Day: September 23, 2021

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Brilliant Matters announces Strategic Investment to Accelerate Production of their High-Performing, Reliable and Scalable Semiconductors for Printed Electronics

QUEBEC CITY, Quebec, Sept. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Brilliant Matters is proud to announce the closing of an oversubscribed $3.5M seed round. The round was led by Ecofuel Fund, a specialized and dedicated cleantech fund, together with Investissement Québec, Anges Québec and GSI Creos Corporation. Founded in 2016, the company uses a clean and reliable production method to produce a new generation of printable, flexible semiconductors that offer an eco-friendlier and cost-effective alternative to traditional electronics.

Using their proprietary process, Brilliant Matters’ polymers and compounds were able to increase the performance and stability of organic printed solar modules, two key competitive factors in the solar energy market. Owing to the impact of this technological advance, BM has received this investment to scale up production in the market.

“The Ecofuel fund is a pillar in the search for innovations that have significant environmental impact. Brilliant Matters has succeeded in developing a revolutionary sustainable production process that enables the manufacturing of several materials for a new generation of organic printed solar modules and semiconductors. The quality of the management team and the financial partners is key for growth,” describes Richard Cloutier, Managing Partner of the Ecofuel Fund.

Together with the help of long-time partner and now investor GSI Creos, Brilliant Matters also plans to greatly expand commercialization efforts. Anticipating highly increased demand, Brilliant Matters will scale up manufacturing operations to produce hundreds of kilograms per year. Takashi Yanagisawa, Executive Officer of GSI Creos explains, “We invested in Brilliant Matters because their unique synthesis technology is Green, and their IP portfolio is clear. We are convinced of BM’s bright future in “Deep Tech” and their approach that will meet the clean technology needs of the world and society.”

“We are pleased to support Brilliant Matters, a promising player in the semiconductor industry, by taking part in this round of financing,” says Guy LeBlanc, President and CEO of Investissement Québec. “With the Impulsion PME program, which Investissement Québec administers on behalf of the government, we are able to support the development of young, innovative businesses in the start-up phase that have strong growth potential, in every region of Québec.”

For more information about Brilliant Matters, please visit: www.brilliantmatters.com

For more information on Ecofuel Fund, please visit: www.fondsecofuel.ca

For more information about Ange Québec, please visit: https://angesquebec.com/

For more information about GSI Creos, please visit: https://www.gsi.co.jp/en/index.html

Contact:
Laura Armiento
Marketing Specialist
Brilliant Matters
+1 (438) 368-1180
l.armiento@brilliantmatters.com
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Newsreels – The Next TikTok, But for News

Watch top news videos, curated for you

NEWSREELS

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The app development powerhouse behind Newsreels has done it again. Revolutionizing the traditional has always been part of their DNA. And this time, they took the notoriously rigid and conventional news format to the next level by creating an app that delivers 100% accurate news, up to 20 times faster.

With its two trailblazing news formats – reels and bullets – everyone can get to know more updates in no time at all.

This is the future of news. Welcome to Newsreels.

While a conventional news app shows its collection of headlines with full articles, Newsreels introduces a game-changer in the news industry through its bullet summarization engine. Readers get to save precious minutes by getting just the important bullet points from the news they want.

To make things a whole lot better, modern readers get to enjoy informative news content in trendy reels format. Now, users can simply swipe across an endless stream of newsreels. Living with its moniker, Newsreels has jazzed up the interface with a video-upload feed for users, much like Instagram or TikTok. This is another unique feature that cashes in on the younger generation and offers them digestible, up-to-the-minute news.

On top of that, Newsreels covers a wider spectrum of publishers – right from the regional/local level to the global news houses. Truly, nothing comes close when it comes to the sheer volume of their partner publications.

The app goes further by giving content creators the option to collab with the app, letting them use it as a publishing platform to reach more audiences. For an app born out of the innovation surge during the 2020 pandemic, Newsreels is the much-needed power-up of both emerging and established news outlets.

“It is our answer to the growing need of the public to have a one-stop news portal to get all the relevant information they need, be it for COVID-related topics or absolutely anything they want, without having to jump between apps and news sources,” says RJ David, the team’s Product Innovation Officer.

