unpredictable future.

About Frost & Sullivan

For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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Telehealth to Experience Massive Growth with COVID-19 Pandemic, Says Frost & Sullivan

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Demand for telehealth will soar by 64.3% in the US in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare

SANTA CLARA, California, May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis, Telehealth—A Technology-Based Weapon in the War Against the Coronavirus, 2020, finds that the demand for telehealth technology is expected to rise dramatically as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt the practice of medicine and the delivery of healthcare worldwide. The telehealth market in the United States (US) is estimated to display staggering seven-fold growth by 2025, resulting in a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38.2%. In 2020, the telehealth market is likely to experience a tsunami of growth, resulting in a year-over-year increase of 64.3%.

Telehealth to Experience Massive Growth with COVID-19 Pandemic, Says Frost & Sullivan
Telehealth to Experience Massive Growth with COVID-19 Pandemic, Says Frost & Sullivan

For further information on this analysis, please visit: http://frost.ly/43e.

“The critical need for social distancing among physicians and patients will drive unprecedented demand for telehealth, which involves the use of communication systems and networks to enable either a synchronous or asynchronous session between the patient and provider,” said Victor Camlek, Healthcare Principal Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “However, all stakeholders need to remember that many people use the terms ‘telehealth’ or ‘telemedicine’ without understanding the ecosystem that is involved. This study will clarify the many components that are needed in order to implement telehealth.”

Camlek added: “Across the market segments, virtual visits and remote patient monitoring (RPM) will propel the overall market of telehealth, followed by mHealth and personal emergency response systems (PERS). Further, patients will benefit if data from RPM is fully available to virtual visit providers. This trend will demonstrate the benefit of integrated services. The trauma resulting from the COVID-19 crisis will lead to a clear growth opportunity for one-stop virtual visit and RPM solutions.”

The opportunity for telehealth products and services to become a standard of care is growing. The challenge facing these technology and healthcare providers will focus on their ability to scale-up to this unprecedented demand. Growth in the telehealth space will be sustained beyond the COVID-19 pandemic for the vendors who can deliver:

  • User-friendly sensors and remote diagnostic equipment that yield a high rate of successful patient outcomes following the telehealth experience.
  • Practical applications of artificial intelligence (AI), Interactive Virtual Assistants (IVAs), and robotics that expand the telehealth deployment model.
  • Deployment of big data analytics that can help researchers learn more about the way COVID-19 progresses among diverse patient populations.
  • Adherence to cybersecurity and privacy regulations that avoid data breaches following the use of telehealth services.
  • Measurable data that confirms the value of telehealth and influences regulatory agencies at the federal and state levels to extend all emergency waivers beyond the pandemic.

Telehealth—A Technology-Based Weapon in the War Against the Coronavirus, 2020 is the latest addition to Frost & Sullivan’s Transformational Health research and analyses available through the Frost & Sullivan Leadership Council, which helps organizations identify a continuous flow of growth opportunities to succeed in an unpredictable future.

About Frost & Sullivan

For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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Guardhat Lauded by Frost & Sullivan for Setting the Industry Benchmark in Worforce Connected Safety

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Guardhat combines intelligent proprietary software with modern wearable technology to provide frontline industrial workers with connected safety and comprehensive situational awareness

SANTA CLARA, California, May 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Based on its recent analysis of the global connected safety market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Detroit-based Guardhat, Inc. with the 2020 Global Company of the Year Award. Guardhat developed the underlying technology, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform, and visualization capabilities to bridge last-mile connectivity between wearable personal protective equipment and enterprise systems. Instant insight into situational context offers Guardhat operators and on-site personnel a deeper understanding of the way people and assets interact. It enhances decision-making by presenting users with a comprehensive view of their facilities.

2020 Global Connected Safety Company of the Year Award
2020 Global Connected Safety Company of the Year Award

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents a Company of the Year award to the organization that demonstrates excellence in terms of growth strategy and implementation in its field. The award recognizes a high degree of innovation with products and technologies, and the resulting leadership in terms of customer value and market penetration.

“Guardhat’s home-grown control center platform, KYRA, ties together multi-model data from disparate elements and formats into a single analytics engine, delivering new levels of visibility into a users mobility, position, floor level, proximity, and relationship to other workers and assets,” said Sanjiv Bhaskar Industry Analyst and VP at Frost & Sullivan. “Its platform and analytics engine have a unique capability to process massive amounts of real-time data, geo-stamped and time-tagged with specific event information. This presents a unified, human-centric view and status assessment that empowers enterprises to improve safety management and reduce workplace injuries by up to 20 percent.”

