Global medical technology company will use Anaqua’s AQX to help consolidate and coordinate the management of all its IP assets
BOSTON, June 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Anaqua, the leading innovation and intellectual property (IP) management technology provider, today announced that global medical technology company Getinge has selected Anaqua’s AQX in order to consolidate the management of all its IP assets onto a single, centralized platform.
Founded in Sweden in 1904, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions in 133 countries with products and solutions that aim to improve clinical results and optimize workflows.
Anna Maria Lagerqvist Gahm, Head of IP & Digital Law at Getinge, said: “With our extensive range of products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing, life science and digital healthcare solutions and our strong international presence with operations in more than 40 countries worldwide, it was important to be able to improve the efficiency and coordination of our IP management by consolidating onto a centralized platform. AQX enables us to do that, while also providing highly integrated functionality in key areas such as analytics and invention management.”
Bob Romeo, CEO of Anaqua, said: “Getinge focuses on helping its customers save lives through the products and solutions it develops, and on achieving its goal of becoming the world’s most trusted and respected medtech company. We are delighted to be supporting Getinge on that journey by helping manage and protect the company’s valuable IP assets. Anaqua continues to invest in offerings to meet and exceed the ever-evolving demands of the world’s most innovative life science companies.”
About Getinge
With a firm belief that every person and community should have access to the best possible care, Getinge provides hospitals and life science institutions with products and solutions that aim to improve clinical results and optimize workflows. The offering includes products and solutions for intensive care, cardiovascular procedures, operating rooms, sterile reprocessing and life science. Getinge employs over 11,000 people worldwide and the products are sold in 133 countries.
About Anaqua
Anaqua, Inc. is a premier provider of integrated intellectual property (IP) management technology solutions and services for corporations and law firms. Its IP management software solutions, AQX and PATTSY WAVE, both offer best practice workflows with big data analytics and tech-enabled services to create an intelligent environment designed to inform IP strategy, enable IP decision-making, and streamline IP operations, tailored to each segment’s need. Today, nearly half of the top 100 U.S. patent filers and global brands, as well as a growing number of law firms worldwide use Anaqua’s solutions. Over one million IP executives, attorneys, paralegals, administrators, and innovators use the platform for their IP management needs. The company’s global operations are headquartered in Boston, with offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. For additional information, please visit anaqua.com, or on LinkedIn.
Ai-Media at BroadcastAsia 2023 in Singapore, June 7-9
SYDNEY, Australia, June 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ai-Media, the leader in technology-driven live captioning, transcription, and translation solutions, is excited to announce its presence at BroadcastAsia in Singapore, where it will unveil its ground-breaking LEXI 3.0 automatic captioning solution to the Asian market.
Previously launched to the North American market at NAB Show 2023, LEXI 3.0 is the new and improved version of Ai-Media’s flagship automatic captioning solution. Powered by AI, LEXI 3.0 is the world’s most accurate and advanced automatic captioning solution, delivering results that rival human captions at a fraction of the cost.
During the BroadcastAsia, Ai-Media will also showcase its comprehensive range of captioning technology that boasts seamless integration with LEXI 3.0. Among the featured products is the new LEXI Viewer, an innovative HD-SDI device that empowers event organizers to effortlessly enhance accessibility by streaming captions to in-venue displays.
Additionally, Ai-Media will highlight its range of captioning encoders that ensure high quality distribution of audio and video via its iCap Cloud Network, the world’s largest, most secure caption delivery network. This includes iCap Alta, the broadcast industry’s leading IP encoder that provides efficient virtualized workflows for MPEG-TS and SMPTE-2110. Ai-Media will also showcase iCap Encode Pro, the HD-SDI encoder trusted by major TV networks worldwide that offers low operational cost & low-latency display.
BroadcastAsia will take place from 7 to 9 June at the Singapore EXPO in Singapore. Attendees can meet the Ai-Media team and discover its range of end-to-end broadcast captioning solutions at booth 6C3-08 in Hall 6.
