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Tealium Launches Audience Discovery for Snowflake as a Native App to Power Real-Time Customer Activation

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:56:00 +0700

Joint customers can build, govern, and activate audiences in real time -- directly within Snowflake, without moving data

San Diego, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tealium today announced it has launched Tealium Audience Discovery for Snowflake. The solution, a Snowflake Native App, enables joint customers to build, govern, and activate audiences directly within their Snowflake environment -- eliminating data movement and accelerating time to insight.

Now, data teams can ensure more accurate, ready-to-activate audiences, so they can get their campaigns in front of customers quickly, without losing control over the underlying data or ripping or replacing their stack.

"The data cloud is the brain of your customer operations; Tealium is the nervous system," said Mike Anderson, CTO and Co-Founder of Tealium. "One of the most critical challenges for modern organizations in today's AI era is turning intelligence into action in the moments that matter. Unlike standard reverse-ETL vendors that stop at simply loading an audience into a destination after the fact, Tealium's customer data orchestration platform supercharges the entire data lifecycle. By fueling Snowflake with high-quality data collection, we enable the best of all worlds: fueling the customer data warehouse with the best data available, in-the-moment orchestration for real-time customer experiences, and efficient batch delivery via reverse-ETL leveraging the customer data warehouse."

Tealium and Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, are working together to help joint customers unify data activation and analytics in a single governed environment. By combining Snowflake's secure, scalable platform with Tealium's real-time orchestration capabilities, organizations can move from insight to action faster and deliver more personalized customer engagement at scale.

"Using applications natively in Snowflake can be transformative for organizations looking to activate their data in real time," said Luke Ambrosetti, Industry Principal, AI Solutions -- Marketing, Snowflake. "With Tealium's Audience Discovery for Snowflake, customers gain greater flexibility to create, manage, and operationalize audiences directly within their Snowflake environment, while maintaining their security and governance controls."

Historically, teams have been dependent on lengthy processes to extract and format data for campaigns, which can take days or weeks. Tealium Audience Discovery for Snowflake provides a self-service environment for all teams, all while maintaining robust governance controls.

Additional solution benefits include:

* Three Flexible Creation Paths: Empower every team member to build audiences using natural language via Snowflake Cortex; an intuitive point-and-click interface for marketers; or an AI-assisted SQL editor for complex data analysis.

* Built-In Precision & Validation: Before launching, teams can validate audiences using live histograms, dataset previews, and refresh history to ensure the "size and shape" of the data matches campaign goals.

* Dual Activation Modes: Users can choose the best path for their use case within a single platform. Use revers--ETL for scheduled batch updates or real-time orchestration when immediate customer engagement is required.

* Zero-Copy Governance: Because the app runs natively in Snowflake, data remains in place, allowing organizations to maintain control using Snowflake's native security, roles, and audit capabilities.

As a Snowflake Native App, Tealium Audience Discovery runs directly within the customer's Snowflake account, allowing organizations to bring activation closer to their data. By eliminating the need for data movement or duplication, teams can reduce operational overhead, improve data accuracy, and accelerate time to value.The Tealium Audience Discovery for Snowflake app will be available globally on the Snowflake Marketplace in Q2.

Snowflake Marketplace helps companies expand what's possible with data and AI through third-party data, apps and AI products. With on-platform purchasing and immediate access to data products, Snowflake Marketplace lowers integration costs and streamlines procurement processes. By delivering data, apps and AI products directly to the customers' data, providers deliver a superior customer experience and see accelerated revenue growth and increased margins. To learn more about Snowflake Marketplace and how to find, try and buy third-party products to accelerate your analytics, app development and AI initiatives, click here.

The Snowflake Native App Framework enables developers to build applications using Snowflake's core functionalities, distribute them globally on Snowflake Marketplace, and deploy them within a customer's Snowflake account. To learn more about the Snowflake Native App Framework and how to become a Snowflake partner, click here.***

Fogo de Chao Accelerates Global Growth with New Lease Agreement for Ipanema Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:36:00 +0700

Internationally renowned restaurant expands footprint with its 10th Brazil location

DALLAS, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fogo de Chao, the internationally renowned restaurant founded in Brazil over 46 years ago and known for its elevated churrasco dining experience, today announced it has signed a new lease agreement for a location in Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Expected to open in 2027, the restaurant will be Fogo's third in Rio and tenth in its home country, marking a significant milestone in the brand's continued growth.

Set in the heart of Ipanema, an upscale, world-famous beachfront neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro known for its vibrant culture, stunning coastline, and sophisticated dining scene, the new restaurant will be part of the Jardim de Alah development, a thoughtfully designed public space that fosters connection and brings the community together while honoring the city's rich cultural heritage. The restaurant will blend timeless design with the inviting warmth of Brazilian hospitality, reinforcing Fogo's deep commitment to its authentic origins.

"Expanding into Ipanema represents an important step in our global growth strategy to bring the Culinary Art of Churrasco to the world," said Barry McGowan, CEO of Fogo de Chao. "As one of Rio de Janeiro's most iconic and internationally recognized neighborhoods, Ipanema provides a strategic location for strengthening our presence in Brazil while continuing to elevate the Fogo experience worldwide. With growing momentum in key international markets like Chile and the United Kingdom, each new opening in Brazil reflects our deep roots in the culture that defines who we are."

Fogo continues to grow organically across key domestic markets including Sao Paulo, Bras?lia, Rio de Janeiro, and soon Belo Horizonte, while simultaneously expanding its presence in major capital cities around the world such as Santiago, Chile; Manila, Philippines; Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Quito, Ecuador; Dubai, United Arab Emirates; and Mexico City, Mexico.

"We're proud to welcome Fogo de Chao to Jardim de Alah," said Cassio Lopes, Commercial Director of Jardim de Alah. "Our vision has always been to reintroduce this area as a vibrant, open, and community‑oriented destination. Fogo's Brazilian heritage and its lively, celebratory dining experience make it an ideal partner as we bring new energy and connection to the neighborhood."

With this latest opening, Fogo continues to strengthen its presence in Brazil while advancing its broader international growth strategy across key global markets, with a particular focus on establishing restaurants in leading capital city destinations.

"Ipanema represents a powerful opportunity to deepen our connection with guests in our home country in one of Brazil's most influential and internationally recognized neighborhoods," said Paulo Antunes, Brazil Country Manager of Fogo de Chao. "As Fogo continues to expand around the world, strengthening our presence in key Brazilian markets remains essential to our long-term strategy. This new location allows us to honor our heritage while delivering an elevated experience that reflects the global evolution of our brand."

The newly developed and remodeled restaurants will showcase Fogo's enhanced design and innovation platforms, offering a warm, timeless and approachable setting where guests enjoy a 360-degree view of an open Churrasco grill and can watch Gaucho Chefs butcher, hand carve and grill high-quality cuts of protein over an open flame.

For more information about Fogo de Chao, visit fogo.com.***

HYCU Wakes up Backup with aiR; Launch Adds New AI Capabilities Across Protected Systems of Record Within Its Market-leading R-Cloud Resilience Platform

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:15:00 +0700

A Single Question, Asked Across Every Protected Workload, Returns Answers at Cost Never Before Available to Midmarket Enterprises

Boston, Massachusetts, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HYCU, Inc., the #1 AI Resilience company, today announced HYCU aiR (AI Resilience), an AI-native solution that turns backup data across dozens of applications into a live and actionable intelligence for security, compliance, and IT teams. aiR lets organizations search, query, and run purpose-built agents to surface insider risk, sensitive data exposure, identity drift, and AI agent activity, using their backup data. Every backup is a timestamped record of what happened inside an organization's applications.

HYCU aiR is the first solution built to read it.

AI activity has outpaced human-scale oversight. Atlassian, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, GitHub, and other applications and platforms are no longer playgrounds, but rapidly evolving systems of record where AI agents and copilots do most of their work. The conventional response is to buy more visibility: DSPM for sensitive data, insider risk platforms, identity governance, behavioral analytics. Each is useful, narrow in scope, and priced for enterprises that can afford a dedicated team to run it. Stack the categories together and the visibility bill alone exceeds what most midmarket organizations spend on their entire security stack.

Most organizations cannot make that math work. The applications their people work in, including Salesforce, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Box, and Okta, remain unclassified and unmonitored. The questions never get asked. Is there PCI data in Confluence? Is there PHI in Salesforce? Is there a user systematically exporting critical data in Box? The tools built to answer them are priced for the Fortune 500, not the midmarket healthcare and financial services firms where the gap is widest.

"For two decades, security tools watched what happened inside applications and backup tools stored the record of it. The two never spoke," said Simon Taylor, Founder and CEO, HYCU, Inc. "That worked when data changed slowly, and humans were the only ones touching it. Neither is true anymore. Between SaaS sprawl and AI agents acting at machine speed, most companies can't tell you what they have, let alone what changed in the last hour. Resilience now means knowing what you had, what changed, who changed it, what data was impacted, and recovering immediately. aiR delivers intelligence. R-Cloud delivers recovery. That's what resilience looks like."

HOW HYCU aiR WORKS

HYCU aiR adds significant capabilities to HYCU R-Cloud.

* Natural language search across backups. Organizations can ask plain-language questions of their backup data: "Show me all files containing passport numbers across our Salesforce and Microsoft 365 backups." "Flag every permission change in our Okta environment over the last 90 days." "Identify which AI agents accessed customer records in the past month." With the information already contained in HYCU backups, aiR makes it queryable, from the first snapshot, with no configuration required.