Guardhat’s agile IoT component links with a  form factor – such as a mobile application, hardhat, or tags – to monitor a users location, condition, and immediate environment in real-time. Its intelligent system handles a range of data inputs and consolidates information about a spectrum of devices and wearable data sources. Guardhat’s value proposition lies in its ability to communicate this information so enterprises can address issues proactively. In an industrial setup with typically limited communication capabilities, it improves response times and productivity, opening up the potential of Big Data.

The Guardhat system integrates with any connectable sensor and a variety of third-party platforms. Through partnerships and an expanding customer base, it continues to increase its footprint across industries—co-branding products and developing robust and scalable enterprise solutions. These alliances give the company access to a diverse industrial workforce in North America, Europe, Russia, Brazil, and India.

“Guardhat’s solutions have found enthusiastic adoption in a range of industries such as utilities, telecom, mining, construction, chemicals, oil & gas, and heavy manufacturing,” noted Bhaskar. “Its visionary leadership, intelligent proprietary software, and stellar growth through strategic partnerships further strengthen its position at the forefront of the industrial connected safety market.”

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

About Frost & Sullivan

For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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About Guardhat, Inc.

Detroit-based Guardhat is a leading industrial IoT technology company specialized in developing wearables, infrastructure, and software platforms to provide a safer and more productive work environment for frontline industrial workers in heavy manufacturing industries. Founded in October 2014 by industry veterans and former steel & mining CEO Saikat Dey, Guardhat’s mission is to modernize safety and enhance last mile connectivity in the industrial workplace. By combining a cutting-edge, wearable technology with advanced proprietary software, Guardhat is able to proactively monitor a user’s location, health, and work environment. The software platform collects and analyzes on-the-job data, which is used to enhance industrial worker safety and productivity programs. Based out of its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, Guardhat operates globally with offices in Boulder, Colorado; Chicago, Illinois; Bangalore, India; and Paris, France. Guardhat holds 8 patents across areas of Connected Worker, Real Time Location Systems, and Wearable Solutions. For more information, visit www.guardhat.com.

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Pininfarina to Launch AutonoMIA, a Responsive Driving Experience for the Mobility of the Future

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TURIN, Italy, May 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Pininfarina’s 90th anniversary celebrations focus on the value that have guided it since its foundation: designing the future.

Pininfarina’s responsive User Experience for the mobility of the future.
Pininfarina’s responsive User Experience for the mobility of the future.

A leader in automotive design and engineering, the Turin-based company further expands its offering to automotive customers through the conception, design and realization of User Experiences, in the form of a highly responsive, multi-sensorial on-board experience demonstrator, named AutonoMIA.

AutonoMIA is an immersive exploration of how technology, from AI to 5G, from display to haptics, from sensors to natural interfaces, can be leveraged to reenchant the driving experience. It is a tool that designers will use to continue iterating on the thinking on the future of driving. The different parties build knowledge on the data extracted from its usage. But AutonoMIA is also an asset that can be leveraged, customized and developed further for Pininfarina’s clients.

AutonoMIA was made possible thanks to several new strategic partnerships.

The main collaboration is with ART. The Umbrian company made available its experience in creating user interfaces for automotive cockpits, and provided its highly advanced and customizable infotainment platform. ART provided all of AutonoMIA’s hardware and developed all the needed middleware.

In turn, the application layer was designed in close cooperation with and developed by Siili_auto, a leading Finnish automotive software development company.

The seats and all the padded parts were supplied by ARAS.

“AutonoMIA”, explains CEO Pininfarina, Silvio Pietro Angori, “shows how Pininfarina may combine experience design with creative technology, reinventing the on-board experience at a time when digitalisation, connectivity, data and artificial intelligence are substantially redefining mobility. With its Experience Design team and Partners, Pininfarina today helps its customers through mobility experiences which are getting more and more digital“.

AutonoMIA is an experience designed to adjust and respond to people and contexts of use, leveraging the different interface elements it builds on to create a multi-sensorial and responsive experience that creates magic, strong meaning and positive impact in and around the car. Among others, AutonoMIA revisits notably the function, position, individual and combined use of screens inside the car.

