Day: December 21, 2021

bant.io marks the end of 2021 with three awards at a glittering ceremony

• International Business of the Year – Silver Award Winner: bant.io
• Brilliance in Customer Service – Top Brilliance Award Winner: bant.io
• Entrepreneur of the Year – Gold Award Winner: Andrei Breaz, Founder and CEO, bant.io

The International Brilliance Awards recognise the best in Internal Communications, Marketing & PR, Human Resources and Business, and celebrates brilliance among corporations in a range of fields.

2021 will be remembered as a year in business unlike any other. Living through the second year of the pandemic, the team at bant.io has continued to deliver and shine. These awards represent the opportunity to take pause and appreciate that the added value delivered by the bant.io  team to their clients has been recognised as the best of the best in this prestigious awards programme. With a record entry, the field was stronger than ever. While the team is deeply touched to have won the Silver award in International Business and the Top Brilliance award in Customer Service, they have expressed that they are most proud of their Founder and CEO, Andrei Breaz, to have won Entrepreneur of the Year. “He is such a great leader, we are so happy that he is being recognized for all that he has achieved and led us to achieve,” said Catalina Cismaru, Director of Campaign Management.

Hosted by Kareen Griffiths, from Calmify, the judges remarked on clear evidence of best practice creativity. Judges also repeatedly praised the winning entries on clear objectives, based on deep research and understanding of the challenges, coupled with good strategy, excellent measurement, and fantastic feedback.

“Speaking on behalf of the entire bant.io team, we are thrilled and delighted to have won three International Brilliance Awards,” said Andrei Breaz, CEO. “Winning an award of any kind is always to be celebrated, but to pick up three at the end of one of the most challenging years on record serves as testament to the resilience and can-do attitude of the bant.io team. We continuously strive to deliver excellence for our clients – and we do – but being acknowledged for our brilliance is a great feeling. We’re looking forward to 2022, where the team will continue on our upward trajectory.”

“What a way to end the year – but it’s a great way to focus all of our minds on the year ahead,” adds Jaclyn Curtis, COO. “I would like to congratulate the team on a stellar performance at the Brilliance Awards and to say how pleased and proud I am that their achievements have been recognised. We’re ready for 2022 and all that it brings. The Awards will help us to grow, taking our clients along with us.”

bant.io helps growing companies that want to sell more and sell faster, automating customer acquisition with data-driven experiments, making failure impossible. For more information about their scientific lead generation method to gain B2B customers, visit https://bant.io.

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If you would like to know more about bant.io, contact Jaclyn Curtis, COO, at pr@bant.io or download our Media Kit.

About bant.io

Founded in 2016, bant.io is a comprehensive B2B sales and marketing solution that consistently outpaces and outsmarts the market. It has helped thousands of companies generate leads for their business and, more importantly, augment their sales team to work 10x more efficiently using technology and data-backed methodology.

bant.io helps growing companies who want to sell more and sell quicker, automating customer acquisition with data-driven experiments and making failure impossible. For more information about the scientific lead generation method to gain B2B customers, visit https://bant.io.

About BOC Global

BOC Global Events Group is a professional global event organiser and corporate training provider, dedicated to help organisations to create new market space. Based in London, BOC has delivered its knowledge to corporations worldwide including Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia.

About the 2021 Brilliance Awards 

The International Brilliance Awards recognise the best in Internal Communications, Marketing & PR, Human Resources and Business, and celebrates brilliance among corporations in a range of fields, from all over the world. Organised by BOC Global Event Group, the awards ceremony and gala dinner was on 9 December 2021, at the Sheraton Grand London Park Lane Hotel. 2021 saw record entry into the Awards.

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bant.io team with their awards, at the International Brilliance Awards in London, UK.

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The bant.io award for Brilliance in Customer Service.

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Organized by Singapore-based Pinnacle Group International, the Global CSR Awards recognize innovations across 16 corporate social responsibility (CSR) categories, including environmental protection, community empowerment, gender equality and workplace diversity. More than 100 global and regional brands submitted some 350 entries for this year’s awards.

Mowilex won three 2021 Global CSR Awards, standing out among companies with a market capitalization of US$500 million to $1 billion.

“These awards validate Mowilex’s commitment to being an ethical and contemporary market leader, both within Indonesia and globally,” says Mowilex Indonesia CEO Niko Safavi.

“We’re Indonesia’s only CarbonNeutral®-certified manufacturing company. We voluntarily introduced lead-free paints two years ahead of United Nations goals. We took bold steps to help community members during the pandemic. Through our comprehensive environmental, social and governance [ESG] efforts, Mowilex works incredibly hard to protect the planet, manage resources, fight poverty and provide opportunities for all.”

