3, Sep 2026
Kunal Rawal launches his first-ever Music Video Campaign
Mumbai, Sep 3: Music has never been background noise in the world of Kunal Rawal. For years, it has been part of the way the designer builds a collection, sets a mood and ultimately presents menswear. From earlier tracks including Ishq Mitha that have become synonymous to sangeet and baraat celebrations to original compositions created for the runway, sound has developed alongside the couture as a recognisable part of the world of KR.
Now, that relationship gets its biggest stage yet.
Fresh off the heels of the brand’s showcase at FDCI India Couture Week 2026, Kunal Rawal presents Rawalgarh di Jugni, his first–ever original music video campaign with T-Series. It is a fun and immersive take on the aesthetic world of Rawalgarh: a land of couture, culture, celebration, menswear and a whole lot of music. Created in close collaboration with Akshay & IP, the project takes the brand’s sonic identity beyond the show soundtrack and into a world of its own. At its centre is Jugni: literally, “the light”: a spirit of energy that brings life to the make-believe fort. Jugni is both metaphor and protagonist, representing the individuality that has always remained one of the brand’s strongest codes.
The sound is unmistakably KR: Punjabi folk with a rock-and-roll streak. Guitar riffs cut through dhol beats; heritage verses sit against contemporary production. The result is neither a traditional folk track nor a conventional fashion soundtrack, but something that occupies the space between the two: Indian at its core, contemporary in its treatment and built with the same contrasts that have long informed Rawal’s clothes.
“Music and film have always been a huge part of what inspires me, and that naturally finds its way into the couture we create. Making our first–ever music video feels incredibly exciting, but also like a very natural next step. Rawalgarh gave us the opportunity to bring all those influences together and create something that represents what has shaped me creatively over the years, and what continues to inspire me today.” — Kunal Rawal
That world finds its visual setting at Alila Fort Bishangarh, where Rawalgarh di Jugni was filmed. Set against the fort’s raw stone geometry and golden light, the film plays with the same tensions found throughout Rawal’s work: structure against fluidity, heritage against modernity, permanence against change. Rather than using the location as a decorative backdrop, its architecture becomes part of the frame, interacting with the clothes and the movement around them.
In Rawalgarh, the crow signals the arrival of something exciting. A messenger of what lies ahead, it leads the viewer into the film and towards the world waiting to be discovered.
And then there are the clothes.
First presented at India Couture Week 2026 in July, Rawalgarh is one of the brand’s most expansive expressions of menswear to date, bringing together over 150 looks across Couture Casual, Indian Black Tie and the Ceremonial Modern Groom. Military structure meets sportswear ease; evolved Indian handcraft meets engineered construction; traditional techniques are worked through new textures, silhouettes and colour.
The music video gives those clothes a different life. Away from the runway, they move through the landscape they were imagined for, allowing sound, architecture and couture to operate as parts of the same idea.
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3, Sep 2026
Healthcare’s Next Competitive Advantage: Leaders Who Know How to Harness AI
Sep 03: Healthcare has always evolved with scientific breakthroughs. However, its biggest transformation is being driven by something different; not a new treatment or medical device, but intelligence embedded into every layer of the healthcare ecosystem.
From AI-assisted diagnostics and virtual care to predictive hospital operations and personalised patient engagement, healthcare organisations are reimagining how care is delivered. Yet as technology advances at unprecedented speed, one question is becoming increasingly urgent: Who is prepared to lead this transformation?
The challenge is no longer about adopting AI. It is about integrating it responsibly into business strategy, clinical workflows, operations, finance, and patient experience. As healthcare becomes more connected and data-driven, leadership itself is being redefined.
The pace of change is already evident.
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85% of healthcare leaders are already exploring or have adopted Generative AI capabilities.Source: McKinsey
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64% of healthcare organisations implementing Generative AI report they have already achieved or expect to achieve a positive return on investment.Source: McKinsey (2025)
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India’s healthcare industry is projected to reach US$37 billion by 2030, fuelled by rising digital adoption, expanding healthcare infrastructure, and continued investment in health technology.Source: BCG
These figures point to more than growing technology adoption, they signal a redefinition of healthcare leadership itself.
