Top 50 Most Innovative Companies to Watch 2020

Special Edition 2020

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Pumapay:

A Revolutionary Platform to Create a Greener World

The Cryptocurrency Payment Solution for Better Digital Transactions

ASATE Group:

Simatree: A Purpose-Driven Approach to Analytics

Helping Organizations Get Priorities Right

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Table of

CONTENTS

Appnomic: ‘Prevention is Better than Cure’ Stands for Technology too

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ASATE Group: Helping Organizations Get Priorities Right

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Bojorge & Associates: Streamlining the Legal Issues of Foreigners in Spain

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BRITech: Because Technology is Essential to Every Organization

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Canon Business Process Services: 18.

A Constant Focus on Innovation

Chalice Network: Allied Team of Professionals Joining Forces for Business Optimization

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Cisive:

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Modern Day Background Investigation Service for Best Talent Acquisition

Dynamic Blending: Revolutionizing the Contract Manufacturing Industry

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EARA Technologies Inc.: Identity Management Practice

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Ecolog International:

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Leading Provider of Integrated and Smart Support Service Solutions

Euro Exim Bank: Seamless Finance Solution For SMEs Globally

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Flaum Navigators: Because Business Decision Making can’t Afford to go Wrong

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ImagineSoftware: Innovating the Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Patient Experience

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Imobile Mind Company: Smart Application for Faster Mobile Migration

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INSTANT ON: When Energy Meets Technology, It Creates More Sustainability and Resiliency

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Kerubiel: Next Generation Threat to Cyber Security Hackers

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KTH Center: The Centre for The Future of Places

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Lanconic Inc.: Agile For Advanced Human Resources

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Ledson Winery & Vineyards: Custom-Made Wine for You and All

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Natuvion: Redesign and Reuse your Data in Half the Time with Natuvion’s Nnnovative Solutions

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Pasture.io: Streamlining the Farming Sector with Modern Agricultural Technology

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Prescient: Because A Shelter is Built of Trust and Technology

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Pro Unlimited: Helping You Navigate the Complex Contingent Workforce Management Industry

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Prolung: Early Cancer Detection has Better Outcomes and Lower Treatment Costs

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Pumapay: The Cryptocurrency Payment Solution for Better Digital Transactions

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Reservations.com: Customized Travel Solution for Modern-Day Travelers

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Simatree: A Purpose-Driven Approach to Analytics

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Unlimitedviz Inc: When Data Suddenly Becomes Business Critical

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Vertical Field: A Revolutionary Platform to Create a Greener World

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Wellness Revolution: Health is ultimately your Wealth

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Editor’s Looking at the recent history of technology, it seems that innovation is the key to success when it comes to anything related to technology, more so because technology has reached a stage where it is building upon its already existing structure. With an aim to achieve more and more, we humans have entered a complex zone where the traditional technological solution is of no use. Modern services are more customized, faster and cheaper because that is what every business look for. But one cannot also overlook the quality of service as well. Thus to balance and control the entire scenario, several innovative solutions are popping up in the market by various organizations.

But the challenge with developing new innovative solution is that it is a game of trial and error. While a company scratches its brain on an innovation, it involves a 360 degree think through such as the outcome, revenue, success, ROI, and customer satisfaction. A slight mistake in the presumed scenario can change the entire concept, turning it into a huge disaster. Entering the world of innovation is a huge step to take and not all companies gain what they think like during its initiation.

It takes a lot for an innovation to gain success and a constant struggle from day one to exemption and even post service. Thus, it is a long haul and one needs to think from the perspective of the situations that might arise in the future.

Though a lot of organizations look towards developing innovative solutions, only a few get to reach there.

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APPNOMIC: ‘Prevention is Better than Cure’ Stands for Technology too

OUR NEWLY BRANDED PRODUCT, HEAL, IS A NEW AGE IT SOFTWARE USING AI ALGORITHMS AND MACHINE LEARNING MODELS TO HELP ENTERPRISES OPERATE WITHOUT A HITCH

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addy Padmanabhan, the founder of Appnomic started the company using his knowledge of architecting a core banking solution and battling performance issues plaguing client applications with high transaction volumes. In most cases, the performance issues were not code related and finding the root cause was a cumbersome task, involving elimination or seeking the cause and effect relationship between overall usage load and system behavior. On the lookout for a

way to quickly solve the problem and provide a lasting solution, he found that he could potentially replicate the actions and decision-making criteria into a learning system, taking cognitive actions, and preventing problems from occurring. This led to the establishment of Appnomic, the industry’s first AI implementation in Application Performance and self-healing abilities.

With a lot of companies positioning themselves as AI Ops with similar messaging, even though many of them only address AI Ops partially, the system got cluttered.

Appnomic’s complete strategic pivot to self-healing brings clarity to its customers and partners and demonstrates immediate value. It is the industry’s first self-healing software that can predict and prevent problems before they happen. “Our newly branded product, HEAL, is a new age IT software using AI algorithms and machine learning models to help enterprises operate without a hitch,” says Nitin Kumar, CEO, Appnomic. The company’s self-healing solutions are capable of solving a very specific problem, opening partnering opportunities for it.

Contrary to reactive AI-driven monitoring tools that send alerts when an incident occurs, HEAL can recognize signals that are leading indicators of future incidents and eliminate factors that can create problems. It uses unsupervised AI to learn how a system works under normal circumstances and creates a dynamic baseline for the entire system and workload behavior, predicting and preventing problems. HEAL uses multiple proprietary machine learning techniques that are developed and patented by Appnomic.

The recent paradigm shift in IT operations and the diagnosis of application health has shifted the focus of IT operations from fast detection and problem fixing to preventive self-healing whereby digital enterprises prevent problems before they ever occur. The self-healing model benefits the user as they see fewer service disruptions, as well as the IT operations teams and businesses as higher uptime makes their product more attractive. Traditional reactive models are not

capable of prior warning, to protect the system from sudden crashing as it cannot warm against any unnatural behavior beforehand. This can be a serious issue for the online trading platform.

“But with the preventive approach the world is a better place for enterprises,” adds Nitin. With this, the end-users will rarely encounter any problem as most potential issues are eliminated before they cause outage or performance degradation. This ensures better customer experience and higher retention rates.

Moreover, IT teams need not waste time and energy on discovering issues as the preventative AI program automatically detects anomaly signals and finds the source so that problems can be fixed before they affect the user.

Appnomic offers HEAL to various industries including financial services, telecommunication service providers, digital media, eCommerce and SaaS. A financial services customer with $150billion assets under management uses HEAL to prevent incidents. With the disruption in online banking services causing downtime, the company was facing issues of bad customer experience and loss of revenue. Moreover, in a complex environment due to multiple silos, its monitoring and AI Ops tools also became ineffective. But Appnomic’ HEAL platform offered the company preventive self-healing by eliminating issues that lead to failures. HEAL also conducts early warning signal detection on massive data volumes and at all levels of the stack, preventing transaction failure and downtime. The company witnessed more than 15 per cent lift in transactions and more than 60 per cent reduction of developer time invested in fixing incidents.

Appnomic has expanded its sales, marketing and presales presence in US and EMEA. Focusing on the global expansion and continuing innovation for the next two years, the company is planning to expand its partnerships and a direct presence in multiple geographies. Appnomic is also planning to expand its HEAL product line with solutions from cloud to edge.

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ASATE Group Helping Organizations Get Priorities Right

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new or improved strategy, followed by the carrying out of a series of changes to the organization’s operating model to enable full execution of the strategy.

However, according to recent worldwide surveys conducted among thousands of senior executives around the world, the vast majority of organizations remain unhappy with their ability to transform themselves, April 2020 11

irrespective of the adoption of the best practices. The challenge is in doing the right things in the right order, and quickly enough. To break out of this impasse and ensure their growth, organizations need to change the way they go about formulating, implementing, executing their strategy.

The frustration of witnessing too many organizations fail in their transformations motivated ASATE Group to create its Organizational Transformation Framework. Its development started with an in-depth examination of the difficulties organizations face in their transformations, of which the main five are:

* fail to provide the leadership needed to * Executives make the strategy a success. and other initiatives required to * Thethetransformation make strategy work are defined, prioritized, and The strategy of most organizations is poorly formulated.

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The long-term financial forecasting and yearly budgeting practices hinder the execution of the strategy and related initiatives. management activities are inadequate and * Strategy poorly integrated.

“Following this, we spent nearly 10 years identifying, developing, testing, and perfecting the integrated set of methods, practices, and tools that make up the company’s framework,” says Bernard Gagnon, President and Cofounder, ASATE Group.

To best help its clients, ASATE Group combines consulting with research to further perfect its leading transformation framework. It considers the organization as a system that needs to be optimized as a whole for the execution of its strategy. The framework has three key elements designed to fill important gaps in previously available practices. The first element is the creation of an expanded strategic plan that includes a concrete description of the changes that will have to be made to the organization’s operating model and an optimized roadmap for carrying out these changes. The second element is the establishment and integration of all of the management activities and mechanisms necessary for the successful formulation, execution and regular update of the strategic plan. These activities, mechanisms, and the creation of the strategic plan, leverage the third element, ASATE Group’s world-leading business architecture approach. The company’s framework makes it possible to design, integrate and optimize all aspects of

the transformation. It also helps avoid initiatives that contribute little to the execution of the strategy or that are conceived and performed in isolation. “When used together, the three elements of our framework enable organizations to transform themselves effectively, efficiently, and with agility to grow and improve their performance,” says Pierre Hadaya, Cofounder, ASATE Group.

Among its recent engagements, ASATE Group worked with a mid-sized company that asked for assistance in implementing a new ERP. Suspecting that such an initiative would not fix the root causes of their difficulties, ASATE Group convinced the management team that it should first conduct a review of their operating model and then help them formulate a new international growth strategy. ASATE Group is currently helping a major bank become more efficient in transforming itself. This includes the training of 145 of their managers and professionals in business architecture.

ASATE Group is also developing partnerships to offer its services internationally. The company is also discussing with several Enterprise Architecture tool developers so that they could support the company’s framework. By the second half of the year, ASATE Group will also introduce a certification program on its world-leading business architecture approach.

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hile she was looking for an answer about how to adequate her vocation after her studies, Marla Bojorge, CEO, Bojorge & Associates, wrote and presented “Bojorge & Associates” as her company, which was dedicated to providing legal guidance services to foreigners both natural and legal persons in English. As her business project got selected to be presented on the final day of the course to the representative of the Dona Institute, Marla could already predict her company’s success.

After that, she went to New York and China for training and learning and eventually set up the company.

There exists a multitude of rules in Spain, to which adding the regulations of the European Union is a must for a member country due to the international treaties signed by Spain.

Bojorge & Associates looks into this area to streamline the life of foreigners in Spain, as well as residents.

The company offers customized solutions depending on its client’s problems. For example, some foreigners think that they can do it all by reading the internet, without consulting a lawyer just to save time and perhaps, avoid paying fees.

Bojorge & Associates listen foreigners or companies, understand the problem and develops a customized solution, so the suit fits. On the contrary, the Human Resources team contacts the company by themselves and explains the matter and leaves it in the hands of Bojorge & Associates. “I can prune the tree from the top

and make it grow without bad weeds around,” says Marla.

Bojorge & Associates is working towards the improvement of communication networks and their access to people to make it simple and affordable. In Spain, many advances have been made by introducing novelties and improvements in 4G and 5G mobile telephony, as well as the internet network.

This calls for taking care of the security to access reliable content.

The company has solved some cases in very delicate situations. It solved a case where a mother requested her desire to not modifying her traditions regarding the birth of her son. In Spain, people, in general, think that all foreigners want to stay in Spain or get nationality. But in this case, the mother did not want her son to get Spanish nationality, although in reality, in Spain, nationality is not acquired by being born in Spanish territory.

Bojorge & Associates helped her to have her delivery in her home country and return with her baby to Spain. Another example was a client who was involved in a serious problem with transnational consequences and everything was solved smoothly. Marla walked on eggshells for solving this case.

The company stays up to date on technology and that is the secret behind the progress made by it. Occasionally Bojorge & Associates also participate in national and European events related to legal guidance services. It makes thorough the legal needs of her clients and the research of the market to understand the potential challenges in the field of legal guidance services and fill the existing gaps.

BRITech:

Because Technology is Essential to Every Organization

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The rapid growth of technological innovation in the fields of AI, cloud computing, and machine learning has caused massive disruption across every vertical industry, wealth management included, leading to an increasing demand of innovative solutions in the market. To adhere to this situation, organizations need to, not only be aware of various advancements happening in the field but also choose the right technology solution to achieve better services to their customers.

calculated and systematic business module by implementing proper financial strategies. Wealth managers include overall management of the financial planning, multi-family offices, investment portfolio management, and other financial services targeted towards high net worth individuals to manage wealth efficiently and realize their strategic goals.

Moreover, proper wealth planning helps create a deep understanding of economic uncertainties, resulting in eliminating the unnecessary financial burden.

To fight this situation, wealth management organizations are now incorporating technology and services to allow investors to develop a

Thus, BRITech was established to help organizations bring forth out-of-the-box software,

infrastructure and professional services to reinvigorate the investment management ecosystem and help its clients in steering ahead of market peers. In its initial days, BRITech addressed the needs of broker-dealers but after R&D investments, the company reached asset and wealth managers, financial advisors, single & multi-family offices, private banking and fund administrators along with some established Fintech firms.

an embedded CRM module along with a robust client onboarding component that includes the client’s master file, which is used to include desks, appointments and lead management. The billing module governs the management and performance fees based on the type of customer business and the PMS, a possible engine for all portfolio accounting requirements, offers a portfolio- modelling feature to balance client needs and services.