Best Workplace Practices: Platinum

Mowilex won its first Best Workplace Practices Award thanks in part to its ground-breaking pandemic response.

Managers established a COVID-19 Emergency Response Team in March 2020. Mowilex teams produced and donated 16,000 bottles of hand sanitizer, 26,000 face masks and 14,000 medical-grade personal protective equipment (PPE) items. The company paid the full salaries of all its employees, even during pandemic shutdowns. Employees received COVID-19 test kits from Abbott Laboratories, a global testing leader, and regular testing, self-assessments and vaccination rate monitoring continue.

At the same time, volunteer employees distributed staple foods to underserved families near Mowilex facilities.

Mowilex also welcomed over 1,200 members of its workforce to professional development programs in 2020 alone. More than 100 took part in Lean Six Sigma training, while the first Mowilex Future Leaders program drew more than 15,000 applicants. Meanwhile, a performance-based bonus structure rewarded salespeople with up to 18 months of wages.

CSR Leadership Award: Gold

Mowilex earned its Gold CSR Leadership Award one year after winning for environmental excellence and its hindari (avoid), kurangi (reduce), imbangi (offset) sustainability strategy.

In September, Mowilex launched Mowilex Pasti Aman (Safe and Sure With Mowilex), a four-month voluntary replacement program to remove old Mowilex lead paint from stores. Shops and distributors across Indonesia receive free products when they return Mowilex formulas manufactured before 2019, the year the company began its lead-free transition.

Mowilex also renewed its CarbonNeutral® certification in 2020, following rigorous Natural Capital Partners standards. To reach carbon neutrality, the company invests in offset projects that promote biodiversity and support sustainable economic development in places such as the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve in Kalimantan. Mowilex is planting 50,000 carbon-trapping mangrove trees together with Indonesia’s Environment and Forestry Ministry, and it funded a Natural Capital Partners offset project that installed 170,000 small-scale biogas plants across Vietnam.

Best CEO Award: Platinum

Safavi, who stepped into his post as CEO in 2019, earned platinum honors in the 2021 Best Chief Executive Officer category. He has brought positive changes to the company through his strategic planning and vision, employee development efforts, and digital and cultural transformation initiatives. He is working to attract new talent, promote inclusivity and diversity, empower women, decrease employee turnover and ensure fair employee rewards and recognition while also continuing shareholders’ sustainability commitments.

Under Safavi’s leadership, Mowilex is expanding with a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Tangerang, Banten.

“I received this award because there is no ‘Best Management Team’ category. I couldn’t manage this company without the support and dedication of my talented colleagues. We create innovative, high-quality products and build customer trust as a team, and we lead with comprehensive ESG campaigns that benefit Indonesia and the wider region,” Safavi said.

Pinnacle Group International director Melvin Chan noted that Mowilex’s CSR programs were well structured and executed, and, in large part, reflective of the strong leadership and support by the company’s CEO and management team.

“The programs have a clear vision and measure for long-lasting change. The organization’s staff is well resourced, highly trained and engaged with stakeholders in the community,” he said.

Contact:
Utami Pratiwi
media@mowilex.co.id

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Image 1: Mowilex has launched Cendana Kayu Besi, a lead-free solvent paint for wood and metal

The company is also offering the free replacement of older Mowilex paint products for wood and metal that contain more than 90 ppm (parts per million) of lead, the recommended limit of the World Health Organization (WHO).

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WATERLOO, Ontario, Dec. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — illumiSonics Inc., a medical tissue imaging company, announced today the appointment of Jochen Schweizer as COO. The company is further strengthening the executive team as they commercialize their cancer detection and diagnostics products using the proprietary PARS imaging platform technology.

Mr. Schweizer previously held executive positions at Danaher/Leica, responsible for the Microsurgery Portfolio in the business unit medical, defining strategy, target portfolio and product roadmap; was Sr. Director Product Management Light Microscopy at Carl Zeiss (Shanghai) Co. Ltd; and prior to that had technical management roles at SVS-VISTEK GmbH and Stemmer Imaging.

“Mr. Schweizer brings his extensive and world class experience in the field of optical imaging to illumiSonics. This happens at a critical time as we are developing our first product to market. Besides his knowledge and experience, Mr. Schweizer shares essential values with the rest of the team, he is passionate for making a positive change to our society. We are fortunate to have him in our team,” said Dr. Parsin Haji Reza Chairman.

“Mr. Schweizer’s rich commercialization history in micro-surgery, sales, product management and software development will add significant depth to the team as we enable cancer surgeons and pathologists to get direct to digital pathology during surgery, preventing second surgeries due to positive surgical margins,” said Rocky Ganske CEO.

