Events

Toronto – September 16, 2026 -- iGan Partners, a Toronto-based venture capital firm focused on medical device, diagnostic, imaging, and digital health companies, disclosed a series of portfolio milestones, headlined by a development contract worth up to $70 million awarded to portfolio company Flosonics Medical.

Flosonics secures BARDA contract to extend ultrasound tech into trauma care

The contract, from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, includes approximately $15 million in initial funding. It supports FloPredict, an AI-enabled software enhancement to Flosonics' FDA-cleared FloPatch device, expanding the real-time ultrasound technology into trauma care and mass casualty response applications.

Atlanta – September 16, 2026 -- March Networks and VIVOTEK will make their first joint appearance at Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2026, five months after their April merger, showcasing new product integrations and a customer deployment with a North American apparel chain operating more than 500 stores.

Combined booth at GSX 2026 highlights new C•CURE and VORTEX integrations

At booth 1823, running September 14-16 at the Georgia World Congress Center, the merged company will demonstrate broader VIVOTEK camera support within March Networks environments, a new C•CURE integration with March Networks' Command Enterprise Software, and a link between VIVOTEK's VORTEX platform and Searchlight Cloud. Searchlight AI, offering natural-language video search, is now included for Searchlight Cloud customers at no additional license cost.

Anchorage – – September 16, 2026 -- PolarX Limited (ASX: PXX; OTCQB: PXXXF) reported assay results showing copper grades as high as 14.1% over multi-metre intervals from its Caribou Dome Project in Alaska, part of the Alaska Range Joint Venture with Northern Star Resources Limited.

Drill hole CD26-007 returns 24.8 metres at 9.8% copper

Hole CD26-007 intersected 24.8m grading 9.8% Cu and 14.5g/t Ag from 2.4m depth, including a higher-grade section of 4.4m at 14.1% Cu and 16.9g/t Ag from 11.7m. A separate interval within the same hole returned 4.9m at 13.6% Cu and 20.4g/t Ag from 6.6m.

Hole CD26-004 delivers 22.6 metres at 8.1% copper near surface

CD26-004 intersected 22.6m at 8.1% Cu and 13.5g/t Ag starting from 3.7m, including 5.8m at 12.4% Cu and 21.3g/t Ag from 11.1m. Additional narrower intercepts were logged in holes CD26-003 and CD26-006, ranging from 3.2% to 3.5% Cu.

New York – September 16, 2026 -- Brent crude settled at $101.21 a barrel on September 9, its highest close since May 22, after a 3.4% gain as fighting between the United States and Iran escalated in the Persian Gulf, while West Texas Intermediate settled at $96.05. Roughly a fifth of the world's seaborne crude normally transits the Strait of Hormuz, and the market is now pricing the risk that it will not. Against that backdrop, four transactions worth roughly $20 billion combined have moved capital into existing pipelines, storage and producing wells rather than new drilling.

Dallas – September 16, 2026 -- Toby R. Neugebauer, together with Vicksburg Investments Management LLC and the Melissa A. Neugebauer 2020 Trust, has filed a formal SEC Rule 14a-8 shareholder proposal demanding Fermi Inc. (Nasdaq: FRMI) retain an independent, nationally recognized investment bank to review the full range of extraordinary transactions available to the company, including a full-value sale or majority recapitalization. The Fermi Founder Parties, who hold approximately 22% of shares outstanding, submitted the proposal September 10 ahead of the company's October 30 Annual Meeting, following a letter to the Board on September 9 and a detailed presentation on September 10.

Milford, Mass. – September 16, 2026 -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) will have President and CEO Udit Batra, Ph.D., participate in a fireside chat at the J.P. Morgan U.S. All Stars Conference on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.

Batra to address investors at 7:00 AM Eastern Time session

The fireside chat is scheduled for 12:00 PM BST (GMT+1), equivalent to 7:00 AM Eastern Time, on September 23, 2026.

Live webcast will run through Waters Investor Relations site

Waters will stream the session live via the 'Events & Presentations' section of its Investor Relations website. A replay will remain accessible for 90 days following the event.