Gone are the glory days of the plain vanilla newsreader apps. The readers today are smart: we want more; we want better, quicker. And we want it how we like it. Newsreels has quashed the “same-old, same-old” monotony of current affairs through its contemporary, made-to-order, openly inclusive news aggregation platform. The era of engaging, on-point, choice news is in.

You are cordially invited to experience the future of news. And the future is now.

Welcome to Newsreels.

To know more about Newsreels or to download the app, please click here. You can also follow the company on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. For partnership-related queries, you can contact them at partnership@newsreels.app.

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Two Fully Operational and Globally Accessible Alternatives to the Swift System Now Available Worldwide

WM’s ICLM Transfers and TUV Digital Currency Transfers provide two fully operational and globally accessible Alternatives to SWIFT

ST PETER PORT, Guernsey and NEW YORK, Sept. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Global Telephony Provider Webtel.mobi (“WM”) – whose TUV Digital Currency potentially renders current Cryptocurrencies redundant and potentially supersedes CBDCs – has also recommenced the unrestricted global operations of its two alternative systems to SWIFT.

These two WM Facilities – its ICLM Transfers and TUV Digital Currency Transfers – are geared for a 21st Century Digital Economy, and not hamstrung by the multiple technical constraints and layers of intermediaries which plague the decades-old legacy systems. An overview of some of their characteristics is as follows:

REQUIRED CHARACTERISTIC SWIFT TRANSFERS ICLM TRANSFERS TUV TRANSFERS
Carry out Global Transfers Worldwide Yes Yes Yes
Compliant with Applicable Regulation Yes Yes Yes
Account Holders In Control of Transfer No Yes Yes
Transfer Initiated from any Mobile Phone No Yes Yes
Transfer Initiated from any Location No Yes Yes
Transfer Initiated at any time of any day No Yes Yes
Transfers and Receipt function 24/7/365 No Yes Yes
Transferor can do own FX Conversion No Yes Yes
Recipient can do own FX Conversion No Yes Yes
Transfers Instant in 1/100th of a Second No Yes Yes
Receipt is Instant in 1/100th of a Second No Yes Yes
Instant Confirmation to All Parties No Yes Yes
Real-Time Records and History No Yes Yes
Centrally Controlled Worldwide No Yes Yes
Worldwide Uniform Standards & Security No Yes Yes
Functions PP2P with No Intermediaries No Yes Yes
Can be Accessed and Used by Unbanked No Yes Yes
Free to have an Account No Yes Yes
Free of Bank Fees for Transfer No Yes Yes
Free of Intermediary Fees for Transfer No Yes Yes
Totally Free Transfers No 0.25% to 1% Yes

To construct a working and compliant Digital Currency that functions on a global basis, it is not sufficient to create only the Digital Currency itself. A Digital Currency without the means or capacities for global accessibility, acceptability, transferability, receipt, security, multicurrency convertibility, real-time multicurrency gross settlement, total transaction recording and multicurrency redemption is useless in and of itself.

To achieve these capacities, WM has constructed not just a Global Digital Currency similar to the “Bancor” proposed by English Economist John Maynard Keynes, but also a Global Clearing System – similar to the International Clearing Union as also proposed by Keynes.

A prerequisite for any Global Clearing System is the capacity for international transfers that includes all the capacities as previously listed, and many more. Consequently, as part of its Global Clearing System, WM constructed its ICLM Transfers Facility – a multicurrency instant global transfer system for its Members’ Stored Credit; and its TUV Transfer system – that facilitates instant global transfers of its Members’ TUV Digital Currency.

As with the TUV Digital Currency – WM’s Facilities are not new or untested. They have been fully tested in operational usage worldwide for nine years, and fully due diligenced on multiple occasions during that time. The only material change in Q3 2021 is that WM is making these facilities available for unrestricted global operations – as opposed to being available to a restricted user group only.

SWIFT – and all other legacy International Transfer systems that primarily run off the SWIFT System – are, like WM, in the Telecommunications Sector. The difference between them is that the legacy systems were built many decades ago, and attempt to keep up with technological advances by continuously patching their ageing systems, and relying on increasingly larger layers of costly intermediaries to function.