BRITech offers a cloud-based investment management platform to maximize operational efficiency and enhance the scalability with its pure SaaS approach and expertise in serving the entire investment management environment. The company’s platform is built using state-of-the-art micro-services that are cloud-based to assist SMEs in exploring technological depths and helping big financial firms automate manual processes to improve their economic viability.

The company also offers complementary services to ensure the optimal utilization of its SaaS product and its ‘wealth management as a service’ approach leverages innovative tools to increase the speed of implementation.

To ensure superior investment management across its vast and versatile clientele, BRITech’s solution is built with seven modules that include Client Portal & Dashboards, CRM, Billing & Invoices, Portfolio Management System (PMS), Front & Rebalancing, Risk Management, and API. The Client Portal, the base for all client reports, provides a very flexible and configurable dashboard engine. The CRM offers

Being a customer-centric company, BRITech ensures customer satisfaction by providing a platform for their specific needs. Founded in 2012, with franchisees around the world and offices in 8 cities. The company has witnessed radical growth over the last years, and conquering over 240 customers across Latin America, Spain, Belgium and United States, aiming to grow even more rapidly in the future.

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o help its clients succeed in today’s hyper-competitive business environment, Canon Business Process Services (Canon) leverages advanced technologies and services to deliver agility, exceptional workplace experiences and improved business performance.

“Many businesses are looking to fundamentally transform their operations by capitalizing on digitization, automation, analytics, mobility and constant advancements in technology,” says Joe Marciano, president and CEO of Canon Business Process Services.

“In response to these forces for change, we are applying innovative thinking to help clients improve their business processes and streamline their workflows.”

Indeed, Canon’s focus on creative thinking and business process innovation has been a hallmark of the company’s approach for over 30 years. It’s also a practice that has garnered significant industry recognition. As one example, this year Canon was named a Global Outsourcing 100 Leader by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP®) for the fourteenth straight year. Last year, IAOP named Canon to its Best of the Global Outsourcing 100 list. The list featured companies that were at the top of the annual IAOP GO100 for a decade.

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Canon earned additional IAOP Best of the Global Outsourcing 100 honors by being acknowledged with top honors in five special recognition categories. One of these included, most notably, the “Programs for Innovation” category. It recognizes a company’s ability to implement specific programs and resulting outcomes that produce new forms of value for customers.

One such advanced program is Canon Workplace Experience Services. Canon’s offering integrates a range of services designed to deliver the world-class experience that many companies envision to attract and retain the best employees, encourage collaboration and improve efficiency. “Because business is about developing and nurturing valuable relationships, we have designed services to help ensure that the people who are most important to our clients’ success enjoy a remarkable experience while in the company’s workplace,” notes Workplace Services Solution Analyst Eric Mead, who heads up Canon’s program. “Our experts anticipate their needs, saving them time, improving productivity, removing workplace friction and making them feel special,” adds Mead.

The foundation of Canon’s offering is a suite of integrated services, managed by a dedicated, on-site team, which include the following:

⁎ Community-building and event management. A large part of the

modern employee experience centers around the community. Arguably, people spend most of their waking hours at work, so it’s important that they have an opportunity to get to know their colleagues a little better. Part of Workplace Experience Services is community-building, which includes a hoteling system that offers employees the option to reserve workspaces—even in different locations so employees can work with colleagues they wouldn’t otherwise ever meet. It also includes event planning and management to encourage socialization at events outside of work hours.

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Reception, host and concierge services. These services include front desk management, such as professionally greeting guests; and coordinating meeting details, such as reserving conference rooms and organizing catering to make sure events run smoothly.

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Office and hospitality services. Employees can spend a large chunk of their time on mail, shipping and receiving, printing, and records management—all of which may take them away from their core job duties. The prep required for setting up meetings—such as setting up audio/visual equipment—is equally as time-consuming.

Office and hospitality services tackle these tasks so that employees can focus on getting their job done.

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Facility support. Employee productivity can be significantly impacted when the work environment is uncomfortable. By managing the physical details in a

CANON’S OFFERING INTEGRATES A RANGE OF SERVICES DESIGNED TO DELIVER THE WORLD-CLASS EXPERIENCE THAT MANY COMPANIES ENVISION TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN THE BEST EMPLOYEES, ENCOURAGE COLLABORATION AND IMPROVE EFFICIENCY.

work environment—such as desk chair height, room temperature, and working coffee machines and light fixtures—Workplace Experience Services teams ensure the employee’s physical environment is conducive to a productive workday.

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Technology enablement. Technology enablement refers to light tech support, such as for login issues, problems with an audio/visual system in a meeting room or even phone issues. Separate to tech support but nevertheless related is the use of technology to track and communicate the workplace services activity. One example of this is how Canon utilizes a best-in-class web-based ticketing system for conference rooms, printing and mailing, and facilities management. A Workplace Experience Services team leverages this ticketing system to coordinate a productive and collaborative work environment that runs smoothly.

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Analytics for continuous improvement. Analytics show the value of an organization’s investment in Workplace Experience Services. The analytics are typically based on data gathered from the ticketing and performance management systems.

“One of today’s major business challenges is how—and how quickly—organizations can reshape the employee experience in their workplace,” says Joe Marciano. By implementing programs such as Canon Workplace Experience Services to foster community and reduce friction in the workplace, organizations can win the war for talent and position themselves for success today and in the future.

CHALICE NETWORK ALLIED TEAM OF PROFESSIONALS JOINING FORCES FOR BUSINESS OPTIMIZATION

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The company's mission is to become the industry's leading member-benefit organization for independent business owners and it is working hard to make this a success.

he complexities of running a small business and lack of integrated solutions takes a toll on the business owners.

“Chalice Network was established out of necessity as a business owner and financial advisor,” said Keith Gregg, CEO of Chalice Network. The average small business owner must seek solutions to run their business, everything from Marketing, IT, Payroll to health insurance benefits. It takes time and due diligence, and for many business owners, they don't have the experience to vet these vendors or the scale to negotiate favorable pricing.

The clients associated with Chalice are challenged with a lack of economies scale and operational inefficiency.

In essence, the company provides its clients the buying power of 52,000+ members and ease of access to aggregated and integrated business solutions available through Chalice Digital Marketplace. There are 3 membership tiers to choose from, starting at just $25/month!. The benefit of cloud-based computing and API connectivity has become the gold standard to SaaS/PaaS companies; not only for convenience and security – but for straight-through processing and operational optimization.

Once the selection of products and services has been made – then the question becomes – how do I aggregate and integrate versus having to log-in and log-out to 4-6 different websites and disparate systems? This is where Chalice Network comes in, with decades of experience and after the creation of a single sign-on technology platform – Chalice Digital Marketplace, the members of Chalice can gain access to all the products, services, and technology & tools they need to run their business better and serve the clients in the best possible way.

Most of the members of Chalice are 1099 Independent contractors or SMBs, so it's difficult to afford business solutions, technology, and group health insurance.

Chalice is a Member Benefits Organization of 52,000+ members that leverage the buying power of the members to deliver meaningful business solutions and affordable group health insurance benefits.

Chalice Network is a member benefit organization that focuses on supporting small to medium-sized independent professionals by offering highly favorable prices for exclusive access to services and enterprise-quality goods. The company was built to overcome the business problems of every small and medium-sized business owner-seeking economies of scale and operational efficiency while helping them to simplify and grow their business through the Chalice Network. “The company's mission is to become the industry's leading member-benefit organization for independent business owners and it is working hard to make this a success,” states Gregg.

The company offers access to best-in-class wealth management products and services through its digital marketplace — Chalice Digital Marketplace, in search of the economies of scale and operational efficiencies that advisors want and need to thrive. Chalice Network is a community of over 52,000+ members, composed of qualified Financial Planners, CPAs, Insurance Brokers, and other financial experts. Its community also provides unique opportunities for peer-to-peer networking and collaboration, providing a platform for exchanging ideas and best practices to help collectively improve the members.

Chalice has three main operating principles: Open, honest, and frequent communication, gaining trust through transparency and accountability – do whatever you said you're going to do! Chalice focuses on taking the client's business to the next level with confidence by accessing the right solutions, kick-starting the business with leading technology designed to save time and money, and securing the company with must-have products and services. Chalice Network was founded by real veterans in the financial industry who recognizes the needs of the independent business owner today.

The leadership team has a cumulative background of over 100 years and is committed in providing tangible and immediate value to all members of the Chalice Network.

Chalice Network indeed seeks to be a global company and have some expansion plans in the UK and Canada right now. Chalice will further expand its services into other verticals such as Attorneys, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers, and other Financial Services Allied professionals. Chalice anticipates that the value of On-Line Communities of likeminded people will become the new social norm, and the adoption of technology to manage both internal and external relationships and business affairs is the only way to win in a technology-driven world we live in. Chalice is the Holy Grail for Financial Services SMBs.

Cisive: MODERN DAY BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION SERVICE FOR BEST TALENT ACQUISITION

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n today’s highly regulated environment and technology-driven landscape, employers are competing for top talent more than ever. As a result, they must focus on providing the best candidate experience, which normally means balancing compliance and due diligence with efficiency. Efficient processes that leverage the latest technology can determine whether an employer meets their hiring goals.

With Cisive’s technology, employers can have both without compromise.

Cisive deals with specific risks and regulations that apply to the financial services and other highly regulated industries. For over 40 years, the company has provided tailored solutions to meet the unique requirements of its enterprise clients. It launched its onboarding suite of technologies in 2007 to cater to enterprise clients’ talent acquisition needs and has been enhancing the platform ever since.

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solution. Comprehensive services include background screening, vendor/contractor screening, executive screening, drug testing, fingerprinting, paperless onboarding, and electronic Form I-9/E-Verify solutions.

While the reduction in the information provided in credit reports creates challenges for positions regulated under FINRA, Cisive’s Financial Anomalies Search Technology (FAST) is the perfect solution for banks and other financial services institutions that run credit reporting to meet regulatory requirements. FAST provides compliance officers and recruiters a means to match regulated candidates’ self-disclosures regarding public civil records, liens or judgments in compliance with Federal, State, or local laws and regulations.

The efficiency of Cisive’s FAST was on full display when it assisted an organization in solving its compliance issues after the credit reporting reductions.

While bringing people on board, the client needed an efficient way of getting missing information in the credit reports. With FAST, Cisive was able to compensate for what was lost in the credit reports and provide all of the information required to vet people and drive the right decisions.

Cisive’s onboarding solution provides a real-time view of the status of current and past background checks and drug testing. The configurable dashboard easily manages tasks associated with the new-hire process. The intuitive applicant portal gives applicants an easy screening experience by guiding them through each step of the process. The portal features progress bars, an easy-to-read menu, on-screen text messaging, live chats, and phone and email contact options to help candidates complete the process smoothly. The system also carries forward data, eliminates duplicate data entry, and provides a faster, more efficient applicant experience.

Founded in 1977 as CARCO Group Inc., it launched its new brand Cisive in 2017 to keep pace with the company’s incredible growth and its clients’ increasingly complex challenges for accurate information and insights to make confident decisions. Cisive now provides comprehensive global background investigations on potential and current employees, vendors, clients, and business partners. It also provides drug testing and fingerprinting services through alliance partners.

Governed by a mission to mitigate risk for employers, Cisive empowers clients with actionable intelligence and clarity throughout the hiring processes. The uniqueness of Cisive’s pre-employment screening services stems from their unwavering focus on truthful reporting, legal compliance, and integrity of source material. The company draws on its rich experience to offer the right solutions to enterprise organizations in highly regulated industries such as financial services.

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Cisive not only offers background screening, but also provides a lifelong partnership as a company that stands by their work, protects their clients, and provides the consultation and guidance world-class organizations require

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trained personnel for review of background investigation information at critical points. This approach provides clients unparalleled insight and the most accurate information and ensures that they overcome employment background check challenges and bring the most qualified candidates on board. “Our accuracy rates are extremely high, and our dispute rates are very low.

Moreover, while providing this best-in-class quality, our turnaround times compare favorably to our competitors,” says James Owens, CEO and President, Cisive.

Cisive not only offers background screening, but also provides a lifelong partnership as a company that stands by their work, protects their clients, and provides the consultation and guidance world-class organizations require. Cisive’s quality of service, robust reporting, cost-effectiveness, and state of the art, configurable, proprietary technology sets it apart from the rest of the competitors in the industry.

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DYNAMIC BLENDING: Revolutionizing the Contract Manufacturing Industry

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ith the prominence of shows like Shark Tank and online marketplaces like Amazon and eBay, entrepreneurs can think up almost anything, get it created quite quickly, and start selling it to the masses. While the process may come with various names, it is recognized by many as contract manufacturing. “With over 17 years of vast work experience in contract manufacturing and working with companies dealing with personal care/skincare industry and after gaining knowledge and building connections, we decided to finally branch out and set up Dynamic Blending in 2015 to disrupt the contract manufacturing market and remove the common misconceptions related to the industry,” said Jordan Erskine, President & Co-Founder of Dynamic Blending.

Dynamic Blending is a full service turnkey contract manufacturer of cosmetics, personal care, skin care, dietary supplements, nutraceutical, and much more. The team is comprised of industry experts with extensive experience in cosmetic chemistry (R&D), formulations, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, and quality. Each team member has one aim, and that is to concentrate 100 percent on customer needs. The company started as a consulting group on R&D formulation. The small team was able to create unique formulations that were brokered to other manufacturers from the previous knowledge and expertise of the founders.