Ai-Media’s Chief Sales Officer, James Ward said:
We are excited to launch LEXI 3.0 to the APAC market. AI-powered technologies are creating operational efficiencies and cost savings across countless industries and with Lexi 3.0 it is no different. LEXI 3.0 consistently delivers over 98% accuracy, meets all global regulatory requirements, enables customers to increase their reach and has cost savings of around 80% versus human captioning. We’re also able to leverage our decades of broadcast experience to ensure our captioning solutions are interoperable across different workflows, video standards and regions.
About Ai-Media
Founded in Australia in 2003, technology company Ai-Media is a global leader in the provision of high-quality live and recorded captioning, transcription, and translation solutions. The company helps the world’s leading broadcasters, enterprises and government agencies ensure high accuracy, secure and cost-effective captioning via its AI-powered LEXI automatic captioning solution. LEXI captions are delivered to millions of screens worldwide via Ai-Media’s range of captioning encoders and its iCap Cloud Network – the world’s largest, most secure caption delivery network. Globally, Ai-Media delivers 8 million minutes of live and recorded media monthly. Ai-Media trades on the Australian Stock Exchange (AIM). For more information, please visit Ai-Media.tv.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — VERSES AI Inc. (CBOE CANADA:VERS) (OTCQX:VRSSF) (“VERSES” or the “Company”), a cognitive computing company specializing in the next generation of artificial intelligence (“AI”), announces the release in June 2023 of an AI industry report titled “THE ROAD TO AUTONOMY: A Path To Global AI Governance”.
The report combines the legislative expertise from Dentons, the world’s largest multinational law firm, and the AI acumen of VERSES with the guidance on technical standards from the Spatial Web Foundation to provide an in-depth analysis of the legal and key legislative trends from across the world on the state of AI regulation and recommendations for a path forward for government regulation of AI.
The report aspires to pioneer a fresh approach for legal practitioners, government regulators, and lawmakers, to keep pace with the rapid technological advancements and to guide their adaptation. The critical aspect of the report is to promote the adoption of standards for what VERSES considers “law as code.” The objective is to encode laws and legal principles into an understandable, machine-readable language that will facilitate the comprehension and autonomous compliance of AI systems with legal frameworks and social norms.
The report analyzes the unprecedented challenges presented by the emergence of AI and autonomous software, devices, and vehicles addressing fundamental questions like, “How can governments regulate AI systems that are on a path to regulating themselves? How can humans stay in the loop to ensure AI alignment with human values, principles, and laws, while guaranteeing fair and equitable services for all individuals and communities? And, how do we encode and enforce AI laws directly in AI systems themselves?
The report critically examines the transformative power of rapidly evolving technologies such as AI systems and their impending impact on legal, regulatory, and government sectors and accentuates the crucial need for developing and adopting standards that foster the understanding, governance, and interoperability of AI and autonomous systems. The report underscores the role of these technical standards in shaping dynamic and effective laws to regulate, oversee, and contemporize AI activities.
The goal of the report is to provide governments, regulators, and legislators with a pragmatic framework that not only informs but also provides a roadmap for policymaking, legislation, and compliance efforts in the field of AI. This is relevant to the flourishing autonomous vehicle industry, while also serving as a fundamental guide for all future AI-driven systems. Emphasizing the urgency of a globally unified, forward-thinking approach to AI governance, the report signals the vital need for standards development and deployment as the world navigates the pathway to Autonomous Intelligent Systems (“AIS”).
Significantly, the report points to the instrumental role of sociotechnical standards, as demonstrated by the work of the Institute of Electrical And Electronics Engineers IEEE P2874 Working Group. This initiative from the world’s largest association of technical professionals, underscores the importance of aligning AIS with human values and reducing the risk of harmful behavior.