In contrast, WM’s Platform 2 is built to 21st Century specifications, and is powered by an Artificial Intelligence system. It consequently carries out transfers in 1/100th of a second, at ultra-low to zero costs, 24/7/365, as a unitary global system with no intermediaries.

Moreover, in 60% of countries worldwide, National transfers within countries are as slow and as costly as legacy system International transfers. The cumulative volume and value of National transfers is also higher than the several Thousand Trillion Dollars per annum volume of SWIFT and all the other legacy International transfer systems combined.

As WM’s ICLM Transfers and TUV Digital Currency Transfer Systems are able to be used for National transfers within countries in the same way and with the same advantages as for International transfers, both International and National transfers markets are seen as growth markets for WM.

Media Contact:
Nick Lambert: wm@thoburns.com

Interview of Professor Kregel including comments WM’s transfers capacity:
https://youtu.be/XYBrCikUhn8

Research Reports by Professor Kregel on the WM Global Clearing System:
https://tinyurl.com/TUVresearch

Professor Kregel’s Background and Biography
https://www.levyinstitute.org/scholars/jan-kregel
https://inctpped.ie.ufrj.br/internationalconference2018/Jan_Kregel_cv.pdf

WM’s urls
https://webtel.mobi/pc (Tablets / Laptops / Desktops)
https://webtel.mobi (Smart Phones)
https://webtel.mobi/wap (Pre-Smart Mobile Phones)

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Disrupt-X Will Launch Cognitive Neurons IoT Platform for Community ANPR and Edu-Bot, a Unique AI Model for Student/Teacher Interaction Using Intel’s OpenVINO at GITEX 2021

ML/AI for Smart Community ANPR and Student/Teacher Interaction Analysis

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DUBAI, Arab Emirates, Sept. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Disrupt-X, a Dubai-based IoT development company, recently announced their partnership with Intel IoT Alliance to launch Cognitive Neuron IoT Platform using ML/AI which is a bundle of AI-based Analytics Cloud Platform Solutions.

Disrupt-X aims to leverage the power of IoT and artificial intelligence to revolutionize the current technology in the market and offer their customers valuable data analysis at disruptive pricing to make ROI on IoT for facility management and corporates realistic. Smart ANPR, their first solution under Cognitive Neurons, targets the community/residential compounds where parking management is a hassle. Building owners can conveniently monitor their parking spaces, view analytics, generate reports and customize alerts while residents/tenants will be able to generate visitor accesses conveniently. This cutting-edge solution comes at competitive pricing starting at US $14/month with built-in data sets of GCC, the European region/ North America, and the Asia Pacific.

Edu-bot, the second solution under Cognitive Neurons will target schools and educational institutes. The innovative solution aims to analyze the student and teacher interaction in classrooms. We will be able to evaluate concentration levels of students during each course, their emotional levels and perhaps determine if a child is autistic. Furthermore, analysis can be performed on teachers as well to determine how well they are interacting with the students.

During the launch event, Adib Rajji, Public Sector Manager for Intel Corporation said, “The need for intelligence on edge devices has never been greater. As deep learning approaches rapidly and replaces more traditional computer vision techniques, businesses can unlock rich data from digital video .This collaboration with Disrupt-X for implementing vision-based AI systems to collect and analyze data right on edge devices for real-time decision-making will offer advanced edge computing capabilities to help cut costs, drive new revenue streams and improve services.” Finally, Adib Rajji added, “The OpenVINO toolkit is designed to fast-track development of high-performance computer vision and deep learning inference applications at the edge.”

Asim Sajwani President of Disrupt-X said, “We strongly feel the video analytics’ current market is being used for traditional solutions while not benefiting the real-life solutions. Using Deep Learning to improve on AI-based solutions, which can offer real-time analytics to customers, is our goal. Intel Openvino is helping us making Edge analytics from Digital Video into innovative solutions which will surely help educational and facility management industries.”

Disrupt-X will be showcasing their solutions at GITEX Technology Week 2021 from October 17 to 21 at Zabeel Hall, Stand Number Z3-A12. Other solutions like indoor/outdoor air quality monitoring, pool/water tank monitoring, smart padlocks, smart parking, intrusion alarms, green mobility (E-Scooters, E-Bikes, cycles) will be on display during Gitex this year.