In the future, AutonoMIA will be able to build on the true augmented reality experience provided by Pininfarina’s partner WayRay and its advanced holographic, full-color head-up display technology and new applications for autonomous driving, urban mobility and infotainment.

Pininfarina's responsive User Experience for the mobility of the future.
Pininfarina’s responsive User Experience for the mobility of the future.

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STRATACACHE Launches Walkbase IntelliCount Occupancy Management Technology

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The solution is immediately available for clients across all STRATACACHE brands

DAYTON, Ohio, May 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — STRATACACHE today announced the launch of Walkbase IntelliCount — an occupancy management solution that uses 3D footfall cameras, Walkbase cloud analytics and a mobile-friendly dashboard— in response to new government guidance to limit the number of customers and employees, as well as follow social distancing protocol, in physical spaces due to COVID-19. The technology has been field-proven for more than ten years, in thousands of locations, and is immediately available for clients across the STRATACACHE family of marketing technology companies including Scala, RDM, X2O Media and PRN.

“Walkbase IntelliCount allows businesses such as retail stores, restaurants and transportation hubs to utilize and expand on the solution for improved customer experience beyond COVID-19 related distancing needs,” said Chris Riegel, CEO of STRATACACHE. 

Benefits of Walkbase IntelliCount include:

  • Precise occupancy measurement in real time through high-accuracy 3D sensors installed at the store entrances and exits
  • Significant labor cost savings through automation and reallocation of staffing to customer experience and store operations tasks
  • Easy-to-analyze data displayed in a web-based dashboard on any browser-enabled device including tablets, mobile or indoor and outdoor digital signs. Email or push notifications can provide staff and management with real-time alerts
  • Scalable and privacy friendly, the solution collects no personally identifiable information

“It’s important that retailers who are facing new, unfamiliar business operations challenges know that there are tools available that are mature, field proven and will optimize their customer experience while ensuring compliance and accuracy,” Riegel added. “Our teams globally are delivering new customer experience strategies, and we’re prepared to deploy Walkbase IntelliCount in the market.”

Beyond occupancy management, the Walkbase IntelliCount solution can be expanded to further engage and inform shoppers and store employees:

  • Tied to customer- and employee-facing digital signs, communications are improved by displaying real-time wait updates, occupancy capacity and in-store safety procedures
  • A more robust solution can include integrations with third party hardware and software such as automated entry/exit doors, queuing systems and existing operations dashboards
  • Walkbase retail analytics platform gathers sensor-based data on in-store behaviors and patterns that gives retailers deep insights into how and where customers are spending time and money in the store

Learn more about Walkbase IntelliCount and retail analytics at walkbase.com/intellicount.

About STRATACACHE
STRATACACHE delivers in-store retail experience transformation and exceptional customer journeys through a wide array of marketing technology. Our solutions enable retailers to learn deeply about their customers’ shopping preferences and behaviors, delivering targeted promotional or task-based messaging on any digital display. With 3 million+ software activations globally, we power the biggest digital networks for the world’s largest brands. Across the STRATACACHE family of complementary Marketing Technology solution companies, we have the technology, expertise and track record to bring retail innovation that delivers results. Learn more about the STRATACACHE family at www.stratacache.com, on Twitter @STRATACACHE or on Facebook.

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Frost & Sullivan Delivers the 50 Most Disruptive Technologies and their Global Market Potential

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Discover the 50 emerging technologies that are best positioned to fuel global innovation and spawn growth opportunities

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — TechVision’s annual Top 50 Emerging Technologies research offers cutting-edge intelligence about the 50 most valuable and disruptive technologies poised to impact the world in the next 12-18 months. Initiated in 2011, this unparalleled research has expanded to include thousands of technologies spanning nine technology clusters and all types of corporate, government, academic, and research organizations worldwide. Using a robust methodology, which includes measuring future market potential, tracking IP activity and global investments, forecasting regional adoption and many other criteria, our team of tech experts has identified 50 technologies that are well-positioned to spur global innovation and galvanize growth opportunities.

Top 50 Emerging Technologies Webinar
Top 50 Emerging Technologies Webinar

Frost & Sullivan invites you to join Anand S., Vice President, TechVision, for the Growth Opportunity Briefing, “Top 50 Emerging Technologies & Growth Opportunities,” on May 20 at 11 a.m. EDT, as he discusses global innovation cycles and highlights disruptive business opportunities.