* An Agent Garden of purpose-built agents. Each agent reads the same backup data and answers a different question. Regulated Data and IP finds PII, PHI, financial records, and intellectual property scattered across protected applications. Insider Risk detects unusual access patterns and behavioral anomalies. Configuration Drift compares snapshots over time to identify settings that changed without authorization. IAM Posture Management tracks identity drift and access policy violations. Anomaly Detection spots unusual data patterns that signal compromise. Agent Governance monitors AI agent activity across the protected estate. Customers extend the garden by building and publishing their own templates, creating agents that ask the questions specific to their compliance regime, their industry, and the way their organization actually works.

Every agent reads from the same source: data the organization was already protecting. Because every query runs across every protected application at once, HYCU can surface thousands of cross-application insights no point tool could produce. The intelligence was always there. HYCU is the first to treat backups as a memory rather than as insurance.

"AHMC Healthcare backups are very important to our ability to respond safely and efficiently in an event that requires us to recover quickly," said Ash Shehata, CIO, AHMC Healthcare, Inc. "With HYCU aiR it will provide us the first way to read what our backups already know. This capability offers us a complete, time-stamped record of every file touched and every configuration adjusted, empowering AHMC to ask our backups in plain English for quick and efficient understanding of the data landscape. Prior to this it would take days or weeks to review logs and significant manpower. With aiR it's a game changer and it puts the power back in our hands! I feel that CIOs can sleep better now knowing their backups are AI-enabled and are safeguarding their data."

COVERAGE THAT COMPOUNDS INTELLIGENCE

The value of backup intelligence scales directly with what you back up. A vendor protecting virtual machines and Microsoft 365 can surface insights only from those two environments. HYCU protects more than 100 unique workloads, including on-premises infrastructure, every major cloud, SaaS systems of record, DevOps toolchains, identity platforms, collaboration tools, databases, and AI workloads such as vector databases and data pipelines.

That breadth is what makes aiR's economics work. Insights from 100 protected applications are not ten times the insights from ten. They reveal cross-application patterns no single-workload tool can surface:

* An identity change in Okta that quietly cascades into Salesforce and GitHub permissions
* An AI agent that read customer records in Confluence and wrote output to SharePoint
* Regulated data that left a sanctioned application six months ago and now lives in three places no compliance team has mapped

"HYCU built the broadest protection coverage in data protection precisely because the organizations they serve cannot afford gaps," said Enrique Salem, Partner, Bain Capital Ventures. "aiR turns that coverage into a security intelligence advantage that purpose-built visibility tools spend years and hundreds of millions in customer budgets trying to replicate. The economics here are fundamentally different, and that matters enormously to the midmarket organizations that make up the largest underserved segment in security."

AVAILABILITY
HYCU is opening an early access waitlist for aiR today. Organizations joining the waitlist enter the early adopter program alongside existing HYCU customers currently testing the capability.

For more information on HYCU aiR and becoming an early adopter, visit: www.hycu.com/air, follow us on X (formerly Twitter), connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, and YouTube. ***

Acronis Appoints Jim Tedesco as Chief Revenue Officer

Fri, 15 May 2026 14:00:00 +0700

Experienced revenue and customer success leader joins Acronis to scale global sales execution and accelerate partner-led growth

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced the appointment of Jim Tedesco as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this role, Jim will lead Acronis' global sales and go-to-market execution, overseeing Global Sales, go-to-market strategy, Professional Services, and Solution Engineering.

"Jim's experience scaling global partner-driven revenue organizations makes him a strong addition to the Acronis leadership team," said Jan-Jaap Jager, CEO of Acronis. "Our next phase of growth is about scaling the business through partners at a much higher level, signing more MSPs globally, helping existing partners grow faster, and building a more predictable and scalable revenue engine around that motion. We see a significant opportunity to scale Acronis beyond $1 billion in revenue, and achieving that requires strong execution, operational discipline, and deep alignment with our partner ecosystem. Jim brings the leadership and experience to help us accelerate that growth globally."

Jim Tedesco_Acronis CRO

Jim will be responsible for driving consistent global revenue attainment, strengthening MSP-led growth and upsell execution, and deepening partner relationships globally. He will also focus on accelerating revenue growth through disciplined operational execution, strengthening partner engagement, and building a more scalable and predictable commercial engine across regions.

Jim brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience across sales, operations, and customer success roles. Most recently, he served as GM and SVP of Customer Success at a leading backup and replication software company, where he successfully grew the company's ARR from hundreds of millions to billions in revenue, while overseeing global customer lifecycle initiatives and growth programs. Jim's prior experiences include senior leadership positions at other technology companies, building high-performing teams, and driving ARR growth across global markets.

"I'm excited to join Acronis at such an important stage of the company's growth," said Jim Tedesco. "Acronis has built a strong market position with its natively integrated platform, combining more than 20 protection, automation, and management scenarios and 25+ AI-powered capabilities into a single solution. Combined with its deeply partner-centric approach, supporting more than 21,000 MSP partners, 750,000 customers, and 50+ data centers globally, Acronis is uniquely positioned for continued growth. I look forward to working with the team to strengthen execution, scale globally, and help partners and customers succeed."

Jim's appointment builds directly on the recent addition of Christiaan Franken as VP Revenue Operations. Together, Jim and Christiaan will form a tightly aligned commercial leadership foundation focused on improving forecasting accuracy, operational visibility, execution discipline, and scalable growth.

For more information about Acronis' leadership team, visit: https://www.acronis.com/en/company/leadership/

BitMEX Launches the Copy and Conquer Campaign Featuring a 50,000 USDT Prize Pool

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:48:00 +0700

VICTORIA, Seychelles, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BitMEX, a leading crypto derivatives exchange, announced today the launch of the Copy and Conquer campaign. Users can copy or reverse copy other leading traders to win their share of a 50,000 USDT prize pool.

Copy Trading was introduced on BitMEX for all traders in 2025, with a unique Reverse Copy feature -- an advanced function where traders can take the opposite direction of another trader. Copy trading of top Hyperliquid traders is also available, providing users with advanced profit opportunities in the safety of the BitMEX platform.

The Copy and Conquer campaign will run from 14 May 2026 at 12:00 PM (UTC) to 14 June 2026 at 11:59 AM (UTC). Users can participate at any time during the campaign period.

Rewards will be distributed across 2 categories:

* For New Users: First-time copy traders can claim up to $50 in loss protection when they copy their first Copy Leader. Additionally, first-time reverse copy traders can also enjoy up to $50 in bonus profits if their first reverse copy trade returns a profit.

* For All Users: By achieving copy trading volume tiers, all participants can claim up to $500 in trading credits.

To participate in the Copy and Conquer campaign, traders must be fully verified on BitMEX. Competition details and registration can be found here. For more details on BitMEX Copy Trading, visit this page.***

Freshworks Unveils AI Agent Studio in Freshservice to Unlock Service Transformation that Drives Compounding Business Growth

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:33:00 +0700

With an AI-powered, unified service operations foundation and new agentic accelerators, IT and business teams can deploy AI their way and move as fast as their business demands

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At its annual Refresh conference, Freshworks Inc. (NASDAQ: FRSH) Thursday unveiled its vision for Service Transformation, Made Real, alongside an expansion of its agentic capabilities to help organizations scale and govern service confidently across every service domain. Today's announcement positions Freshworks to deliver what legacy providers cannot: one agile platform connecting service, assets, and incidents; trusted, domain-specific AI grounded in enterprise context; and the choice to build, customize, or deploy bespoke Freddy AI Agents in weeks, not quarters.

The urgency of this transformation is supported by new telemetry data identifying a critical support gap in the modern workforce. Analysis of millions of service interactions found that 47% of all IT tickets are now submitted outside standard business hours, yet after-hours response times lag by an extra hour or more, with SLA rates falling as much as 5%. Even as workers are empowered with AI tools to work faster and from anywhere at any time, companies are setting up an employee experience showdown, leaving "ghost shift" workers to lose time hunting for faster answers.

"The true measure of AI's value isn't what it can do, it's what it gives back: time, focus, and the freedom for teams to stop fixing yesterday's problems and start building what's next," said Srini Raghavan, chief product officer at Freshworks. "Our unified ServiceOps foundation, activated with Freddy AI Agent Studio, is the antidote. It delivers immediate, controlled orchestration and the architectural agility to deploy AI in weeks, not quarters, allowing our customers to transform service at the speed their business demands."

Key benefits and capabilities:

* Orchestrate autonomous service with Freddy AI Agent Studio: Organizations gain total flexibility to deploy AI on their own terms. Using a no-code studio, teams can create custom AI Agents or start with pre-built, domain-specific AI Agents and further extend capabilities from a new library of agentic workflows. These AI Agents meet employees directly in Microsoft Teams, Slack, or employee portals, connecting to HRIS systems like Workday and Rippling to execute secure enterprise workflows, from onboarding to payroll, instantly for employees.

* Empower AI Agents with the enterprise ecosystem: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateway enables Freddy AI to instantly pull external context from third-party tools - including Notion, ClickUp, and Linear - without custom code. This allows organizations to move beyond simple automation and solve complex, cross-departmental issues. With MCP Gateway, Freddy AI Agents can leverage a company's tech stack in less time, bypassing the AI friction and implementation drag that can stall enterprise AI effectiveness.

* Measure and optimize with AI Insights and xLAs: As agents scale, AI Insights helps service leaders move beyond legacy metrics and toward meaningful outcomes. With Executive Overview Insights and Experience Level Agreements (xLAs), leaders can connect service performance directly to employee sentiment. By using weighted computation and AI-driven analysis, the platform provides the superior visibility needed to make faster, data-driven decisions that optimize both service delivery and the employee experience.