Disrupt-X Website: https://disrupt-x.io/
Smart ANPR Solution: https://disrupt-x.io/smart-anpr-iot/

Contact info@disrupt-x.io for more information.

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FCB Elevates Nigel Jones & Vita Harris

Jones Takes On Chairperson Role as Harris Steps Up to Lead Global Strategic Group Evolution

FCB Elevates Nigel Jones & Vita Harris

Jones Takes On Chairperson Role as Harris Steps Up to Lead Global Strategic Group Evolution

NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — FCB today announced the elevation of its top two global strategic leaders: Nigel Jones & Vita Harris. Jones moves up from day-to-day operations to take on the Chairperson role for FCB, where he will partner with FCB’s global leadership team on special projects. For Harris, the network is elevating the role and responsibilities of Global Chief Strategy Officer, which will now include FCB’s evolving strategic offering for clients across all disciplines, focusing on innovation and continuing the Agency’s ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I). Both will report to FCB Worldwide Chief Executive Officer Carter Murray and will partner closely with him, Global CCO Susan Credle and FCB’s recently appointed Global Head of Data Science & Connections, Tina Allan, to lead greater alignment of FCB’s deep strategic capabilities with its robust performance and data offerings, including its rapidly expanding and award-winning creative data agency, FCB/SIX.

With Harris’s leadership, FCB has continued in meaningful ways to build on its proud legacy of commitment to equality and inclusion and deliver strategic excellence across our global offices, which is why our creative product is stronger than it’s ever been. From our work for Walmart to the City of Chicago’s “Boards of Change,” and Michelob Ultra’s “Courtside,” to our partnership with Google for the Canadian Down Syndrome Society, our inclusive approach throughout the process isn’t something that sits on one side of the company – it is a core part of who we are and how we make work.

Harris has also been instrumental in evolving FCB’s DE&I framework and led the introduction of the network’s Disrupting Thought Patterns workshops, while also helping lead the expansion of cultural competency and workplace inclusion initiatives to all its offices. In 2019, Harris helped develop FCB’s proprietary process to disrupt biases from seeping into the work – across strategy, planning and creative – which has been deployed globally and embraced internally by many of the agency’s clients. Harris will continue leading these initiatives while also expanding FCB’s strategic offering with data-driven performance capabilities enabled by FCB’s ongoing investment in innovation.

With an impressive career built on a foundation of performance marketing firsts, Harris is the perfect fit to lead FCB’s next strategic chapter. She pioneered the fusion of strategic planning, research and database marketing that created groundbreaking approaches to mining consumer insights and fueled fresh marketing communications programs that delivered big results. In her many leadership roles over the years, Harris has led the strategic vision for transformative strategies and high-ROI campaigns for global brands like American Express, Bank of America, Verizon and, most recently, Walmart.

“We are so fortunate to have a legendary leader like Vita who is not only integral to creating groundbreaking campaigns that move the needle for our clients but is also passionate about shaping the advertising industry of tomorrow, and evolving FCB’s journey and commitment to equality and inclusion in all that we do,” said FCB Worldwide Chief Executive Officer Carter Murray. “Her impact on our people, our clients and this industry are already profound, and with her continued leadership, we will make even greater contributions in achieving a more engaged and dynamic culture, in uncovering new data-driven insight and in delivering high-quality and culturally competent creative that will fuel new progress in our ongoing dedication to DE&I.”

“I’m gifted the unique opportunity to strategically solve clients’ problems, drive positive transformation and ensure diverse and equal representation in everything we do. I am so hopeful for a more inclusive industry, and FCB continues to innovate how different perspectives and modern analytics can be used to put out valuable, respectful and forward-thinking work,” said Harris.

Committed to giving back to help advance the industry, Harris also serves on the boards of the 4As, ANA Educational Foundation and NYWICI, and on the Ad Council’s Campaign Review Committee, which appraises the direction of campaigns designed to promote social change. Among other accolades, Harris has been recognized as one of Adweek’s 2020 “Women Trailblazers” and 4As’ “100 People Who Make Advertising Great,” honored with an ADCOLOR Legend Award, and received the Missouri Honor Medal from the globally acclaimed Missouri School of Journalism in 2018.