NEW YORK – – September 16, 2026 -- Wealth Management crowned the winners of its 2026 Industry Awards before more than 600 executives at Cipriani 42nd Street, capping a program that drew a record 1,392 nominations from 508 unique companies.

Nominations climb nearly four-fold since program launch

The 2026 field represented a 15% jump from 1,210 nominations in 2025 and nearly four times the 350 submissions logged in the inaugural 2015 edition. Finalists numbered 315 unique companies competing across 107 categories, with almost 40% of entries recognizing entirely new initiatives.

Duluth, Ga. – September 16, 2026 -- CINC Systems has unveiled Community Intelligence, a platform-wide AI standard the company says has already helped clients save more than 36,000 hours and $1.13 million in labor costs year to date across invoice, budget and board packet workflows.

Client research shows 79% want one connected platform, 45% prioritize context-aware AI

The announcement, made at CINC Up 2026 in Chicago last week, follows CINC's 2026 client survey in which 79% of respondents said they want a single connected platform rather than fragmented tools. When asked what they want from AI specifically, 45% selected context-aware intelligence, ranking it above any other AI approach tested.

London – September 16, 2026 -- Nscale, a full-stack AI cloud platform, has appointed Fidji Simo, former CEO of AGI Deployment at OpenAI, to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.

Simo brings two decades of consumer-tech scaling experience to Nscale's board

Simo most recently led business and product teams at OpenAI responsible for delivering the company's research to end users, and continues to advise the firm. Before OpenAI, she served as CEO and Chair of Instacart, guiding the company to profitability and through its 2023 public listing. She previously spent a decade at Meta, where she headed the Facebook App overseeing News Feed, Video, Groups, Marketplace and Ads, and earlier led mobile advertising products. She began her career at eBay and currently sits on Shopify's board of directors.

Unnao, India -- Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) broke ground on September 9, 2026 on its first beverage can manufacturing facility in India, a plant designed to produce approximately 2.2 billion aluminum beverage cans annually once operational.

Two-line plant in Uttar Pradesh targets 2027 startup

The facility, located in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, was first announced in April 2026 and will feature two production lines. Operations are scheduled to commence in the second half of 2027, positioning Crown to serve both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverage segments in the market.

Arlington, Mass. – – September 16, 2026 -- Eloxx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELOX) has dosed the first two patients in the EXACT Study, a Phase 2b trial evaluating its investigational drug exaluren in patients with nonsense mutation Alport syndrome (NMAS), a rare kidney disease with no FDA-approved therapy targeting its genetic cause.

Trial targets 24 patients with a 16-week placebo-controlled start

The global, randomized, delayed-start Phase 2b trial will enroll 24 patients carrying nonsense mutations in the COL4A3, COL4A4, or COL4A5 genes. The initial 16-week placebo-controlled portion measures the drug's effect on structural podocyte changes via foot process effacement, assessed through kidney biopsies in non-U.S. pediatric patients and all adult participants.

Washington – September 16, 2026 -- Seventeen Volunteer Advocates from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) will meet with members of Congress from September 16-18 to push for sustained federal funding and pending legislation on suicide prevention, arriving weeks after Congress passed the Youth Poisoning Protection Act (H.R. 1442/S. 289), which now awaits presidential signature.

Advocates from 14 states demand $549.6 million for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

The delegation, sponsored for a second year by AFSP's Illinois chapter during National Suicide Prevention Month, is lobbying for robust funding of the 988 Lifeline at $549.6 million, a $38 million allocation for the CDC's Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Program (CSP), and $2.548 billion for the National Institute of Mental Health.

Oklahoma City – September 16, 2026 -- Acarix AB announced that a peer-reviewed study published in PLOS Digital Health found its seismocardiography (SCG) technology can detect heart failure with diagnostic accuracy comparable to NT-proBNP, the current standard blood test, while producing significantly fewer false positives.

SCG algorithm matches blood test accuracy with far higher specificity

Researchers at Aalborg University Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital and Odense University Hospital enrolled 218 patients, including 198 referred by general practitioners for suspected heart failure and 20 with previously confirmed HFrEF. Using machine learning, the team built two SCG-based scores: an 'AnyHF-score' to flag heart failure of any type, and an 'HFrEF-score' targeting the more severe reduced-ejection-fraction form of the condition.