* A proven, unified foundation for the AI era: Freddy AI is powered by Freshservice's high-integrity ServiceOps foundation, including the reimagined Freshservice IT Asset Management (ITAM) and FireHydrant incident management products. Unlike legacy platforms where data cleanup can stall progress, Freshworks' unified data layer integrates service, assets, and enterprise knowledge to give AI Agents the context they need to execute agentic workflows immediately, bypassing the manual mapping that typically slows down AI deployments.

To learn more about the May launch, please visit here. To see how enterprises are replacing costly, complex legacy ITSM platforms and achieving 168% ROI over 3 years, read the new Futurum Group report here.

Proven Impact

* "We used to spend an hour every morning looking at ticket trends. Now we spend three minutes with Freddy Insights--and get better data," said Daniel McMaster, IT Service Management Analyst at Amerisure.

* "Freshworks is positioning platform unification as a key enabler of autonomous service execution," said Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Digital Workflows, The Futurum Group. "Freddy AI Agent Studio's combination of deployment flexibility, pre-built domain agents, and embedded governance reflects a broader market focus on moving agentic AI initiatives from pilot projects into production environments. For organizations managing multiple AI tools and workflows, these types of approaches that emphasize integration, governance, and operational readiness are likely to resonate with enterprise buyers." ***

Valeura Energy Inc.: First Quarter 2026 Results

Fri, 15 May 2026 13:24:00 +0700

SINGAPORE, May 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Valeura Energy Inc. (TSX:VLE, OTCQX:VLERF) ("Valeura" or the "Company") reports its unaudited financial and operating results for the three month period ended 31 March 2026.

The complete quarterly reporting package for the Company, including the unaudited financial statements (the "Interim Financial Statement") and associated management's discussion and analysis ("MD&A") are being filed on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca and posted the Company's website at www.valeuraenergy.com.

Highlights

* Oil production of 2.0 million bbls, averaging 22,326 bbls/d(1);
* Oil sales of 1.4 million bbls, resulting in an increase in crude oil inventory;
* Adjusted opex(2) of US$25.4/bbl, in line with the Company's guidance expectations and operating costs of US$15.6/bbl(3);
* Adjusted cashflow from operations(2) of US$21.3 million;
* Purchased the Manora Princess floating storage and offloading ("FSO") vessel for US$15.5 million; and
* Net cash of US$261.6 million(4), with no debt.
Subsequent to Q1 2026
* Record monthly oil sales in April 2026 of 0.82 mmbbls at an average realised price of US$110.4/bbl, resulting in US$90.3 million in revenue;
* Announced a US$7 million project to add four additional well slots to the Nong Yao A platform; and
* Chartered the Shelf Drilling Enterprise jack-up drilling rig for a term of three years.

(1)   Working interest share production before royalties.
(2)   Non-IFRS financial measure or non-IFRS ratio -- see "Non-IFRS Financial Measures and Ratios" section.
(3)   Operating cost divided by production.
(4)   Includes restricted cash.

Dr. Sean Guest, President and CEO commented:
"Our Q1 2026 performance demonstrates the resilience of our portfolio. We generated positive cash flow from operations, even with oil sales only from two months of the quarter, and at relatively low realised prices of US$66.2/bbl. While we are pleased with this outcome, we are excited by the potential of Q2, which we believe is poised for a very strong financial performance. As a result of the potential March sales being deferred into the higher oil price environment in April, we generated revenue of US$90.3 million in April, nearly as much as our total revenue for Q1.

While we have no control over global benchmark oil prices, we do have control over our operations, and on that front, we have recorded another strong performance, with both operating costs and production outcomes exactly in line with our guidance expectations.

We are also remaining nimble with our work programme, and have moved swiftly to set ourselves up for more drilling in the near term, both by way of a long-term contract to charter the Enterprise drilling rig, and by expanding our Nong Yao facility to expedite drilling on what is our most profitable field.

We remain focused on growing our business too. That includes progressing both exploration and development planning work in relation to our large farm-in blocks G1/65 and G3/65 where we are earning a 40% working interest(1). At the same time we continue to pursue a suite of inorganic opportunities, guided always by the principle of adding value for our stakeholders through growth."
(1) Transfer of interest subject to Thailand government approval.

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Chengdu Origen and Vanotech Announce KHN921 Investigational New Drug application clearance by the US FDA for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) associated with MYBPC3 mutations

Fri, 15 May 2026 10:28:00 +0700

Investigational New Drug application for KHN921 received "study may proceed" from the US FDA. KHN921 is a potential "first-in-class" cardiovascular AAV gene therapy being developed for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) associated with MYBPC3 mutations

CHENGDU, China and ROCKAWAY, N.J., May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Chengdu Origen Biotechnology Co., Ltd. ("Chengdu Origen") and Vanotech Ltd. ("Vanotech") announced today that the US FDA granted "study may proceed" to the KHN921 IND application. KHN921 is being studied for the treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) associated with MYBPC3 mutations. The proposed multi-center, open-label, dose escalation and expansion Phase I/II study will assess the safety, tolerability and efficacy of a single intracoronary administration of KHN921 gene therapy in adults with symptomatic MYBPC3 mutation-associated HCM.

KHN921 is a recombinant replication-deficient adeno-associated virus vector of serotype AAV9 that encodes a gene encoding the MYBPC3 protein. In preclinical studies of HCM disease models, intracoronary infusion of KHN921 resulted in retention of the transgene product in cardiac tissues for prolonged periods and prevented the disease symptoms. These findings may indicate the potential of KHN921 to offer a single administration treatment for HCM patients with MYBPC3 mutation.

KHN921 is an AAV-based gene therapy designed to directly address the root genetic cause of HCM by delivering a functional copy of the MYBPC3 gene and restoring normal myosin-binding protein C expression in cardiomyocytes," said Avner Ingerman, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Vanotech. "With the FDA's IND clearance, we are one step closer to bringing this potentially transformative therapy to patients who currently face limited long-term treatment options for this life-threatening disease."

About hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) associated with MYBPC3 mutations

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common monogenic cardiovascular disorder, affecting approximately 1 in 500 individuals worldwide. It is characterized by unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy, which can lead to heart failure, arrhythmias, and sudden cardiac death, particularly in young adults and athletes.

Mutations in the MYBPC3 gene, which encodes cardiac myosin-binding protein C (cMyBP-C)--a key regulator of sarcomere structure and cardiac contraction--are one of the most prevalent genetic causes of HCM. Pathogenic MYBPC3 mutations lead to impaired or truncated protein production, disrupting normal cardiac function and driving the pathological remodeling seen in HCM. Currently, no disease-modifying therapies targeting the underlying genetic cause of MYBPC3‑associated HCM have been approved, representing a significant unmet medical need.

About Chengdu Origen and Vanotech

Chengdu Origen is a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on developing gene therapy for unmet medical needs and providing meaningful clinical benefits for patients suffering from genetic and chronic diseases and has comprehensive viral vector manufacturing capabilities and infrastructure.

Vanotech is operating as the sponsor-representative and is responsible for the clinical development program of KH921 in the United States. Vanotech is also currently conducting VAN-2201, a Phase 1, multi-center, open-label, dose-escalation study in subjects with neovascular AMD to evaluate safety, tolerability and efficacy of a single administration of KH631 (For more information, please visit https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT 05657301) and VAN-2401, a Phase I, Open-label, Multicenter, Dose-escalation study to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a single administration of KH658 gene therapy in participants with neovascular AMD (For more information please visit https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT 06825858).

TekniPlex Healthcare to Present Recyclable Blister Packaging Solutions at The Pharma Days 2026

Fri, 15 May 2026 10:12:00 +0700

The presentation will examine PPWR minimization-driven blister innovations, including recyclable and recycled pharmaceutical grades. Company will also showcase its advanced barrier materials and expanded multidose vial capabilities

Wayne, PA, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TekniPlex Healthcare, which utilizes advanced materials science expertise to help deliver better patient outcomes, will exhibit and present at The Pharma Days 2026, taking place May 27-28 at Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland. At Stand C1 in Hall 3, the company will feature its latest sustainability-driven innovations for primary pharmaceutical packaging, advanced barrier materials, and expanded injection blow molding capacity for multidose vial applications.

On May 28 at 10:20 a.m. in the TPSD Room, Robin Van Landeghem, Head of Strategic Innovation & Market Development at TekniPlex Healthcare, will deliver a presentation titled "Advancing Recyclable Polymer Solutions for Pharmaceutical Blister Packaging Under the PPWR Framework." The session will cover next-generation recyclable polymer structures, with a focus on patented polyester and polypropylene technologies. It will also address how the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is reshaping requirements for pharmaceutical packaging.

Although primary pharmaceutical packaging is exempt from PPWR's recyclability and minimum recycled-content rules when product quality is at stake, it remains subject to the regulation's mandatory minimization obligation, meaning that material and weight reduction principles still apply.

"PPWR is accelerating a fundamental shift in how the pharmaceutical industry approaches primary packaging," said Van Landeghem. "Recyclability and material reduction are no longer aspirational. They are converging into the baseline expectation for blister formats. TekniPlex Healthcare's role is to give pharmaceutical companies the technical confidence and regulatory clarity to adopt next-generation polymer solutions without compromising on product protection or manufacturability."

Recyclable blister solutions across the moisture barrier spectrum

For applications requiring mid- to high-moisture barrier properties, TekniPlex Healthcare's Tekniflex COC thermoformable blister films, paired with barrier PP lidding films, are recyclable within the PP #5 waste stream. For drugs that require little to no moisture barrier, the company's thermoformable polyester films and push-through polyester lidding films are recyclable within the PETE #1 waste stream. In partnership with Alpek Polyester, TekniPlex Healthcare has also introduced a pharma-grade blister film containing 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content using a mass balance approach, designed for applications with minimal barrier requirements.