About FCB
FCB (Foote, Cone & Belding) is a global, award-winning and integrated marketing communications company with a heritage of creativity and success dating from 1873. Named Cannes Lions 2020/2021 Network of the Year, Adweek 2020 Global Agency of the Year, 2020 Ad Age A-List Agency Standout and the #1 Global Network on The Good Report 2020, FCB focuses on creating Never Finished campaign ideas that have the power to transform brands, businesses and communities. With more than 8,000 people in 109 operations in 80 countries, the company is part of the Interpublic Group of Companies (NYSE: IPG). Visit fcb.com or follow @FCBglobal on Instagram and Twitter and FCB Global on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Melanie Mitchem
+1 (917) 902-0998
melanie.mitchem@fcb.com

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Uganda Extends Vaccination Campaign to Bars, Theaters

Uganda is scaling up coronavirus vaccinations with the arrival of another 1.6 million doses from the United States. But with many Ugandans still reluctant to get the shot, the Ministry of Health has taken the unusual move of reaching out to people at bars and entertainment venues.

This week, nurses dressed in white pitched white tents at two bars in Kampala to offer protection from the coronavirus. Some patrons, who appeared tipsy, said they had come to encourage others to get the vaccine.

The Ministry of Health says many people are avoiding hospitals and clinics, so it has partnered with beverage companies to set up the unusual vaccination sites.

Jackline Tahakanizibwa, spokesperson for Uganda Breweries Limited, said, “Many of our people out there resonate with certain places … our bars, our distributors, our patrons. We are trying to create locations that are convenient for them, where they feel comfortable going.”

Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the Ministry of Health spokesperson, says the ministry had to be creative to get past some people’s hesitancy toward vaccines, caused by misplaced fear of side effects or misinformation.

So the ministry will use “any readily accessible and available place in the city. It doesn’t matter the location,” Ainebyoona said.

Uganda has so far received more than 5 million doses of vaccines from abroad. This includes 1.64 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine and 647,000 doses of the Moderna product from the U.S. government.

Pride Onyango, a rugby player who was getting his first vaccine at the Kyadondo rugby grounds, known for its beer-loving revelers, said he became scared after someone he knew died despite getting the vaccine.

“Sometime back, we had a scenario here,” Onyango said. “One of our assistant club managers died after vaccine. We realized that he had pneumonia and typhoid. Those were the things that killed him.”

Bars are officially closed in Uganda, and in a speech Wednesday night, President Yoweri Museveni said they would remain closed until a targeted number of people have been vaccinated.

Some bars continue to operate on the sly, while some roadside locations are selling beer along with dishes of chicken and beef.

Since that is the case, the Ministry of Health is taking advantage of the opportunity to get more of the population inoculated.

Source: Voice of America

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Australia Plans to Reopen International Borders by Christmas

After more than 18 months of COVID-19 isolation, Australia is preparing to reopen its international borders by Christmas “at the latest.” Trade, Tourism and Investment Minister Dan Tehan said some of the world’s toughest coronavirus travel restrictions would be relaxed when 80% of Australians are fully vaccinated. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports.

Australia has some of the world’s toughest coronavirus travel restrictions. Since March 2020, entry has been banned for most foreign nationals, while quotas have been put on returning citizens and permanent residents, who face two weeks’ mandatory hotel quarantine when they arrive.

Australians wanting to leave the country need government permission under strict rules implemented in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Under a national reopening plan, Australians would be allowed to freely travel overseas again once 80% of people over 16 have been fully vaccinated. Just under half of the population has received two doses of a vaccine currently. The government also plans to allow returning Australians who have received approved vaccines — AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — to quarantine at home.

Australia plans to begin a trial of vaccine passports to facilitate travel to various countries including the United States, Britain, Singapore and Japan. The digital documents, which would indicate that the holder has been fully inoculated, would be linked to so-called QR Codes, or type of bar code on a phone app. When scanned they would show a copy of a passenger’s passport and their vaccination status.

Trade, Tourism and Investment Minister Dan Tehan hopes to have the system ready by late December.

“We continue to do all that preparatory work so that when those international borders open, and as I said in my speech, hopefully at the latest by Christmas, that Australians will be able to travel with a QR code linked to their passport, which will be able to show a proof of vaccination,” said Tehan.

