Events

Atlanta – September 15, 2026 -- Medication nonadherence costs the U.S. healthcare system as much as $300 billion annually, a gap Response Media is targeting with the launch of a new health and life sciences practice called RE:HEALTH.

Response Media debuts AdherenceIQ to predict patient drop-off before it happens

The agency introduced AdherenceIQ, a proprietary AI-powered behavioral intelligence platform designed to predict which patients will discontinue therapy and why. The tool combines behavioral science, privacy-compliant AI and advanced analytics to identify emotional and functional barriers to treatment, including concerns about side effects, necessity, distrust and stigma.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Approved Oil Company and RAEL Fire Protection have entered a strategic partnership combining more than 180 years of combined experience to serve New York metropolitan area building owners across commercial real estate, multifamily, healthcare, hospitality, industrial, institutional, and retail markets.

Two family-owned firms retain independent ownership while aligning services

The collaboration does not involve any change in ownership structure. Both companies will continue operating independently while coordinating on opportunities where their service offerings overlap, aiming to give customers broader technical expertise and improved scheduling across building systems.

Madison, Wis. – September 15, 2026 -- Everlight Solar has been named a 2026 1-Star Champion in the Fleet category by Dane County's Climate Champions Program, marking its fourth recognition under the initiative since 2021.

Everlight Solar now operates 14 electric vehicles across its regional operations

The fleet supports company teams traveling to job sites and community events throughout the Dane County area. The 2026 designation builds on a 2025 Climate Champion recognition earned after the company converted 25-50% of its vehicles to clean energy.

Company's climate track record spans five years of escalating recognition

Dane County first named Everlight Solar an Emerging Climate Champion in Fleet Operations in 2023. In 2021, the company received Climate Champion Catalyst status for helping other local organizations take climate action.

Singapore – September 15, 2026 -- Alcott Global has named the Top 30 Leaders in Supply Chain of 2026, selecting winners from a pool of 403 nominees drawn from 354 companies across 24 countries. The fifth edition of the awards, themed "Where Insight Connects the Dots," was revealed during a virtual gala held on September 10, 2026.

Selection required 18-month leadership tenure at billion-dollar manufacturers

Eligibility was restricted to executives holding regional or global leadership roles for at least 18 consecutive months, with end-to-end supply chain responsibility inside manufacturing organizations generating annual revenues above USD 1 billion. Candidates submitted case studies covering transformation programs, digital achievements, sustainability initiatives, and team-development strategies.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- FanDuel has been named the first Official and Exclusive Sportsbook and Prediction Market Partner of Real App, integrating live odds and contextual betting markets directly into the social sports platform's real-time feeds starting with the 2026 NFL season.

Real App brings 1.5 million monthly active users to the FanDuel integration

Real App, built around live play-by-play tracking and fan conversation, counts over 1.5 million monthly active users and 1.1 million daily active users across 18 leagues including the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB and WNBA. Users on the platform have logged 4.8 billion minutes in the past 12 months, with concurrent users surpassing 250,000 during close games and more than 70% of monthly active users returning on major game days.

Shenzhen – September 15, 2026 -- TCL has been named to TIME's World's Best Companies for 2026, a ranking compiled with Statista from an independent survey of 200,000 employees across more than 50 countries.

TCL Technology and TCL Industries post double-digit revenue growth in 2025

TCL Technology recorded revenue of approximately US$27 billion in 2025, up 11.7% year on year, while TCL Industries reported revenue of roughly US$24.9 billion, an increase of 13.8%. Overseas revenue exceeded US$24.93 billion, with average annual growth of more than 18.3% over the past five years.

Global footprint spans manufacturing hubs in five countries and 160-plus markets

TCL operates manufacturing and R&D facilities across China, Vietnam, Poland, Mexico and Brazil, serving customers in more than 160 countries and regions.

Louisville, Colo. – September 15, 2026 -- JumpCloud Inc. has extended its identity and access management platform to govern AI agents alongside human employees and devices, addressing a gap where only 21% of IT teams have adopted governance controls for autonomous agents.

