Events

Luxembourg – September 24, 2026 -- Verneek, the New York-based enterprise AI company, plans to establish its first European office in Luxembourg, marking its formal entry into the region's retail and luxury sector five years after the company's founding.

Verneek picks Luxembourg as regional launchpad over other EU hubs

The deep-tech firm selected Luxembourg for its central location, multilingual business community, market connectivity, and role in shaping EU-wide policy, according to the company. The move, subject to final agreements, positions Luxembourg as Verneek's base for deepening ties with global retailers, luxury houses, and consumer brands operating across fragmented European markets and languages.

Madrid – September 24, 2026 -- Fruit Attraction 2026 will gather more than 2,500 exhibiting companies across 162,000 square metres of exhibition space in Madrid from October 6 to 8, drawing 121,000 trade professionals from over 150 countries for its 18th edition.

Middle East buyers gain direct access to global fresh produce suppliers

The event, organized by IFEMA MADRID and FEPEX, will give importers, distributors and industry operators from the Middle East a dedicated channel to connect with producers and suppliers from Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia. The United Arab Emirates will attend as a Guest Importing Country alongside China, formalizing trade links with two markets that organizers describe as increasingly central to global fresh produce flows.

Shenzhen – September 24, 2026 -- Horion, a global provider of professional interactive display solutions, has partnered with DisplayNote to integrate DisplayNote Launcher software into Horion's interactive flat panel displays (IFPDs), targeting reduced setup friction in corporate meeting rooms.

DisplayNote Launcher brings one-touch conferencing access to Horion displays

The integration allows users to access supported conferencing applications, room calendars and frequently used tools directly from the Horion display interface. Meeting schedules appear within the Launcher, and one-touch access lets users start or join calls with fewer steps than traditional setups.

Linköping – September 24, 2026 -- Northeast Georgia Medical Center has gone live with Sectra's cloud-based enterprise imaging platform, Sectra One Cloud, under a five-year contract covering an expected annual imaging volume of around 850,000 exams.

Hospital deploys radiology, breast imaging and cardiology modules in first rollout phase

The Gainesville-based flagship hospital of Northeast Georgia Health System initially activated three specialty modules on the unified platform, allowing clinicians across sites to view, share and report on patient studies from a single system rather than separate applications tied to each specialty.

Richard Wright, Executive Director of Imaging Services for Northeast Georgia Medical Center, said the consolidated workflow has reduced steps between viewing studies and finalizing reports, and enables clinicians at different sites to consult on the same case.

Barcelona – September 24, 2026 -- Daewoong Pharmaceutical has completed enrollment of 104 idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) patients in its global Phase 2 trial of Bersiporocin (DWN12088), with top-line results now expected in the first half of 2027.

Trial spans South Korea and the US with balanced enrollment

Of the 104 patients, 55 (52.9%) were enrolled in South Korea and 49 (47.1%) in the United States. The company presented full baseline patient characteristics at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress 2026 in Barcelona on September 6, following interim data shared earlier at KATRDIC 2025.

Grand Rapids – September 24, 2026 -- The Grand Rapids Housing Commission (GRHC) hosted camera crews from the Public Television series "All Access hosted by Andy Garcia" on September 23, 2026, for a segment examining how the agency is combining rental assistance, affordable housing development, and resident services to address a tightening West Michigan housing market.

GRHC administers federal rental assistance to thousands of West Michigan households

The Commission delivers housing support through public housing, Housing Choice Vouchers, Project-Based Vouchers, and other federally funded programs, reaching thousands of individuals and families in Kent County.

Shanghai – September 24, 2026 -- Huawei unveiled six global power industry showcases at HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, spotlighting end-to-end digital transformation projects spanning power generation to consumption across China, Brazil, and international markets.

More than 600 industry representatives attend Global Electric Power Summit

The 2026 Global Electric Power Summit, themed "AI x Energy: Unlocking a New Power System," drew over 600 delegates from power companies, industry organizations, and ecosystem partners. The event marked what Huawei described as a shift in the power sector from unidirectional technology enablement to computing-power synergy.