“I am excited to join a young, highly skilled and engaged team, to realize the full potential of Photo Acoustic Remote Sensing (PARS), and to make a positive impact on the health system. We will completely change the 100-year-old histo-pathology workflow and drive the transition of cancer diagnostics from a day/week workflow into intraoperative diagnostics. PARS from illumiSonics enables the acquisition of H&E stained histo-pathology images in a few minutes: contact free, without tissue preparation, without staining, without microscope – right in the operation room. We do that for better patient outcomes, enhanced efficiency in the OR and reduced health-care costs.” said Jochen Schweizer.

illumiSonics’ proprietary PARS photoacoustic remote sensing technology is a revolution in optical imaging. illumiSonics created PARS, a non-contact, high-resolution, label-free, non-destructive reflection-mode microscope. PARS captures all three light-matter interactions (scattering, absorption, and emission) to give unprecedented 3D images of fresh and living tissues, which provides incredible flexibility in how it can be deployed.

About illumiSonics

illumiSonics develops, patents and commercializes PARS® advanced optical imaging systems for a wide range of pre-clinical and clinical applications. Founded in 2014, illumiSonics is a privately held medical device company with offices and R&D facilities Waterloo, ON, Canada. The company’s executive team of medical device leaders holds an excellent track record of successfully building companies and improving outcomes for clinicians and patients. The technical R&D teams are the pioneers in PARS technology. illumiSonics works with market leading partners to develop systems for specific applications.

Contact:

For Investors and Media:

Rocky Ganske

CEO, illumiSonics Inc.

rocky@illumisonics.com

519-279-6824

www.illumisonics.com

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PR_MicroEJ

• The Android Alternative For IoT [or] Similar To Android’s “Write Once, Deploy Anywhere” For The IoT World
• 100+ Million MicroEJ-powered Smart Edge Devices Sold
• Support For All Major ARM Chips (MediaTek, NXP, Qualcomm, Sony, ST…)

BOSTON, Dec. 21, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MICROEJ VEE is a software container technology, similar to Android, but designed for low-cost and low-power chips used in IoT edge wireless devices from small Cloud-connected sensors to smartwatches to satellites! MICROEJ VEE’s standard virtual containers cuts in half the design and time-to-market of industrial and consumer electronics, and supports all the major ARM chip providers including MediaTek, NXP, Qualcomm, Sony, ST Microelectronics and more!

“There are now more than 100 billion electronic objects produced per year worldwide, or nearly 10 devices per person and per year,” says Fred Rivard, CEO of MicroEJ. “To help with this IoT deluge, manufacturers around the world have chosen MicroEJ’s virtual technology as the alternative to Android Things for their everyday electronic objects, whether they are connected or not.”

Quick Facts about MicroEJ (pronounced ‘micro-edge’):

• More than 100 million MICROEJ VEE virtual containers sold;
• Global presence with 8 offices worldwide: USA, France, Japan, South Korea, China, Romania, Germany, Brazil;
• More than $40 million invested in research and development;
• Opens the IoT revolution to the world’s 35 million software developers with support of all the major computer programming languages including Java, JavaScript, C, Kotlin...

“MicroEJ brings the concept of cloud-native virtual software containers, popularized by VMware and Google’s Android, to the world of IoT, from Smart Homes to Home Appliances, Connected Watches, Energy and Utilities, Industry 4.0, 5G, Robotics & Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Medical Devices and even Micro-Satellites,” explains Jeb Su, Principal Analyst at Atherton Research. “Virtual containers are a revolution for IoT that will significantly accelerates the time-to-market of industrial and consumer electronics, lower their power consumption and price points, as well as mitigate the impact of future chip shortages.”

MICROEJ ECOSYSTEM

MicroEJ is recognized by major electronics manufacturers for its solution that facilitates the design of electronic products, reduces the costs of their development and production while reducing the complexity of software embedded in electronic systems.

The company also helps to:

• Strengthen the processor supply chain: MICROEJ VEE enables manufacturers to maintain their market presence by diversifying their electronic component suppliers. The additional costs associated with managing multiple suppliers are more than offset by reduced risk exposure, predictable revenue streams and productivity gains. For more information, check our white paper “Chip Shortage Mitigation”.
• Implementing eco-design: energy consumption is at the heart of MicroEJ’s technological innovation and enables manufacturers to change their way of thinking about the design of electronic products. MicroEJ contributes to this effort by enabling products to use less expensive electronics with lower power consumption. For example, it is possible to gain up to several weeks of additional battery-life on a connected watch. For more information, watch our webinar with our partner NXP.
• React to changing trends: In the consumer electronics market, for example, the MICROEJ VEE application container enables products to be designed up to 3 times faster, accelerating significantly the time-to-market. MICROEJ VEE also simplifies dynamic upgrades of new features on products already deployed to meet new user needs.
• Bringing together a large community of developers: MicroEJ supports several programming languages such as C, Java language, JavaScript, and soon Kotlin. This helps stimulate the contribution of more than 35 million computer scientists around the world with the most open and standard development environments on the market. For more information, see our press release.