Traditionally, healthcare managers built their careers around clinical expertise, operational excellence, or hospital administration. Those capabilities remain essential, but they are no longer sufficient. Today’s leaders are increasingly expected to evaluate AI investments, lead digital transformation initiatives, optimise healthcare delivery through data, navigate evolving regulations, manage multidisciplinary teams, and make strategic decisions that balance patient outcomes with organisational performance.
In many healthcare organisations, digital transformation has moved beyond being an IT initiative. It is now a boardroom priority with direct implications for quality of care, operational resilience, financial sustainability, and long-term competitiveness. As a result, management education is also evolving to prepare leaders for this broader mandate.
Recognising this shift, IIM Lucknow has introduced the Executive Programme in Healthcare Management in the AI and Digital Era, an 11-month programme designed to help healthcare professionals strengthen their capabilities across healthcare strategy, operations, finance, leadership, and digital transformation.
Rather than treating AI as a standalone subject, the programme integrates emerging technologies with core healthcare management disciplines, reflecting the way transformation is unfolding across hospitals, healthcare providers, and health-tech organisations today.
The programme explores key areas including:
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Healthcare economics, governance, and policy
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Strategic leadership and organisational transformation
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Financial management and capital allocation in healthcare
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Operational excellence, Lean, Six Sigma, and healthcare supply chains
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Digital health, healthcare analytics, and decision intelligence
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Generative AI, Agentic AI, and intelligent automation
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Patient-centric innovation, design thinking, and digital marketing
Participants also benefit from an applied learning experience featuring:
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100% live online lectures delivered by IIM Lucknow faculty
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A faculty-guided capstone project focused on real-world healthcare challenges
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The Campus Chapter—a three-day immersion at the IIM Lucknow campus
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Peer learning opportunities through live interactions with healthcare professionals
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Hands-on exposure to industry-relevant AI and digital tools, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Canva
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IIM Lucknow Executive Education Alumni Status upon successful completion
Importantly, the curriculum reflects a reality many healthcare organisations are already experiencing: successful digital transformation is not simply about implementing new technologies. It requires leaders who can connect AI with strategy, operations, finance, governance, and patient outcomes while leading organisational change with confidence.
Looking Beyond Technology
As healthcare continues to evolve, the conversation is gradually shifting away from whether AI will transform the sector. That question has largely been answered. The more important question is whether healthcare organisations have enough leaders capable of translating technological possibilities into measurable organisational impact.
The future of healthcare will be shaped not simply by better algorithms or smarter systems, but by leaders who can combine strategic thinking, management expertise, and digital fluency to build more efficient, resilient, and patient-centric healthcare organisations. IIM Lucknow’s Executive Programme in Healthcare Management in the AI and Digital Era reflects this changing leadership mandate, equipping professionals with the interdisciplinary capabilities needed to navigate one of the most significant transformations the healthcare industry has witnessed. For healthcare leaders looking to stay ahead of this shift, investing in future-ready management capabilities today could become one of the most important decisions they make for tomorrow.
3, Sep 2026
MoxiWorks Expands Global Footprint in India, Appoints Jyotsna Kher to Lead the Operation
MoxiWorks announces a strategic investment in Pune, India to expand talent and infrastructure.
PUNE, India, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MoxiWorks, the AI-powered real estate marketing platform, today announced the opening of its Pune, India office, led by Jyotsna Kher, who joins as Managing Director and VP of India Operations. Kher brings deep experience building and scaling high-performing technical organizations and will lead the office’s next phase of growth.
The strategic investment in MoxiWorks’ India operations reinforces the company’s mission to deliver best-in-class native AI software and exceptional customer experiences. The Pune office expands MoxiWorks’ capacity to execute on that mission while providing access to the technical talent and infrastructure needed to keep pace with the rapidly evolving real estate technology landscape.