For more information and to register for the webinar, please visit: http://frost.ly/43m

Key benefits of attending this webinar:

  • Discover the significant global trends influencing technology adoption across clusters such as Health and Wellness, Energy and Utilities, Microelectronics, Advanced Manufacturing, Sensors and Instrumentation, and more.
  • Realize the addressable market potential over the next five years for technologies such as dApps, blue hydrogen, 5G networks, microbiome therapeutics, kinesthetic communication, and holographic 3D printing. 
  • Learn more about the patents landscape and identify opportunities for technology licensing, mergers and acquisitions.
  • Access insights on public and private funding for key innovations and technologies.
  • Identify regional adoption and diffusion of innovation across the globe.
  • Find out about technology convergence opportunities for new product development.

The event will also be recorded and available on demand at http://frost.ly/1ti. 

About Frost & Sullivan

For over five decades, Frost & Sullivan has become world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders, and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models, and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success. Contact us: Start the discussion.

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Frost & Sullivan 
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ZAFUL and LiveMe donate masks to California hospital

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MARTINEZ, Calif., May 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — ZAFUL has taken steps to fulfill its social responsibilities, and actions to help curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak. Cooperating with LiveMe, a joint live broadcast partner of Cheetah Mobile, ZAFUL donated 17,500 masks to a hospital in California as well as 2,500 disposable isolation face masks to the nurses, anchors and staff on the LiveMe live broadcast platform. The donation has been appreciated by the hospital staff. Celebrity anchor Macykate also mentioned this donation in the live broadcast of LiveMe’s four-year event, calling on more people to joint in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

The celebrity anchor Macykate
The celebrity anchor Macykate

The Clothing Industry is facing an unparalleled challenge, among which many retailers across the world have shut their offline stores. In response to the pandemic, ZAFUL has taken proactive measures.

ZAFUL has provided prevention guidance on its website, adding mask identification instructions so that consumers can have a better understanding of the different protection methods. ZAFUL is offering basic protective equipment materials to people in need, qualified medical masks are sold at a cost ($3.20 each) on the website.

ZAFUL has its own warehouse where the products are thoroughly disinfected on a daily basis. The relevant staff are required to conduct daily temperature tests, wear masks and gloves to ensure a safe delivery of packages to the consumers. In terms of the shipping, ZAFUL is preferentially choosing local warehouse logistics for delivery to guarantee timeliness and reducing transportation risks. The monitoring of logistics channels has been strengthened and new workflows have been added to minimize the delay of deliveries.

In addition, the validity of returns and exchanges was extended to 60 days. Through communicating online with consumers and solving their issues in a timely and effective manner, ZAFUL aims to improve the shopping experience of its consumers.

Keeping up with fashion – ZAFUL will carry out various brand activities and introduce new selections of clothes every year. This year, the Spring pop-up store plan in New York has been postponed. However, it will bring surprise to the people looking forward to it when the program runs again.

ZAFUL has launched series of sportswear and related equipment on the website so that customers can wear various clothes and exercise while staying at home. Moreover, free medical masks are offered for orders over $79. ZAFUL is expecting to see a brand new you when the pandemic ends!

About ZAFUL

Founded in 2014, ZAFUL is dedicated to offering fashionable and cost-efficient fashion-related merchandise for the tech savvy youth. In 2019, ZAFUL was ranked 23rd in the High 50 China Export Manufacturers by BrandZ, the world’s largest model fairness database. Thus far, ZAFUL covers shoppers in over 180 nations and regions.

Web site: www.zaful.com

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Atos delivers its Quantum Learning Machine to Japan

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PARIS, May 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announced that it has sold its Atos Quantum Learning Machine (QLM), the world’s highest-performing commercially available quantum simulator, through its APAC distributor Intelligent Wave Inc. (IWI), in Japan. This is the first QLM that Atos has sold in Japan.

Atos delivers its Quantum Learning Machine to Japan
Atos delivers its Quantum Learning Machine to Japan

Quantum computing is a key priority for Japan. It launched a dedicated ten-year, 30 billion yen (US$280 million) quantum research program in 2017, followed by a 100 billion yen (US$900 million) investment into its Moonshot R&D Program – one focus of which will be to create a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer to revolutionize the economy, industry, and security sectors by 2050.

Combining a high-powered, ultra-compact machine with a universal programming language, the Atos Quantum Learning Machine enables researchers and engineers to develop an experiment with quantum software. It is the world’s only quantum software development and simulation appliance for the coming quantum computer era. It simulates the laws of physics, which are at the very heart of quantum computing, to compute the exact execution of a quantum program with double-digit precision.