Java™ is Sun Microsystems’ trademark for a technology for developing application software and deploying it in cross-platform, networked environments. When it is used in this site without adding the “™” symbol, it includes implementations of the technology by companies other than Sun. Java™, all Java-based marks and all related logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc, in the United States and other Countries.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR MICROEJ:

• Keep our exponential growth and become the leading supplier of software application containers for electronic devices, especially connected and wireless products.
• In 2023, launch of an ultra-optimized hardware chip version of the software virtual container: a VPC (Virtualization Processing Core). For more information, see our press release.
• In 2026, exceed one billion MICROEJ VEE sold!

THE TECHNOLOGY THAT REVOLUTIONIZES THE ELECTRONIC DESIGN OF CONNECTED PRODUCTS: MICROEJ VEE

In order to accelerate the development of smart devices and to democratize the programming and electronic design of such products, MicroEJ uses containerization technology. It allows users to create an efficient and reliable process by parallelizing the software and hardware development.

The software application container is a widely used technology that allows for the creation and execution of a software component for a multitude of divergent electronic systems. The development of a device involves a complex organization of different roles that must be organized efficiently. The containers standardize the various roles and enable the reuse of existing software and hardware components for faster time-to-market. This process is similar to a fast assembly of existing components, sometimes slightly modified.

INTRODUCTION TO FRED RIVARD, CEO

After receiving his PhD in Computing, Fred RIVARD went to North America to become part of the IBM core team that led to the creation of the software container technologies for PCs. After completing his MBA, Fred founded MicroEJ with the mission to democratize software container for the embedded world. “Since the creation of MicroEJ, I am proud to see our growing business made possible thanks to faithful partners and awesome employees based around the world, contributing to our customers successes at creating useful electronic devices which is extremely rewarding for the teams. It materializes our commitment to a better world, where technology contributes to solve everyday issues and tasks,” says Fred RIVARD

MICROEJ, THE TRUSTED PARTNER THAT INTEGRATES ACROSS ALL MARKETS

Today, more than 120 companies use MicroEJ technology and its application container MICROEJ VEE. The main objective is to increase the efficiency of the “idea-design-production-maintenance” chain in order to respond as quickly as possible to customer needs and maintain a competitive advantage.

“Nowadays, things are moving so quickly. IoT is moving, use cases are changing. Imagine if we could have a way to go faster, and develop applications on top of that real time (printing engine) and keep them separated, keep them managed, so that we are delivering real time. Our partnership with MicroEJ allowed us to solve that problem.”

Victor Salmons, Vice President, New Product Development, ZEBRA Specialty Printing Groupe

“We are especially proud to be working with MicroEJ to accelerate the integration of the Enki ecosystem. The realization of a universal cloud protocol allows our partners to independently integrate their products with the Enki cloud and benefit from easy-to-use software tools to accelerate their software development. This realization translates into a significant increase in Enki-compatible connected devices and a better user experience for our customers.”

Pierre-Yes Hadengue, CEO at Enki Leroy Merlin

“We chose MicroEJ to save time. It is a flexible, reliable and secure solution which we are very satisfied with. We didn’t have any return of this product. This is something very important for us since the quality attests to our brand image.”

Christophe TEILLOT – Senior Software Engineer at Hager

“With its incredible growth, the small electronics industry is increasingly looking for both low consuming GUI combined with impressive performance on a very low footprint. When NXP had chosen our Vivante GCNanoLite-V IP to build their next gen i.MX-RT MCU, MICROEJ VEE was the obvious natural one-device platform, as our combined technologies follow the same cost-oriented logic and address the same markets.”

Jarmon David, Sr. VP Worldwide Sales and Business Development at Verisilicon

WE ARE BACK!

From January 5 to 8, 2022, MicroEJ will be present at CES 2022 (Venetian Expo, Hall A-D, booth 52529) as well as at CES Unveiled on January 3rd. We look forward to seeing you there and presenting live MicroEJ’s vision and future technologies and platforms.

About MicroEJ:

MicroEJ is bringing container virtualization to IoT and embedded devices. We are focused on providing device manufacturers with secure application containers in markets where software applications require high performance, compact size, energy efficiency, and cost-effective development.

With over 100 million products sold, all the leading global manufacturers have chosen MicroEJ to design their electronic devices for a large variety of industries, including smart home, wearables, healthcare, industrial automation, retail, telecommunications, smart city, building automation, transportation, etc.

For more info: http://www.microej.com

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Contact: press@microej.com