“Our new Pune office is about building the capacity to better serve the markets where we operate,” said Eric Elfman, CEO of MoxiWorks. “This investment brings together the market expertise of our North American and Australian teams with a true technical powerhouse in India, strengthening our ability to deliver more to the real estate professionals who rely on us.”
Prior to MoxiWorks, Kher served as Vice President of Human Resources at Onit India, helping scale its India operations.
“I’ve chosen to join MoxiWorks because of their forward-thinking investment in a Global Capability Center in India,” Kher said. “Pune has an extraordinary pool of talent, and I’m excited to bring the right people together to help power products like RISE and support the real estate companies and affiliated agents who use MoxiWorks every day.”
The Pune office is fully owned and operated by MoxiWorks, with its own leadership team, and is not an outsourcing arrangement. MoxiWorks remains headquartered in North America. Pune expands the company’s existing technical capacity, adding talent and expertise to support continued innovation across its AI platform, including its flagship product RISE.
About MoxiWorks
MoxiWorks is the leading real estate AI marketing platform, with offices across North America, Canada, Australia, The United Kingdom, and India. The platform integrates presentations, email, CRM, advertising, and marketing into one connected system powered by native AI. Trusted by more than 3,000 brokerages and 400,000 agents, MoxiWorks helps real estate professionals find, win, and close more deals. Learn more at moxiworks.com.
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3, Sep 2026
The Royal Mint Boldly Goes Where No Coin Has Gone Before With New Star Trek 50p Coins
LLANTRISANT, Wales, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Six decades since Star Trek first beamed onto television screens across the world, The Royal Mint is unveiling two collectable 50p coins to celebrate the global phenomenon and its intergalactic legacy.
This marks the first time Star Trek has featured on UK 50p coins, following the success of the Mint’s previous sci-fi collectable coin series, first introduced in 2023. This previous collection saw close to 800,000 coins find their way into collections across 60 countries worldwide.
The first coin, available from 3 September, features the iconic Vulcan salute alongside the phrase “Live Long & Prosper” and “Star Trek 60,” marking the franchise’s landmark anniversary. The second coin, available in November, showcases four spacecraft spanning different eras of the franchise: U.S.S Voyager NCC-74656, the U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701, Enterprise – NCC-1701-D and the Klingon Bird of Prey along with the phrase “Star Trek 60″.
A selection of the coins will also feature colour, echoing the franchise’s own television history. When Star Trek first aired in 1966, the cast’s vivid uniforms were deliberately designed to stand out on the new colour television sets just becoming available to audiences at the time. That same spirit of colour has now been beamed onto the coins themselves, with swirling blue and purple nebulas capturing the vast, uncharted reaches of space that Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S Enterprise set out to explore, ensuring the coins stand out just as strikingly today as those iconic uniforms once did on screen.
Tim Mulhall, Head of Fandom at The Royal Mint, said: “It’s a privilege for The Royal Mint to boldly go, celebrating 60 years of Star Trek with a keepsake that’s out of this world. Both collectable 50p coins are designed for fans who’ve grown up with the franchise and want a piece of that history to treasure. It’s a collectable built to live long and prosper in any collection and is a fitting way to mark six decades of a franchise that continues to inspire fans across the Galaxy.”
Ruth Henriquez, Vice President of Products & Experiences, Paramount EMEA, said: “Star Trek has one of the most dedicated collector communities in the world, and these coins are a tribute to 60 years of the franchise. The Royal Mint carefully selects the brands it works with, and the affection generations of British fans have for Star Trek makes it a natural fit for this collaboration. Our partnership with The Royal Mint brings some of Star Trek’s most iconic symbols and spacecraft to fans through a unique collection created exclusively to mark this milestone anniversary, giving collectors a lasting keepsake to treasure for years to come.”
Since its first episode transmitted onto screens in September 1966, Star Trek has grown into one of the most influential franchises in pop culture history, spanning 12 series, totalling more than 950 episodes and 14 movies that took more than $2 billion at the box office. The Star Trek phenomenon continues today with 413,000 people currently learning Klingon on Duolingo and has eight asteroids and the first space orbiter named in its honour.