Advanced barrier laminates and coated film solutions

TekniPlex Healthcare will also feature its portfolio of advanced barrier solutions, including Aclar laminates and PFAS-free SBC PVDC-coated PVC structures, engineered to deliver strong protection against moisture and oxygen for drugs with demanding stability profiles.

Expanded injection blow molding capacity for multidose vial packaging

At its facility in Modena, Italy, TekniPlex Healthcare has added substantial injection blow molding capacity for multidose vial packaging, supporting a wide range of pharmaceutical liquid applications, including the growing ophthalmic segment. Standard bottles range from 5-30 ml, including a 10 ml squeezable container designed specifically for Aptar Pharma's Ophthalmic Squeeze Dispenser (OSD) technology platform, that serves preservative-free multidose formulations in eye-care.

To learn more about TekniPlex Healthcare's latest materials science innovations, visit Stand C1 in Hall 3 at The Pharma Days 2026 or visit www.tekni-plex.com/healthcare. ***

Green Building Initiative Mengumumkan Pengunduran Diri CEO Vicki Worden

Fri, 15 May 2026 10:00:00 +0700

Vicki Worden, CAE, memimpin GBI mencapai pertumbuhan yang signifikan selama 11 tahun masa jabatannya; Yang Terhormat Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, diangkat sebagai CEO Sementara GBI

PORTLAND, Oregon, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Building Initiative (GBI) mengumumkan rencana pengunduran diri Chief Executive Officer (CEO)-nya, Vicki Worden. Worden akan meninggalkan GBI untuk mengemban jabatan baru sebagai CEO setelah memimpin organisasi tersebut sejak tahun 2015. GBI adalah organisasi nirlaba internasional dan pengembang standar terakreditasi ANSI yang beroperasi secara virtual dengan 30 staf.

"Kepemimpinan Vicki Worden ditandai oleh komitmen yang tak tergoyahkan dalam memperluas dampak misi GBI," ujar Sumayyah Theron, Ketua Dewan Direksi GBI serta CEO dan Pendiri Avant-garde Sustainable Solutions. "Di bawah kepemimpinan Vicki, GBI berkembang dari organisasi yang berfokus pada pasar Amerika Serikat menjadi organisasi dengan kehadiran yang benar-benar global, yang kini melayani anggota di lebih dari 20 negara. Visi dan dedikasinya telah mendorong standar bangunan hijau GBI diterapkan pada lebih dari satu miliar kaki persegi ruang komersial dan hunian multikeluarga bersertifikasi di seluruh dunia. Hal tersebut juga memperkuat posisi GBI sebagai lembaga sertifikasi terdepan di sektor hunian multikeluarga, fasilitas kesehatan, pusat data, dan berbagai sektor lainnya. Kami sangat berterima kasih atas seluruh kontribusi yang telah diberikan Vicki pada organisasi ini dan mendoakan kesuksesan terbaik baginya dalam melanjutkan kepemimpinan yang berbasis misi."

Misi GBI adalah meningkatkan dampak lingkungan binaan terhadap iklim dan masyarakat. Komunitasnya yang terdiri dari 15.000 anggota disatukan oleh satu visi yaitu untuk mewujudkan bangunan yang berkelanjutan, sehat, dan tangguh bagi semua kalangan.

Sebelum memimpin GBI, pengalaman Worden mencakup CEO sementara serta berbagai jabatan eksekutif senior di komunitas asosiasi di Washington, D.C. Selain itu, beliau juga menjalankan perusahaan konsultasi manajemen strategis miliknya sendiri yang berbasis di Maryland dan Maine selama lebih dari sepuluh tahun. Beliau telah menjadi tokoh penting dalam bidang keberlanjutan dan lingkungan binaan selama lebih dari 30 tahun.

"Saya sangat berterima kasih atas kemitraan yang terjalin dengan anggota Dewan GBI selama sebelas tahun terakhir serta atas komitmen bersama kami terhadap pertumbuhan yang bermakna," ujar Worden. "GBI dikenal dengan budaya pelayanan, kolaborasi, transparansi, dan kerja tim yang kuat. Budaya tersebut kami bangun secara sadar untuk mendukung visi dan misi organisasi. Saya merasa terhormat dapat bekerja sama dengan para anggota, asesor, klien, dan staf GBI yang sangat berdedikasi. Saya tahu bahwa saya meninggalkan GBI di tangan yang tepat. Organisasi ini akan terus maju serta memperluas dampak positifnya dalam evolusi berikutnya."

Worden dijadwalkan meninggalkan jabatannya pada akhir Juni 2026, dan sebuah perusahaan konsultan akan ditunjuk untuk memimpin proses pencarian penggantinya.

Untuk masa transisi, Dewan GBI telah mengangkat Yang Terhormat Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, sebagai CEO Sementara GBI. Ayers merupakan pemimpin yang diakui secara nasional di bidang arsitektur, pelayanan publik, dan transformasi organisasi, dengan karier yang menonjol di sektor pemerintahan, nirlaba, dan swasta. Beliau baru-baru ini menduduki sejumlah posisi pimpinan eksekutif sementara, termasuk sebagai CEO Sementara National Institute of Building Sciences (dua kali, pada 2022 dan 2024) serta CEO Sementara American Institute of Architects pada 2025. Dalam berbagai peran tersebut, beliau menghadirkan kepemimpinan yang stabil selama masa transisi penting dan membantu setiap organisasi memperkuat posisinya menuju kesuksesan jangka panjang. Tn. Ayers sebelumnya menjabat sebagai Architect of the Capitol ke-11 setelah ditunjuk oleh Barack Obama dan memperoleh persetujuan bulat dari Senat Amerika Serikat.***

Noted Vaccine Researchers Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci Awarded Sabin Vaccine Institute's Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal; Genomic Scientist Senjuti Saha of Bangladesh Receives Rising Star Award

Fri, 15 May 2026 08:54:00 +0700

WASHINGTON, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The 2026 Sabin Awards were presented yesterday at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C., with Professor Ugur Sahin, MD, and Professor Ozlem T?reci, MD, receiving the Sabin Vaccine Institute's Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal for their role in turning the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic and their efforts to support access to novel medicines globally. Dr. Senjuti Saha of Bangladesh was awarded the 2026 Rising Star Award for using genomics to inform the rollout of the world's largest typhoid vaccine program, protecting millions of children.

"Together, Professors Sahin and T?reci have helped reshape the future of vaccines, demonstrating how scientific entrepreneurship can translate cutting-edge research into global public health impact," said Sabin Chief Executive Officer Amy Finan. "The Sabin Gold Medal recognizes their extraordinary contribution for accelerating lifesaving vaccines and their commitment to vaccine access and equity."

Professors Sahin and T?reci, who are both business and life partners, were awarded the Sabin Gold Medal for their steadfast dedication to supporting medicine access through innovative technologies they have been pioneering for decades. At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, they leveraged the technology they had been researching and developing for decades originally for oncology applications and pivoted their company's focus to develop a COVID-19 vaccine in record time that helped protect billions of lives.

Driven by the mission to improve the health of people worldwide, Sahin and T?reci continue to advance the development of vaccine candidates against diseases of major relevance to millions of people worldwide, including tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria. Their dedication extends beyond developing medical innovations as they work along the entire R&D chain to make a difference for communities. Together with their team and partners, they are leading efforts to contribute to build a sustainable and resilient vaccine ecosystem in Africa, for Africa.

"We are deeply honored to receive the 2026 Sabin Gold Medal. Albert Sabin's conviction that scientific breakthroughs only truly matter when they reach the people has been a lasting source of inspiration for us. We firmly believe that innovative medicines must be accessible to those who need them most," said Professors Sahin and Tureci. "This award is a testament to a collaborative effort, recognizing the dedication of our teams and partners around the world who walk this journey with us and share a deep sense of commitment to improving health."

Sabin's Rising Star Award encourages and recognizes the next generation of vaccine and immunization leaders. Rising Star Awardee Dr. Senjuti Saha generates critical evidence for major national immunization initiatives, including Bangladesh's 2025 typhoid conjugate vaccine campaign that has already reached more than 40 million children. As Deputy Executive Director of the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF), she helped build one of the country's leading genomic laboratories. The lab has sequenced thousands of pathogen genomes to improve outbreak detection and inform vaccine development for diseases such as Klebsiella and RSV. Her work also emphasizes developing local scientific leadership and mentoring the next generation of researchers.

"This award is incredibly meaningful to me because it reflects years of work by an extraordinary community in Bangladesh and shows that great science can grow anywhere people are determined to solve problems together," said Dr. Saha.

"Dr. Senjuti Saha exemplifies the next generation of scientific leadership," said Finan. "She understands that her work doesn't stop in the laboratory or with a published paper. To improve and protect community health, she uses data and evidence to advocate for strong vaccine policy."

The Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal and Rising Star Award, awarded since 1994 and 2020 respectively, celebrate Dr. Sabin's legacy of ensuring vaccine access for all. They honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to immunization and global health. These awards commemorate the legacy of the late Dr. Albert B. Sabin, who discovered the oral polio vaccine and dedicated his life to ensuring everyone in the world had access to vaccines.

Watch the 2026 Sabin Awards ceremony recording.***

Acronis Introduces Cyber Frame, Addressing Service Provider Demand for Profitable, Reliable, and Protected IaaS

Fri, 15 May 2026 08:33:00 +0700

New AI-powered, protected by default infrastructure platform gives partners greater control, stronger margins, and faster time to market

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced the launch of Acronis Cyber Frame, a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform purpose-built for service providers.