Dynamic Blending is a global manufacturer of cosmetics that focuses on people, relationships, and consistency.

Dedicated to the ultimate satisfaction of the consumer, the company partners with cosmetic companies in creating the most innovative product solutions possible.

Dynamic Blending is determined to deliver new and innovative products to the beauty industry, keeping quality at the forefront and exceeding all expectations with the products.

Dynamic Blending focuses on working with companies of all sizes to give them the tools and information they need to launch a product successfully. Most contract manufacturers ask for higher minimum order quantities requiring more capital, whereas the services offered by Dynamic Blending are cheaper and cost effective; they provide samples before committing to huge capital. “We have grown at a triple-digit rate and have achieved 566x times revenue as compared to last year's revenue. We have grown fast, and we are in the market for only a few years, it kind of speaks about our vision and how we respond to the market,” states Erskine.

Dynamic Blending works with the principle of making clients feel that they are a part of the team so that the clients can trust and rely on the company. The company has started a program called Project Ignite, which helps in providing companies of all sizes more tools and options to keep their needs under one roof like Graphic Design, Web Design, and Brand Consulting. Project Ignite is a comprehensive tool to help clients achieve success. Under this program, the company offers an in-house graphic design department to help close the gap and speed up time to market. An efficient graphic designer will get rid of costly delays.

Dynamic Blending understands that having a good web presence is everything these days, especially for the client's brand. The in-house web design team of the company works with the graphic design team to put the client's dreams in front of the masses. Dynamic Blending has partnered with 4 essential industry brand consulting firms. Each one of these firms brings

unmatched experience in all areas of brand building. As these firms have worked for the most notable names in the beauty industry, they know a thing or two about branding!

Starting a contract manufacturing company is difficult due to the high overhead cost; the company has been able to manage the costs more than the other manufacturer, which is a critical factor for the growth of the company.

Dynamic Blending has experienced staff available to help

Dynamic Blending is a global manufacturer of cosmetics that focuses on people, relationships, and consistency. give wings to the client's project. The team provides clients with the perfect custom formula to wow their customers. With over thirty years of experience in the R&D lab alone, Dynamic Blending has know-how and expertise at the client's disposal. They have some of the best cosmetic chemists in the industry. The key to the success of a brand lies in graphic design, and the company has assembled a team of experts who will make sure the clients stand out in a saturated market.

Dynamic Blending is ready to help clients in developing the right look for showcasing their products.

One of the services that Dynamic Blending offers is the Joint Venture Program, which provides the tools and resources needed for brands to succeed. It is designed to help bring indirect financial benefits to clients who qualify. By joint venturing with the company, clients will get many benefits, which include massive savings in R&D, unit costs, priority manufacturing, and more! This program allows clients to have more working capital to invest in other parts of their businesses.

Dynamic Blending has doubled the manufacturing and warehouse space and has moved to a larger facility with 2 separate R&D labs. The services provided by the company are disrupting the market and putting pressure on the current contract manufacturing market by delivering low-key solutions for the clients. The flexibility to work with clients of all sizes is what truly sets Dynamic Blending apart from the industry.

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EARA Technologies Inc. Identity Management Practice

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nnovation often occurs when you question the status quo or challenge the current way of looking at things. We do a lot of that. In most cases, complex problems are solved with simple solutions. EARA Technologies Inc. (EARA) is innovative because we view Identity and Access Management (IAM) as a path to simplicity not as an added layer of complexity. We see the modern I.T. landscape as a mine field of one-off solutions held together with bubble gum and string and it’s our mission to remove the bubblegum and trim those strings. Helping our customers get the simple Authentication and Authorization functionality they should have had 20 years ago.

Additionally, the online or digital world presents opportunity and chaos. Convenience and disruption.

Risk and simplification.

The mission; to help create in the digital realm what exists in the physical world with respect to identity and authentication with significant improvements to both privacy and security.

Much harm has been caused with the lack of privacy of information in the online channel and tremendous convenience in the delivery of services. The chaos has created opportunity for both innovation and bad actors to flourish. It is now time to put in place better controls that reduce friction and raise mitigation.

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In order to get there, we need collaboration from private organizations (i.e., financial institutions, telco’s, utilities, etc.), the public sector (vital stats, DMV, etc.), and the general public (both visionaries and early adopters). We need the public and private sectors to work on both the issuance and consumption of digital credentials. The issuance to authenticated users (general public) of documents/credentials into secure digital wallets for reuse by the owner of the credential.

EARA’s Identity Management practice collaborates to bring the best organizations and people together to deliver solutions related to Identity. Engaging with government, academia, industry leaders and cutting-edge organizations, working collaboratively to integrate the best qualities to achieve next generation solutions. Directly or through a consortium, the practice is able to facilitate collaboration to ensure that good ideas and tools are brought together to form intelligent solutions. EARA believes the best ideas can come from anyone, and engages people with a diverse range of views, backgrounds, ages, and experiences to explore problems from all angles. The world of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) is the next big innovation and EARA is already at the forefront.

The mission; to help create in the digital realm what exists in the physical world with respect to identity and authentication with significant improvements to both privacy and security.

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What differentiates Xilo from other software solutions?

Our SaaS is more like a tailor-made solution. We essentially build glove (Xilo) to hand (the client) configuration and customizations client by client. Each Clients unique requirements are built using our customizable templates and modules. What does that mean for the clients? Easier adoption, alignment to client's business processes, a say in the software requirements and its successful implementation.

Delivery of IT solutions have been known to fail in organizations because of technology limitations,

adoption and overruns in budget among other challenges. Xilo has been serving OHS Software solutions to larger organizations for over 17 years. We have identified a niche in how our templates and system is configured to allow clients to be successful in the implementation processes. We are so confident in our services and methodology that we often provide fixed price delivery.

Furthermore, we substantially or in some cases have eliminated the need for paper-based templates, paper-based letters and reports and demonstrate to organizations how going exclusively digital can save time, money, resources and be the most effective manner in eliminating workplace injury. After all, our motto is “everyone home safe at the end of the day, every day”!

Incredible insights. Incredible insights emerge with every module leveraged. The way data linkages are made across Xilo modules provides one of the biggest advantages over competitors.

Where do we see Xilo in the market in the next 5 – 10 years?

An industry leader setting the standard around Occupational Health and Safety Software, enabling organizations to live by the motto “everyone home safe at the end of the day, every day “ April 2020 27

Ecolog International: Leading Provider of Integrated and Smart Support Service Solutions

eadquartered in Dubai, U.A.E., with strong U.S. presence in Washington D.C. and its European footprint in Germany, the ďŹ rm has expanded to more than 40 countries. Founded more than 2 decades ago, Ecolog today is a leading global provider of integrated solutions, supply chain and logistics, technology, facility management and environmental services. The company initially was founded to provide services to the German army deployed during the Balkan crisis. It gradually extended its services within the defense sector and beyond. Ecolog has also offered its services for missions like KFOR, ISAF in Afghanistan, and Iraqi freedom. Since then, the company marched forward and expanded its portfolio as well as global footprint to meet clients' requirements across several industries.

Within a short period of performance, the company augmented its service portfolio from few support services to a whole range of integrated solutions, facility management, water treatment, waste management, catering, fuel supply and distribution and energy. After a few years, Ecolog International emerged as a reliable partner to support missions in areas where there was limited infrastructure in place. It was a signiďŹ cant and strategic move for a young company to tackle projects in remote areas, entering a new league where both the opportunities and the stakes were high.

Ali Vezvaei, Group CEO Ecolog International

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Ecolog International emerged at a time when many organizations did not outsource their services. To promote and sustain the shift across the industry was not so easy. The company was able to disrupt the value chain creatively, with innovating and redefining processes, and demonstrating the benefits of using a reliable third party. It did not stop there and continued to develop its digital platform to increase productivity and enhance the quality and reliability of services, while providing a superior customer experience. Platforms such as Customer Order Portal (C.O.P.) and E-Laundry are amongst its innovative digital interfaces.

The services and logistics industry is emerging faster than ever. The arrival and integration of digitization, connectivity, the use of A.I, and, more importantly, the integration of robotics into the value chain are transforming the industry. In this situation, Ecolog International believes that productivity and reliability are the new currencies, and predictive analytics and connectivity will give rise to the fast arrival of intelligent logistics and services that, in the past, were more a

fiction. Cargos that schedule their own arrival while communicating in and outbound, autonomous warehouses, robotics and intelligent delivery-fulfillment are just the tip of the iceberg.

Ecolog International has a robust entrepreneurial spirit and has aligned itself well with market trends. While it has traditionally been working with the government sector, there is untold growth to discover across the commercial industries. With the upside potential in the energy and water arena, industrial services and also in the digital transformation and cybersecurity, the company’s first priority is to deploy the services and solutions across its extended global footprint and leverage its extensive pool of nearly 12000 skilled employees. ”In addition to our core business, environmental solutions in general and water treatment as well as waste management in particular, are front and center in our growth strategy, where flexibility, technology and skilled resources are well integrated to unlock potential” says Ali Vezvaei, Ecolog International’s Group CEO.

In addition to our core business, environmental solutions in general and water treatment as well as waste management in particular, are front and center in our growth strategy, where flexibility, technology and skilled resources are well integrated to unlock potential

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EURO EXIM BANK: SEAMLESS FINANCE SOLUTION FOR SMEs GLOBALLY Kaushik Punjani, Chairman

ecent policies of market withdrawal and de-risking by global from key markets in challenging jurisdictions coupled with the growing burden of regulatory compliance has left smaller corporate buyers restricted and bypassed by major financial institutions.

Euro Exim Bank, as specialists in trade finance, saw a market opportunity here - servicing corporates and SME’s with a focus on instruments designed to facilitate cost-effective and efficient global trade, working exclusively with buyers across the globe. The company’s collateral requirements address the issue of limited cash flow for smaller buyers, with appropriate safeguards and security that permit buyers to compete with international transactions where they were restricted in the past. It assists clients in providing appropriate collateral requirements and looking at each trade on a case-by-case basis, with unique relationships, enabling and facilitating trade where possible.

Euro Exim Bank’s challenging journey over the past five years in terms of jurisdictions and ever mindful of sanctioned products, countries, PEPs and compliance, has allowed it to become expert and trusted in its field and now serves tier 2 and 3 clients where traditional trade institutions no longer provide the level of service which make doing business and competing internationally viable.

Serving clients in over 100 countries, Euro Exim Bank has noticed common barriers such as trade bureaucracy, lack of access to capital, inability to complete through size, high shipping costs, lack of access to cross border e-commerce markets, infrastructure issues, corruption and trust, and slow customer payments, which restrict trade for SME’s and often larger corporates in international markets.

“2020 is expected to be a big year for further application of technological innovation in trade finance. As Free Trade Agreements (FTA’s) ease movement of goods and oil the wheels of commerce, coalitions are forming to provide faster and more appropriate trade finance services to meet not only the logistics but the financial needs of producers, customers and shippers,” says Kaushik Punjani, Director, Euro Exim Bank.

To support local business in local currency Euro Exim Bank worked with a supermarket group in Kenya needed to pay suppliers in other countries in Africa and across the globe, but did not wish to continually buy USD or other fluctuating currencies from a local bank. This affects cash flow and access to liquidity where their order size can be in the tens of thousands. Euro Exim Bank’s RippleNet solution helped the client with immediate payments in local currency through xCurrent, and further access to unlimited liquidity using the XRP digital asset with certainty and immutability of transfer and settlement.

As a regulated financial institution, the company constantly reviews its business models and is being increasingly driven by compliance requirements along with faster, secure, and guaranteed processes from trade inception to its settlement.

“This trend is inevitably driven by the enablement of AI, DLT and blockchain technology, safely and rapidly transporting immutable and transparent details throughout the trade life-cycle. IDC predicts AI spend to reach $35.8 billion in 2019 and open banking, machine learning cognitive and artificial intelligence systems expected to reach $77.6 billion in 2022, more than three times the $24 billion forecast for 2018,” adds Kaushik. The use cases for the application of DLT, blockchain, AI and real-time compliance are known, as complex transactions traversing the globe with multiple parties needing golden records, trust and visibility on each stage of a transaction and assurance of each stage of the lifecycle of the trade. Euro Exim Bank seeks out to run proofs of concept and if needed, it integrates new technologies into the processes. This has resulted in faster, more seamless, paperless customer and internal processing experience.

In addition to the company’s stance on working with clients dealing in goods of ethical origin, Euro Exim Bank

This trend is inevitably driven by the enablement of AI, DLT and blockchain technology, safely and rapidly transporting immutable and transparent details throughout the trade life-cycle. aims to reduce carbon emissions and footprint. As an international bank with representation in St Lucia, India, Far East, Middle East and the UK, its management was keen to demonstrate its commitment to good causes and to make a difference for underprivileged, disabled and disadvantaged communities across the globe and the environment. Euro Exim Bank has a strong CSR policy where it regularly organizes fundraising supporting international charities.

The company has its Head Office in St. Lucia and a representative office in London and is globally spreading its market. It has recently extended operations through agents and partners in Zambia, India, Singapore and Dubai, and looks to open new representative offices in the near future. With Africa being the fastest emerging market for trade, Euro Exim Bank has uniquely positioned itself to serve the importers across the continent.

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Flaum Navigators: Because Business Decision Making Can’t Afford To Go Wrong

ur people have innovated in the pharmaceutical market for decades, creating the first co-pay plan, the first evangelical selling plan, the first persistency program, the first patient guarantee promotion, and the first indigent patient program.”