Fans can secure both coins from 9am on 3 September at www.royalmint.com, with prices starting from £19.95.
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2, Sep 2026
Shell completes acquisition of ARC Resources
CALGARY, AB, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Shell plc has completed the previously announced agreement (the “Arrangement Agreement”) to acquire ARC Resources Ltd. (“ARC”) (TSX: ARX), an energy company focused in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, following receipt of all required shareholder, court and regulatory approvals. The acquisition accelerates Shell’s strategy by adding approximately 370 kboe/d immediately across liquids and gas, supporting a production compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 4% through to 2030 compared with 2025.
“Today we welcome ARC colleagues to Shell and look forward to building on their high-performance culture, operational excellence and technical expertise in Canada’s Montney basin,” said Shell’s Chief Executive Officer, Wael Sawan. “The acquisition increases Shell’s exposure to long-duration, low-cost liquids production. Through disciplined integration, we will build on the strengths of both organizations to unlock the value that underpins this transaction.”
In accordance with terms of the Arrangement Agreement, ARC’s shareholders will receive CAD $8.20 in cash and 0.40247 ordinary shares of Shell plc (each whole share, a “Shell Share”) for each ARC common share (each, an “ARC Share”).
Based on Shell’s closing share price of GBP £34.43 on September 2, 2026, and latest FX rates, this equates to an updated equity value of approximately US$13.9 billion. Shell will take on approximately US$2.5 billion in net debt and leases resulting in an enterprise value of approximately US$16.5 billion. The equity value of US$13.9 billion will be funded via US$3.3 billion in cash and US$10.6 billion in new Shell shares.
The transaction is expected to generate double-digit returns, bolster long-term cash flows and be accretive to free cash flow share from 2027 onwards.
Notes to editors
- As defined in the Arrangement Agreement, the effective date of the transaction is September 2, 2026 (the “Effective Date”).
- The process for delivery of Shell Shares in exchange for ARC Shares is anticipated to be completed several days following the Effective Date of the transaction.
- More information can be found at Information for shareholders | Shell Global
- The acquisition grows Shell’s producing interests in Canada and complements its existing LNG footprint and extensive downstream businesses including refining, chemicals, fuel retail, aviation, lubricants and low-carbon solutions.
- In connection with the Arrangement Agreement, Shell obtained an exemption order from the Alberta Securities Commission, as principal regulator on behalf of the securities regulatory authority or regulator in each of the provinces of Canada other than Ontario, and the Ontario Securities Commission, providing relief from the formal issuer bid requirements of National Instrument 62-104 Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids in connection with purchases by Shell of the outstanding Shell Shares through marketplaces outside of Canada (the “Canadian Exemption”), which applies so long as the Shell Shares are not listed or posted for trading on any stock exchange or marketplace in Canada, and residents of Canada do not beneficially own more than 10% of the total number of issued and outstanding Shell Shares. The Canadian Exemption is also subject to the following conditions: the share buybacks under its issuer bid programs are carried out under applicable securities laws in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the European Union, as well as the trading rules of the applicable exchanges and markets; and the aggregate number of Shell Shares acquired by Shell within any period of 12 months does not exceed 10% of the outstanding Shell Shares, excluding treasury shares.
- Measurement of acquired assets and liabilities for accounting purposes will be subject to a purchase price allocation exercise following completion.
- Equity value and net debt do not sum to enterprise value due to rounding.
Cautionary Note
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Shell’s net carbon intensity
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Shell’s net-zero emissions target
Shell’s operating plan and outlook are forecasted for a three-year period and ten-year period, respectively, and are updated every year. They reflect the current economic environment and what we can reasonably expect to see over the next three and ten years. Accordingly, the outlook reflects our combined Scope 1 and 2 target, NCI target and our oil products ambition over the next ten years. However, Shell’s operating plan and outlook cannot reflect our 2050 net-zero emissions target, as this target is outside our planning period. Such future operating plans and outlooks could include changes to our portfolio, efficiency improvements and the use of carbon capture and storage and carbon credits. In the future, as society moves towards net-zero emissions, we expect Shell’s operating plans and outlooks to reflect this movement. However, if society is not net zero in 2050, as of today, there would be significant risk that Shell may not meet this target.