Designed specifically for managed service providers (MSPs), cloud service providers (CSPs), hosting providers, and telcos, Acronis Cyber Frame enables partners to deliver, protect, manage, and automate build, deliver, and monetize infrastructure services on their own terms by combining virtual machines, networking, and storage with Acronis' natively integrated cyber protection, management, and automation. This approach helps improve business outcomes with more predictable pricing, stronger resale margins, and a better fit for regional, sovereign, and legacy virtualization replacement opportunities.

Acronis-Cyber Frame

At a time of disruption in legacy virtualization, increasing hyperscaler cost pressures, and rising demand for regional and sovereign cloud solutions, Acronis Cyber Frame gives service providers a new path to regain control of their infrastructure strategy and margins.

"Service providers are rethinking their infrastructure strategies in response to major market shifts and need infrastructure that fits their business," said Gaidar Magdanurov, President at Acronis. "Acronis Cyber Frame brings infrastructure, protection, and management together in a single, natively integrated platform, helping partners simplify complexity and achieve stronger margins from their infrastructure services."

Deliver IaaS on Your Terms

Acronis Cyber Frame offers a flexible deployment model that allows partners to choose how they build and scale their infrastructure business:

* Acronis Cyber Frame Cloud: A fully hosted option that enables rapid time to market with no upfront infrastructure investment

* Acronis Cyber Frame Local: A partner-hosted deployment model providing full control over infrastructure, economics, performance, and data location

This flexibility allows service providers to launch quickly, expand strategically, and adapt to customer requirements around data sovereignty and compliance.

Protected by Default

Unlike traditional infrastructure platforms that require separate tools for protection and management, Acronis Cyber Frame is protected by default. Every workload deployed on Cyber Frame includes built-in backup and disaster recovery, security and threat protection, and remote monitoring and management (RMM). By integrating these capabilities natively, Cyber Frame reduces operational complexity, eliminates tool sprawl, and enables partners to deliver secure infrastructure services from day one.

Purpose-Built for Service Provider Success
Acronis Cyber Frame is designed from the ground up for service providers, with capabilities tailored to their business models. This includes native multitenancy and tenant isolation, customer self-service and white-label delivery, seamless integration with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, and operational tooling aligned with service provider workflows. This purpose-built approach allows partners to package differentiated services, streamline operations, and deliver a more consistent and efficient customer experience.

"Acronis Cyber Frame represents a major step forward in secure, resilient infrastructure. By combining virtual machines, networking, storage, cyber protection, disaster recovery, and RMM into a single AI-powered platform, it gives clients enterprise-grade cyber resilience with far less complexity," said Scott Harrison, Cybersecurity Solution Specialist at Grey Matter. "Instead of stitching together multiple tools, organizations can operate from one natively integrated platform designed for security, efficiency, and scalability from day one. For our clients, this is more than infrastructure modernization, it's a smarter, more cost-effective operational model built for the future."

Open Foundation, Stronger Business Outcomes

Built on optimized OpenStack and KVM technologies and developed in collaboration with Virtuozzo, Acronis Cyber Frame avoids proprietary hypervisor lock-in while delivering a modern, scalable infrastructure foundation. With more predictable pricing and improved cost control, Cyber Frame enables service providers to pursue legacy virtualization replacement opportunities, repatriate workloads from hyperscalers, deliver regional and sovereign cloud services, and increase resale margins and long-term profitability.

Acronis Cyber Frame is now generally available globally.

To learn more, visit the announcement blog here: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-cyber-frame-is-now-generally-available-deliver-iaas-on-your-own-terms/

For more information about Acronis Cyber Frame, visit: https://www.acronis.com/en/products/cloud/cyber-protect/cyber-frame/

Banks Are Moving to a Dual Workforce Model, nCino's Inaugural AI in Banking Benchmark Shows

Fri, 15 May 2026 08:24:00 +0700

Nearly 9 in 10 senior banking executives say AI Agents are the future, but only 1 in 5 are currently tying it to revenue

Barriers remain to turn AI momentum into measurable ROI

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), the platform for agentic AI banking, today released its inaugural "nCino AI in Banking Benchmark," which revealed that the majority of bankers (89%) see a future defined by a dual workforce of AI agents and humans within five years.

While institutions have made meaningful progress in adopting AI and defining strategy, many are still working to translate that activity into business outcomes, marking a pivotal shift from exploring various use cases to utilizing as a strategic growth enabler at scale. In fact, the report found that only 21% of respondents indicate that they are currently tying their AI investments to increased revenue.

This survey was launched at nSight 2026, nCino's 14th annual industry event being held May 12-14 in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was fielded between late March and early April 2026 among 150 U.S. banking senior technology and business decision-makers.

"As AI adoption accelerates, this report reveals that banking leaders are rethinking how work gets done, increasingly moving to a dual workforce of AI agents and humans," said Sean Desmond, Chief Executive Officer at nCino. "The next phase is turning that motion into real momentum, ensuring AI investments deliver measurable business outcomes. That requires treating AI not just as a technology initiative, but as a transformation of how institutions operate, compete and serve their customers."

AI Has Moved to the Core of the Banking Enterprise

AI is now firmly embedded in banking operations, with the majority of institutions utilizing it at an enterprise level (84%). What began as experimentation has evolved into everyday integration, with the report showing 91% of respondents say it enables their time to be spent on higher value or customer-facing work.

This shift is being accelerated by agentic AI, which is already reshaping roles across the organization and laying the foundation for a dual workforce model. According to the report, 84% of bankers say it has already significantly changed how most banking roles operate and 89% expect to be working alongside AI agents within the next five years.

AI Adoption Is Outpacing Accountability

The report reveals that while most banks (91%) have defined AI strategies, many are still early in linking those investments to KPIs. A majority (81%) of executives prioritize adoption over return on investment, with relatively few tying AI initiatives to cost reduction (26%) or revenue growth (21%). As a result, many organizations remain in motion--without yet achieving the momentum needed to drive sustained business impact.

Confidence in Data is High--But There are Cracks Beneath It

One of the primary barriers to translating AI momentum into business impact is data. The survey shows that the majority (87%) of banking executives feel confident about their ability to access good, quality data--good news for AI adoption. Yet nearly all (93%) cite at least one data governance challenge, including:

* Data siloed across systems (52%)

* Compromised data integrity (41%)

* Inconsistent or incomplete data (37%)

* Poor data quality (34%)

Against this backdrop, the report found that 94% of executives say a fully integrated, end-to-end AI solution could deliver more value to their organization.

"ConnectOne has consistently operated among the top-performing institutions for efficiency, and we take pride in working with partners like nCino that help us continue to enhance that efficiency as we scale," said Frank Sorrentino, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ConnectOne Bank. "As the pace of technological change accelerates, the institutions best positioned to lead will be those that rethink how they operate, apply modern solutions with purpose, and work with partners who can help translate innovation into meaningful outcomes for clients, teams, and shareholders."

To download the full report, visit the nCino website.

Methodology

The nCino AI in Banking Benchmark was fielded between late March and early April 2026 among 150 U.S. banking senior technology and business decision-makers. Respondents' roles included CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, Managing Directors, and VPs, and were employed across credit unions, community banks, regional and super-regional banks, and global financial institutions. All participants have direct influence over or responsibility for technology strategy and investment decisions. The survey was designed to assess how financial institutions are adopting and operationalizing AI, where strategic alignment and execution challenges persist, and how banks are measuring business impact and return on investment from AI initiatives.***

Zymeworks Announces Participation in Upcoming Investor Conferences

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:36:00 +0700

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zymeworks Inc. (Nasdaq: ZYME), a biotechnology company managing a portfolio of licensed healthcare assets while developing a diverse pipeline of novel, multifunctional biotherapeutics, today announced that management will participate in the following upcoming investor conferences:

2026 Stifel Virtual Targeted Oncology Forum: Zymeworks' management will participate in one-on-one meetings and a fireside chat on May 20 at 9:00 am Eastern Time (ET) virtually.

TD Cowen 7th Annual Oncology Innovation Summit: Zymeworks' management will participate in a fireside chat on May 27 at 4:30 pm ET virtually.

2026 Jefferies Global Healthcare Conference: Zymeworks' management will participate in one-on-one meetings and a fireside chat on June 3 at 8:45 am ET in New York, NY.

About Zymeworks Inc.

Zymeworks is a global biotechnology company managing a portfolio of licensed healthcare assets and developing a diverse pipeline of novel, multifunctional biotherapeutics to improve the standard of care for difficult-to-treat diseases, including cancer, inflammation, and autoimmune disease. Zymeworks' asset and royalty aggregation strategy focuses on optimizing positive future cash flows from an emerging portfolio of licensed products such as Ziihera? (zanidatamab-hrii) and other licensed products and product candidates, such as pasritamig. In addition, Zymeworks is also building a portfolio of healthcare assets that can generate strong cash flows, while supporting the development of innovative medicines. Zymeworks engineered and developed Ziihera, a HER2-targeted bispecific antibody using Zymeworks' proprietary Azymetric? technology and has entered into separate agreements with BeOne Medicines Ltd. (formerly BeiGene, Ltd.) and Jazz Pharmaceuticals Ireland Limited granting each exclusive rights to develop and commercialize zanidatamab in different territories. Zymeworks is rapidly advancing a robust pipeline of product candidates, leveraging its expertise in both antibody drug conjugates and multispecific antibody therapeutics targeting novel pathways in areas of significant unmet medical need. Zymeworks' complementary therapeutic platforms and fully integrated drug development engine provide the flexibility and compatibility to precisely engineer and develop highly differentiated antibody-based therapeutics. These capabilities have been further leveraged through strategic partnerships with global biopharmaceutical companies. For information about Zymeworks, visit www.zymeworks.com and follow @ZymeworksInc on X.