“We’re delighted to have sold our first QLM in Japan, thanks to our strong working partnership with Intelligent Wave Inc.. We are proud to be part of this growing momentum as the country plans to boost innovation through quantum. Japan understands that quantum research requires a long-term vision and nurtures innovation at every level to build its future success in the field,“ said Nourdine Bihmane, Head of Growing Markets and Head of B&PS Public & Regional at Atos. “The Atos Quantum Learning Machine enables businesses to develop and experiment with quantum processes and delivers superior simulation capabilities to speed innovation.”

The introduction of the Atos QLM enables companies to prepare algorithms tailored to their own use cases and adapt them to current and future quantum technologies. It also supports research and educational institutions in training human resources to quantum programming and to promote advanced research on these topics.

The Atos QLM simulates the behavior of a quantum computer, meaning that quantum algorithms can be developed without the need for quantum hardware. As the Atos QLM is hardware-agnostic, quantum algorithms developed on it can be executed on any quantum computer from any manufacturer.

Atos QLM users continue to grow. Launched in 2017, the QLM is being used in numerous countries worldwide including Austria, Finland, France, Germany, India,  Italy, the Netherlands, Senegal, UK and the United States, empowering major research programs in various sectors. Atos’ ambitious program to anticipate the future of quantum computing – the ‘Atos Quantum‘ program – was launched in November 2016. As a result of this initiative, Atos was the first organization to offer a quantum noisy simulation module within the Atos QLM.

More information about Atos Quantum Learning Machine: https://atos.net/en/solutions/quantum-learning-machine

About Atos

Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of 12 billion euro. European number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing, the Group provides end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the brands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index.

The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.

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TAIGER launches movement and chatbot to help people and businesses cope during COVID-19

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SINGAPORE, May 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — TAIGER has launched an AI-driven chatbot, ‘Ask Phoebe‘, as part of a movement called #makehomesgreatagain to help people make better use of their time while at home with their families.

TAIGER launches movement and chatbot to help people and businesses cope during COVID-19
TAIGER launches movement and chatbot to help people and businesses cope during COVID-19

The chatbot offers social distancing-friendly activity ideas during the pandemic, whilst helping businesses market their services.

“One great thing about the chatbot we have built that allows people to identify activities suitable for them is that the bot actually identifies your life stage,” says Joshua Kwah, Global Head of Marketing at TAIGER, in an interview with CNA938.

Joshua adds that brands can tap on ‘Ask Phoebe’ as a platform to stay relevant yet purposeful.

Companies and agencies that are exploring ways to leverage this movement include IMDA, MullenLowe, Publicis Media, and Gush.

The IMDA, a statutory board of the Singapore government that manages the infocomm and media sectors, had previously rolled out its Stay Healthy, Go Digital movement, which consists of a repository of educational and entertainment choices to engage those staying at home.

To help spread their movement further, TAIGER has incorporated ideas from their repository into the chatbot, presenting the public with a multitude of ways to keep themselves occupied at home.

Howie Lau, the assistant chief executive of media and innovation at IMDA, commends the efforts of TAIGER’s #makehomesgreatagain initiative, which he says “complements national efforts to help Singaporeans live their life as normally as possible through digital technology.”

Chief executive of MullenLowe in Singapore, Paul Soon, agrees and makes a case on how the importance of chatbots were previously overlooked, but have now become more relevant than ever.

Ultimately, TAIGER hopes people can do things for the very first time through ‘Ask Phoebe’ or through following the examples by others who quote the hashtag, according to Joshua Kwah, the Global Head of Marketing at TAIGER.

“With being cooped up at home with work, kids, dependencies all closer than comfort and at a higher level of intensity, it’s easy to slip into mood swings or feelings of depression,” he says.

“It is an opportunity to build up your emotional bank — something that is often neglected in the fast pace of life but so essential to your wellbeing, inter-relationships as well as your productivity at work connecting with people.”

The original release from The Drum can be read here.

Watch the campaign showreel here.

About TAIGER

TAIGER is a visionary Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, pioneering next-generation AI solutions. TAIGER uses human-like logic to automatically read, understand and extract information, guaranteeing unrivalled levels of accuracy of 90% and above. TAIGER, an SG:D Accredited company under the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore is headquartered in Singapore, with offices in Madrid, Mexico City, Dubai and New York. www.taiger.com 

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