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Boston – September 30, 2026 -- UpperEdge, an independent IT sourcing and vendor negotiation advisory firm, has formed its first-ever Advisory Board, bringing together five executives with decades of combined experience in technology, finance, operations and large-scale transformation.

Five executives join as enterprises reshape cloud and AI contracts

The board includes a former biopharma CIO, two former senior leaders from Accenture and EY, a former consumer products President and CFO, and a procurement and supply chain executive. Their appointment comes as large enterprises confront major platform transformations and shifting pricing and contracting models for enterprise software, cloud and AI services.

San Francisco – September 30, 2026 -- Kong Inc. has unveiled a roadmap of six new capabilities for its Kong Konnect platform, aiming to give enterprises unified governance over AI agents, models and APIs across on-premises, edge and cloud environments.

Kong adds six capabilities spanning agent connectivity, credentials and cost control

Announced at the API + AI Summit, the roadmap includes a Webhook Engine for event-driven integration, a Registry & Catalog for discovering AI agents and MCP assets, and a Token Vault that brokers downstream credentials for AI agents without exposing them directly. It also adds Context Mesh to connect agents to enterprise tools at scale, AI Cost Management within the AI Gateway to track spend origin and drivers, and Advanced AI Observability to monitor and troubleshoot AI conversations.

Boston – September 30, 2026 -- Boston Globe Media and Tufts Health Plan have renewed their branded content partnership for a sixth season of "Turning Points: Navigating Mental Health," a five-episode podcast series debuting new installments every Wednesday starting October 7, 2026.

Studio/B produces the series as branded content separate from newsroom operations

The podcast is created by Boston Globe Media's branded content division, Studio/B, in collaboration with Tufts Health Plan, a Point32Health company. The Boston Globe's news and editorial departments have no role in the production, the companies confirmed.

Season six tackles parenting, loss and news-cycle anxiety

The new season addresses parenting in the age of social media, starting over after loss, and managing mental health amid a constant news cycle. Clinical social worker Frantzes Lys returns as host, interviewing guests about personal mental health turning points.

Charlotte – September 30, 2026 -- Clean Team, a 30-year-old commercial janitorial services provider based in Toledo, Ohio, has received an investment from Austin-based private equity firm Blue Sage Capital to fund continued expansion. BlackArch Partners served as exclusive financial advisor to Clean Team on the transaction.

Clean Team operates 18 branches across 13 states in the Midwest and Southwest

The Company provides recurring janitorial services, specialty cleaning and consumable hygiene products to commercial clients in healthcare, manufacturing, distribution/fulfillment, education, government and office sectors. Clean Team has grown through a combination of organic expansion and strategic acquisitions since its founding in 1996 by CEO Bob Armbruster.

Virginia Beach, Va. – September 30, 2026 -- Arcadis joined the City of Virginia Beach to break ground on the Windsor Woods Pump Station, a key infrastructure piece in a citywide flood-resilience network covering the Windsor Woods, Princess Anne Plaza and The Lakes neighborhoods.

Pump station anchors a broader drainage improvements program funded by voters

The facility forms a cornerstone of the Windsor Woods, Princess Anne Plaza and The Lakes Drainage Improvements Program, designed to reduce flood risk from heavy rainfall, high tides and storm surge. The project is financed through Virginia Beach's voter-supported Ripple Effect Flood Protection Program and extends earlier investments into a coordinated citywide flood-defense system.

Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – September 30, 2026 -- IGEL is working with Omnissa to validate a deployment workflow that lets organizations use Omnissa Workspace ONE UEM and Omnissa Freestyle Orchestrator to prepare Windows endpoints for IGEL Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (IGEL BC&DR). The companies unveiled the integrated workflow at Omnissa ONE 2026 for customers and partners in attendance.

Pleasanton, Calif. – – September 30, 2026 -- Healthcare Triangle, Inc. (Nasdaq: HCTI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Malaysia's AI World Sdn. Bhd. to form a joint venture deploying AI-enabled humanoid nursing robots across North American hospitals, with HCTI taking a 70% ownership stake against AI World's 30%.

Joint venture targets toileting and hygiene care, among the most physically demanding nursing tasks

The proposed venture would hold intellectual property and distribution rights for the robots in North America. The machines are designed to assist with patient toileting and related cleaning and hygiene work under clinical supervision, tasks HCTI says are both physically taxing for staff and sensitive for patients.

Washington, D.C. – September 30, 2026 -- E2, a nonpartisan business organization for climate and clean energy policy, has merged operations with Cleantech Leaders Roundtable (CTLR), folding CTLR's executive network into E2's base of more than 13,000 business leaders nationwide.

CTLR becomes an E2 program while keeping its brand and leadership team

Under the agreement, CTLR retains its name and identity but operates as a program of E2, gaining access to E2's national and state policy, advocacy, and communications resources. CTLR CEO Ann Davlin and other CTLR staff are joining the E2 team. The deal lands as CTLR approaches its 10th anniversary in 2027.

Pittsburgh – September 30, 2026 -- Nuventive has launched Executive Summary, a new AI capability within its Improvement Platform designed to cut the time higher education leaders spend surfacing insights from institutional data.

AI Tool Summarizes Institutional Narratives at Scale

Executive Summary uses AI to summarize data-informed narratives across an institution around key strategic initiatives, including learning outcomes, strategic planning, program review, and student success. The tool generates reports that highlight progress across programs, departments, and reporting cycles, using institution-defined prompts to surface information relevant to specific priorities.

Bethesda, Md. – September 30, 2026 -- The Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (FAM) has acquired a second Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Super Hercules tactical airlifter, doubling the response capacity it gained from its first aircraft purchase announced in January 2026.

Mexico becomes a two-aircraft Super Hercules operator within a single year

The January 2026 acquisition made Mexico the first Latin American nation to join the global Super Hercules fleet, which now exceeds 570 aircraft worldwide. The second aircraft continues the FAM's recapitalization of its legacy Hercules fleet, a platform it has operated for more than five decades.