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2, Sep 2026
Bybit Names Sean Ballard as Head of Derivatives and Institutional Business Amid Continued Institutional Expansion
DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is pleased to announce the appointment of Sean Ballard as Head of Derivatives and Institutional Business. Ballard will play a central role in strengthening the exchange’s trading infrastructure, risk frameworks and institutional capabilities, with a broader remit spanning trading risk and exchange technology.
Ballard brings more than 25 years of experience in global financial markets, with deep expertise across derivatives, high-frequency trading, trading risk, market structure and exchange technology. He joins Bybit from Jump Trading, where he led the firm’s high-frequency futures trading business across the US, EMEA, and LATAM, managing significant investment portfolios and working closely with exchanges and regulators globally on market structure, trading performance and infrastructure developments.
While at Jump Trading, Ballard was a senior trader on the Jump Crypto team managing trading initiatives on centralized exchanges and also leading the strategic partnership initiatives to support ecosystem growth.
At Bybit, Ballard will focus on advancing the institutional trading experience through robust market infrastructure, disciplined risk management and scalable product development. His cross-market background across traditional finance and digital assets brings a distinctive perspective to the evolution of institutional trading and the infrastructure required to support the next generation of global digital asset markets.
The appointment builds on Bybit’s continued investment in its derivatives and institutional trading business as digital assets increasingly converge with global financial markets. Bybit Institutional has also expanded significantly over the past year, with additions of professional services including Bank Triparty arrangements, allowing institutions to manage counterparty risk through regulated custody while retaining full trading access, alongside a Market Maker Gateway that has cut round-trip latency for high-frequency and quant clients from 4ms to 1.5ms.
In the RWA (real-world asset) race, Bybit has also moved ahead of the curve with a diversity of tokenized real-world financial products through Bybit RWA Earn. Since July 2026, FUIDL by Finloop, an AAA-rated USD money market fund, has been available on Bybit as collateral for trading, unlocking access to Asia’s first end-to-end RWA ecosystem.
The appointment reinforces Bybit’s broader transformation into the New Financial Platform, a unified financial platform connecting crypto, traditional markets and real-world financial services.

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2, Sep 2026
FP Markets: Global bond market alarm bells are ringing
LIMASSOL, Cyprus, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Global government bond yields have been thrust into the limelight, reaching levels not seen in decades. Unquestionably, these are the most important interest rates in the world, serving as the bedrock of the financial system. Almost every financial asset – either directly or indirectly – is derived from government yields. And right now, that bedrock is shifting.
When government bond yields surge and clock multi-year highs, the world sits up and pays attention. It raises fresh questions not only about their impact on governments, businesses, and consumers, but also on other key asset classes, such as stocks and currencies.
This is not just a US story. The US 10-year Treasury yield has pushed above 4.8% – its highest level since late 2023 – while UK 10-year Gilt yields also reached levels not seen since 2008, and the 10-year Japanese JGB yield rose to its highest since 1996.
Underpinning rising yields is a combination of drivers, chief among them are persistent inflationary pressures fuelled by elevated energy prices; Brent crude is up more than 30% from July lows. Other factors include growing government budget deficits, rising ‘term premium’, and competition from technology companies issuing their own debt.
FP Markets Chief Market Analyst Aaron Hill commented: ‘I do not believe what we are witnessing is a one-off spike in the bond market. Instead, we may be observing a repricing of risk. Investors are demanding a higher return to hold longer-dated government debt as they are less confident inflation is under control and increasingly doubtful that fiscal deficits are sustainable at current levels. That has knock-on effects for everything’.
Markets are interconnected, meaning that a move higher in oil often impacts bonds and currencies, as well as gold. Investors at FP Markets can trade CFDs not only on government bonds, but on over 70 currency pairs, key stock indices, a range of commodities, and ETFs, all through world-class trading platforms.