Businesses employ the services of consultancy firms as their content and strategy experts. Whether it’s a brand trying to gain the market focus or a company trying to navigate through their operations, businesses sometimes need to employ consultancy firms in order to help them navigate towards better management, leadership, and success. Consultants bring their expertise and knowledge of particular subjects to the industry. They assess the issues of the company at hand and come up with strategic solutions for their clients.

Sander A. Flaum, Principal and Founder

Flaum Navigators Inc, a pharmaceutical consultancy firm, provides C-suite counsel to clients on projects at every step, from marketing to sales, innovation, managed markets, medical education, regulatory, digital communications, public relations and advertising. The company aims to guide its clients towards success by offering seamless, synergistic solutions without the artificial silos that add cost and reduce effectiveness.

Flaum Navigators was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in New York.

“Our firm has introduced more blockbuster drugs than anyone else within the industry and our focus is always about finding new and better ways to jump the revenue curve for our pharmaceutical clients,” says Sander A. Flaum, Principal and Founder of Flaum Navigators Inc. The company looks at how other successful firms have grown in their space with different disruptive innovative strategies. It then takes these ideas and transforms them into new strategies and potential successful outcomes for its clients. The company researches the challenges and concerns its clients have before coming up with a tailor-made solution for them. Flaum Navigators aims to assist its clients with their significant issues, be it sales, marketing and competitive issues, positioning, or culture.

Flaum Navigators accelerates pharma marketing business growth through transformational ideas that are iconic, pristine and hardwired to marketing and sales effectiveness. Since the last three decades, the company guaranteed to help brands achieve success with proven strategies and planning. Their aims are to offer successful business decision-making by providing seamless, synergistic solutions, without the artificial silos that add cost and reduce effectiveness. At Flaum Navigators, we hold our principles and code of ethics very highly in order to maintain a good outlook for our people and for our clients.

‘Our Paradigm is Helping Clients Obtain New and Innovative Sales and Marketing Solutions by Providing Actionable and Sustainable Strategic Marketing Counsel’ Moreover, moving ahead along with technological growth, Flaum Navigators is working with its clients in the pharma industry on digital and A.I. usage. This technique has been developed to identify who are their major users and how to use this technology to further their service to physicians, hospitals, insurers, and patients.

The major challenge that most of the company’s clients have to deal with is getting products on formularies Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM). Without being on their formularies, physicians cannot or will have difficulty

“ Our firm has introduced more blockbuster drugs than anyone else within the industry and our focus is always about finding new and better ways to jump the revenue curve for our pharmaceutical clients

writing prescriptions for its client’s products. Also, clients will not approve Flaum Navigators using its outcomes with them publicly. Thus the company surrounds itself with smart and experienced consultants who are way ahead in the advanced technology field and work with niche clients globally. Clients know when they need to jump the revenue curve with current products and position new products against the competition; we are the company to go to.

Meet the Man behind the success of Flaum Navigators: Sander A. Flaum, MBA

Sander A. Flaum is a renowned business leader, marketing and sales effectiveness coach, motivational speaker and a best-selling author. He serves as the founder and CEO of Flaum Navigators. He created the first persistency program, the first adherence program, and the first “War Games” program. His ability to challenge conventional wisdom has assisted Flaum Navigators’ clients to confront daunting odds and successfully reinvent themselves to maintain their market advantage. PharmaVoice selected Sander Flaum as one of its ‘100 Most Inspiring People’. Sander serves on the boards of The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences, The John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The James Cancer Center, Fisher College of Business where he also serves as the Executive-in-Residence. He also serves on the boards of The American Friends of Tel Aviv University, and Edge 4Vets where the company assists returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan find employment in the United States. He received his undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University followed by an MBA degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

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ImagineSoftware: Innovating the Healthcare Revenue Cycle and Patient Experience

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After successfully developing enterprise-wide analysis and financial systems in 2002, the company began to focus on the healthcare IT sector around 2003. Twenty years later, the goal remains the same: ‘To be the leading healthcare revenue cycle management platform.’

core competencies and technologies around document imaging, workflow efficiency and process automation.

The company worked towards revamping the software to accommodate the needs of its initial clients who got it started in radiology. ImagineSoftware has appealed to the market by truly creating systems that are focused on making the revenue cycle management landscape easier to navigate and more profitable for all those involved while enhancing the client’s reputation by providing an improved patient experience.

Revenue cycle management possesses the potential to financially make or break health care organizations.

In addition to ever-changing policies and regulations, effective billing and collection processes are becoming more important than ever for medical billing companies, practices, and hospitals to stay afloat. Designed as a complete medical billing solution, ImagineSoftware is reinventing revenue cycle management to create a more streamlined and patient-centric experience. Ever since its inception, ImagineSoftware aimed to meet and exceed the needs of its clients. ImagineSoftware wrote its own physician enterprise billing system while leveraging its

Over time, as the industry shifted, ImagineSoftware evolved along with it. And, as the healthcare market continues to churn due to increasing government regulations, ImagineSoftware is always one step ahead so that its clients never need to worry about their revenue cycle processes. Operating as one of the leaders in the automation of medical billing software and RCM solutions, ImagineSoftware is focused on creating cutting-edge medical billing software that is both flexible and scalable while streamlining workflow management, ultimately allowing for an increase in revenue. The company’s products not only offer advanced technology and

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automation but also delivers a seamless connection for full optimization in the healthcare practices’ management experience. “The main aim here is to provide the highest level of automation and support for our clients,” states Sam Khashman, President & CEO. The automation that ImagineSoftware provides enables clients to achieve time and cost savings, eliminating productivity challenges and decreasing employee frustration. Automating simple, repetitive tasks without human intervention is what creates an extremely efficient billing and revenue collections cycle. “Numerous clients are seeing as 100 percent of charges captured automatically and more than 2,500 total saved hours per year, with reductions in the time it takes to complete tasks like claims processing, claims filing, and denial management,” mentions Khashman.

ImagineSoftware has always been at the forefront of innovation and aims to continue their pursuit by creating technological enhancements that will assist clients in working smarter day in and day out. Khashman believes that advancements in intelligence alone will shape the healthcare revenue cycle arena into something it has never been before. ImagineSoftware looks to lead the way

with superior software and service, creating lasting longterm client and partner relationships. To stay the market leader and to increase market share, ImagineSoftware constantly takes note of major events that will impact the business. By integrating both market intelligence and client feedback to improve its services, the company will continue to raise the bar to help the current healthcare industry, which is experiencing a lot of uncertainty.

“We never forget who we work for. Without our clients, we’re just a software company. They are the reason we’re successful,” says Sam Khashman, ImagineSoftware, CEO.

Who We Are: ImagineSoftware is the leading provider of billing automation software and revenue cycle management applications. Offering powerful technology solutions for medical billing offices, practices, and hospitals, ImagineSoftware currently services more than 48,000 physicians across all 50 states and Canada. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina with additional office locations in San Diego, CA, Delmar, NY and Daytona Beach, FL.

main aim here is to provide the “The highest level of automation and support for our clients ”

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Imobile Mind Company: Smart Application for Faster Mobile Migration

Shao Kang Chin, CEO

taffs and managers of this technologically driven world need more enterprise mobile applications to make their daily work more convenient, efficient, and in real-time. Enterprises these days have very strong demand from their vendors, clients, and staffs to access original e-system on Smartphone or PAD. But the CIO faces difficulty to develop Native APP to integrate with various e-systems.

Moreover, enterprises need to resolve few problems such as lack of skilful iOS and Android programmers, outscoring team, and coping with the high budget of frequent updating of Mobile OS and Various Device Screen Size to maintain the security of personal devices.

In this scenario, 5G technology has appeared like a blessing, though the technology is still under progress. iMobile Mind did thorough research and development in this area for 10 years to build an ISA APP Platform to combine all functions into one product to resolve all problems of migration of e-system.

IT industry has accepted that ISAI APP Platform could assist the IT Department to migrate original e-system very fast. Moreover, ISAI could enhance the security of enterprise mobile system and information. It can save at least 70 per cent cost, time, and manpower to implement, April 2020 36

develop, and protect various enterprise APP solutions.

The biggest challenge for the company was to convince IT to accept ISAI Tool Platform and not code native APP by them. Thus iMobile Mind provides 30 days free trial program for enterprise in order to approve ISAI and realize the benefits it could bring for the IT Department, along with its ease of use and low cost. iMobile Mind has spent many years in R&D and has built mobile application middleware and Independent PUSH Security Gateway. ISAI Middleware could use XML or HTML5 to integrate fast and easily with various enterprise systems including SAP, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and other software vendors, and self-developing system.

With this, IT can implement many mobile applications for employees without coding iOS and Android. ISAI PUSH Server could be installed on the internet and has special application management, remote mobile data delete, and 2FA-Advanced AI Authentication to protect the security of all enterprise data and information on the user’s mobile devices. “ISAI APP Security can replace MDM for most of the enterprises,” says Shao Kang Chin, CEO, iMobile Mind.

The company has worked with Acer, a global famous high-tech company who has implemented the ISAI APP Platform for over 4 years for 16 countries and 8,000

global users. The IT Department incorporated ISAI to integrate original Workflow and BI system as they had to spend only one month to migrate 56 BPM forms to implement mobile applications for their staff, saving 80 per cent cost and time to migrate BPM mobility. They plan to spend 1.5 years to develop iOS and Android Native APP originally. ISAI also provides the company automatic APP update service to assure problem-free iOS and Android OS upgrade.

ISAI Security has been implemented in the finance, healthcare, manufactory, government, and retail industries. A hospital, Rong Zong Hospital accepted ISAI Mobile Security Platform, that allowed them to see different roles of doctor, nurses, and staff and use different applications on ISAI APP Portal. Users could log in the mobile hospital system through the verification of ISAI 2FA APP. “It also has special SSL/AES Data decryption and remote to delete mobile data and protect enterprise data without them having to purchase expensive MDM that the staff were afraid to use due to privacy issues,” adds Shao.

The company aims to devote more R&D towards Artificial Intelligence to integrate mobility, and security and

The company aims to devote more R&D towards Artificial Intelligence to integrate mobility, and security.

enable AI technology to provide best enterprise platform in order to provide real-time information, security, and smart information for mobile workers. iMobile Mind has four operation office in USA, Japan, Taiwan, China and has 15 resellers in eight countries. The company plans to build six more offices in countries including South Asia and Europe.

INSTANT ON: When Energy Meets Technology, It Creates More Sustainability and Resiliency

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alifornia wildfires highlight that the inadequacies of standalone photovoltaic systems, as thousands of customers with solar were left in the dark during outages. Worse still, many solar plus battery systems were inadequate, as battery companies have not prioritized installing intelligent home load management which prevents short-circuiting at the worst moment, when the power goes out and the spotlight is on the battery to perform.

Instant ON was created when the older paradigms on sustainability and energy efficiency could not address the resiliency challenges of the new decade. Traditional energy storage, solar, and generator systems created piecemeal, single solution benefits to society, yet never were interconnected into a broader networked solution. Smart grids of the new century demand integrators which push for plugand-play, holistic systems. As the market is plagued by false claims and promises, solar alone cannot guarantee a resilient or sustainable future. The grid needs dependable and reliable power since the sun and the weather is out of human control.

Instant ON looked at these resiliency and renewable products and technologies as a whole solution rather than a set of products that needed to be ‘put together’. The idea was to save time and money for the installers, integrators and customers and avoid blaming installers, products or technologies for not performing.

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looking to serve this segment of the market and realizing that the rebate process AJ Perkins, President of Instant On, LLC is a challenge. Instant ON ensures that its projects get the full incentive and has created a solution to help solar contractors who want to start offering batteries but don’t want to deal with the rebate issues. By including the SGIP Compliance Pack, contractors can now focus on taking care of their customer while knowing that they will get the full rebate allowed. In this system, all reporting is done for the necessary term and a third-party Operations and Maintenance agreement is in place for the entire term to ensure that the full rebate is received and the system performs as prescribed for the customer.

The company has also developed the IO-5M, a mobile 5kWh battery that can power a wide range of applications including household appliances and more importantly, medical devices such as a stairlift, oxygen concentrator, and CPAP machines. It can be plugged directly into a home without installation

or permits, meaning that this solution can easily help families without them having to wait 30 to 90 days to install a full home microgrid. To help protect more families, Instant ON has started a B1G1 program (Buy 1, Give 1) in which a customer can pay full price through its non-profit partner, who will donate an IO-5M to a registered medical baseline customer in Tier 2 or Tier 3 fire zone.

Instant ON’s solutions are not only AIpowered with the learning capabilities often discussed, but also helps communicate with most devices, platforms and technologies. This coordinated response capability connects energy generators, energy distributors and energy consumers and delivers embedded networks, Virtual Power Plants and facilitates smart grids by helping create a future where energy is consumed sustainably and shared fairly.

“Machine learning and AI are going to be some of the most disruptive technologies.

There will be a continued trend towards connectivity among technologies, devices and platforms,” says AJ Perkins, President of Instant ON.

Benefits of the System: • Energy consumers can see and control their energy consumption and production. They can decide how and when to share excess energy and be compensated for this and their participation in demand response events.

• Solar and battery companies can now deliver an even greater return on their customers’ investments. Their solutions are actively and pre-emptively monitored and optimized in line with the user’s unique energy usage.

• Energy providers can better anticipate and manage supply and demand and avoid

excess over-production. Advanced insights and control capability enable greater customer transparency and support new, innovative services to manage demand response.