JumpCloud ties every AI agent to a verified human owner and lifecycle record

The platform now treats each AI agent as a distinct identity, tracked from creation to retirement. Agents registered in JumpCloud cannot operate without an assigned human owner, giving IT teams a centralized view of every agent in use across the organization.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- NYU Langone Health's Perlmutter Cancer Center has named Sean L. Berry, PhD, vice chair of physics and dosimetry in its Department of Radiation Oncology, recruiting a 20-year veteran of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to lead treatment-planning quality and safety programs.

Berry moves from a regional physicist role overseeing multi-site radiation oncology operations

Before joining NYU Langone, Berry served as regional lead physicist and associate attending physicist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, managing clinical physics operations across outpatient sites in Westchester County, New York, and Bergen County, New Jersey. His duties included supervising faculty physicists, staff physicists and dosimetrists, regulatory readiness, accreditation activities, budget oversight, linear accelerator commissioning and standardizing radiation oncology practice across multiple locations.

Lexington, Mass. – September 15, 2026 -- Relate, an AI relationship intelligence platform, has named Kristy McCann Flynn as Co-Founder, adding a 25-year HR technology operator to its leadership team as the company scales its customer base and product roadmap.

McCann Flynn brings a $15 million fundraising track record from prior venture

McCann Flynn previously co-founded and served as CEO of SkillCycle, where she raised more than $15 million and guided the company to multiple years of Inc 5000 growth recognition. Her prior senior HR and transformation roles span Pearson, Constant Contact, MoneyLion, Richemont, and Western Asset Management.

Elmhurst – September 15, 2026 -- Saltbox will open its first Chicago-area co-warehousing facility this fall in Elmhurst, Illinois, adding a 114-suite operations hub to its 13-location U.S. network and launching a $5,000 grant for a local product-based business.

Elmhurst facility gives Chicago-area businesses 114 flexible warehouse and office suites

The facility at 934 N. Church Rd. offers suites ranging from 88 to 1,809 square feet, with smaller units holding roughly four pallets for one or two people and larger suites accommodating up to 125 pallets for full fulfillment teams. Members get month-to-month access to loading docks, daily carrier pickups, conference rooms, a content studio, 24/7 security and an on-site operations team that receives inventory and supports carrier handoffs.

Limassol – – September 15, 2026 -- NuxGame, a B2B iGaming software provider founded in 2018, will host operators, affiliates and partners at Stand A326 in Hall 1 of SBC Summit Lisbon 2026, running Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 at the Feira Internacional de Lisboa.

NuxGame sponsors the summit's Networking Lounge in Hall 1

The company's stand doubles as the event's Networking Lounge, giving operators direct access to NuxGame's product and commercial teams for one-on-one sessions across all three days.

Osaka – – September 15, 2026 -- EFM, an ICAT Company, managed more than 100 shipments and moved an estimated 300 to 400 metric tons of air freight for Saudi Arabia's pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, a logistics operation that began with site surveys in late 2024, months before the pavilion's April 2025 opening.

Pavilion draws 3 million visitors and wins Gold Award for Architecture

The Saudi pavilion attracted more than three million of the 28 million total visitors to Expo 2025 Osaka during its 184-day run, which closed on October 13, 2025, and took the event's Gold Award for Architecture and Landscape.

Toronto – September 15, 2026 -- A new viewpoint paper published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research argues that GLP-1 weight-loss drugs fail long-term without paired digital behavioral coaching, citing high patient dropout and rapid weight regain as persistent industry problems. The paper, authored by Noom CEO Geoff Cook, introduces a "habit window hypothesis" and calls for a formal research agenda to test whether digital health apps can extend the durability of pharmacological weight loss.

Boca Raton, Fla. – September 15, 2026 -- deviceWISE, a Telit Cinterion company, will run three live production demonstrations at IMTS 2026 in Chicago, September 14-19, showing agentic AI that detects faults on a live robotic cell and guides automated recovery.