Shanghai – September 24, 2026 -- ZPMC has signed purchasing agreements worth more than $2.6 billion at current exchange rates across eight consecutive appearances at the China International Import Expo (CIIE), the company disclosed at an industry outreach event held on September 22.

ZPMC gathers state-owned giants and global suppliers ahead of ninth CIIE edition

Delegates from Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC), China Mobile, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Bank of China (BOC), and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) attended the Shanghai event. Representatives from ZPMC, Sinopec Honeywell (Tianjin) Limited, Austria-based WFL Millturn Technologies GmbH & Co. KG, and Omron Automation (China) delivered remarks and exchanged views on trade cooperation.

Milan – September 24, 2026 -- Prometeon Tyre Group has selected and commissioned an automated tire inspection system built jointly by Rockwell Automation and Tekna Automazione e Controllo, targeting automatic quality checks on truck, bus and radial tire lines.

Prometeon commissions joint inspection system for high-volume tire lines

The solution combines Rockwell's industrial automation and digital transformation capabilities with Tekna's image-processing and inspection technology to automatically detect and classify tire anomalies during final inspection. Prometeon, which positions itself as the only tyre manufacturer fully focused on the industrial, agricultural and OTR sectors, is deploying the system across its manufacturing operations to reduce reliance on manual quality checks.

Xiamen, China – September 24, 2026 -- Yeastar has launched NovoOne, an AI-native, carrier-grade multi-tenant communications platform designed for managed service providers, ITSPs, telecom resellers, and carriers handling large, growing user bases.

NovoOne targets the scale-versus-flexibility trade-off facing communication service providers

Traditional carrier-grade platforms offer scale but suffer from fragmented components, slow R&D cycles, and legacy interfaces, while modern SaaS UC platforms limit customization and raise costs as usage grows. Yeastar says NovoOne removes that trade-off by combining SaaS-grade user experience with carrier-grade resilience, control, and economics.

NEW YORK – September 24, 2026 -- XDI (Cross Dependency Initiative) and Veridion have launched a partnership that merges engineering-based climate risk modeling with corporate site intelligence covering roughly 600 million companies and more than two billion buildings worldwide.

XDI's climate models now draw on Veridion's global building and company database

The tie-up combines XDI's Multiple Company Intelligence (MCI) platform, which already assesses physical climate risk across more than 40,000 companies and subsidiaries, with Veridion's site-level data on operational activity, scale and status. XDI CEO Dr Karl Mallon said Veridion's data lets analysts understand what happens at each site and how critical it is to the wider business, enabling more sophisticated risk and resilience questions.

Maidenhead – September 24, 2026 -- RWS (AIM: RWS.L) has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Localization Services, Q3 2026, scoring the maximum 5.0 in 18 of 27 evaluated criteria.

RWS tops 18 criteria in independent Forrester assessment

The perfect scores span Vision, Innovation, LLM investment and modernization, Data, model and AI risk controls, AI search, semantics and knowledge enablement, Hyperlocalization and cultural adaptation, Context and data strategy, Regulated localization and compliance, Multimodal localization, and Talent strategy. Forrester's report describes RWS as offering 'one of the field's clearest views of localization as AI infrastructure.'

Shanghai – September 24, 2026 -- Pearson has warned that early-career workers in skilled trade, technical and service occupations are entering the workforce without the AI literacy, human skills and hands-on experience employers now require simultaneously. The findings come from a new report, "For Every Future: Preparing Early-Career Skilled Trade, Technical and Service Talent for an AI-Infused World," launched at the WorldSkills International Conference 2026 in Shanghai.

Kista, Sweden – September 24, 2026 -- Sivers Semiconductors AB (STO: SIVE) has restructured senior leadership across its Wireless and Photonics divisions, appointing two external executives and reassigning two founders as the company pushes toward broader commercialization of its RF and laser technologies.