Contacts:

Investor Inquiries:

Shrinal Inamdar

Vice President, Investor Relations

(604) 678-1388

ir@zymeworks.com  

Media Inquiries:

Diana Papove

Vice President, Corporate Communications

(604) 678-1388

media@zymeworks.com

Quest Software Extends Data and AI Leadership with Quest Data Modeler and Quest Data Intelligence, Enhancing its Trusted Data Management Platform

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:30:00 +0700

New capabilities deliver cloud-native modeling, AI-powered policy management, and an expanded library of QuestAI assistants, giving modern data teams a single, governed foundation for analytics and AI initiatives - from data structure to data access

AUSTIN, Texas, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Quest Software, a global leader in data management, cybersecurity and platform modernization, today announced two major releases to the Quest Trusted Data Management Platform, the industry's only unified, end-to-end SaaS platform for trusted, AI-ready data. Building on the Automated Data Product Factory, the transformative new capability introduced earlier this year, the platform's new AI-powered capabilities deliver innovative technology for modern data teams with the release of Quest Data Modeler, a cloud-native data modeling tool, and Quest Data Intelligence, which expands the library of AI assistants spanning governance, lineage, compliance, data products, data quality, and natural-language access to governed data. To learn more, visit: quest.com/data-management-platform.

Most organizations stitch together separate data modeling tools, governance suites, and AI assistants, leaving them with multiple naming definitions, broken audit trails, and AI assistants running on ungoverned data. Quest Data Modeler and Quest Data Intelligence, working jointly within the Quest Trusted Data Management Platform, eliminates that fragmentation, giving customers a trusted, reliable experience with a shared understanding of their data. Data modeling establishes the logical definition and naming standards, and data governance keeps those standards consistent across the platform creating consistent business terms wherever data is consumed. QuestAI assistants speak the same language to every user. The result is one platform, one audit trail, and one shared understanding of data from how it is structured to how it is consumed.

"Trusted data is the backbone of any modern AI strategy, and our continued innovation is helping organizations turn AI ambition into real business value - with lower risk, higher accuracy, and the trusted data that makes faster AI deployment possible," said Michael Laudon, Chief Product and Technology Officer, Quest Software. "At the pace we're all moving in the AI era, trust can't be tacked on after the fact - it has to be baked in from the start, or AI initiatives stall. That's why we designed the Quest Trusted Data Management Platform with multiple entry points, each aligned to different stages of enterprise data and AI maturity, so we can meet our customers where they are. Some organizations are just beginning to address data visibility and quality; others are operationalizing governance and lineage to meet regulatory and risk requirements; and the most advanced are managing data as a product making it continuously trusted, reusable, and scalable for AI, analytics, and automation. By adding AI-powered data modeling and data intelligence, we are providing organizations with a first-of-its-kind solution that spans the entire data lifecycle, and helps them achieve trusted, AI-ready data faster ? no matter where they are in their journey."

"The bottom line is, there is no trusted AI without trusted data, and there is no trusted data without sound data modeling. That is where it all begins," said Rocky Creel, Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase. "Fragmented data landscapes, inconsistent definitions, and manual processes slow everything down and erode confidence in what we deliver downstream. Quest Software's data modeling solutions give us the rigor and consistency we need at the foundation through well-defined structures, shared semantics, and governed designs that every downstream capability can build from. When your models are right, governance, lineage, and AI readiness follow. That's why Quest's continued innovation in data modeling is so critical in helping to build a scalable, trusted, AI-ready data ecosystem."

Across every industry and organization, data teams are dealing with fragmented, untrusted data that limits their AI readiness, accelerating regulatory compliance, and disparate tools and definitions that erode trust in data product outputs. Existing solutions have provided support for one of these problems, whereas the Quest Trusted Data Management Platform addresses all three within a single offering, and is built for how modern data teams work. With Quest Data Modeler and Quest Data Intelligence, the Trusted Data Management Platform now governs the two layers that matter most in the modern data stack - how data is modeled, and how data is governed. No other solution covers both in a single offering.

Quest Data Modeler is purpose-built for modern data stacks and to eliminate the trade-off between legacy tools that lack modern collaboration, and lightweight SaaS-enabled tools that lack governance. Drawing on Quest's leadership in data modeling, it combines AI-powered data modeling with enterprise-level governance in a single offering, delivering real-time collaboration, governed business definitions, and standard naming across hybrid and cloud environments including Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, and others. Quest Data Modeler capabilities include:

AI-Assisted Modeling, a natural-language interface that generates and refines models, suggests consistent naming conventions, and accelerates delivery through proposal-and-review workflows. Modeling cycles now drop from weeks to hours without sacrificing the audit trails that organizations require.

Real-Time Collaborative Modeling allows data architects, analytics engineers, business analysts, and data stewards to work in a single live workspace, with comments and discussions handled directly in the modeling workspace to eliminate siloed work.

Enterprise Model Repository delivers a centralized Mart repository with model locking, version history, multi-user conflict resolution and controlled change management, giving data teams the rigor required for large, multi-team programs and a governance infrastructure that other cloud-native modelers don't have.

Full-Stack Modeling includes conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling in one place with visibility across every layer, ensuring that "customer" and "revenue" mean the same thing across every team, dashboard and AI system.

erwin Heritage and Hybrid Coexistence giving the tens of thousands of organizations that rely on existing erwin investments now can migrate assets, maintain hybrid workflows, and move to the cloud at their own pace, giving them the ability to protect decades of modeling discipline without starting over ? a path no cloud-native competitor can match.

Quest Data Intelligence builds on Quest's history of unmatched and proven data intelligence and governance capabilities, infusing AI-driven innovations to directly help organizations deliver trusted, AI-ready data at the speed and scale modern AI demands while reducing regulatory risk. Quest Data Intelligence capabilities include:

AI-Powered Policy Manager delivers governance that keeps pace with regulation instead of chasing it. This feature generates policies directly from some of the most stringent regulatory frameworks ? including the EU AI Act, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) AI Risk Management Framework and GDPR, with real-time policy enforcement at the point of data access, delivering a policy-as-code approach backed by continuous compliance monitoring and full audit trails.

Expanded QuestAI Assistant Library builds on the QuestAI Stewardship Assistant and helps organizations develop business glossaries up to 75 percent faster and onboards new data sources up to 10x faster. New assistants now span glossary and ownership, data lineage, compliance, data products and data quality.

Universal Semantic Assistant provides natural-language access to governed, trusted insights powered by Quest's semantic layer, closing the persistent gap between business questions and the technical data that answers them.

MDSap Tech, a Quest Platinum Partner and SAP Gold Partner within the Midis Group ecosystem, brings more than 30 years of experience helping organizations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa modernize data management, analytics, and digital transformation strategies. "Quest Software is taking a strong step forward with the latest evolution of data modeling, making it more collaborative, accessible, and efficient. The Quest Data Modeler has the potential to significantly broaden participation beyond traditional technical users, enabling business users to play a more active role in the modeling process, which is hugely important for all organizations," said ?mer Akg?l, Technology and Analytics Solutions Manager, MDSap Tech. "This new offering can bring organizations substantial benefits, including improved alignment between business and IT, faster iteration cycles, and more accurate representation of business needs. The integration of AI-powered capabilities stands out as a key enabler, helping to simplify complex modeling tasks and accelerate productivity."

Tecnet Dati has more than 30 years of experience as an IT consulting firm offering services across AI, advanced analytics, data governance and management, and more, and is a Quest Platinum+ Partner. "The user interface is much lighter, while still providing the substance and core functionality to someone that might not be as experienced with data modeling," said Renato Comes, Sales and Marketing Director, Tecnet Dati. "With integration with the Mart repository, this will allow implementation of a hybrid environment where downstream consumers who are less technical can build the models to meet their business needs, while modeling teams can refine them from a more in-depth standpoint. It builds a modelling ecosystem of collaboration, speed and scale."

About Quest Software

Quest Software creates technology and solutions that build the foundation for enterprise AI. Focused on data management and governance, cybersecurity, and platform modernization, Quest helps organizations address their most pressing challenges through trusted, AI-ready data, secure identities, and modernized platforms. Around the globe, more than 45,000 companies, including more than 90% of the Fortune 500, count on Quest Software. For more information, visit www.quest.com or follow Quest Software on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly Twitter).

Media contact:

Matt Hurst

Head of Corporate Communications

matt.hurst@quest.com

Huayan Robotics to Showcase Welding and Automation Solutions at METALTECH & AUTOMEX 2026

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:27:00 +0700

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Huayan Robotics, a HKEX-listed specialist in intelligent collaborative robotics, is set to showcase its latest automation solutions at METALTECH & AUTOMEX 2026, taking place from May 20 to 23 at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC), Kuala Lumpur. At Booth L2-7320, Hall 7, the company will present a portfolio of flexible, efficient, and intelligent robotic systems. The participation reflects the company's strong commitment to the Malaysian and broader Southeast Asian market.

Huayan Robotics at metaltech & automex 2026

At this leading event, Huayan Robotics will highlight solutions for welding applications and high-frequency industrial scenarios, including:

Collaborative Welding Robot Lineup

Visitors are expected to learn two collaborative welding robot models:

Ultra-long 1.8 m reach cobot, designed for large and complex workpieces;

Lightweight model equipped with a magnetic base for flexible deployment across multiple stations.