Three live demonstrations show layered factory automation at Booth 236475

Visitors will see visual inspection, robotic sorting and automated assembly running on the deviceWISE platform. A visual inspection station using deviceWISE Visual Intelligence will check circuit boards and other objects for defects or missing components. A robot will sort colored cubes in an agentic AI and digital twin demonstration, while a second robot performs a FANUC AI auto assembly of industrial parts.

Baltimore – September 15, 2026 -- Morgan State University has secured high-performance GPU compute resources through a new collaboration with Google Public Sector, aiming to reach Carnegie R1 research classification and establish a national blueprint for HBCU digital transformation.

Google's Program for Accelerated Research grants Morgan State advanced GPU infrastructure

The partnership, formed through Google Public Sector's Program for Accelerated Research (GPAR), gives Morgan State faculty and students access to high-performance computing for work in AI, cybersecurity, climate science and health sciences. The university is targeting Carnegie R1 status, the top classification for "very high research activity," which would unlock additional federal funding and attract research talent.

Windham, N.H. – September 15, 2026 -- SQAIRZ, a biomechanically driven performance footwear company, has launched SQAIRZ Medical, a new division targeting fall risk among aging adults through a combined footwear and clinical assessment platform.

Fall injuries cost the U.S. healthcare system more than $80 billion annually

One in four U.S. adults over age 65 falls at least once a year, a figure that rises to one in two for adults over 80, according to SQAIRZ. The company positions SENTRX, its purpose-built Balance & Stability footwear, as the centerpiece of a broader clinical framework aimed at reducing that risk.

Mies, Switzerland – September 15, 2026 -- Marelli has become a partner of the FIM Racing Motorcycle Museum in Mies, Switzerland, contributing a dedicated exhibit that traces two decades of Engine Control Unit development for motorcycle racing.

Museum showcases more than 40 official motorbikes across nine themed areas

Created by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, the Racing Motorcycle Museum covers seven disciplines -- Circuit Racing, Motocross, Enduro, Rally, Trial, Track Racing and Electric -- organized around three pillars: Heroes, Technologies, and From Race to Road.

Reedsburg, Wis. – September 15, 2026 -- More than 40 Teamsters at Foremost Farms' butter production facility in Reedsburg, Wisconsin have ratified a new four-year contract delivering a 27 percent wage increase.

Workers secure retroactive pay and preserved health coverage

The agreement, reached by members of Teamsters Local 120, includes retroactive pay, additional vacation time, and preservation of TeamCare health coverage. It also delivers improved overtime protections, enhanced paid leave provisions, and measures addressing chronic staffing shortages at the plant.

Successor clause shields workers from ownership changes

The contract contains strong successor language designed to protect workers in the event of a plant sale, transfer, or change in ownership at the dairy cooperative facility.

Tustin, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Healthcare Success has partnered with Inlets.ai to help hospitals and multi-location health systems monitor and improve how they appear when patients search using AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI.

Patient discovery shifts from search engines to AI chat platforms before hospital websites are ever visited

Patients increasingly research providers, treatments, and hospitals through AI platforms before reaching a healthcare organization's website, according to the companies. This shift creates a new challenge for health systems: understanding what AI tools are telling prospective patients about their physicians, locations, service lines, and brands.

Delray Beach, Fla. – September 15, 2026 -- The global biological safety cabinet market is projected to grow from USD 0.26 billion in 2026 to USD 0.36 billion by 2031, a 6.6% CAGR, according to MarketsandMarkets.

Pharma investment and biosafety upgrades drive containment equipment demand

Expansion of drug discovery, biologics, cell and gene therapy, and vaccine development is pushing laboratories to replace aging cabinets with certified, higher-performance containment systems. Rising biosafety requirements for handling infectious agents and hazardous materials are accelerating both new installations and equipment upgrades across clinical, academic, and pharmaceutical labs.