Toronto – October 13, 2026 -- IsoEnergy Ltd. (NYSE American: ISOU; TSX: ISO) has appointed Nathan Bridge, M.Sc., P.Geo., as Vice President, Exploration, as drilling along the Hurricane South Trend has identified mineralization beyond the current resource footprint.

Dr. Dan Brisbin, P.Geo., who has held the exploration role since January 2024, moves into the newly created position of Vice President, Geology.

Bridge brings five years of CanAlaska leadership and a decade at Cameco

Bridge spent five years as Vice President, Exploration at CanAlaska Uranium Ltd., where he led the team during the discovery and advancement of the Pike Zone at the West McArthur project. Before that, he spent more than a decade at Cameco Corporation managing exploration, delineation and geotechnical drilling programs.

Fort Atkinson, Wis. – October 13, 2026 -- The 2026 Women in Supply Chain ForumTM Award attracted more than 300 submissions, including a record 70 self-nominations and a record 44 nominations from male colleagues, managers and industry peers, according to organizers Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive.

Self-nominations hit a seven-year high

Of the 300-plus entries, 70 were self-nominations, the highest number in the award's seven-year history. The 44 nominations submitted by men also mark a high. Organizers say the figures reflect a growing culture of advocacy, recognition and allyship across the supply chain community.

Raleigh – October 13, 2026 -- Ledger Run, a clinical trial financial management provider, has appointed former Cytel and Oracle product executive Anne Pelz as Vice President of Product and is increasing R&D spending to build an AI-powered, end-to-end financial platform.

Pelz brings more than two decades of life sciences technology experience

Pelz began her career in product management at PHT Corporation, later acquired by Clario, where she led development of what became Clario's cornerstone mobile tool. She then moved to Parexel, managing medical imaging software development and working as a solutions consultant for its eCOA division. As vice president of product at Cytel, she helped build and launch a clinical trials management platform, before taking a similar executive role at Oracle. She holds an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Yale University and an MBA from MIT Sloan.

Boston – October 13, 2026 -- Red Queen Bio PBC has recruited Ian Watson, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Defense, to lead its government affairs strategy as the AI biosecurity company expands its work with federal buyers.

Watson to engage the Department of War, Department of Energy and HHS

Watson will deepen the company's relationships across the federal government, national laboratories and agencies including the Department of War, the Department of Energy and the Department of Health and Human Services.

CEO and co-founder Nikolai Eroshenko said the biosecurity landscape is evolving faster than many traditional systems were designed to respond, and that Watson understands what it takes to deploy and scale new technological capabilities.

Langhorne, Pa. – October 13, 2026 -- Perspecta has launched a redesigned version of its ProviderDirectoryAI (PDAI) solution, adding list, map and card views and client-specific member content to a search tool used by health plans, workers' compensation teams and provider organizations.

The redesign extends existing provider search capabilities and targets users on mobile, tablet and desktop. Perspecta says it built the update from client and end-user feedback.

PDAI adds three search views and distance-based sorting

Users can switch between list, map and card views. Healthcare professionals can review detailed provider information, while members can compare options and find providers close to home or work. Interactive maps and distance-based sorting show where providers are located.

New York – October 13, 2026 -- KNOWIDEA, the decision intelligence company, has published a research paper co-authored with Georgia Tech and developed with one of the world's largest asset managers, aimed at making AI-generated financial database queries verifiable before they inform decisions.

The paper, titled "VeriPIE: Checkable Query Plans and Evidence-Guided Selection for Text-to-SQL," describes a method that improves the accuracy of AI-written database queries. Each answer comes with evidence that a risk team can validate before acting on it.

Silent query errors return plausible but wrong numbers

Banks, asset managers and corporate finance teams are adopting AI tools that convert plain-English questions into database queries, a task known as text-to-SQL. According to the paper, the main danger is not the query that fails but the one that runs, returns a reasonable number and is wrong.

Research Triangle Park – October 13, 2026 -- IQVIA has selected four Veeva applications (CTMS, eTMF, Study Startup and Site Connect) as enterprise standards for its clinical development studies, extending a partnership that previously covered Veeva's EDC.

IQVIA and Veeva widen the clinical technology tie-up beyond EDC

IQVIA (NYSE: IQV) and Veeva Systems (NYSE: VEEV) announced the expansion on Oct. 13, 2026. The companies say the combined offering is intended to raise trial speed and efficiency, strengthen site centricity and improve decision-making.

All Veeva clinical solutions are also available through IQVIA for sponsors that want a full Veeva technology stack.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ: QUIK) has won a six-figure initial contract for its embedded FPGA (eFPGA) Hard IP, to be used in a programmable system-on-chip (SoC) built on a 16nm automotive process technology.

The SoC targets battery management, precision motor control and industrial robotic applications. QuickLogic expects the contract to generate license revenue over the next six months. Royalty revenue is anticipated once the customer begins production shipments.

United Kingdom – October 13, 2026 -- National Grid is running a transmission build-out that includes a seven-year, £1 billion project to rewire South London through deep underground tunnels, alongside new high-voltage links to carry offshore wind and solar power south from Scotland and the North.

Two 2GW HVDC links target Scottish and North Sea generation

EGL1 is a two-gigawatt (GW) high voltage direct current (HVDC) link between the Torness area in East Lothian, Scotland, and Hawthorn Pit in County Durham. EGL2, also rated at 2GW, will run between Peterhead in Aberdeenshire and Drax in North Yorkshire. Eastern Green Link 3 (EGL3) and Eastern Green Link 4 (EGL4) are intended to increase network capability to connect new offshore wind farms.

Los Angeles – October 13, 2026 -- Sizzle, Inc. has launched Rosa, a conversational video "Synth Human" that serves guests of Sheraton Universal Hotel around the clock in more than 33 languages, with no app download and no dedicated hotel hardware.

Guests scan a QR code in their arrival welcome letter to start a face-to-face video conversation on their own phones. Rosa answers questions on reservations, parking, valet, room service, dining, amenities and shuttle information. She connects guests with the appropriate hotel team when human assistance is required.