Instant ON is working with a developer building homes for US veterans, who wanted to ensure that the home would be a part of a resilient community that could be a safe haven. They are offering ‘Housing As-A-Service’ which would have one monthly payment including all utilities associated with the home. To help achieve this, Instant ON is building a microgrid for each home by installing rooftop solar, 40kWh of batteries and an advanced Home Energy Management System. Instant ON is also putting a 1MW battery and CHP system for their community center for on-site generation and storage as well as their new IO Eye, solar LED/Camera to provide safety and security for the community. This will not only give the community the ability to withstand power outages of any length, but the home and community microgrids will also support the grid with power on demand for the utility. Furthermore, Instant ON is presently creating “resiliency kits” with housing developers, including technologies which will promote fire resiliency for homes and new construction.

AJ Perkins says, “As our society addresses the environmental and energy challenges of this new decade, Instant ON is creating an environment to come together and collaborate with technologies, engineers, installation companies and integrators. Instant ON believes that only through cooperation, will communities become truly resilient.”

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Kerubiel: Next Generation Threat to Cyber Security Hackers

n the information society and the so-called data-driven economy, information is the primary source of technological, economic and social development. Cyberattacks or other unwanted events may seriously disturb or damage the systems used for storing, processing and harnessing data and, thus, have serious effects on the operations of companies. Therefore, from the mid-2000s, it was a common trend that experts of ICT, information security and privacy protection would cooperate to reconcile these areas. But the recent technological and legal developments, such as the widespread use of AI and the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”) only sped this process up.

To manage such situation of crisis, Kerubiel was established with an aim to merge expertise from the field of ICT, information security and privacy protection to offer complex, personalized, and rapid assistance to its clients, and for experts to cooperate exchange, widen, and improve their knowledge and skills.

In recent years, Kerubiel managed to establish a wide clientele ranging from SMEs to big and multinational corporations. The company provided its services to a variety of actors from the healthcare, insurance and finance, and other sectors to overcome the

Laszlo Gyorgy Dellei, CEO

problem of complexity generated by the rapidly changing markets. Generally, complex solutions are crucial for companies and there is only a generic set of solution curated by the same brains.

But Kerubiel provides a wide range of services such as IT audits, information security counselling, development of complex cybersecurity systems based on ITIL and AI-based applications, development of and counselling concerning Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans. “Hackers have become more sophisticated these days and leverage AI to lead automated phishing attacks, to accelerate polymorphic malware, or relying on AI to bypass regular security features. But the same technology if developed and applied properly, can raise the bar of IT security system,” says Laszlo Gyorgy Dellei, CEO, Kerubiel.

The company assesses the information and data management framework of its clients, defines measures and proposes solutions to improve security and compliance of their products or activities. Kerubiel incorporates the most advanced, high-level IT standards, such as the ISO 27000 focusing on the state of the IT infrastructure, identifying IT system availability, potential risk factors, and security or operational failures, or the NIST 800-53 controls assessment which helps it identify gaps within IT systems and focus on controls, time and budget to minimize deviations and redundancies.

Moreover, Kerubiel offers state of the art solutions in the field of data protection with services such as GDPR counselling and outsourced activities like DPO or CISO services. Thus, the company ensures that controllers are effectively protected against adverse events, such as information or data breach, or comply with data protection and information management standards.

Kerubiel also focuses on training and preparing employees to prevent and manage risks and any such incident.

Kerubiel has launched two projects aiming to utilize AIand VR-based solutions to simplify the labour-intensive process concerning cybersecurity due to a new AI-based solution that will analyze

anomalies, detect the risk levels, and advise system security analysts on the retaliation course of action in case of a security incident. At the same time, the company is also carrying out research concerning a virtual reality powered game for patients who have suffered a stroke to help them rehabilitate faster.

Kerubiel has an ever-growing clientele and is one of the most innovative leading companies to providing counselling to its clients in the CEE region.

Kerubiel has effectively cooperated in and contributed to the successful management of a data breach that occurred to a multinational company in Budapest. The breach itself concerned a couple of hundred people, but the misuse of the relevant information could have been harmful to the individuals. Fortunately, the controller rapidly convened the data breach response team consisting of the CSO, the DPO, the head of legal and informatics, developers as well as all relevant actors. The team could analyze the incident and report it to the supervisory authority. Finally, all measures implemented to mitigate the effects of the data breach were successful and thus the authority discontinued its procedure finding no further violations of data security rules.

Primarily operating from Hungary, Kerubiel has an ever-growing clientele and is one of the most innovative leading companies to providing counselling to its clients in the CEE region. As its next innovative project, Kerubiel is also developing a new IoT-based solution to aid the orthodontic market, simplifying the life for both dentists and their patients. This work will be carried out in close cooperation with knowledge centres, such as the University of Pisa and the University of Malta, and British and Cyprian research centres.

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THE CENTRE FOR THE FUTURE OF PLACES: Established to Promote Sustainable Urban Development by Shifting the Urban Discourse from Objects to Places

he purpose of the Centre for the Future of Places (CFP) is to use the focus on public space to merge the knowledge from different urban development silos and to create links among the experts in them in order to create a holistic understanding of the city. It was established to promote sustainable urban development by shifting the urban discourse from objects to places.

“We envision a networked community of leaders actively working across sectors, frontiers, and disciplines to build a more just, sustainable, and prosperous world.”

such as contemporary and future urban condition, development, planning, design and the urban form and placemaking processes of the city, to develop more sustainable, resilient, livable, just and inclusive urbanism.

It focuses on the urgent topic of public space, its role as an essential urban frame-work, its degradation under current global urbanization processes and the reforms that will be needed to achieve the public space goals of a “New Urban Agenda” as defined in 2016 by United Nations member states.

The ambition is to enhance an already ongoing paradigm shift where the focus in urbanism studies (in disciplines of urban planning and urban design) is shifting from objects to places. It came about as an amalgamation of Future of Places Conferences, Urban Form and Human Behavior Research Lab and International Network in Urbanism.

The CFP investigates the challenges faced in various regions, metropolitan cities, towns and neighbourhoods

The CFP provides a link between the research resources at the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment and the wider professional practice community to modernize the role of urban planning and designing within broader interdisciplinary fields, and their impacts upon human environments and social life. As the public communication and dialogue occur through research, education, social media, symposia,

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roundtables, colloquiums, debates, conferences, exhibitions, and publications, the CFP ensures that its output complies with the most stringent standards of academic scholarship as well as ensuring practical relevance and human benefit. It aims to raise professional and public appreciation towards urbanism and its impact on the city and the responsibility for creating a better life for all citizens.

CFP is also involved in dynamic outreach activities with other universities and relevant organizations. Through these activities, the company forms interesting projects to rethink and improve the conventions of planning and design theory and practice. CFP aspires to make a tangible difference in the lives of human beings through the physical environment of the cities.

The CFP has the largest international cross-disciplinary network in the world of academia, where the disciplines included are architecture, human geography, Urban Planning, City Planning and Urban Design, Environmental Planning, Environmental Psychology, Urban Social Geography, Urban Sociology and provides services such as world-class conferences, symposiums, talks, seminars, expert advice, education, books, research reports, and consulting on best-case projects.

“We are also firmly committed to attaining and sustaining the highest level of quality in our research and associated programs and projects, as well as push for internationalization on all levels,”...Since its initiation in September 2016, CFP’s staff and researchers have contributed to more than 150 new books, academic publications, book reviews and research reports and has pioneered a plethora of new systemic solutions.

Moreover, Academic Conversations - The Centre for the Future of Places Event Dictionary and the first-ever female academic series was established with 20

Over the next 12 months, the company is planning to develop a new biennial research theme that will focus on Livable, Viable and Intelligent Smart Cities and Public Realm Futures.

international scholars coming with the total number of events numbering over 200.

The main issue is that cities are getting more complex and the challenges are rising on a daily basis with multiple converging crises that seek answers for new theories, tools and approaches. The CFP will try to answer these calls as it goes into the next period. The focus will be on the critical issue of rising smart and new experimental cities and issue of autonomous mobility, but the first three year’s theme is of cities for all and who owns the city in the backdrop. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of CFP’s work, more than 220 presentations, talks and interviews have been given over the past one and a half years by the company’s researchers at a range of institutions and academic environments. Through all the research projects in the four thematic fields – from sustainable urbanism, urban form and human behaviour, to urban transformations, housing and urban spaces, all focusing on public spaces, CFP’s staff have established strong relationships with other international research nodes and centres of learning and research within the School.

CFP has been giving expert advice to UN-Habitat, Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council, Aseer Regional Development Authority (ASDA), City authorities in Vietnam, South Africa, Venezuela and other places as well as Universities such as University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, TU Vienna, ETH in Zurich, UCL Bartlett London and organizations such as Project for Public Spaces, PPS, Gehl Architects and others.

Over the next 12 months, the company is planning to develop a new biennial research theme that will focus on Livable, Viable and Intelligent Smart Cities and Public Realm Futures, which will further expand the CFP’s research program within the four thematic groups and strengthen the international ties and upcoming work with UCL Bartlett in London and LCAU at MIT in Boston.

Lanconic Inc.: Agile For Advanced Human Resources echnology has witnessed a massive growth in the last two decades and Agile is one such part of technology, which has not only disrupted the tech world but has been working its way into other areas and functions. After being used for product development, manufacturing, marketing - Agile is now transforming how organizations hire, develop, and manage their people. To help meet customers’ growing demand for advance products and exceptional service, businesses need to grow and develop their workforces. But to avoid strain on personnel and to increase productivity, businesses are now using agile for managing human resources throughout all stages of this growth.

This people-focused solution offers comprehensive HR technology to restore the human aspect of human resources, including the crucial components lost to mounds of paperwork, constant input of repeated information, compiling and pulling spreadsheets for reporting, and other time-consuming tasks that otherwise prevent HR teams from personally connecting with their people.

“Turning to technology for human capital management means less time spent worrying about accuracy hindered by rules & regulations, and more time spent collaborating and making strategic decisions that can facilitate your business’s growth,” says Sandeep Reddy Vinjamuri, CEO, Lanconic.

Addressing this situation, Lanconic Inc offers a diverse collection of solutions for managing human resources, all on a single, cloud-based platform. It provides a central portal for all of the company’s people information, offers one-click access to employee data for a simplified process, and is all about creating efficiencies. Moreover, this technology transcends traditional HR, with features for optimizing recruiting, onboarding, time, talent, performance, and succession management, and business intelligence reporting. “When it comes to developing your

Sandeep Reddy Vinjamuri, CEO

workforce and growing your business, Lanconic is the key to unlocking your utmost potential,” adds Sandeep.

A company’s human resources department is responsible for more than just hiring employees and handling conflicts. Human resource departments must also manage benefits, payroll, and wages, employee engagement, training, and understanding of workplace laws, among many other things. Though today’s technology has made it much easier to juggle multiple responsibilities and see better results in areas such as employee retention, communication, and even cost management, Lanconic noticed that its clients have plenty of challenges to overcome within human resource management in an organization. Thus, Lanconic serves its purpose and has become their best solution to overcome their challenges on human resource management.

By the virtue of technology, HR for the first time in history is playing a true leadership role in business execution.

While technology plays a crucial role in transforming human resources management software and operations from personnel management to business execution, technology itself does not create this change. HR managers must leverage technology to drive real value

to the business since digital technologies facilitate greater integration and flexibility, thus allowing employees to have a great voice and share their work experience. Technology is poised to disrupt HR and redefine the future of the human resource department.

Employee engagement and culture management drives HR in the ever-changing landscape. As HR continues to adopt the change, the enterprise will become smarter.

The business mainly depends on three things – defining strategy, asset management, and driving business.

Lanconic Inc acts as an indispensable factor for success is intelligent technology in this aspect. Lanconic also offers software development, implementation and consulting services to its clients. The company worked with one of its clients that used to spend hours a day to analyze risk and process large data sets to enable them to make an effective and informed decision, by coming up with solutions for the ease of business in the industry.

Lanconic started small with a single employee and a small office in 2013. With constant struggle and listening to the needs of the market, the company evolved over the years into a market leader. It has also recently launched Smart Recruit – ATS Tool & WCMS – (Onboarding, ETMS) and a Careerportal Careersfetch.

A company’s human resources department is responsible for more than just hiring employees and handling conflicts

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Top 50 Most Innovative Companies to Watch 2020

Since the day one of mankind’s existence, we have been thriving on innovation. The innovation of technology was a revolutionizing factor in human lifestyle and since then, we never looked back. With an array of technology solution for almost every problem, technology started growing and thus started growing the demands of humans. There upon came up several organizations with more innovative solutions. But only few companies could make it to the top level to be addressed as innovative companies. It takes a lot to reach to that level, from analyzing the ROI to customer experience.

Thus the current edition of CEO Views brings to you "Top 50 Most Innovative Companies to Watch 2020�. The list highlights some of the innovative companies who offer the best in class in the technology landscape. The proposed list aspires to assist individuals and organizations to find the best companies that will help them accomplish their projects.

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Company Appnomic Systems appnomic.com Cupertino, CA

ASATE Group asategroup.com Montreal, Québec

AsiaPay North Point, Hong Kong

Axim Prepaid Holdings axiompph.com, UK

BizNuvo biznuvo.com Charlotte, NC

Bojorge & Associates marlabojorge.com Valencia, Spain

BRITech britech.global São Paulo, SP

Canna Group Consulting LLC cannagroupllc.com Columbus, OH

Canon Business Process Services cbps.canon.com NY, USA

Management Nitin Kumar, CEO & Board Member

Bernard Gagnon, President Joseph Chan Founder & CEO

Steve Foster, CEO

Ravi Modukuri, Founder & CEO

Description Appnomic Systems deals with self-healing software that allows autonomous IT operations before they arise to predict and avoid problems.