They feature force-controlled drag-to-teach, automatic seam tracking, and adaptive path correction, collectively reducing programming effort while improving welding precision and consistency. Tailored for industries such as shipbuilding, structural steel fabrication, and metal fabrication, etc., these welding robots scale production with greater flexibility.

Integrated Automation Solutions

Headlining the showcase will be advanced automation solutions, including CNC loading and unloading robots, heavy-payload palletizing robots, and 2.5D vision inspection robots.

In CNC applications, Huayan Robotics delivers high speed, precision, and stable operation, supported by long-term partnerships with leading global machine tool manufacturers. Its palletizing solution offers up to 60 kg payload, 2.2 m reach, and 8?13 cycles per minute, built for high-throughput industries such as food & beverage, daily chemicals, and logistics. The AI-enhanced 2.5D vision system brings smarter, more cost-effective quality control into the production line, improving both accuracy and efficiency in inspection.

Visit Booth L2-7320 at MITEC to explore the full range of collaborative robotics and connect with the team about intelligent manufacturing opportunities across Southeast Asia.

About Huayan Robotics

Huayan Robotics specializes in collaborative robot solutions for welding, palletizing, assembly, screwdriving, spraying, and more, serving manufacturers in over 50 countries and regions to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and operational performance.

Backed by over 20 years of expertise and following its listing, Huayan Robotics is accelerating its global expansion. With Southeast Asia identified as a key strategic growth market, Huayan Robotics continues to innovate practical solutions, driven by its mission: Robotics for Humanity.

Media Contact

Website: https://www.huayan-robotics.net/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/huayanrobotics

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Huayanrobotics

Email: marketing.oversea@huayan-robotics.com

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Holafly and TeleSemana.com launch the Holafly Global eSIM Index 2026, the first comprehensive benchmark measuring eSIM readiness across 50 markets

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:22:00 +0700

Holafly and TeleSemana.com launch the Holafly Global eSIM Index 2026

Holafly and TeleSemana.com launch the Holafly Global eSIM Index 2026, the first comprehensive benchmark of eSIM readiness across 50 markets

DUBLIN, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Holafly, the global leader in travel eSIMs, today announced the launch of the Holafly Global eSIM Index 2026-a first-of-its-kind study that evaluates the commercial readiness of eSIM technology across 50 markets and 168 mobile network operators worldwide.

Developed in collaboration with TeleSemana.com, one of Latin America's leading telecommunications industry publications, the Index offers a structured, data-driven view of how eSIM is deployed, experienced, and constrained across regions. It brings together operator-level data, country-level variables, qualitative assessment, and a regulatory penalty mechanism into a single 0-100 scoring framework.

The findings clearly demonstrate a decisive shift in the industry: eSIM is no longer a technology in development, but a globally deployed capability. What differentiates markets today is not technical readiness, but the structural conditions that enable or limit adoption, including device availability, regulatory frameworks, and the quality of the user experience.

The United States ranks first globally with a score of 90.2, followed by Estonia and the United Kingdom, while markets such as Sudan, India, and Liberia reflect the structural barriers that continue to limit adoption. Notably, the Index identifies regulatory intervention as a decisive factor, with specific markets applying restrictions that materially impact the scalability of eSIM services.

The central conclusion is that eSIM adoption is no longer constrained by technology, but by market design. Where regulation enables digital activation, devices are widely available, and operators deliver seamless experiences, adoption scales rapidly. Where these conditions are not aligned, growth remains structurally limited.

"eSIM has already moved beyond being an emerging technology. What will shape the next phase of adoption is how effectively markets enable seamless digital access for users. The countries leading this transition are not necessarily those with the largest telecom infrastructure, but those creating frictionless experiences that match the expectations of today's global travelers," said Chris Hills, VP of Carriers & Operations at Holafly.

From a methodology standpoint, the Index evaluates five core dimensions: market readiness, activation and support, adoption and competition, regulatory environment, and expert assessment. A dedicated penalty mechanism captures the impact of markets that restrict access to international eSIM providers, ensuring that the Index reflects not only operator capability but also real user accessibility.

As travelers demand more flexible, borderless, and immediate ways to stay online, travel eSIM providers are becoming a key driver of change across the industry. By removing many of the traditional barriers associated with physical SIM cards and complex activation processes, eSIM solutions are redefining how people access mobile services abroad and accelerating the transition toward a more seamless global travel experience.

The Holafly Global eSIM Index 2026 sets a new reference framework for operators, regulators, and industry stakeholders, delivering a consistent benchmark that clarifies where adoption is already tangible, where it remains constrained, and where future growth is most likely to surface.

The full report is available at: https://www.telesemana.com/holafly-global-esim-index-2026/

Media contact: press@holafly.com

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DutyFreeAlibaba.com and AlibabaDutyFree.com Announce Global Vendor, Wholesale & Investor Enrollment Ahead of Fall 2026 Launch

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:15:00 +0700

Bringing the Alibaba-Style Marketplace Concept to the Global Duty-Free World

MIAMI, May 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DutyFreeAlibaba.com and AlibabaDutyFree.com, two next-generation digital marketplace platforms under development, today announced the opening of early enrollment for vendors, suppliers, wholesalers, importers, distributors, premium brands, strategic partners, and investors ahead of their anticipated Fall 2026 B2C launch.

In addition to the upcoming B2C marketplace, DutyFreeAlibaba.com and AlibabaDutyFree.com are already accepting wholesale inquiries and wholesale orders from serious qualified buyers, importers, distributors, wholesalers, and strategic commercial partners worldwide.

The platforms are being designed to bring the power of global wholesale, cross-border sourcing, and duty-free-style value into one digital marketplace - accessible from anywhere, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

No airport required. No border required. No travel required.

A New Marketplace Model for the Duty-Free World

For decades, duty-free shopping has been limited to airports, cruise terminals, border shops, and international travel locations. At the same time, global wholesale commerce has expanded rapidly through large-scale online sourcing platforms.

DutyFreeAlibaba.com and AlibabaDutyFree.com aim to combine these two powerful ideas: global marketplace access and duty-free-style value.

The platforms are being built to serve consumers, wholesalers, importers, exporters, distributors, retailers, and international suppliers looking for a new digital channel dedicated to duty-free food, beverages, spirits, confectionery, soft drinks, premium products, and global brands.

Duty-Free Meets Global Wholesale

DutyFreeAlibaba.com and AlibabaDutyFree.com are being developed as marketplace destinations for categories including:

Spirits ? Beers ? Wines ? Champagne ? Gourmet Foods ? Soft Drinks ? Energy Drinks ? Chocolates ? Confectionery ? Perfumes ? Beauty ? Cosmetics ? Watches ? Jewelry ? Fashion ? Leather Goods ? Sunglasses ? Electronics ? Travel Essentials ? Gifts ? Premium International Brands

The platforms are intended to support both B2B sales, which are already available for qualified wholesale buyers and commercial partners, and future B2C operations, expected to begin in Fall 2026.

Built for Vendors, Importers, Wholesalers & Global Suppliers

The company is actively inviting:

Food manufacturers

Beverage companies

Spirits brands

Wine and champagne suppliers

Beer suppliers

Soft drink companies

Energy drink brands

Water and juice companies

Coffee and tea suppliers

Chocolate and confectionery brands

Gourmet food suppliers

Premium snack brands

Perfume and fragrance brands

Beauty and cosmetics companies

Watch and jewelry brands

Fashion and leather goods suppliers

Travel retail product suppliers

Importers and exporters

Wholesalers and distributors

Authorized suppliers and brand representatives

Strategic logistics partners

Payment and technology partners

Serious qualified wholesale buyers from around the world

Premium international brands

Investors and commercial partners

Early participants may benefit from preferred category placement, first-mover visibility, wholesale buyer access, launch campaign exposure, and long-term positioning in a new duty-free-style global marketplace.

Launch Timeline

DutyFreeAlibaba.com and AlibabaDutyFree.com are currently under development and are already accepting wholesale orders and wholesale inquiries from serious qualified buyers, importers, distributors, wholesalers, and commercial partners worldwide.

The company anticipates beginning live B2C operations in Fall 2026, while vendor, supplier, wholesale, importer, distributor, and investor enrollment is now open. B2B sales are already available for qualified wholesale buyers and commercial partners.

Statement from Management

"DutyFreeAlibaba.com and AlibabaDutyFree.com were created from a simple vision: bringing the global marketplace power of Alibaba-style commerce into the duty-free world. We believe the future of duty-free is digital, global, wholesale-friendly, and accessible from home. Our goal is to connect brands, suppliers, importers, distributors, wholesalers, and buyers worldwide through a new online duty-free-style marketplace."

Get Involved

Vendors & Brands

Showcase your products on a future global duty-free marketplace.

Wholesalers & Importers

Access new sourcing, distribution, and international trade opportunities.

Investors

Participate in the early development of a potentially disruptive commerce platform.

Strategic Partners

Explore opportunities in logistics, sourcing, payment, technology, and international expansion.

Contact

DutyFreeAlibaba.com / AlibabaDutyFree.com

Website: www.dutyfreealibaba.com

Disclaimer

DutyFreeAlibaba.com and AlibabaDutyFree.com are independent platforms under development and are not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Alibaba Group Holding Limited, Alibaba.com, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates.

The use of the term "Alibaba-style" refers only to a general marketplace concept and does not imply any partnership, sponsorship, approval, or commercial relationship with Alibaba Group.

Vendors inquiries: vendors@dutyfreezone.com

Investor relations: invest@dutyfreezone.com

Asia Pacific Governments Embrace Sovereign AI as a Strategic National Priority, but Scale Hinges on Trust, Skills, and Infrastructure Readiness

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:09:00 +0700

Story Highlights:

*New IDC research commissioned by Dell Technologies finds Sovereign AI has surged to the second-highest investment priority for Asia Pacific governments.

