George Clinical, Omico to evolve oncology study enrolment via genomic profiling in Australia

KUALA LUMPUR, June 16 -- George Clinical, a global scientifically-backed clinical research organisation, and Omico, an Australian-based not-for-profit national precision oncology platform, have aligned to revolutionise oncology clinical trial access for patients and improve the efficiency of study enrolment.

The two organisations began collaborating late last year and announced the joint effort during the 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting, according to a statement.

“Helping clinicians and cancer centres target the right patients for the right clinical trials will not only accelerate study enrolment, it will help patients get quicker access to the studies most relevant to their treatment needs,” said Chief Medical Officer Maria Ali.

“We are excited this novel relationship with Omico can be a game changer for sponsors globally and patients locally.”

Genomic profiling is changing cancer medicine, enabling mapping of the mutational circuitry of cancers.

Dozens of highly effective therapies have changed treatment options for many cancers and received regulatory approval. This evolution has driven the development of large-scale genomic profiling programmes linked to biomarker-dependent therapeutic trials.

In Australia, a national precision oncology platform to enable large-scale genomic screening of cancer patients has been developed through the innovative work of Omico.

The George Clinical collaboration with Omico looks to harness the paradigm-shifting potential of this platform to change the way oncology trials are conducted in Australia.

George Clinical provides the full range of clinical trial services to biopharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic customers, for all trial phases, registration and post-marketing trials.

More details at https://www.georgeclinical.com.

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LEDDARTECH MAKES A WELCOME RETURN TO IN-PERSON EVENTS AS A LEAD SPONSOR AND EXHIBITOR AT TECH.AD 2021 IN BERLIN, GERMANY

LeddarTech joins Tech.AD Europe as the Lead Sponsor and as both a presenter and exhibitor at this live event at the Titanic Chaussee Berlin, Germany, on July 1-2, 2021. Join LeddarTech either in person or digitally by registering today at autonomous-driving-berlin.com.

QUEBEC CITY, June 15 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- LeddarTech®, a global leader in Level 1-5 ADAS and AD sensing technology, is excited to be reigniting its physical event calendar as a lead sponsor and keynote speaker of Tech.AD. Tech.AD has long been recognized as one of Europe’s leading technical ADAS and AD conferences. LeddarTech’s CTO Pierre Olivier will serve on the honorary jury for the 8^th Annual Tech.AD Europe Awards. These awards honor individuals and organizations who have designed exceptional solutions or products that contribute to ADAS/AD automotive development.

With a focus on environmental sensing that reimagines ADAS and AD solutions, the LeddarTech team will be participating in several capacities at this event.

Keynote presentation: July 1, 2021, 4:45 p.m. – 5:05 p.m. CET

Topic: Sensing Modalities, Sensor Fusion, and Perception for Autonomous Driving. The speaker, Pierre Olivier, Chief Technology Officer of LeddarTech, will explore the challenges and exciting opportunities facing the ADAS and AD business community.

World Café session: July 2, 2021, 1:15 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. CET

Topic: Sensor Café – Object Fusion vs. Raw Sensor Fusion – What Is the Superior Solution? Moderators: Reza Rashidi Far, PhD, and André Malz, PhD, of LeddarTech’s Strategic Product Management division.

Exhibition booth (6): July 1-2, 2021.

LeddarTech will feature solutions that solve critical sensing and perception challenges across the automotive and mobility value chain. LeddarTech will present these solutions through an innovative approach of on-site and live-streaming demonstrations of:

• Mobility and ITS sensors, including the recently released Leddar™ Sight LiDAR and the award-winning Leddar™ Pixell;
• LeddarVision™, a sensor-fusion and perception solution that delivers highly accurate 3D environmental models for L1-5 autonomy;
• Special Feature: the Westfield AutoSweep, the UK’s first fully autonomous pure electric road sweeper, featuring the Leddar Pixell.

“Our technical teams from Germany and Italy are excited to be joining our esteemed colleagues, peers, and partners at Tech.AD. Our much-anticipated return to in-person events is especially significant as we will be showcasing our customer Westfield’s autonomous AutoSweep POD, which features the Leddar Pixell,” stated Daniel Aitken, Vice-President, Global Marketing, Communications, and Product Management at LeddarTech. “Tech.AD provides an excellent opportunity to engage with many leaders in the industry both virtually and in person, and we look forward to demonstrating our latest technology, sharing our vision, and engaging with our customers,” Mr. Aitken continued. “Tech.AD is making all efforts to implement precautions to ensure a safe and fulfilling event for all delegates, and I welcome you to visit us in person or online during the event in July,” concluded Mr. Aitken.

For more information about Tech.AD, visit autonomous-driving-berlin.com.