ASATE Group is a management consulting and training firm. It helps organizations of all sizes and sectors better transform themselves and achieves superior results. ASATE has developed the world's most sophisticated company architecture approach, a rapidly evolving management discipline.

AsiaPay enables merchants to securely accept the most popular digital payment methods from credit cards, internet banking, and more on a single platform.

Axim Prepaid Holdings is bringing simplicity and convenience back to financial transactions. Through the power of advanced digital tools and a desire to disrupt, the organization gives consumers and businesses around the globe easy-to-use prepaid Visa® and Mastercard® products, programs, and services.

BizNuvo is an enterprise transformation platform for financial and retirement services. The organization's platform, delivered on-premise or cloud, will transform the way businesses perform and serve.

Marla Bojorge, CEO

Bojorge & Associates is an international corporate and immigration law firm located in Valencia, Spain. The firm specializes in finding the right legal solution for each client's unique circumstances.

Yuryi Murias Ferber, Founder & CEO

BRITech is making Investment Management Simpler and Faster! The organization provides software, infrastructure, and professional services provider for investment management ecosystem.

Sami Spiezio Founder & CEO

Joseph Marciano, President & CEO

Canna Group Consulting offers a full range of consulting services, from facility build-out, licensing and zoning, to managing daily retail operations, production, and processing.

Canon Business Process Services helps clients promote agility, digital transformation, and an increasing workforce.

Canon tackles these problems by leveraging its seasoned team, backed by insights from Six Sigma and best-in-class technology.

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Company Cavisson cavisson.com Santa Clara, CA

cFive Solutions cfive.com Tustin,CA

Chalice Financial Network chalicefn.com San Diego, CA

Cisive cisive.com Holtsville, NY

Cloudonix Inc - cloudonix.io NY, USA

Difrent Ltd. difrent.co.uk Chiswick, London

Dynamic Blending dynamicblending.com Vineyard, UT

EARA Technologies earatech.com Canada

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Management Sunil Sangal, CEO

Description Cavisson Systems Inc. is a leading provider of performance intelligence platform that ensures exceptional customer experience and business efficacy of mission-critical applications.

James Newman, Senior VP

cFive Solutions provides software that connects innovative community supervision agencies with the information needed to support behavior change, promote rehabilitation, reduce recidivism, and keep communities safe.

Keith E. Gregg, CEO

Chalice Financial Network is a community dedicated to solving the unique challenges the client face as a wealth advisor and entrepreneur. The organization empowers clients with best in class technology and business solutions while inspiring them through a peer-to-peer community.

James Owens, CEO and President

Cisive is a global provider of compliance-driven approaches to human resource management and risk management. The main on-board and pre-employment background screening service for the organization offers a standardized, high-quality, and regulatory-compliant solution for employers.

Nir Simionovich, CEO

Cloudonix is the world's first contextual communications infrastructure as a service. Enabling voice, video, and messaging to be embedded into existing mobile and web applications - provided at a highly disruptive pricing model and ease of use.

Rachel Murphy, CEO

Difrent is a professional services partner to 'public good' organization delivering business efficiencies by challenging the status quo for tech-enabled business transformation.'

Jordan Erskine, President

Dynamic Blending is a global manufacturer of cosmetics that focuses on individuals, relationships, and quality. Dedicated to the customers' absolute satisfaction, they partner with cosmetic companies to produce the most creative manufacturing solutions available.

Grenville B. H. Lock, President and CEO

EARA Technologies specializes in health and safety software that help companies with safety excellence. In 2004, they released their revolutionary software, Xilo, and quickly transformed the health and safety market.

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Company Ecolog International ecolog-international.com Dubai

enCodePlus encodeplus.com ugar Land, TX

Management

Ali Vezvaei, CEO

Ecolog is a leading provider of integrated products, supply chain, logistics, technology, design, facilities management, and environmental services. It offers turnkey and tailored solutions and services for governments and defense, energy, oil & gas, mining and infrastructure, and humanitarian organizations.

Bret Keast, CEO

enCodePlu is the most advanced web-enabled technology used for writing, editing, updating, altering, archiving and publishing zoning and land development regulations, municipal codes or any other document, especially tables and graphics-rich ones.

Kaushik Punjani, Director

Euro Exim Bank is a revolutionary financial institution with a 'Class A' international banking license from Financial Services Regulatory Authority of St. Lucia and a member of the Caribbean Association of Banks.

Sander Flaum, Principal

Flaum Navigators accelerate the pharma marketing business growth through transformational ideas that are iconic, pristine, and hardwired to marketing and sales effectiveness.

Sam Khashman, CEO

ImagineSoftware is dedicated to creative technology and intuitive revenue cycle management technologies that help clients achieve peak efficiency and tangible outcomes by streamlining the process of billing and collections, maximizing employee productivity, and increasing profitability in action.

Euro Exim Bank euroeximbank.com St. Lucia, West Indies

Flaum Navigators, Inc flaumnavigators.com NY, USA

ImagineSoftware Imagineteam.com harlotte, NC

iMobile Mind Company imobilemind.com Taiwan

INFLOR inflor.com.br Orlando, FL

Shao Kang Chin, CEO

Enivanis Vilela Jr, CEO

Instant ON instanton.energy Santa Ana, CA

Description

AJ Perkins, President

iMobile Mind is an creative and global technology company offering customers smart solutions for operations and communications management through the Mobile Information Platform (MIP) and mobile security technology.

INFLOR is the market leader in forest management systems.

High performance in bio-asset management INFLOR is changing the way people manage biological assets around the world.

Instant ON (IO) insists on resiliency. Public Safety Power Shutoffs and blackouts can impact everyone. Instant ON facilitates the integration and distribution of smart Microgrid and Nanogrid technology. IO provides timely solutions to the industry's salient needs.

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Company Kerubiel kerubiel.com Budapest, Hungary

KTH Center abe.kth.se Stockholm, Sweden

Management

Dellei László György,

CEO

Lanconic Inc lanconic.com Iselin, NJ

Ledson Winery & Vineyards ledson.com Kenwood, CA

Tigran Haas, CEO

Søren Kjærulff, Founder & CEO

Lactobio focuses on the creation of new probiotic and microbial solutions to target and fight the problem of increasing infections caused by microorganisms being resistant to antibiotics.

Sandeep Reddy Vinjamuri, CEO

Lanconic was established with a vision in which it wanted to be a pioneer in the Technology Domain by offering solutions to realistic day-to-day problems with future requirements in mind. By concentrating on providing technology with experience, Lanconic provides solutions to issues that will make the process substantially more efficient.

Steve Noble Ledson,

CEO

LNL Systems

lnlsystems.com Natick, MA

Mark D. Barnes, CEO

Manzeera Solutions manzeerasolutions.co.uk Bracknell, England

Myocardial Solutions Inc. myocardialsolutions.com Morrisville, NC

Kerubiel specializes in the delivery of ICT, information management and privacy services, providing creative approaches from scratch, with many years of extensive experience in both the public and private sectors.

Since its inception in 1827, KTH has developed into one of Europe's leading technical universities and an important arena for knowledge development. As Sweden's largest university for technical research and education, they bring together students, researchers, and faculty from all over the world.

Lactobio lactobio.com Copenhagen, Denmark

Description

Maninder Singh, MD

John Funkhouser, Founder & CEO

Ledson Winery and Vineyards is a family winery located in the heart of Sonoma Valley. This is the story of five generations, spanning two centuries with one common family trait – a dogged determination and tireless work ethic in pursuit of their dreams.

LNL Systems is a leading supplier of integrated retail and supermarket communications solutions. LNL Systems delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of smart devices, platform integration, and analytics that retailers use to profit from the Internet of Things.

Manzeers Solutions enable companies to bridge the gap and unlock data in mission-critical ERP systems, driving data-driven business decisions from a single point of data truth.

Myocardial Solutions, Inc. is a software company developing cardiac diagnostics to leverage MR imaging and empower physicians to take preventive, proactive, and individualized approaches to heart health.

Company Natuvion natuvion.com Walldorf, Germany

OCTO Telematics octotelematics.com Rome, Italy

Pasture.io pasture.io Australia

Management Joanne Lang, CEO & Co-founder Natuvion Americas

Prescient prescientco.com Charlotte, NC

Nicola Veratelli, CEO

Ollie Roberts, Founder & CEO

Pasture.io empowers farmers to be the best at what they do with leading farm management. The company's mission is to deliver value to farmers. Pasture.io has been developed on-farm under farming conditions.

Debra L. Griffin, Founder

PPX-Tec's mobile patient engagement platform sends, receives health & insurance data between patients and providers with multiple vendors, multiple visits across the healthcare delivery system.

Magued Eldaief, CEO

Prescient's digital design-build network is an innovative, collaborative, turnkey solution used in the design and construction of multi-unit housing and hotel structures.

Prescient use the power of technology to connect architectural design, architecture, manufacturing, and assembly to the distinct disciplines.

Andrew Schultz, CEO

PRO Unlimited is a pioneer in contingent workforce management, laying the foundation with the launch of independent contractor misclassification and co-employment risk management services in 1991.

PRO Unlimited PROunlimited.com Boca Raton, FL

ProLung prolunginc.com Salt Lake City, UT

Jared Bauer, CEO

Reservation.com reservations.com Orlando, FL

ProLung is a pioneer in cutting-edge cancer predictive analytics that blends a proprietary algorithm with a patented non-invasive scanning technique called Electrical Impedance Analytics (EIA).

Yoav Dror, CEO

Decentralized Vision is the blockchain-based FinTech company behind the PumaPay PullPayment Protocol.

Through its innovative solution, PumaPay has redefined the boundaries of everyday crypto payments with a payment platform, which is not only truly comprehensive but benefits both the merchant and the customer.

Yatin Patel, Co-Founder

Reservations.com works with the mission is to bring the human touch back into the world of online travel. With a vision to provide travelers with personalized experiential travel planning.

PumaPay pumapay.io Limassol, Cyprus

Natuvion is known for its expertise and years of experience in delivering IT products and services to support companies through the whole process of Transformation & Data Privacy.

Octo Telematics is #1 global provider of telematics and data analytics solutions for the auto insurance industry. Founded in 2002, Octo invented the insurance telematics industry. Today, we are the largest and most experienced insurance telematics company in the world, providing actionable intelligence to 100+ industry partners.

PPX-Tec ppx-tec.com Sheung Wan, Hong Kong

Description

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Company Simatree simatree1.com NY, USA

Management

Patrick McCreesh, Co-Founder

The PIP Group ppipgroup.com Hilton Head Island, SC

UnlimitedViz Inc unlimitedviz.com Ontario, Canada

Vantagepoint AI, LLC vantagepointsoftware.com Wesley Chapel, FL

The PIP Group focuses on the highest interest rate tax liabilities, the highest amount of equity to protect the lien, and a high-yield compounding impact by redemption reinvestment proceeds into further tax liabilities.

Edward M. Senez, President

UnlimitedViz is a professional services company that focuses on developing and implementing Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services related solutions. The company has tremendous expertise in Document Management, Content Management, and Business Intelligence fields.

Lane Mendelsohn, President

Vantagepoint AI, LLC, was the first trading software developer in the financial industry to provide strategy backtesting capabilities in trading software for personal computers with its introduction of ProfitTaker Futures Trading software in 1983.

Desmond Tay, CEO

vCargo Cloud (VCC) is a leading Infocomm Technology (ICT) solution and service provider in Asia, specializing in offering trade and logistics related solutions to governments and enterprises worldwide.

Guy Elitzur, CEO

Vertical Field integrates natural values into daily life by developing solutions for the global food supply and growing green walls with the mission of creating healthier, prettier environments that improve the quality of urban life.

Madhup Verma, CEO

VTeamLabs is a technology solutions and services company that serves enterprises and other customers around the world through direct and partner channels.

Cathleen Beerkens, Founder

Wellness Revolution was founded to introduce new information and understanding to assist this change as we build leaders who will enable us to coach more holistically.

Vertical Field verticalfield.com Raanana, Central District

VTeamLabs vteamlabs.com Redmond, Washington

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Simatree is an advisory practice that blends a unique mix of technical prowess with people-focused service to achieve data-driven change. The organization harnesses the strengths of exceptional people to help clients transform their organization and build modern solutions.

Charles Sells, CEO & Co-Founder

Vcargo Cloud

vcargocloud.com Singapore

Description

preserving data ecosystems

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LEDSON WINERY & VINEYARDS: Custom-Made Wine for You and All

he days of face to face sales are going away and people buy most products online today. In this fast-paced world, time is very precious and people don’t want to spend a lot of time shopping like they used to. They want to find the product they’re looking for, purchase it and have it shipped to their doorstep. But it is extremely important to know your customers’ likes and dislikes.

Ledson Winery & Vineyards is a Direct-To-Consumer winery. The company does not distribute through any other channels, therefore, touches every customer itself to assure its customer service is impeccable and gets to know its customers. With a database of over 60,000 customers the Ledson business is based on simple metrics of ‘people buy people’ not product.

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Steve Ledson, CEO, Ledson Winery & Vineyards

“Dad used to say, it’s not what you say or do, that will matter with your customer, it’s all about how you make them feel. If every customer goes away feeling good about their experience, they will tell everyone

The company is constantly looking ahead and making the technological and geographical changes to remain a front runner in the industry

they know about how great your company is and every one of those people will tell many more. The moral of the story is simply word of mouth is by far the best advertising we can do in today’s world,” says Steve Ledson, Owner, Ledson Winery & Vineyards.