Fully immunized foreigners would also be allowed to travel to Australia if they can prove their COVID-19 vaccination status. As an alternative to mandatory hotel quarantine, international travelers could self-isolate with family, friends or at their holiday accommodation.

Australia’s strict COVID-19 travel regulations have left many citizens and permanent residents stranded overseas. More than 44,000 Australians have registered to come home with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Many airlines, including Singapore airlines, recently cut commercial flights to Australia because of cuts to the number of Australians allowed home each week.

Australia is the only democratic country to refuse entry to its citizens due to capacity constraints in the hotel quarantine system and impose restrictions on those wanting to leave the country.

Australia has recorded about 90,000 coronavirus infections and 1,186 fatalities since the pandemic began.

Source: Voice of America

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D-Wave to Host Qubits Conference, Featuring Global 2000 Customers

The annual three-day conference connects thousands of developers, quantum computing experts, and innovative business decision-makers across diverse industries around the world

BURNABY, Canada, Sept. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today announced it will host its annual global Qubits Conference on October 5-7. Now in its 6th year, Qubits will be a virtual format with live talks and real-time Q&As with speakers, providing an opportunity for thousands of technical experts, developers, and forward-looking businesses to come together to learn more about D-Wave’s newest quantum technologies and hear from leading-edge customers and partners such as PayPal, E.ON, GE, Menten AI, Accenture, NEC, Multiverse Computing, and many more.

This year’s program will provide D-Wave’s global community – including business decision-makers and quantum application developers from more than 37 countries – with the tools and insights they need to solve some of the world’s most complex, critical business problems in fields ranging from healthcare to financial services and put those quantum hybrid use cases into production. This year’s program will feature technical sessions, hands-on how-to’s, and guest speakers detailing their quantum applications for a 360-degree view of the power and potential of quantum computing.

Day 1 of the conference, which focuses on “Quantum for Business,” will open with keynotes from D-Wave’s CEO Alan Baratz and other members of the team, and will include a preview of D-Wave’s technology roadmap and updates in the Leap™ quantum cloud service and with the Advantage™ quantum system. Customers and guest speakers throughout the day will give talks on topics including harnessing quantum computing to benefit the fintech industry, quantum’s role in energy transition, and how quantum computing is helping scale critical biopharma processes. The first day of the event provides attendees the opportunity to hear talks from D-Wave customers and partners such as PayPal, GE Research, Accenture, DirectFood.store, and CINECA.

Day 2, dedicated to developers and researchers, will feature talks from the D-Wave team and others including researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, and Durham University. Topics covered will include how to use a hybrid solver, an update on D-Wave’s Ocean™ developer tools, and new scientific results from the D-Wave team and collaborators. D-Wave will round out the conference on the third day with an introduction to quantum programming – a series of educational sessions and tutorials for developers with all levels of quantum experience, from novices to experts. Programming will also include a Japanese-language portion the morning of October 6th JST, featuring use cases from customers including Sigma-i, Groovenauts, and NEC. To view the full agenda, please click here.

“Business adoption of quantum computing is accelerating rapidly, which is why D-Wave’s number one focus remains delivering customer value through practical quantum application development,” said Alan Baratz, CEO of D-Wave. “In order to achieve that, vendors cannot work in a vacuum. It’s critical we bring together a robust ecosystem of world-class business leaders, innovative scientific institutions, and forward-thinking developers and researchers, to work together, learn from one another, and demonstrate quantum computing’s real-world impact. We are proud to host Qubits, and we look forward to growing our passionate community of change-makers.”

There is no cost to attend Qubits conference 2021. If you’re interested in registering for the event and learning more about quantum computing’s ability to shape the way we solve complex problems, please register here.

About D-Wave Systems Inc.

D-Wave is the leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software and services and is the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing for the world. We do this by delivering customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and financial modeling. D-Wave’s systems are being used by some of the world’s most advanced organizations, including NEC, Volkswagen, DENSO, Lockheed Martin, USC, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. With headquarters near Vancouver, Canada, D-Wave’s US operations are based in Palo Alto, CA. D-Wave has a blue-chip investor base including PSP Investments, Goldman Sachs, BDC Capital, NEC Corp., Aegis Group Partners, and In-Q-Tel. For more information, visit: www.dwavesys.com.

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D-Wave Systems Inc.
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