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.

Vienna – – October 14, 2026 -- GSMA Intelligence presented its white paper "a target architecture for telecoms cybersecurity" for the first time globally at the Net5.5G Intelligent IP Network Summit, held during the Global Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF) 2026. At the same event, ITU-T SG13 and WBBA launched a joint initiative urging carriers to build secure, resilient networks as AI reshapes both threats and revenue models.

GSMA Intelligence names native security and in-depth defense as the two core pillars

The white paper calls for security to be embedded in network elements across design, production, deployment and operation ("Native Security"). Its second pillar, in-depth defense, provides multi-layered, domain-based protection against complex and persistent threats.

Toronto – October 14, 2026 -- Deloitte Consulting LLP will demonstrate live how AI-enabled case intake can handle incoming adverse event data in pharmacovigilance during an Xtalks webinar on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, at 1pm EDT (10am PDT).

Deloitte executives to demo ElevateSafety and Detective on Converge

Cyle Connell, Associate Vice President of Product Management for ElevateSafetyTM, and Ellen O'Dea, Senior Manager, both of Deloitte Consulting LLP, will lead the session. The demonstration covers ElevateSafetyTM and Detective, powered by ConvergeTM by Deloitte. It will show AI-enabled detection, data structuring, quality checks and routing across diverse data sources.