San Francisco – October 14, 2026 -- Novogradac will convene affordable housing developers, lenders, investors and managers at the Four Seasons Las Vegas on Dec. 3-4 for its 2026 Housing Tax Credit Finance Conference, with three pre-conference workshops scheduled for Dec. 2.

Federal policy and mid-term election fallout top the agenda

Sessions will cover federal legislative and regulatory updates, including the implications of the recent mid-term elections and the direction of the new Congress. Panels will also address tax credit equity, lending markets, state allocation priorities and qualified allocation plan (QAP) trends.

Debt and equity panels, a review of current QAP trends and operating cost categories, and discussions on asset management strategies are also on the program. A social impact breakfast will examine how allyship can foster more inclusive and supportive environments.

Lisle – October 14, 2026 -- ArbNet, the accreditation program run by The Morton Arboretum, has reached 1,000 accredited arboreta after adding Kórnik Arboretum in Kórnik, Poland, and the network has doubled in the last five years alone.

Kórnik is the first ArbNet-accredited arboretum in Poland. ArbNet recognized it at level IV, the highest tier, at the Oct. 12 "Trees and Forests in a Changing Environment" conference. The Institute of Dendrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which oversees the arboretum, hosted the event. The program is now in its 15th year and describes itself as the only international accreditation scheme specific to arboreta.

Poland becomes one of 44 countries with an ArbNet-accredited arboretum

Newly welcomed countries this year include Bermuda, Denmark, Ecuador, Indonesia and Madagascar. Cayo Levantado Arboretum in Samaná Bay, Dominican Republic, was also recently accredited.

San Mateo, Calif. – October 14, 2026 -- Novogradac, the national accounting and consulting firm, promoted nine managers to principal effective Sept. 1, with the new principals spread across seven U.S. offices and concentrated in tax credit work for real estate and renewable energy.

Managing partner Michael J. Novogradac said the firm has a long tradition of promoting from within, which keeps clients working with proven expertise as the firm grows.

Promotions span seven offices from Atlanta to Walnut Creek

Atlanta adds two principals, Yie Li and Christie Webb. Dover, Ohio, also adds two, Ali Gatrell and Caleb Stein. The other five are Alex Aydin (Cleveland), Aaron Hanks (St. Louis), Vina Hurst (Walnut Creek, California), Micah Larimer (Portland, Oregon) and Tony Morales (New York City).

Charlotte – October 14, 2026 -- TOPPAN Packaging ranked first for both product quality and value for money among eight major foodservice packaging suppliers in a Technomic survey of operators, leading the runner-up by two percentage points on quality and five on value.

Survey measures satisfaction among existing buyers, not brand awareness

Technomic ran the custom study (Study #20371) in April 2026. Foodservice operators rated only the packaging suppliers they currently buy from, rather than ranking an unaided list of competitors. The study was commissioned, and the source describes it as a direct measure of satisfaction among existing buyers.

The base for TOPPAN Packaging's scores was current customers, with 66 respondents (n=66). The margins over the second-highest supplier were two percentage points for quality and five for value.

Kansas City, Kan. – October 14, 2026 -- Skystream Energy is testing a new wind turbine blade with a larger swept area and a custom blend of wind tunnel-tested airfoils, aimed at higher energy output across a wider range of wind conditions. A prototype is installed at a test site in Iowa, where the company is collecting performance data.

Blade targets light and turbulent winds with a larger swept area

The design builds on the existing Skystream platform. Its larger size increases the swept area, the total area covered by the rotating blades, so the turbine can capture more energy from available wind. Raising output at lower wind speeds is one of the blade's primary objectives.

The airfoil blend is intended to capture energy more efficiently in light and turbulent winds and to give the turbine better control of output at higher wind speeds. The design is also expected to reduce turbine noise.

Kyiv – October 14, 2026 -- DoGo Power plans to deploy more than 200 smart grid-forming energy storage systems (ESS) across research bases and experimental farms of Ukraine's Institute of Horticulture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences (IH NAAS), one of three cooperation agreements it reached at EcoEnergy Expo 2026.

Ukraine's 2030 storage target drives demand

Ukraine has set an official target of 1.5 to 2 GW of installed energy storage capacity by 2030. The country's agricultural supply chain is increasingly dependent on stable electricity and distributed energy resources, according to the company. That dependence is raising demand for storage integrated with agricultural production and research.

San Francisco – October 14, 2026 -- Atomicwork has tripled its customer base in the past year and appointed Oksana Patel as Head of Marketing to lead its global strategy as it pushes deeper into the enterprise market.

Patel will build the category around what the ITSM and ESM platform vendor calls AI coworkers, software agents designed to take on IT roles and workflows end to end.

Customer base triples to include Replit, Skydio and BlackLine

The company's customers now include high-growth and enterprise names such as Replit, Skydio, BlackLine and Members Choice Credit Union. Atomicwork did not disclose absolute customer numbers or revenue.

San Francisco – October 14, 2026 -- Mapbox's 3D Live Navigation feature now powers BMW Maps with driver assistance in BMW Group's Neue Klasse vehicles, in what the company calls a market first: lane-level navigation and live ADAS detections combined in a single map view.

The system shows turn-by-turn directions in context with the road, surrounding vehicles and 3D buildings. Mapbox says traditional in-car systems cannot integrate route guidance with information about the vehicle and its surroundings, forcing drivers to piece together data from separate displays.

BMW builds a custom Neue Klasse interface on the Mapbox Navigation SDK

The Mapbox Navigation SDK gave BMW Group full control to build a navigation experience for the Panoramic iDrive in Neue Klasse models. The vehicle's Central Display, Panoramic Vision Display and 3D Head-Up display present the information in the driver's field of view.

Toronto – October 14, 2026 -- Real-world discontinuation of weight-loss medications can reach 67% within 12 months, while clinical trials show sustained weight reduction of 15–22% over 72 weeks, according to materials for an Xtalks webinar featuring Clinical ink executives on October 29.

Psychology, not only side effects, drives discontinuation of obesity therapy

Side effects, cost and access explain only part of the drop-off, the organizers state. Confidence, doubt and treatment identity are increasingly recognized as independent predictors of discontinuation. Motivations differ by patient, rooted in appearance, day-to-day function or long-term health risk.

Most patient support programs have no validated way to identify behavioral risk before it affects outcomes, creating a gap for pharma teams managing obesity portfolios.

London – October 14, 2026 -- SALT will convene approximately 500 institutional asset allocators, asset managers, technology executives and public officials at the second annual SALT London conference on November 3-4, 2026, at The Chancery Rosewood in Mayfair.

The two-day, invitation-only event is presented by Payward. Programming covers digital financial markets, tokenization, emerging technologies, macroeconomic trends and investment opportunities across public and private markets.

Geopolitics and regulation take a central place on the program

Sessions will examine the evolving regulatory landscape and the impact of geopolitical developments on global markets, including the U.S. midterm elections. A panel on the midterms will feature the hosts of The Rest Is Politics, including Alastair Campbell and Katty Kay.