About FP Markets:
FP Markets is a global, multi-regulated, award-winning broker established in Sydney, Australia in 2005. The broker offers 10,000+ CFD instruments across seven asset classes, available on industry-leading platforms including MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, TradingView, and cTrader.
FP Markets’ regulatory presence includes the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in Seychelles, the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) of South Africa, and the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of Kenya.
For more information, visit www.fpmarkets.com
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2, Sep 2026
Helfie AI Appoints John Rego as Chief Financial Officer
Veteran CFO with more than $10 billion raised across six public and private companies joins Helfie AI to lead financial strategy
MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Helfie AI (“Helfie”), an AI-powered preventative network transforming global healthcare by delivering personalised screening for all via mobile, today announced the appointment of John Rego as Chief Financial Officer.
John brings more than 25 years of senior leadership experience across a range of high-growth technology and communications companies and joins Helfie from Wide Open West (WOW), a US broadband provider (NYSE: WOW), where he served as CFO from 2020 until the company’s sale in 2026. Prior to WOW, he served as CFO of Telaria Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRA), an advertising technology company, and as CFO of Virgin Galactic and CFO of Vonage Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: VG). John has operated in businesses with global reach, raising over $10 billion in capital, and has closed more than two dozen M&A transactions.
George Tomeski, CEO, Helfie AI, said: “John’s track record speaks for itself. He has taken companies from startup to IPO, navigated major M&A transactions, built finance functions from the ground up, and operated at the highest levels of public market scrutiny. As Helfie enters its next phase of growth, John’s experience and discipline in the CFO seat gives us enormous confidence.”
John Rego, Chief Financial Officer, Helfie AI, said: “I am delighted to join Helfie AI at such an exciting phase of growth. Helfie AI is one of those rare businesses where the mission and the market opportunity are genuinely aligned. I am looking forward to leading the company in its mission to build a science-backed, AI-powered personalised preventative healthcare platform accessible to everyone in the world.”
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ABOUT HELFIE
Helfie AI is a global human health platform designed for early detection, proactive prevention, and optimised wellbeing for 8 billion+ humans. The platform is science-backed and AI-powered, providing a suite of 30+ easy, instant, and affordable health checks. Delivered via smartphone, it combines powerful medical insights with data ownership, universal access, and freedom of choice for the individual. Helfie AI works with governments and businesses worldwide to make preventative health accessible to everyone.
More details at www.helfie.ai
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2, Sep 2026
ST Engineering iDirect Demonstrates Multi-Waveform 5G NR-NTN User Equipment Pilot
INT3000 modem pilot marks next milestone in phased multi-waveform user equipment development
HERNDON, Va., Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ST Engineering iDirect, a global leader in satellite communications, today demonstrated a pilot version of the INT3000, its multi-waveform 5G New Radio Non-Terrestrial Network (NR-NTN) User Equipment (UE) modem, at the European Space Agency (ESA) 5G NTN Forum. The INT3000 is being developed to support both 5G NR NTN and DVB-S2X/MRC waveforms in a single device, enabling operators to deploy native 5G NR-NTN services while also supporting DVB and hybrid network architectures during migration and modernization.
The INT3000 modem pilot provided the ESA 5G NTN community a look at ST Engineering iDirect’s progress in advancing 5G NR-NTN UE, with the demonstration conducted over a satellite simulator. On the network side, the pilot connected through the Intuition ground system, which implements native 5G NR-NTN gNodeB capabilities.
“This pilot demonstration is another important step in our multi-waveform, multi-orbit user equipment roadmap,” said Shravan Gaddam, Vice President, CTO Office, ST Engineering iDirect. “The industry is moving toward standards-based 5G NTN connectivity, but at the same time, operators must support existing satellite networks. Our vision for the INT3000 is to bring these worlds together in a single user equipment, providing a practical path for operators to evolve their networks while leveraging existing investments.”
The INT3000 modem pilot provides the foundation for extending ST Engineering iDirect’s satellite networking capabilities into the broader 5G ecosystem, bringing together the technology, ecosystem partnerships and product framework required to support future interoperability between satellite and terrestrial communications networks.