The report also highlights the European Commission’s Flying Forward 2020 (“FF2020”) project for successfully implementing these standards. Led by VERSES and running on its KOSM platform, the FF2020 project featured autonomous AI-powered drones executing various tasks, such as medical supply delivery, building security inspection, and large crowd monitoring, all while adhering to local laws. The project exemplifies how the seamless integration of standards for AI with Urban Air Mobility and current legal and regulatory frameworks could improve the implementation of AI-powered services at city scale and beyond.
The report envisions the application of these standards to a host of sectors, including healthcare, education, finance, supply chain and more, paving the way for a smarter world with AI seamlessly operating behind the scenes.
“AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace, raising concerns about the direction of its future trajectory. As AI evolves towards autonomous systems, the need for regulation becomes critical. We must address the challenge of regulating self-regulating AI to ensure alignment with human values and prevent potential risks. By implementing global technical standards and establishing an international AI regulatory framework, we can harness the immense benefits of AI while safeguarding against its potential perils,” stated VERSES CEO, Gabriel René.
“We are thrilled to collaborate with VERSES on this report, as the challenge of regulating AI raises complex and often novel questions of law for our clients and regulators. We hope this report provides a new way of thinking about AI regulation, and provides important insights to key stakeholders who are wrestling with new AI regulatory frameworks and are trying to strike an appropriate balance between innovation and moderation,” said Peter Stockburger, Partner at Dentons US LLP.
In summary, the report calls for a safe, effective, and inclusive journey down the “Road to Autonomy,” ensuring that future AI systems are not just technically advanced but also aligned with the best interests of humanity, both now and in the future. With AI influencing every sector, this insightful report offers pragmatic recommendations for a more secure, innovative, and integrated AI-driven future. The full report will be available on the VERSES, DENTONS, and Spatialweb.org websites in June 2023, with the executive summary already available for preview.
About VERSES
VERSES is a cognitive computing company specializing in next-generation AI. Modeled after natural systems and the design principles of the human brain and the human experience, VERSES flagship offering, GIA, is an Intelligent Assistant for everyone powered by KOSMOS, a network operating system enabling distributed intelligence. Built on open standards, KOSM transforms disparate data into knowledge models that foster trustworthy collaboration between humans, machines, and AI, across digital and physical domains. Imagine a smarter world that elevates human potential through innovations inspired by nature. Learn more at VERSES, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
About Dentons
Dentons is designed to be different. As the world’s largest global law firm with 21,000 professionals in over 200 locations in more than 80 countries, Denton’s can help you grow, protect, operate and finance your business. Denton’s polycentric and purpose-driven approach, together with their commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and ESG, ensures they challenge the status quo to stay focused on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com
About the Spatial Web Foundation
The Spatial Web Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and ethical use of technology, specifically in the creation and implementation of the Spatial Web protocol. The foundation’s core initiatives include developing open standards and protocols, promoting interoperability, and educating the public and policymakers. The foundation supports transparency and accountability in the development and use of technology, promotes responsible innovation, engages in dialogue and collaboration with various stakeholders, and adopts a proactive approach to addressing emerging ethical challenges. Ultimately, the Spatial Web Foundation seeks to create a more inclusive, accessible, and equitable internet that empowers individuals and communities to connect, create, and thrive.
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A delegation from the Russian Orthodox Women’s Union visited the Monastery of Our Lady of Saydnaya in the countryside of Damascus and provided food and stationery assistance to orphaned children.
Mother Febronia Nabhan, head of the Patriarchal Monastery of Our Lady of Saydnaya, affirmed, in a statement to SANA reporter, the importance of strengthening the relations between the two Orthodox churches in Syria and Russia, hailing the assistance provided by the Russian ecclesiastical and popular institutions to the Syrian people.
In turn, members of the Russian delegation expressed their wishes that security and stability would return to all Syrian lands and that the Syrian people would eradicate all remnants of terrorism.