*Almost all (99%) government leaders in Asia Pacific believe agentic AI will accelerate AI adoption with the majority calling for strong governance frameworks to unlock its full potential at scale.

*Nine in 10 government organizations report critical skills shortages that could determine whether pilots become trusted national platforms.

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 13 May 2026 - New research commissioned by Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and conducted by International Data Corporation (IDC), reveals that governments across Asia Pacific (APJ) are moving decisively from AI exploration toward structured activation of Sovereign AI.

The study, based on a survey of 360 government IT decision-makers across eight APJ markets, finds that Sovereign AI has risen from the seventh to the second-highest government investment priority in just one year. This signals a fundamental shift in how the region's public sector leaders view AI, seeing it as critical national digital infrastructure rather than a simple technology upgrade.

APJ governments are shifting from awareness to activation, but investment needs to catch up

The research reveals that Asia Pacific governments have moved well beyond conceptual discussion. Nearly half (46.1%) are actively evaluating Sovereign AI technologies, while more than a third (36.1%) are running initial proofs of concept.

This activation is underpinned by a clear strategic rationale. More than three-quarters (76.9%) of government leaders agree that investing in Sovereign AI enhances their agency's resilience against geopolitical risks and supply chain disruptions.

Despite this, only 3.1% are investing significantly so far. Meanwhile, only 1.7% of respondents say they have no plans to adopt Sovereign AI.

Across the region, governments are pursuing "selective sovereignty" to maintain strong control over sensitive data, critical systems, and regulated workloads, while continuing to leverage global technology ecosystems for innovation and scale. Hybrid sovereign models that combine on-premises infrastructure and sovereign cloud environments with broader ecosystem access are emerging as the preferred deployment approach.

Agentic AI poised to accelerate government AI adoption across Asia Pacific

Asia Pacific government leaders are signalling near-universal confidence in agentic AI as a catalyst for accelerating AI adoption in the public sector. The research reveals that 99% of leaders see agentic AI as an accelerator, with more than a third (36.9%) believing it will play a major role and a further 62.1% expressing strong confidence in its potential when paired with robust governance and oversight frameworks. Only 1.1% remain uncertain.

This positions Asia Pacific as bullish on agentic AI suggesting the region's governments are not hesitating on agentic AI, rather, they are actively preparing the governance foundations that will allow them to deploy it with confidence and at scale.

This confidence is driven in part by operational necessity. With nearly nine in 10 APJ government organizations reporting critical digital skills shortages, agentic AI is emerging as a practical workforce multiplier, capable of automating complex administrative and analytical tasks and enabling government teams to deliver more with the talent they have. In a region where technology is outpacing workforce capability faster than the global average, autonomous AI systems offer a path to close the gap between ambition and capacity.

In this context, Sovereign AI is increasingly functioning as the trust layer that unlocks the adoption of next-generation AI capabilities. By ensuring that agentic and generative AI systems operate within national policy, security, and auditability frameworks, governments can move faster precisely because the right controls are in place from the outset.

Skills shortages emerge as the region's most critical constraint

Despite strong strategic intent, APJ governments face acute workforce bottlenecks that risk constraining the transition from pilot to production. Nearly nine in 10 organizations report digital skills shortages, and more than half say these shortages are having a major impact on digital initiatives, significantly more so than the global average of 66.8%.

The hardest-to-hire roles map directly to Sovereign AI readiness: AI safety and alignment researchers (42.5%), data architecture, management, and analytics professionals (35%), sovereign data governance (30%), sovereign cloud architecture and operations specialists (25.3%), and AI policy and governance specialists (25%).

The research findings recommend a four-layer capability model in which governments retain direct ownership of policy, governance, and data stewardship roles while partnering with trusted ecosystem providers for frontier AI specialization and delivery at scale.

Mission-critical public services drive investment priorities

Governments expect Sovereign AI to deliver the greatest citizen benefit in high-consequence public domains. National security and cyber-resilience top the list at 45.6%, followed by justice and public safety (37.5%), financial and taxation (37.5%), public healthcare (34.4%), social services and welfare (32.2%), education (31.7%), and workforce development (31.1%).

Investment decisions are increasingly policy-led. More than half (53.3%) of government leaders cite alignment with national security and sovereign priorities as the top factor in technology investment decisions, followed by security capabilities and reliability of technology providers (52.5%). Four of the top six decision factors are directly linked to sovereignty considerations.

Perspectives:

"This research confirms what we're hearing from government leaders across Asia Pacific: the question is no longer whether Sovereign AI matters, but how to operationalize it at national scale," said Nicole Jefferson, Vice President, Global Government Affairs, Dell Technologies. "What stands out is the region's confidence in agentic AI as an accelerator and the understanding that strong governance is an enabler of progression, not a hinderance. The findings show a region that is serious, structured, and pragmatic about building AI capabilities it can trust. Governments want partners who understand that sovereign-ready infrastructure, skills transfer, and governance maturity are inseparable from the technology itself. At Dell Technologies, we're committed to helping public sector organizations build AI on their own terms - with the security, resilience, and openness that mission-critical national services demand."

"Agentic AI is moving quickly from concept to practical consideration for government and executive decision-makers," said Ravikant Sharma, Research Director, IDC. "The study shows strong momentum, with public sector leaders looking to autonomous systems to help close skills gaps, ease workforce pressure and accelerate AI adoption. However, that momentum is conditional. Governments will only move at scale if they have confidence in the security, privacy, sovereignty and infrastructure foundations underpinning these systems."

About the study

The findings are drawn from IDC's Asia Pacific Government Survey, conducted in December 2025 on behalf of Dell Technologies. The survey polled 360 government IT decision-makers supplemented by 13 in-depth interviews with senior government officials across eight markets: Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and South Korea. Respondent organizations spanned national civilian government, defense, financial administration, public safety, healthcare, education, critical infrastructure, and other public sector functions. To view the full Asia Pacific research findings, click here: building-a-sovereign-ai-foundation-for-apj-governments.pdf

IDC InfoBrief, sponsored by Dell Technologies, Building a Sovereign AI Foundation for Asia/Pacific Governments, #AP24257IB, May 2026

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Green Building Initiative Announces Departure of CEO Vicki Worden

Thu, 14 May 2026 15:04:00 +0700

Vicki Worden, CAE, led GBI to achieve tremendous growth during her 11-year tenure; The Honorable Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, appointed as GBI Interim CEO

PORTLAND, Ore., May 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Building Initiative (GBI) is announcing the planned departure of its CEO, Vicki Worden. Worden is leaving to take a new CEO role after serving as GBI's chief executive since 2015. GBI is an international nonprofit organization and ANSI accredited standards developer that operates virtually with a 30-member staff.

"Vicki Worden's tenure has been defined by an unwavering commitment to expanding GBI's mission impact," stated Sumayyah Theron, Chair of GBI's Board of Directors and CEO and Founder of Avant-garde Sustainable Solutions. "Under Vicki's leadership, GBI evolved from a U.S.-focused organization into a truly global presence, now serving members in more than 20 countries. Her vision and dedication helped GBI's green building standards reach more than one billion square feet of certified commercial and multifamily space worldwide and positioned GBI as a leading certifier across multifamily housing, health care facilities, data centers, and beyond. We are deeply grateful for everything Vicki has brought to this organization and wish her great success as she continues to advance mission-driven leadership."

GBI's mission is to improve the built environment's impact on climate and society. Its community of 15,000 is united by a vision of sustainable, healthy, and resilient buildings for all.

Prior to her leadership at GBI, Worden's experience included interim CEO roles and senior executive roles in the Washington, D.C., association community as well as more than ten years running her own strategic management consulting firm based in Maryland and Maine. She has been a significant force in sustainability and built environment spaces for more than 30 years.

"I am deeply grateful for the partnership of GBI's Board members over my eleven years and for our joint commitment to meaningful growth," stated Worden. "GBI is known for its culture of service, collaboration, transparency, and teamwork, and it is a culture we built intentionally to support our vision and mission. It has been an honor to serve alongside GBI's highly passionate members, assessors, clients, and staff. I know I'm leaving GBI in great hands as it continues to advance and increase its positive impact in its next evolution."

Worden's departure is slated for late June 2026, and a consulting firm will be engaged to manage the search for Worden's permanent replacement.

For the transition period, GBI's Board has appointed The Honorable Stephen T. Ayers, FAIA, as GBI's Interim CEO. Ayers is a nationally recognized leader in architecture, public service, and organizational transformation, with a distinguished career spanning government, nonprofit, and private sector roles. He most recently has served in multiple interim chief executive roles, including Interim CEO of the National Institute of Building Sciences (twice, in 2022 and 2024) and Interim CEO of the American Institute of Architects in 2025, where he provided steady leadership during pivotal transition periods and helped position each organization for long-term success. Mr. Ayers previously served as the 11th Architect of the Capitol, appointed by Barack Obama and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate.

About GBI

GBI, Inc. is an international nonprofit organization and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited Standards Developer whose mission is to improve the built environment's impact on climate and society. Founded in 2004, the organization is the global provider of the Green Globes, Journey to Net Zero, Guiding Principles Compliance, and Ascent Building Certification programs, and it is the parent company of GB Initiative Canada. GBI also issues professional credentials, including the Green Globes Professional (GGP) and Guiding Principles Compliance Professional (GPCP). To learn more about opportunities to become involved with GBI, contact info@thegbi.org or visit the GBI website at www.thegbi.org.

MEDIA CONTACT

Joe Kurle, Director of Marketing & Communications, GBI jkurle@thegbi.org