The wine industry is changing rapidly and a new generation is entering the marketplace. Their decision to whether have a glass of wine, a beer, martini, cannabis or all of them throughout the evening is affecting the sales of wine like never before. The price point someone is willing to spend is also dropping, making it extremely important to know your customers’ likes and dislikes. Ledson Winery & Vineyards is improving its software to track and market the new generation, as well as adjust price points to make sure that the company stays on track with its long term sales strategy of making wine for everyone’s palate and pocketbook.

Moreover, the company is constantly looking ahead

and making the technological and geographical changes to remain a front runner in the industry.

Though the company uses software to understand its customers’ demand, however, the software is only as good as what the human puts into it according to the needs of the business, such as all contact information, birthdays, anniversaries and any such special occasion, the best time to reach them, their buying habits, what they have purchased in the past, price point of products they purchase, and color or style of product they’re purchasing. But we live in a world of change, what works today doesn’t work tomorrow in this constantly revolving world. “Change means growth in opportunities, change is important in organizations to allow employees to learn new skills, explore new opportunities and exercise their creativity in ways that ultimately benefit the organization through new ideas and increased commitment,” adds Steve.

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YOUR SAP S/4HANA PLANNING DAYS ARE STILL NUMBERED Redesign and reuse your data in half the time with Natuvion’s innovative solutions

ith only 16% of customers live on SAP S/4HANA and 63% still caught in the planning phase, SAP has decided to extend the deadline requiring companies to move to SAP S/4HANA from 2025 to 2027.

This announcement, however, does not ease the urgency for companies to rethink their migration methods and integration of new and innovative technologies in their future business structure and processes.

Most companies that are still in the planning phase are most likely comparing the different methods in which they should transfer their data – whether it be a full system upgrade from an old ERP to a new SAP S/4HANA system (Brownfield), where readjustments are only possible to a limited extent. Another traditional option could be a completely new implementation of SAP S/4HANA (Greenfield), which does not provide the possibility to transfer historical data or completed processes.

Joanne Lang CEO & Co-founder

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The good news is… you don’t have to choose.

Together in an innovative community with SAP and partners, known as the SAP S/4HANA Selective Data Transition Engagement, Natuvion offers a third

option called the Selective Data Transition to help customers reuse and repurpose their data by enabling them to keep their historical data and existing processes. It represents an attractive hybrid of the other traditional migration approaches, which offers customers a certain degree of flexibility in their data migration needs.

As part of the Selective Data Transition, proven processes are initially retained and implemented on SAP S/4HANA and historical data can then be carried over. You can find out more about the Selective Data Transition Engagement in Natuvion’s Transformation Training webinar series here and listen to SAP, Customers, and Partners talk about their lessons learned during their SAP S/4HANA Selective Data Transition journeys.

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This announcement, however, does not ease the urgency for companies to rethink their migration methods and integration of new and innovative technologies in their future business structure and processes.

With Natuvion’s Cutover App, you can cut your migration efforts in half.

To compliment what may seem to be a very complex migration consisting of several cutovers, Natuvion has innovated a new project management app that can help you plan your detailed work breakdown structure for your move to SAP S/4HANA. This transformation app provides project leaders with transparency and the ability to automate task assignment throughout the entire cutover process. The app was built on the SAP Cloud Platform and can be used in several types of cutover projects.

Picture 1: Many of Natuvion’s customers have already been able

to transform their complex and long Excel project task lists into a dynamic and easy-to-use dashboard.

However, this cloud app comes with an SAP S/4HANA project cutover template to help you stay on the right track.

Depending on your exact project needs, you can set-up your app to track your individual team member tasks and automated messaging.

You can request a free demo on the SAP App Store here:

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s Oliver Roberts came across the problem of lost proďŹ ts due to not managing his dairy farm’s livestock grazing practices with pasture measurements, he analyzed the situation and established Pasture.io, to aid such issues.

Since then the platform has evolved from manually measuring the pasture quality and quantity in each paddock. Pasture.io has now developed solutions to deal with the impacts of seasonal and management changes on-farm proďŹ t through to a program that automates pasture measurements and delivers timely insights for maximizing the beneďŹ ts of accurate grazing decisions. So much so, that his dairy farm is now rewarded with more than 50,000 dollars of extra proďŹ t each year.

By collaborating with universities around Australia, Pasture.io has solved various farming issues like completing tasks on time, losing an opportunity by not making calculated management decisions and seasonal volatility that impacts a farmer’s bottom line of proďŹ tability. The company offers automatic and timely insights into farming operations. It saves the farmers from expensive labour to measure the pasture quantity in each of their paddocks. Pasture.io rather uses satellites, local weather information and the farmer’s paddock compliance records to ďŹ nd the measurement. The solution not only saves on time but has measured metrics that they can make sound farm management decisions that enable them to see the effects of seasonality and importantly increase their proďŹ t sustainably.

With the recent advancements of computing power and satellites that y over earth daily, capturing images at a resolution that is beneďŹ cial for meaningful information, Pasture.io also made a massive development in the rural areas as well. It uses advanced technology in the modelling space, utilizes bleeding edge statistical methodology and has maximized its machine learning architecture to run in

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Pasture.io has an interest in opening up the agricultural industry to the agtech world, universities and pre-tertiary students. It has thus been involved in a project that was headed by The University of New England called the SMARTFarm Project, where Pasture.io was able to partner with The University of Tasmania and Sense-T in developing a learning module for use across universities throughout the world. The project aims to bring realtime farm collected data into the classroom, allowing students to make on-farm management decisions from their computer. Thus, allowing students to get a feel of the daily decisions farmers make with real data. This allows students to see another side of farming that doesn’t involve gumboots. “Our product is built for scale and with the latest traction, this has been a critical component to our journey,� says Oliver Roberts, Founder & CEO, Pasture.io. The company has API backed everything in the system, which allows it to quickly partner with those who are open to sharing and who also share a similar ethos in helping farmers with their daily tactical and seasonal strategic outlooks.

Pasture.io has customers across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and North America and is gradually expanding in other pasture growing regions such as South America, South Africa and parts of Europe. The company is 100 per cent bootstrapped and proving to be an innovative company to watch throughout 2020 as global sales increase and the company grows a strong foothold in this agtech space. “We wish to aggressively expand our customer footprint across the globe, bringing a service to farmers with a high return on investment above 40x,� adds Oliver.

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That shortage is driven by several factors, but the lack of innovation and the structure of the housing construction industry is one of the key contributors. Prescient’s founders understood this and leveraged their experience, ingenuity, and the latest software and hardware technology to develop an integrated system that simply enables multiunit residential projects to be built more efficiently. The software and the hardware system called Digital Thread and Unified Truss Configuration System (UTCS for short) are the foundation for the company and its success.

The company started building a loyal team since Day 1, who faced and overcame an incredible number of challenges - from customer resistance and scepticism to regulatory hurdles to never-ending resource constraints to challenging technical issues, which all had to be solved to move forward. Some of them were pragmatic problem solvers who were inspired by the company’s vision of “Attainable Housing for All”. What makes Prescient unique

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is the combination of its ‘Digital Thread’ software and ‘Unified Truss Configuration System (UTCS)’ hardware.

Prescient’s proprietary software system interconnects a project’s components, processes and enables all stakeholders to have timely information to drive faster and cheaper project execution. The company’s projects begin with very accurate and detailed 3D Building Information Modelling (BIM) drawings. This requires more decisions to be made upfront, but results in far fewer surprises and associated greater costs that typically show up later in a project. The Digital Thread also provides a transparent view of a project’s schedule and progress for all project team members. That’s referred to as 4D BIM with Time being the fourth dimension. This supports communication, optimizes the schedule and provides alerts about potential risks. The Digital Thread uses artificial intelligence to analyse the immense amount of data it collects on projects to identify future efficiencies. It allows the company to pinpoint where the focus needs to be to impact time, cost and risk. Finally, the Digital Thread

delivers 5D BIM, with the fifth dimension being Cost, by providing project costs and changes to those costs as project requirements or decisions change. Having 3D drawings, along with clear and communicated schedules, together with costs early in a project is a major step One of the main reasons the company’s Digital Thread is accurate in its 3D representation – with the drawings matching the physical building - in its schedule and its cost estimate is that its UTCS can be manufactured and assembled very precisely. Prescient’s manufacturing plants are driven by the same Digital Thread and produces building components, which are accurate to 1/32nd of an inch. This means that all of the structural components that arrive in the field have been cut precisely, holes are where they’re supposed to be, rough openings are the exact size they were designed to be, and because they use steel, there is no ‘settling in’ period where dimensions shift. Components arrive on-site in a just-in-time fashion to reduce excess inventory on-site.

Assembly can be done at rates over 20,000 square feet per week. And the assembly process only requires a crew of 36 installers. This is a huge advantage that the Prescient system delivers within an industry where

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PRESCIENT’S TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES SPAN BOTH THE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE COMPONENTS OF ITS SYSTEM. labour is in such short supply! Finally, given the accuracy of the company’s designs, manufacturing and assembly, Prescient’s projects have little to no waste. The bottom line is that Prescient reduces costs, time and risk for every project it helps build.

Prescient’s approach to developing multi-unit residences is also more environmentally friendly than traditional methods. Their buildings typically weigh 50 to 65 per cent less than concrete equivalents, which mean they require significantly less carbon to produce. As mentioned above, the overall approach of digital design and precision manufacturing means the company’s projects experience significantly less waste. Also, the company’s steel is highly recycled, and 98 per cent of the water used to produce steel can be filtered and re-used. “While our buildings are designed for over a hundred years life cycle, when they are ultimately torn down, the steel can

be recycled and used again. Finally, our steel-framed buildings are energy-efficient throughout their useful lives,” says Magued Eldaief, CEO, Prescient.

Speaking of green initiatives, Prescient is currently being used to build the country’s largest Net Zero housing project. Prescient’s system was chosen for the 1.3 million-square-foot Student Housing project at UC Davis by CBG Building Company. CBG had used it on three previous Student Housing projects and one very large apartment building. They knew that using Prescient would reduce the number of workers they would need to use and more importantly, it would be Prescient’s technology initiatives span both the hardware and software components of its system.

The company continues to works on advanced digital solutions which will enhance its end-to-end digital thread for its core platforms. It’s also developing a market-facing portal that offers all project stakeholders the ability to interact real-time using the detailed BIM models to evaluate, design and execute projects faster Two of the most significant hardware initiatives are becoming certified to build up to 180 feet tall in seismic zones and demonstrating Prescient’s ability to avoid ‘progressive collapse’ situations for military buildings.

The seismic certification will open-up significant opportunities in markets like California, Mexico, South America and Asia which are all prone to earthquakes.

Prescient is seen to be considerably cost-advantaged to deliver seismic buildings over five stories tall.

The company has been recently approved by the Army Corps of Engineers for its engineered system to be adopted for all military barracks, dorms and hotels on bases around the world as it meets the government’s exacting technical requirements. Prescient is planning to start its first projects this year and expect a significant

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PRO UNLIMITED: Helping You Navigate the Complex Contingent Workforce Management Industry RO Unlimited, through its purely vendor-neutral and integrated Managed Service Provider (MSP) and integrated Vendor Management System (VMS) is a pioneer and leader in the contingent workforce management industry. Recently, we caught up with Dustin Burgess, SVP of Strategy, Analytics, & Metrics, PRO Unlimited who provided us with a detailed glimpse into the innerworkings of the innovative company.

Since 1991, PRO Unlimited has helped notable brands address costs, risks and quality issues associated with contingent workforce management. As a proven leader, PRO lists several areas that help us stand out from our competitors: Pure Vendor-Neutrality Industry-leading Integrated Services an Software Offering Award-winning Business Intelligence Quantifiable Cost Savings Time-tested Risk Mitigation Complete Client Dedication

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PRO has historically achieved program adoption and compliance rates well beyond industry benchmarks

As a purely vender-neutral MSP, PRO is not affiliated with any staffing supplier, which allows for a level playing field and competitive bidding on requisitions. This delivers market-driven, cost-effective rates and exceptional supplier engagement.

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combination of PRO’s staff, processes and technology yields true savings, cost avoidance and control. PRO has historically achieved program adoption and compliance rates well beyond industry benchmarks. This means that we capture and manage labor spend more effectively and make decisions in the best interest of the client because there exists no conflicts of interest between the vendors, the MSP, and the client.

Our vendor neutrality means that 4,500+ supplier network will not be managed by a competing entity. Instead, PRO builds working relationships with suppliers as partners – with our success hinging upon theirs. PRO mentors and provides feedback to the supplier community to ensure client managers’ needs are understood and they receive the right labor as quickly and effectively as possible. This is one of the largest contributing factors as to why PRO’s clients work with the industry’s best suppliers, and those suppliers are submitting their top-quality candidates through our programs.

Industry-leading Integrated Services and Software Offering PRO’s integrated MSP and VMS creates a seamless and agile experience for clients. In contrast, clients have indicated that staffing companies, with an MSP division lack the technology expertise, while companies that are technology focused are not well-versed in the human element of a full-service program. PRO has expertise in both and is fully accountable for the entire scope – this produces optimal performance and efficiency.

Furthermore, we make changes and configurations to both the process and technology quickly, ensuring that programs remain agile and can adapt as the business grows and evolves.

PRO’s VMS, Wand, has been independently rated, by analysts such as Gartner and Forrester, as an industry leader. As an omnichannel platform, Wand pioneered the industry on mobile capability enabling users with the freedom of access to data anywhere, anytime. The entire contingent workforce lifecycle for hiring managers and workers can be completed globally on a tablet, smartphone and wearable device.

