Events

New York – September 15, 2026 -- PerceivIQ, a decision intelligence platform for workforce and economic development organizations, has partnered with Revelio Labs to give civic organizations access to labor market data spanning 1.1 billion professional profiles, 5 billion job postings and 30 million companies across 195 countries.

The deal marks Revelio Labs' formal entry into the civic market at scale, positioning PerceivIQ as an authorized reseller of Revelio workforce data for Workforce Development Boards, Economic Development Organizations, Regional Chambers, Trade Associations and community colleges.

Tenerife – September 15, 2026 -- Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialist Jeremy Hansen will appear at STARMUS VIII in Tenerife and La Palma from October 17-22, 2026, fifteen years after the festival's 2011 founding event brought together Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Alexei Leonov in the Canary Islands.

Artemis II crew follows the same route once taken by Apollo-era legends

Wiseman, Glover and Hansen flew around the Moon and back earlier this year alongside Christina Koch, becoming part of the first crewed lunar mission in more than five decades and traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them. Their October appearance places three of the four Artemis II astronauts on the same festival stage where Armstrong, Aldrin and Leonov once spoke in 2011.

Santa Barbara, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- Cronus Market Intelligence, LLC disclosed that its RegimeSignalTM platform posted an average 84% out-of-sample accuracy across four signals tracking the full S&P 500 market cycle, with bear signals hitting 86%, correction 84%, pullback 83% and recovery 82%.

Four signals cover every stage of the market cycle

Each accuracy figure represents the share of signal fires that were correct, measured on an out-of-sample basis. The recovery signal, the weakest performer at 82%, is described as a historical upper bound and was the specific signal flagged with qualifications in independent review.

Berlin – September 15, 2026 -- The European Commission is redrawing public procurement rules to treat supply security as a strategic asset, pressuring Germany to overhaul how statutory health insurers award pharmaceutical rebate contracts.

Brussels Moves to Rank Quality and Resilience Above Lowest Price

The Commission's draft directive would require public tenders to be awarded based on the best price-quality ratio rather than price alone, explicitly allowing supply security and resilience to factor into contract awards. The proposal also permits splitting large contracts into smaller lots to reduce dependency on single suppliers and diversify supply chains. For strategically sensitive procurement categories, the draft opens the door to preferential treatment for European or trade-aligned suppliers.

Berlin – – September 15, 2026 -- The European Commission today unveiled the EU Public Procurement Act (PPA), a comprehensive proposal to modernize European procurement law, drawing an immediate response from Germany's pharmaceutical industry association BPI.

BPI demands supply security as binding procurement criterion

Dr. Kai Joachimsen, Chief Executive of the BPI (Bundesverband der Pharmazeutischen Industrie), said the European Commission must make supply security a mandatory guideline for pharmaceutical procurement. He stated the goal must be supply sovereignty, achieved through strong production capacities in Europe and diversified, resilient supply chains.

Monaco – September 15, 2026 -- YachtWorld will open YachtWorld House, an invitation-only hospitality venue on Port Hercule, during the 2026 Monaco Yacht Show running September 23-25.

YachtWorld extends its Monaco Yacht Show partnership with a dedicated industry venue

The space, located steps from the show, is designed as an extension of YachtWorld's existing partnership with the Monaco Yacht Show. It will host shipyard leaders, superyacht brokers, media and other industry professionals for private meetings, curated lunches and informal gatherings overlooking the harbour.

Silver Spring, Md. – September 15, 2026 -- The Big Greek Café has partnered with restaurant technology providers Deliverect and Thanx to consolidate first-party ordering, third-party dispatch and loyalty onto a single integrated platform across its U.S. locations.

Menu management failures pushed the brand toward a unified tech stack

Chief Operating Officer Niko Kontos said the Maryland-based Greek fast-casual chain was spending excessive time fixing menu errors and working around platform reliability issues instead of serving guests. The new stack folds the brand's loyalty program directly into checkout rather than keeping it as a separate sign-up process.

Tampa, Fla. – September 15, 2026 -- Genstone Companies has secured a spot on the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America for the second consecutive year, ranking among the Top 100 fastest-growing private firms in the Tampa–St. Petersburg–Clearwater metro area.

The company also placed in the Top 400 nationally within the Financial Services category and the Top 500 in Florida, based on Inc.'s three-year revenue growth methodology.

Genstone expands financial services and property offerings through new partnerships

Over the past year, Genstone advanced its financial services and property services capabilities through strategic partnerships, expanded insurance offerings, and new institutional and single-family rental relationships. The company also invested in people, technology, and infrastructure to support growth.

Shanghai – – September 15, 2026 -- FHC Shanghai 2026 will open its doors from November 10-12 at the new Shanghai International Expo Centre, spanning 200,000 square meters and bringing together more than 3,000 global exhibitors and over 180,000 trade buyers.

Event scale expands with 500 foreign exhibitors across 50 international pavilions

The three-day trade show will host more than 500 foreign exhibitors organized into over 50 international pavilions, covering 15 core sectors including meat, seafood, snack food and beverages, dairy, confectionery and chocolate, foodservice supply chains, condiments and oils, coffee and tea, bakery, food processing and packaging, ready meals, canned goods, machinery, hot-pot ingredients, infant and children's nutrition, and food-medicine crossover products. The format allows procurement executives to benchmark suppliers across categories within a single three-day visit.

Quebec City – September 15, 2026 -- Icentia has appointed Sanjay Voleti as President and CEO, tasking the digital health veteran with accelerating the cardiac diagnostics company's commercial expansion in the United States.