Prior to Tech.AD register for the Automotive IQ Webinar: June 29, 2021, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET

Topic: A Clean Sweep: How Adopting Autonomous Vehicle and EV Technology Is Paving the Way to Increased Road Sweeper Efficiency and Safety While Reducing Environmental Impact. Join Pierre Olivier, CTO of LeddarTech and Julian Turner, CEO of Westfield Technology Group, for this Automotive IQ hosted event.

Register here.

About LeddarTech

LeddarTech is a leader in environmental sensing platforms for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. Founded in 2007, LeddarTech has evolved to become a comprehensive end-to-end environmental sensing company by enabling customers to solve critical sensing and perception challenges across the entire value chain of the automotive and mobility market segments. With its LeddarVision™ sensor-fusion and perception platform and its cost-effective, scalable, and versatile LiDAR development solution for automotive-grade solid-state LiDARs based on the LeddarEngine™, LeddarTech enables Tier 1-2 automotive system integrators to develop full-stack sensing solutions for autonomy level 1 to 5. These solutions are actively deployed in autonomous shuttles, trucks, buses, delivery vehicles, smart cities/factories, and robotaxi applications. The company is responsible for several innovations in cutting-edge automotive and mobility remote-sensing applications, with over 95 patented technologies (granted or pending) enhancing ADAS and autonomous driving capabilities.

Additional information about LeddarTech is accessible at www.leddartech.com and on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

Contact:
Daniel Aitken, Vice-President, Global Marketing, Communications, and Product Management, LeddarTech Inc.
Tel.: + 1-418-653-9000 ext. 232
daniel.aitken@leddartech.com

Leddar, LeddarTech, LeddarSteer, LeddarEngine, LeddarVision, LeddarSP, LeddarCore, VAYADrive, VayaVision, and related logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of LeddarTech Inc. and its subsidiaries. All other brands, product names, and marks are or may be trademarks or registered trademarks used to identify products or services of their respective owners.

Photos accompanying this announcement are available at:

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Source: LeddarTech inc.

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Sophi.io partners Layout International to transform print production

KUALA LUMPUR, June 11 -- Sophi.io, a suite of AI-powered optimisation, prediction and automation tools developed by The Globe and Mail, has partnered with Layout International, a supplier of cutting-edge enterprise technology, to transform print production.

Sophi will provide the smart AI/ML technology to fully automate the end-to-end print production workflow to save publishers time and money and enable them to focus on creating high quality content.

Print laydown is typically a long and arduous process, involving multiple editors and page designers and taking hours to complete, according to a statement.

Without the rigid constraints of a template, Layout International customers will now have the opportunity to create a print-ready paper that is indecipherable from a paper prepared by human page designers, and the entire process takes just minutes.

Meanwhile, for Layout International’s over 200 customers, this partnership means seamless integration of Sophi into their current NewsPublish editorial workflow.

“We see this partnership with Layout International giving publishers the freedom to focus on content creation and the specific design elements that page designers want to spend their energy on,” said Chief Technology Officer at The Globe and Mail, Greg Doufas.

“The best part is that NewsPublish powered by Sophi.io is getting better and smarter every day, so Layout International customers will always be on the cutting edge of technology with this solution.”

The Sophi suite of tools is designed to identify an organisation’s most valuable content and place it in the most valuable places across their digital entities, or behind a paywall when the subscription revenue outweighs the predicted advertising revenue.

In addition to NewsPublish powered by Sophi.io, Sophi provides site automation, a fully dynamic, real-time, personalised paywall, and analytics solutions to publishers worldwide.

More details at https://www.sophi.io. 

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PROTEGRITY ANNOUNCES CONTINUED PLATFORM INNOVATION WITH NEW DYNAMIC DATA MASKING CAPABILITIES

 