As part of its broader 5G NTN strategy, ST Engineering iDirect is also advancing 5G NR waveform innovations designed to reduce reliance on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and satellite position data for timing and synchronization. These enhancements are intended to improve resiliency and operational flexibility across multi-orbit satellite environments while supporting the continued evolution of 5G NTN technologies.
Built on the cloud-native, multi-orbit Intuition ground system, the developments in the INT3000 modem pilot support the industry’s evolution toward globally interoperable 5G NTN satellite connectivity and future 6G networks.
ST Engineering iDirect, a subsidiary of ST Engineering, is a global leader in satellite communications (satcom) providing technology and solutions that enable its customers to expand their business, differentiate their services and optimize their satcom networks. With over 40 years of delivering innovation focused on solving satellite’s most critical economic and technology challenges we are committed to shaping the future of how the world connects. The product portfolio, branded iDirect, represents the highest standards in performance, efficiency and reliability, making it possible for its customers to deliver the best satcom connectivity experience anywhere in the world. ST Engineering iDirect is a leader in key industries including mobility, broadcast and military/government. In 2007, iDirect Government was formed to better serve the U.S. government and defense communities. For more information visit www.idirect.net.
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2, Sep 2026
EpiVax Launches AI-Enhanced Models for Immunogenicity Prediction
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EpiVax, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of AI-enabled enhancements to ISPRI™, its proprietary in silico platform for assessing the immunogenicity risk of biotherapeutics. The release introduces an updated JanusMatrix™ model, a refined tolerance-adjusted immunogenicity score, and an enhanced anti-drug antibody (ADA) prediction model designed to provide deeper insight into immunogenicity risk.
For decades, EpiVax has pioneered computational immunology through the development of advanced in silico algorithms for evaluating biotherapeutic sequences. Foundational to this work are EpiMatrix® and JanusMatrix™, which evaluate T cell epitope content and human cross-conservation to characterize sequence-derived immunogenicity risk and immune tolerance. ISPRI™ brings these tools together with other extensively validated methods to assess immunogenicity risk across candidate and impurity sequences.
JanusMatrix™ 2.1
JanusMatrix™ 2.1 applies AI to improve the prediction of immune tolerance by weighting human epitope cross-conservation based on expression and prevalence data. The result is a more precise characterization of therapeutic epitopes and their tolerance profiles.
JanusMatrix-Adjusted EpiMatrix Score
Building on JanusMatrix 2.1, EpiVax has introduced a new immunogenicity score designed to align more closely with clinical immunogenicity outcomes. The JanusMatrix-Adjusted EpiMatrix (JAX) score incorporates JanusMatrix tolerance potential directly into EpiMatrix scores, providing insight into intrinsic effector epitope density and a more biologically-informed assessment of sequence-derived immunogenicity risk across therapeutic modalities.
ADA 2.2
EpiVax has also updated its ADA prediction model with the release of ADA 2.2. The enhanced model combines epitope-based measures with biophysical attributes and mode of action criteria to provide another assessment of antibody immunogenicity risk, trained specifically leveraging a diverse set of clinical monoclonal antibodies. ADA 2.2 demonstrates a stronger correlation between predicted and clinically observed immunogenicity, providing greater confidence in risk interpretation alongside the JAX score.
These newly available features further strengthen EpiVax’s best-in-class immunoinformatics capabilities, improving the relevance and predictive value of in silico immunogenicity risk assessments. The enhancements align closely with recent FDA initiatives advancing the adoption of human-relevant New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), while helping sponsors identify immune liabilities, protect asset value, and de-risk development programs.
About EpiVax
EpiVax partners with biologic developers to manage immunogenicity risk throughout the product lifecycle. Leveraging deep scientific expertise to apply industry-leading in silico analyses and in vitro approaches, insights from actionable data help our partners reduce uncertainty, mitigate risk, and use resources more efficiently while building regulatory-ready strategies for safer, more effective therapies.
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Sarah Moniz, Director of Business Development & Marketing
smoniz@epivax.com
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