The Publish What You Pay (PWYP) MENA Regional Meeting for 2023 was conducted over Zoom, and was attended by 67 participants (39 men and 28 women), who were members and national coordinators from the four coalitions of Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and Tunisia, in addition to members from Libya and Kuwait. Among other attendees were participants from Bahrain, Morocco, and international energy-sector organizations, including the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The meeting’s opening remarks were delivered by MENA Senior Regional Coordinator Pierre Saade, who presented the agenda and introduced the participants to PWYP’s upcoming events for 2023. Saade noted that ‘the aim of this year’s meeting is to showcase the coalitions’ key achievements and lessons learned over the past years, and to discuss the latest developments in the energy sector in terms of the transition to renewable and clean energy towards the gradual phasing out of fossil fuels, as well as to examine challenges, opportunities and recent EITI Standard updates.’ The PWYP Secretariat’s Director of Member Engagement Stephanie Rochford spoke of the economic and socio-political challenges and pressures that the region is experiencing, affirming that ‘this year’s two priorities are the energy transition and promoting gender equality in movements and campaigns.’ Global Council MENA representative Nuralhuda Hassan, observed that PWYP will be emphasizing two important areas for its alliances: gender policy and the energy transition. She explained that, in terms of gender policy, ‘in 2022, PWYP adopted the first-ever global policy for gender equality, aiming to identify gender champions, and is working on implementing this policy in national alliances.’ The energy transition, she said, was ‘a very complicated topic, especially in countries with oil-generated revenues. But the aim is to lay the cornerstone and educate the youth on the importance of sustainability and civil space’s impact on community needs.’ Participants addressed a range of topics, notably: 1. The Iraqi Coalition touched on working to promote transparency and to combat corruption in the oil, gas and mineral resources industry, and its push to pressure the government which was attempting to cut back the number of civil society organizations (CSOs) on the EITI MSG. 2. The Yemeni Coalition reviewed its most prominent accomplishment in recent years, namely the development of regulations for the creation and organization of the Yemen EITI MSG. 3. The Tunisia Coalition shared its leading experience with the study that it developed on publishing hydrocarbon contracts, transparency in the award of licenses, exploration and bidding, and the data that should be disclosed. 4. The Lebanese Coalition discussed the frameworks for expanding the scope of communication with MENA coalitions, and working on a project, funded over 3 years, for the inclusion of youths from Lebanese universities in the areas of EI and natural resources, in which they developed studies on the topic and conducted advocacy campaigns. Energy expert and Dean of the School of Engineering at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) Joseph Al Assad delivered a session titled ‘Energy Transition in the MENA Region: Initiative, Challenges, Opportunities and Impacts’, which addressed the importance of the energy transition, its current status in the region, and how to ensure a just transition, especially against the continuous advance of climate change and the climate impacts of fossil fuel extraction. It is worth mentioning that the energy transition has become a focal point for PWYP, and a task group, consisting of the different MENA coalitions and members, was created to follow up on this topic. EITI Board member representing civil society Diana Kaissy participated in a seminar titled ‘The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI),’ where she highlighted the latest updates to the EITI Standard, focusing especially on energy transition requirements (including environmental aspects), fighting corruption, revenue management, gender, company expectations, and multi-stakeholder group (MSG) governance. In closing, PWYP Board member Sihem Bouazza touched on the main talks and next steps, especially the pursuit of collective advocacy campaigns on the energy transition in 2023 and 2024.
A Lebanese delegation, headed by Caretaker Minister of Labor, Mustafa Bayram, and comprising of the General Labor Confederation team headed by Vice President, Hassan Fakih, Federation of Trade Unions Head in Lebanon, Ali Taher Yassin, member of the Executive Council Imad Yaghi, and the government’s Permanent Mission to Geneva took part in the opening session of the International Labour Organization’s 111th annual Conference in Geneva, which kicked off on June 5 and lasts till June 16, 2023. Worker, employer and government delegates from the ILO’s 187 Member States are expected to tackle a wide range of issues, including: a just transition towards sustainable and inclusive economies, quality apprenticeships, and labour protection.
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