Customers Can Now Monitor, Mask, or Tokenize Data – All Within a Single Data Store – Allowing Greater Flexibility to Secure Data at the Speed of Business SALT LAKE CITY, June 10 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- Protegrity, a global leader in data security, today announced the release of the latest version of the Protegrity Data Protection Platform. Version 8.1 of Protegrity’s industry-leading platform introduces dynamic data masking and monitoring capabilities, providing customers with multiple data-protection methods all within a single data store. The company also introduced: enhanced support for language-preserving Unicode tokenization; the Protegrity Cloud API, which allows businesses to easily embed data-protection capabilities into cloud ETL workflows; and a redesigned logging architecture to provide more granular auditability over data-privacy initiatives. “Companies need to use their data to drive innovation yet keeping data secure often delays access, which can significantly impact mission-critical AI, ML, and analytics initiatives,” said Rick Farnell, President and CEO of Protegrity. “Our latest platform innovations provide expanded choice and control over data-protection methods – effectively expanding the tools available to safeguard data in a way that accelerates innovation.” Monitoring and Dynamic Data Masking Provide Visibility and Control for Sensitive Data Access With monitoring and dynamic data masking functionality, version 8.1 of the Protegrity Data Protection Platform provides customers with greater choice and control over the level of data protection they implement to meet the needs of the business. Monitoring capabilities give customers baseline visibility into how data is being accessed and used across the organization. For a higher level of control over sensitive data, businesses can utilize Protegrity’s dynamic data masking, which enforces data-visibility rules at the point of user access to hide or “mask” sensitive data for unauthorized users – without changing the data at rest. “For less-sensitive data and lightweight use cases, monitoring and dynamic data masking can provide a powerful baseline level of security to reduce risk immediately,” said Jeffrey Breen, EVP of product and strategy at Protegrity. “As an organization’s security and privacy posture matures, we continue to offer stronger protection methods, such as tokenization, which can easily be implemented from the same policy. This ensures that Protegrity can help organizations of any size, of any industry protect their sensitive data no matter where they need to be on the data-privacy continuum.” Unicode Tokenization Delivers Language-Preserving Data Security for Global Businesses Unicode is an international standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in the world’s writing systems. With version 8.1, Protegrity now brings all the advantages of its industry-leading tokenization to all text encoded in the one- and two-byte Unicode standards. The improved capabilities deliver character-encoding and length-preserving tokenization without performance penalties, allowing organizations to easily tokenize text from all Western alphabets. Breen continued, “Existing tokenization methods can be taxed to support larger alphabets, so we are proud to be able to offer our customers an innovative new approach to Unicode tokenization. This new capability is an important milestone in Protegrity’s continuing mission to offer no-compromises options to global organizations to protect their most sensitive data.” New Cloud API and Logging Architecture Enhance Platform Functionality In addition to new data-protection methods such as monitoring, data masking, and Unicode tokenization, Protegrity has unveiled the following key platform enhancements: Protegrity Cloud API: A “function-as-a-service” tokenization offering for popular cloud services such as AWS and Azure, the Protegrity Cloud API allows organizations to easily embed Protegrity’s data-protection capabilities into ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows, native cloud services, and custom applications. Built on serverless architecture, the Protegrity Cloud API delivers elastic scaling and cost efficiency, regardless of data volume requirements. Redesigned Logging Architecture: Protegrity’s redesigned logging architecture is the continuation of a multi-release capability that was first introduced in version 8.0 with the establishment of a new storage data store for audit logs using Elasticsearch. To learn more about Protegrity’s latest platform advancements, please visit Protegrity.com or register for the company’s BrightTALK webinar on June 17. Learn More Website: protegrity.com Twitter: @Protegrity LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/protegrity/ About Protegrity Protegrity, a global leader in data security, protects sensitive data everywhere and future-proofs businesses as data-privacy regulations evolve. Maintaining privacy today across distributed data has become impossibly complicated. With Protegrity, enterprises can secure data wherever it resides, control how it’s protected, and have confidence that data is safe, even if a breach occurs. The Protegrity Data Protection Platform is a modern alternative to traditionally complex data-protection methods that leave gaps in security. Whether encrypting, tokenizing, or applying privacy models, Protegrity protects data at the speed of business. Deep integrations with Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, Teradata, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Cloudera, Databricks, and many other enterprise applications ensure that data remains fully protected in hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments without performance penalties. The platform’s fine-grained data protection anonymizes personally identifiable information (PII) that’s used in AI and machine learning models, providing faster access to critical analytics data and dramatically shortening the time to business insights. Protegrity protects the sensitive data of more than two billion individuals across global enterprises, including four of the world’s 15 largest banks, four out of 10 of the top health insurance providers, and three of the world’s leading multinational companies. With more than two decades of industry-leading innovation, Protegrity allows businesses to finally tap into the value of their data and accelerate digital transformation timelines – without jeopardizing individuals’ fundamental right to privacy. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210609005253/en/   Contact Andrew Smith Bhava Communications for Protegrity protegrity@bhavacom.com +1 (310) 941-7251 Source : Protegrity --BERNAMA

MADISON REALTY CAPITAL PROVIDES $30 MILLION INVENTORY LOAN FOR TWO LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS AT METROPICA IN SUNRISE, FLORIDA

NEW YORK, June 3 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Madison Realty Capital, a fully integrated real estate private equity firm focused on debt and equity investment strategies, today announced it has provided a $30 million first mortgage loan to Metropica Development for a luxury condominium tower and a ten-acre development site, which includes plans to develop a second 250-unit multifamily tower. The portfolio is part of Metropica, a four million-square-foot master planned community comprised of luxury residences, modern office towers and high-end retail offerings located in Sunrise, Florida.