Voleti succeeds co-founder Pierre Paquet after the company built operations across four countries

Voleti replaces co-founder Pierre Paquet, who led Icentia from its founding as a Canadian health-tech startup into an international operator with a presence in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States. Paquet said the company's CardioSTAT platform has become a reference point in continuous ambulatory ECG recording and that the time had come to bring in a leader experienced in scaling technology companies internationally.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- AEYE Health published peer-reviewed results in Frontiers in Digital Health confirming its FDA-cleared AEYE-DS system achieved over 99% imageability across three prospective, controlled pivotal trials involving more than 1,200 diabetic patients.

Trial data validate the clinical foundation behind AEYE-DS's two FDA clearances

The study, covering trials AEYE-1, AEYE-2 and AEYE-3, benchmarked the autonomous AI against reading center multi-expert clinical review. AEYE-DS requires only a single image per eye, works with both portable handheld and tabletop cameras, and rarely requires pupil dilation -- making it the only FDA-cleared portable autonomous solution for diabetic retinopathy on the market, according to the company.

Solon, Ohio – September 15, 2026 -- Locus Agriculture is scaling deployment of Unpac, its glycolipid-based soil conditioner, across row and specialty crop systems after third-party lab testing showed reduced soil density and improved water penetration in California agricultural soils.

USDA data shows compaction affects nearly one-quarter of surveyed cropland

A USDA Economic Research Service analysis found growers identified soil compaction as a resource concern on 22% of surveyed wheat, soybean, oat and cotton fields. Compacted soil restricts root development and limits crop access to available water and nutrients, according to Locus.

Bonn, Germany – September 14, 2026 – GS1 Germany is preparing to host ECR iN MOTiON, the central business-to-business convention for the consumer goods industry, scheduled for September 16 and 17, 2026, at the World Conference Center in Bonn. This expansive industry gathering will unite manufacturers, retailers, and logistics service providers to tackle pressing market dynamics, align supply and demand strategies, and drive operational efficiency across the entire value chain.

Greenwood, S.C. – September 14, 2026 -- ES Foundry has secured ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 certifications for its Greenwood, South Carolina facility, passing an integrated audit with zero major and zero minor nonconformities. The certifications follow the company's recent 2 GW expansion, which pushed the plant's annual solar cell manufacturing capacity to 3 GW.

Auditors confirm quality, environmental and safety systems held during rapid capacity growth

The independent Integrated Management System (IMS) audit evaluated ES Foundry's quality, environmental and occupational health and safety frameworks as a single system across manufacturing operations, covering procurement, material handling, quality assurance and worker safety processes tied to monocrystalline photovoltaic cell production.

Reno, Nev. – September 14, 2026 -- The U.S. Department of Energy awarded approximately US$2.7 billion in contracts in January 2026 to expand domestic low-enriched and high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU) capacity, cementing the federal government's role as the sector's largest customer, lender and permitting authority in one move.

Cape Canaveral, Fla. – September 14, 2026 -- Starfighters Space, Inc. (NYSE American: FJET) has entered a memorandum of understanding with Vaya Defense & Space, Inc. to jointly evaluate captive-carry flight testing and air-launch propulsion, targeting a gap in hypersonic development where demand for test flights has outrun available capacity. The global hypersonic technology market is valued at approximately US$8.49 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach roughly US$15.73 billion by 2030, according to Research and Markets, a compound annual growth rate of about 13.2%.

Arlington, Va. – September 14, 2026 -- Bloomberg Tax has partnered with Decision Modeling, Inc. (DMI) to integrate uncertain tax position (UTP) calculations from DMI's Tax Position Manager software directly into Bloomberg Tax Provision, eliminating a manual data-transfer step for corporate tax departments.

Integration targets one of the most complex areas of income tax provision reporting

UTP calculations, governed by ASC 740-10 and FIN 48 standards, are among the most risk-sensitive components of the tax provision process. The collaboration allows shared customers to run DMI's specialized UTP calculations alongside Bloomberg Tax Provision's audit-ready workflow without switching between disconnected systems.

Riyadh – – September 14, 2026 -- LG Electronics closed its four-part branded entertainment series 'Life's Good Wayyak' with more than 92 million combined impressions across MBC1, MBC Shahid and social media in Saudi Arabia, marking a strong debut for the format produced with MBC Media Solutions (MMS).

Series ranks in top half of MBC1's summer slate with 921,132 unique viewers

On linear television, the show reached 921,132 unique viewers, equal to 8.28% of the measured Arab 15+ audience universe during the campaign window. It placed #26 out of 52 programmes by rating and #21 out of 52 by unique reach on MBC1, with reach running 25% above the channel's slate median. Across 12 airings, the series held a 74.7% completion rate and an average time viewed of 43 minutes, while episode four delivered the season's highest first-run reach at 157,457 viewers.

San Francisco – – September 14, 2026 -- The Globee Awards has opened nominations for its 14th Annual Globee Awards for Leadership, calling on organizations and professionals worldwide to submit cybersecurity leadership achievements for evaluation.

Program accepts entries spanning individual, team, and organizational cybersecurity work

The awards welcome measurable achievements by individual professionals, teams, departments, and entire organizations that strengthen security, protect operations, manage risk, or improve resilience. Eligible categories include cybersecurity strategy, cloud security, identity and access management, data protection, governance risk and compliance, incident response, threat management, and artificial intelligence applications in cybersecurity.

Arkansas – September 14, 2026 -- Japan remains the largest foreign investor in Arkansas, operating more than 65 offices, research facilities, and manufacturing plants through over 30 companies, a footprint now extending into agricultural technology collaboration.

IEEE-USA and NARO convene the IWRC Smart Agriculture Technology Summit in Arkansas

The summit brings together NARO leadership, U.S. and Japanese agtech companies, entrepreneurs, researchers, and government officials to address open-field agriculture, controlled-environment farming, and food technology. Breakout sessions will cover advanced farming equipment, international research collaboration, and fertilizers and pesticides.