Marc Pegulu takes over as Managing Director of Wireless effective September 28, 2026

Pegulu brings more than 25 years of experience in RF, wireless and mixed-signal product businesses, including P&L leadership roles at Semtech and Qorvo. He replaces Harish Krishnaswamy, who co-founded MixComm, the RF beamforming company Sivers acquired in 2021.

Krishnaswamy shifts to newly created Chief Strategy Officer role

In his new position, Krishnaswamy will oversee corporate strategy, M&A and new business development, drawing on his prior technology and business development experience at Sivers.

Singapore – September 24, 2026 -- Pratt & Whitney Canada has signed a four-year maintenance, repair and overhaul agreement with AirBorneo Airways covering PW127M engines through 2030, with work centered at the RTX unit's newly expanded Singapore facility.

Agreement locks in engine support for Sarawak's rural air network

The deal covers PW127M engines powering AirBorneo's fleet of ATR 72-500 turboprops, which operate the Rural Air Services network connecting remote communities across East Malaysia's Borneo interior. Anthony Rossi, vice president of Customer Service at Pratt & Whitney Canada, said the arrangement was designed to manage engine costs while supporting high dispatch availability for the airline's critical rural routes.

Toronto – September 24, 2026 -- Quarterhill Inc. (TSX: QTRH) (OTCQX: QTRHF) has secured TOPAS 2505B registration for its TMB-13X multilane intersection radar, clearing the mandatory hurdle for deploying traffic signal detection technology in the United Kingdom.

TOPAS registration opens UK traffic signal market to Quarterhill's radar system

The approval allows Quarterhill to sell the TMB-13X to UK traffic signal controller manufacturers, system integrators and transport authorities. The product is now available for order.

Tokyo – September 24, 2026 -- TIER IV, the developer of the open-source Autoware autonomous driving platform, has released a reference design for autonomous racing kart systems on a public GitHub repository, providing a common technical foundation used by 240 teams and roughly 600 participants in Japan's Autonomous Driving AI Challenge.

240 teams built on a shared open-source foundation during the JSAE-organized competition

The Autonomous Driving AI Challenge, organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (JSAE), ran from July to September 2026, with qualifying and final rounds using TIER IV's reference design as the baseline development platform. Final rounds took place September 19-20, 2026, combining simulation-based and real-world vehicle challenges with racing karts.

Tokyo – September 24, 2026 -- transcosmos inc. has committed employee mentors to a six-month youth support program run with nonprofit SANKAKUSHA, part of a Collaborative Growth Society initiative led by KEIZAI DOYUKAI, the Japan Association of Corporate Executives.

transcosmos employees will mentor young people aged 15 to 25 for approximately six months

Under the program, transcosmos staff will hold regular dialogue sessions with young people supported by SANKAKUSHA, a nonprofit focused on individuals who cannot rely on parents or other adult caregivers. The mentoring extends beyond short-term employment placement, aiming instead to connect each participant with a working adult they can consult as they weigh future options.

San Diego – – September 24, 2026 -- Industrious, in partnership with GANMI, is adding roughly 27,000 square feet to its Core Columbia workplace at 401 W A St in downtown San Diego, doubling the footprint to approximately 54,000 square feet. Members will gain access to the expanded space starting June 2027.

Expansion targets rising demand from defense, AI and life sciences startups

GANMI and Industrious cite sustained high occupancy at the existing location as the driver for the expansion, particularly among startups and growing companies in defense, artificial intelligence, life sciences and medical devices — sectors where San Diego has built a strong innovation cluster. The expanded space will add 305 office seats and 50 access seats.

Henderson, Nevada – September 24, 2026 -- Gaming Compliance International (GCI) has appointed Tim Miller, former Executive Director of Policy and Research at the UK Gambling Commission, as Strategic Advisor to guide its regulatory strategy and international expansion.

Miller brings a decade of UK regulatory experience to GCI's global growth push

Miller spent 10 years at the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) before founding GamReg Consulting, an advisory practice focused on gaming regulation. GCI becomes one of Miller's first clients under the new venture, where he will work directly with GCI CEO Matt Holt to shape product development and regulatory policy through a former regulator's lens.