Clayton, Mo. and The Woodlands, Texas – – September 16, 2026 -- Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN) and Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN) confirmed that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act has expired, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for their planned merger of equals.

HSR clearance removes a major closing condition for the chemical sector merger

The expiration satisfies one of the primary conditions required to close the transaction, though the deal still awaits additional regulatory approvals that are currently underway.

Shareholders of both companies approved the deal on August 25, 2026

Investors from Olin and Huntsman overwhelmingly backed the merger of equals at their respective shareholder votes, clearing the corporate governance path toward completion.

Boisbriand, QC – September 16, 2026 -- Vision Marine Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: VMAR) has been invited to the Suntex Marinas National Conference in Texas, running September 22-25, 2026, following its role as Title Sponsor of the Lake Berryessa Electric Boat Festival in June 2026 at Suntex-owned Pleasure Cove Marina in Napa, California.

Vision Marine completed roughly 60 on-water demonstration rides across three electric vessels at Lake Berryessa

The two-day festival featured the STERK 31E, powered by dual E-Motion 180E propulsion systems, alongside the SPECTR 26 and the Fantail 217. The event drew consumers, marina operators, utilities, policymakers, charging infrastructure providers, vessel manufacturers and investors into a single marina setting for hands-on demonstrations.

New York – September 16, 2026 -- Scholarship America has distributed $193 million to 3,877 students through the Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund over the 25 years since the fund's creation in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.

Fund draws support from more than 20,000 donors including Citi and Strada Education Foundation

Scholarship America helped establish the fund in the direct aftermath of the 2001 attacks and has administered it continuously since, targeting children who lost a parent or whose parent became permanently disabled as a result of the attacks and subsequent recovery efforts. More than 20,000 individuals, corporations, foundations, and organizations have contributed to the fund, with Citi and Strada Education Foundation named as longtime supporters.

Indianapolis – September 16, 2026 -- Elanco Animal Health Incorporated (NYSE: ELAN) will release its third quarter 2026 financial results on Friday, November 6, 2026.

Elanco schedules conference call for 8:00 a.m. ET on November 6

The company will host a conference call with investors and media at 8:00 a.m. eastern time on the day of the results, detailing quarterly performance. A live webcast link will be posted on Elanco's investor relations website, with a replay made available shortly after the call concludes.

New York – September 16, 2026 -- Qualcomm and Amazon unveiled a multi-generational product collaboration to build next-generation AI data center infrastructure, combining Amazon's cloud-scale compute with Qualcomm's power-efficient silicon design.

Qualcomm and Amazon target AI data center bottlenecks

The partnership addresses surging demand for compute, storage, networking and memory bandwidth as AI workloads scale exponentially, pairing Amazon's infrastructure with Qualcomm Technologies' system-level integration expertise.

Labcorp acquires MLM Medical Labs to expand clinical trial network

Labcorp's acquisition of MLM Medical Labs extends its central laboratory footprint, making it the only central lab provider with a wholly owned network spanning North America, Europe, Asia and Africa for biomarker and clinical trial services.

Bangkok – September 16, 2026 -- Gastech 2026 opens in Bangkok on September 14, convening 19 government ministers, global energy CEOs and technology leaders to address emerging markets that now drive more than 80% of global energy demand growth. Hosted by Thailand's Ministry of Energy and running through September 17, the event follows Gastech 2025's approximately $60 billion in commercial agreements and investments, setting a high bar for deal-making in this edition.

St Cyrus, Scotland – September 16, 2026 -- ECOSSE has moved into its public phase following a September 4 launch, shifting the project from pre-launch activity to live platform operations built around its $ECOS token and a separate whisky-focused real-world-asset (RWA) initiative.

Public phase follows September 4 launch and prior token sale activity

The $ECOS Token Sale was already live ahead of the official launch date. With the public phase now active, participants can track vesting schedules and claim allocations as scheduled portions become available.

$ECOS token underpins digital participation across the ECOSSE platform

ECOSSE says $ECOS supports eligible platform participation, select services, and marketplace functions where available, forming the utility layer of its digital ecosystem separate from any future physical-asset offering.