CHARLOTTE – – October 27, 2026 -- Transit Technologies has opened early-access programs for TransitTechOS, its AI-first operating suite, to select clients and will showcase the product at its Transit Mobility Alliance Conference (TMAC), running Oct. 27-30 in San Antonio.

TransitTechOS merges service, fleet, workforce and safety data into one view

The suite consolidates service, fleet, workforce, safety and operational data in a single shared view. Transit Technologies says agencies no longer need to switch between disconnected systems, and teams can spot service and performance risks earlier while coordinating decisions from the same information.

Edinburgh – October 27, 2026 -- Excelra has taken over the bioinformatics services of Fios Genomics Ltd and the Edinburgh team behind them, effective 20 October 2026. The move adds omics analytics capacity to the scientific informatics company's UK and European operations.

Fios team joins Excelra's scientific consulting group

The Fios scientists become part of Excelra's wider scientific consulting group. They will keep serving existing Fios clients on the same platform, according to the companies. The announcement does not disclose financial terms.

Fios was founded in 2008 as a University of Edinburgh spin-out. It has spent nearly two decades analysing genomics, transcriptomics and multi-omics studies for pharma, biotech and other life science researchers.

SAN FRANCISCO – October 27, 2026 -- Corgi Insurance, an AI-native, full-stack commercial insurance carrier, has appointed Josh LaRiccia as Head of Distribution, a hire who previously onboarded 15,000 users and 13,000 agencies onto a platform at his own firm.

LaRiccia built distribution at First Insurance & Risk Management over four years

LaRiccia co-founded First Insurance & Risk Management and spent four years building its distribution operations from scratch. He developed relationships with agents, wholesalers and industry partners that formed the firm's distribution network and market presence.

CHICAGO – October 27, 2026 -- Benefits technology provider bswift earned a Gold-level Aetna Workplace Well-being Award, up from Silver in 2025, after its internal programs exceeded all four published engagement and satisfaction targets.

bswift's well-being programs beat every published participation goal

Preventive health engagement reached 65%, against a 50% goal. The result is supported by bswift's Medical Premium Credit program.

Engagement in the Color Health cancer support program hit 18.3%, versus a 12% target. Participation in the Maven Menopause and Midlife Health program reached 15.58%, also against a 12% goal.

Satisfaction with parental support came in at 87.5%, above the 85% goal. The company expanded Paid Parental Leave and introduced a Parent-to-be Guide beforehand.

Global – October 27, 2026 -- SpotSee has matched five impact-monitoring products to distinct receiving decisions, ranging from a battery-free visual indicator to cellular-connected recorders that report shock data while cargo is still moving.

Shipment profile comes before technology choice

SpotSee lists nine factors to assess first: product fragility, shipment weight, packaging configuration, transportation method, handling environment, shipment value, consequences of damage, the impact level that could compromise the product, and what receiving or quality teams will do after a detected impact. Monitors complement validated packaging design and testing rather than replace them. For sensitivity selection, SpotSee points to its ShockWatch Calculator instead of generic weight-based rules.

TORONTO – October 27, 2026 -- Tully Luxury Travel has appointed Steven Salm as Chief Executive Officer, and he has bought founder Mary Jean Tully's remaining shareholding, making him a co-owner of the business. Tully steps down as CEO after nearly four decades and stays on as Brand Ambassador.

Salm buys the founder's stake and joins Jacobs as co-owner

Salm now holds equity alongside Executive Chairman and majority shareholder Clive Jacobs. The source does not disclose the terms of the share purchase.

Jacobs made the appointment. He and Salm will jointly set long-term strategy, while Salm runs day-to-day operations and growth as CEO.

Salm moves up from COO after about one year at the firm

Salm joined Tully as Chief Operating Officer in 2025 and was named CEO in October 2026. Jacobs said Salm had "proven in a short time" that he is the leader the company needs for its next chapter.

DANIA BEACH – October 27, 2026 -- FirstService Residential, which describes itself as North America's leading residential property management company, has released the Los Angeles episode of its Skyline Sessions series, featuring four executives from development, architecture, design and property management.

Four industry leaders anchor the Los Angeles episode

The panel includes Mike Leipart, co-founder and managing principal at Redeavor; Yu-Ming Wei, AIA, principal at HED; Tiffany Hannah, executive vice president of High-Rise at FirstService Residential California; and Sebastian Salvadó, creative director and partner at RIOS.

Skyline Sessions covers luxury high-rise communities across North America. Each episode focuses on a single market and examines the trends, challenges and changing resident expectations shaping luxury residential living there.

Princeton – October 27, 2026 -- WonderBotz has relaunched its Agentic Process Management (APM) playbook with data foundations named as a first-class layer, and added Anthropic and Tungsten Automation to its partner ecosystem. The third edition of the executive framework, which covers how enterprises plan, govern and scale AI agents, people and robots as one operation, is available now.

Data foundation becomes the layer beneath orchestration, fidelity and stewardship

WonderBotz says a year of running agentic operations at client scale showed that the data layer needs explicit treatment. The playbook now places it under the three existing disciplines of orchestration, fidelity and stewardship, as the layer that makes them enforceable.

"You cannot govern an agent whose data you don't trust, and every agent you deploy pays interest on your data debt," said Steve LaValle, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of WonderBotz.

Charleston – October 27, 2026 -- Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB) has received three verification badges from the Responsible AI Institute for its Blackbaud AI offering, covering agentic AI, generative AI and machine learning.

Responsible AI Institute assesses Blackbaud AI against NIST, ISO/IEC and OWASP frameworks

The badges follow an independent assessment of Blackbaud's responsible AI practices. The review was aligned to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, ISO/IEC standards and OWASP guidance for large language models.

Carrie Cobb, Blackbaud's chief data and AI officer, said "trust matters more than ever" as organizations weigh AI's opportunities and risks. She described the company's approach as built on transparency, practical safeguards and continuous improvement.

TORONTO – October 27, 2026 -- Synteq has opened its first Canadian location in Toronto, its sixth site overall, through a partnership with Telehouse Canada. The GPU cloud provider cited growing customer demand for Northeast and Canadian capacity.

Toronto joins five existing Synteq sites in the US and Bulgaria

The new location follows Spokane, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Valley Forge and Sofia, Bulgaria. CEO Eric Yingling said the move was driven by "organic demand from our client base." He added that Toronto offers the power density current GPUs need, plus connectivity suited to Northeast US and Canada-focused workloads.