Metropica Development, led by Joseph Kavana, began construction of the first 263-unit luxury condominium tower in 2017 and has sold 174 units to date. Madison’s loan will be used to support 89 units, representing 101,989 square feet on the upper floors of the first condominium tower as well as the adjacent 250-unit second condominium tower. In addition to the first tower, the Metropica master planned development will include 500 multifamily units, 550,000 square feet of commercial space for luxury retail, dining and entertainment destinations as well as 246 hotel keys.

“We are pleased to deliver a customized and flexible financing solution for the remaining condo inventory in the Metropica Development,” said Josh Zegen, Managing Principal and Co-Founder of Madison Realty Capital. “Madison’s ability to finance residential projects through every stage of development was highly attractive to Metropica, an experienced local development firm, and we look forward to working with Joseph and his team to support this unique and ambitious project.”

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INTRODUCING THE NEW LOOK KNOSYS

MELBOURNE, June 3 (Bernama) -- Knosys Limited (KNO:ASX) (Knosys or Company) is pleased to announce that it has undertaken a successful rebranding exercise which was unveiled with the launch of its brand new corporate website together with a site dedicated to its Knowledge Management solution – KnowledgeIQ.

The rebranding exercise was driven by our plan to expand globally as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) information technology company offering a range of software solutions designed to boost productivity, collaboration and information connectivity in the digital workplace.

Knosys' Managing Director, John Thompson stated that "this rebranding and launch of our websites start an exciting journey for Knosys and its solutions as we look at to expand and increase market share in large and growing global markets. Knosys has transformed into a global software-as-a-service company focused on empowering organisations to make smart connections with their information."

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KADOKAWA ASCII INTRODUCES INNO 2021: WORLDWIDE INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, AND JPY3,000,000 SUPPORT FOR CREATIVE THINKERS

TOKYO, June 1, 2021 /Kyodo JBN-AsiaNet/ --
 

- Opportunities to Receive Support for Applicants' Unusual Inventions and Ideas - KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc. of Tokyo, the executing agency for the "INNO-vation Program," implemented by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, presents the 2021 INNO-vation Program ( https://inno.go.jp/en/ ), an annual effort to encourage global innovation on an unprecedented level, searching for creative, out-of-the-box minds to help the human race take the next steps in the technological revolution. Image1: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/img/202105255366-O2-1xt11AEf Image2: https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/img/202105255366-O1-ge48HDeH With the opportunity to receive support for eccentric technology, applicants can be part of the sponsor's esteemed graduate program to promote collaboration and teamwork, and propel their ideas into the ever-changing future. As the new decade begins, the INNO-vation Program is opening its doors to applications internationally and looks forward to building a bright new future together, overcoming COVID-19's recent impact on society. From June 1, 2021, to August 2, 2021, the INNO-vation Program is taking applications to find these innovators and is offering support to successful proposals. Applicants' ideas can be made a reality thanks to the support offered by some of the world's greatest technological and business leaders offering their insight and guidance. With the Disruptive Challenge and the Generation Award, applicants have the opportunity to create something from nothing or take inspiration from given themes respectively. As the program begins a new year, applicants have the opportunity to "Embrace your INNO*," without being limited by nationality, age, or background. *INNO - from the Japanese kanji meaning "unusual ability" "Innovation depends on unique insights and untested theories. New ideas are often misunderstood at first, and it's important that we nurture creativity and ambition." -- a statement made by Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora, upon joining the INNO-vation Program as a program advisor. Nurturing these "buds" of INNO and actively supporting those ideas unbound by conventional wisdom is foundational to the core of the program. Previous graduates of the INNO-vation Program have created wonderful products in art, technology, automation, artificial intelligence, robotics, and much more. With startup companies forming daily around the globe, the INNO-vation Program is proud to support the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovative thinkers to change the world. Disruptive Challenge Proposals that boldly take on challenges and can offer a major change to society and industry, without fear of failure are highly sought. Following a great success internationally in 2020, individuals across the world can put forward their proposals and be eligible for funding as part of the program up to JPY3,000,000 for one year without being limited by age, background, or nationality. Generation Award In cooperation with the Cooperative Partners of this program, Category Award Prizes (JPY200,000 each) and Special Corporate Awards will be offered. In addition, those proposals nominated for the awards (223 from last year) will be given the opportunity to implement their ideas in cooperation with these partnering companies. INNO-vation Network Hub Opportunities to partner with the INNO-vation Program as part of the INNO-vation Network Hub are also available. In the hope to help find and grow INNO within individuals worldwide, the INNO-vation Program is recruiting partnerships with institutes to collaborate with and assist the program in cultivating the next generation of thinkers and tinkerers globally. ABOUT KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc. https://kyodonewsprwire.jp/attach/202105255366-O1-5O9NB00y.pdf INNO-vation homepage: https://inno.go.jp/en/ Source: KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories, Inc.

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