Award-Winning Business Intelligence PRO delivers actionable analytics, reporting, and innovative business intelligence that includes predictive and prescriptive performance metrics. Using our integrated model, we are able to capture previously unmonitored contingent worker data to understand and optimize the MSP program. The firm is uniquely positioned in the market as a vendor-neutral MSP, enabling access to vast and unmatched amounts of data,

combined with expertise that allows us to deliver valuable insights to our clients they can’t receive through other consultants or staffing-aligned MSPs.

Quantifiable Cost Savings PRO works with each client to define and agree upon hard and soft dollar cost savings and cost avoidance components, savings goals and strategies. PRO takes a measured, analytical approach to delivering cost savings to our clients. Year one cost savings range on average from 6 to 12% with respect to managing the professional contingent labor. We measure these components through Wand, metrics, reports, audits, and historical data we collect from the client and suppliers to determine the appropriate baseline from which to measure. Also, we review quarter over quarter and year over year savings and equally as important, our strategy to achieve future savings without compromising candidate or supplier quality. Not only are year one savings important, but year 15 savings are equally as important. We ensure that any recommendations or strategies to drive value factor in impacts to quality, risk, and overall program health.

Time-tested Risk Mitigation Founded as a consulting and compliance organization, PRO was not developed by a staffing company. Risk mitigation is at the forefront of everything we do. We implement leading practices that stay ahead of tax and labor changes. Our world-class compliance team guides client programs to mitigate risk and exposure to co-employment, independent contractors and labor law classification, while implementing policies that meet needs of the business.

Complete Client Dedication PRO’s service delivery model is comprised of fully dedicated onsite staff, regional strategic account management, senior-level executive sponsorship, and full back office support. PRO’s teams assimilate themselves at each client to maximize program education and adoption, and to ensure that the program is aligned completely with each organization’s culture and goals.

PRO’s purpose has always been rooted in helping organizations expertly leverage their contingent labor in a way that is mutually beneficial to the employer, suppliers and workers. Our team members come directly from the industry, as well as leading organizations – from former IRS auditors and Labor Attorneys to staffing industry and business veterans with significant global experience. These teams are recognized by our clients as being knowledgeable, professional, resourceful, and consistently successful at exceeding our client’s expectations.

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There is a severe unmet clinical need to reduce the time required to determine malignancy in patients with Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules (IPN). Patients with IPNs can wait months, or even years, receiving multiple CT scans to confirm malignancy in the lungs. This wait often proves fatal as the cancer advances and spreads. To address this situation, ProLung, utilizes a patented non-invasive scanning technique called Electrical Impedance Analytics (EIA) combined with a proprietary algorithm. ProLung is focused on developing, testing and commercializing predictive cancer analytics utilizing bioconductance and Artificial Intelligence (AI) which is designed to accelerate the time to diagnosis, expand the therapeutic window for cancer patients and reduce the cost burden to healthcare systems.

The ProLung System is based on the principles of bioconductance where it measures the electrical impedance of the body. Moreover, the company is building upon earlier published research in this field that demonstrated an electrical impedance difference between malignant and benign breast, thyroid and cervical tissue. The Company continues to expand its intellectual property portfolio.

“Lung cancer patients are often diagnosed too late when the disease is in its later stages and when the five-year survival rate is just 17 per cent,” says Jared Bauer, CEO, ProLung. Thus, the company is aiming to help physicians shift the diagnosis to the earliest and most treatable stages, to increase the five-year survival rate to nearly 80 per cent. Early cancer detection models have repeatedly shown that outcomes are better and treatment costs are lower for earlier-stage cancers than for advanced-stage cancers. Keeping this in mind, the ProLung Test™, ProLung’s first predictive analytics platform for lung

cancer, was developed to contribute to significant survivorship increases and treatment cost advantages.

The FDA designated the ProLung Test as a Breakthrough Device in February 2020. Through this program, the FDA will provide ProLung with expedited reviews and the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) will provide a simpler and faster pathway to reimbursement. The FDA’s Breakthrough Device program is intended to expedite the development and prioritize the review of certain medical devices that provide for more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases or conditions.

Furthermore, this program is intended to help patients have more timely access to these medical devices by expediting their development, assessment, and review while preserving the statutory standards for premarket approval.

As a patient is scanned with the ProLung Test, a tremendous amount of patient-specific data is collected by the company’s system and ProLung believes that AI may help identify previously unrecognized patterns, yielding even greater performance. “The recent advances in AI may provide new avenues to further improve the performance of the ProLung Test,” adds Mr. Bauer.

ProLung is pursuing two development paths concurrently: First, it is focused on gaining FDA clearance to market in order to commercialize its ProLung Test in the USA. Second, the company is also pursuing feasibility research to determine the applicability of its novel EIA system to other cancers.

ProLung has already partnered with a hospital to scan breast cancer patients for feasibility research. The company plans to start additional feasibility studies for other cancers shortly.

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PumaPay’s PullPayment Protocol allows the merchant to ‘pull’ funds from its customer’s account, based on pre-approved terms.

ith its origin in the online, high-transaction industry, PumaPay noticed a lack of flexibility in blockchain cryptopayments. This was a major challenge in several industries as merchants wasted a lot of time and energy on some of the common issues associated with financing their businesses. PumaPay was established to streamline this situation, creating a completely comprehensive payment solution, for the benefit of both the merchant and their customers.

PumaPay analyzed some of the major pain-points its customers were facing on a regular basis when it came to card payments. Of those, they found that chargebacks and high transaction fees posed a major challenge - areas where traditional banking was not meeting the needs of the modern business.

The PumaPay PullPayment Protocol After realizing that cryptocurrencies are a good solution to this problem, PumaPay found that there was no singular currency that offered advanced billing models without the added risk of crypto volatility or slow settlement times. This led to the development of the PumaPay PullPayment Protocol, and the company was able to limit merchants’ financial issues through the simplicity and flexibility of this solution.

“Blockchain itself is an advanced technology. It is still very new, and we are still seeing its development in the crypto space. Through the PumaPay PullPayment Protocol, we were able to bring adaptability to this technology,” says Yoav Dror, PumaPay CEO.

The company took the traditional mechanism of the customer sending funds and completely inversed it.

PumaPay’s PullPayment Protocol allows the merchant to ‘pull’ funds from its customer’s account, based on pre-approved terms. This opened a wealth of billing possibilities globally, allowing PumaPay to become the first company able to provide subscription payments over the blockchain back in 2018.

Ultimate Billing Flexibility The company also found that its clients, especially within the adult industry, were struggling to find a payment solution that would offer privacy, without costly transaction fees and chargebacks for the merchant. However, after integrating the PumaPay PullPayment Protocol, many of these businesses realized that they could avoid these pains by utilizing blockchain technology. “We also found that any concerns over handling cryptocurrencies was eliminated with our Fiat Settlement functionality, which improves settlement times by automatically converting the crypto to fiat and delivering the funds direct to our client’s bank account,” adds Yoav.

PumaPay is working on developing more innovative solutions in the payment field by incorporating advanced technologyto its system to fill the existing gap in the finance sector. The company is constantly including additional features to its solution, including a service which will temporarily lock the PMA token rate and help overcome the crypto volatility risk. Moreover, PumaPay continues to publish regular updates on company news and industry trends on its website and social media channels as it keeps up with the modern demands of the ever-changing crypto landscape.

For more information, please visit pumapay.io.

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RESERVATIONS.COM: Customized Travel Solution for Modern-Day Travelers eservations.com was founded in 2014 by Yatin Patel and Mahesh Chaddah, two travel industry veterans who saw an opportunity to create a new online travel agency that filled the gap between traditional travel agencies and large OTAs like Expedia and Priceline.

“Travel has gone through massive changes over the last 30 years. Travellers used to meet face-to-face with travel agents to discuss travel preferences and arrange trips.

When the internet became more ubiquitous, travel moved online,” says Yatin Patel, Co-Founder. What was once defined by personalized relationships with travel agents became a highly commoditized online product. Under the new paradigm, customers generally don’t interact with a human during the reservation process. Reservations.com realized that there was an unmet middle-ground between traditional travel agents and low-touch internet alternatives. The company wanted to bring the human touch back into the world of online travel. Thus, Reservations.com invested heavily in a 24/7 call centre to give customers the option to call a travel expert at any stage of their travel booking process to ask questions, get ideas, or finalize a reservation.

The biggest challenge for the modern-day traveller is accessing a wide selection of accommodation options in an easy-to-use, intuitive platform. The second-largest issue is the ability to tap into higher-touch service when needed. Reservations.com focused on addressing both of these pain points. The company offered some of the widest inventory available at any OTA. Irrespective of the customers’ desired price point, room type, or location, Reservations.com has a solution for every travel planning process. Reservations.com offers its customers with unobtrusive call centre service to speak with a travel expert who can assist them in finalizing their decision and even help secure a cheaper, non-published rate.

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Reservations.com will continue to invest in this technological backbone to power the success of the entire company.

The company believes that artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions will completely redefine the way it interacts with its customers. With such technologies, it can leverage solutions that present smart choices to customers based on the type of travel they like to do and what price point they prefer, recreating the current one-size-fits-all travel paradigm. Asking questions like, “Do you like adventure travel?” or “Is this a romantic trip?” can proactively trim search results to only display the most relevant properties for each customer.

Moreover, this can serve as a lead generation tool, sparking travel ideas for customers rather than just reactively displaying results based on manual search queries. Younger consumers prefer to interact with brands through chat features rather than phone calls. As chat intelligence increases and the technology improves, these solutions will serve as a more common medium for customer interaction.

Reservations.com will continue to invest in this technological backbone to power the success of the entire company. This will enable it to add new supply partners and inventory types like cruises, flights, tours, and other experiences. Also, it will enable

Reservations.com to enter new geographies, especially outside of its core North American market. As it expands and localizes the website to different languages, Reservations.com can easily market its global inventory of hotel rooms to customers in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

As of 2020, Reservations.com has powered over 3m unique hotel reservations and 7.2m room nights. It has also been recognized as a leading growth-stage business by third-party organizations such as Inc., Deloitte, Comparably, Best in Biz, and the Stevies among others.

Reservations.com is continually thinking about ways in which it can better assist its customers in planning and reserving their dream trip, whether these be front-end tools that help customers brainstorm or uncover travel ideas or solutions that customer can interface with during their trip to power unforgettable experiences. “Consumer preference in travel is changing rapidly and we believe we will continue to be at the forefront of helping our customers through a seamless and easy-to-use reservation service,” adds Yatin.

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SIMATREE: A Purpose-Driven Approach to Analytics

imatree is an advisory practice that brings established solutions to other organizations intending to integrate and educate the people, culture, technology, and processes of other organizations to optimize the use and capitalization of complicated and unclear data. Simatree harnesses the strengths of exceptional people to help develop the business and build effective solutions. The unique and personalized approach covers all industries and company sizes, and allows the clients to recognize and capitalize on the value of their data assets.

The team at Simatree has been working in data, analytics, and change management for over 20 years and has knowledge about the market and understands the trends.

“There are two converging trends where we saw an opportunity to emerge; first, there is a push by organizations to do more with data irrespective of their size. As a result, companies are creating leadership positions such as Chief Data Officers and forming a team to capture value from data. Secondly, the data industry's response to this demand was technology and tools, but leveraging the value from data is not a technology problem, it is an organizational problem. Most organizations have tools to manage and analyze their data. Instead, they lack the right people to utilize the data to business need, the right processes to get data-driven challenges from decision-makers, and the right leadership to use data to drive and transform organizations,” reveals Patrick McCreesh, Co-Founder of Simatree. He further added, “It was the convergence of demand and misaligned leadership where Simatree saw an opportunity to provide something else – a real leadership and people-driven strategy for leveraging data and analytics.”

The people at Simatree believe that staying ahead of the curve is about culture. There is no way to mitigate uncertainty, except to keep a broad perspective on the development and delivery of services. Simatree is doing this in two key ways. First, the team at Simatree collaborates relentlessly and partners with a variety of technology partners and remains agnostic from any single solution to provide the clients with the right solution and allow their recommendations to evolve with emerging trends.

Secondly, Simatree drives for general problem-solving in the employees. As Simatree doesn't want complete specialists, they hire curious Swiss Army Knives who can solve problems in a variety of ways with a variety of tools.

Simatree believes that adaptability is built into the DNA, and that is how they will lead in an evolving marketplace.

Simatree would rather be the leaders of a $100 M ecosystem than the sole owner of a $5 M company, which will add more value to Simatree and their clients.

The biggest unforeseen challenge in driving analytics solutions is change management. Central to this is the assumption that the analytics solutions provided by the company will be used and accepted by people. Simatree's entire strategy is, therefore, based on understanding the end-user and then designing, communicating, training, and promoting the use of analytics solutions.

Analytical tools have proliferated in the marketplace. It is not just business intelligence software, but over the last ten years, the whole stack of data analytics products has expanded dramatically. “I foresee one of two things happening in this space- consolidation or specialization.

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lot of tools have duplicative capabilities. Some players build from the data to visualization; some start with visualization. All of them provide some value, but it doesn't seem like this expansion of data and analytics products can continue forever. It will be interesting to watch where the consolidation happens,” reveals McCreesh.

On a current engagement, Simatree is supporting an organization that is designing its Chief Data Officer role and team. Simatree is helping the organization to define the characters and the structure of the team as well as providing assistance to design the data and implementing the architecture for the organization. Moreover, Simatree is supporting the migration of the data from on premise solutions to the cloud and simultaneously working with the business units to develop analytics use cases and provide data to decision-makers. In short, Simatree is helping the organization to build a full approach to data and analytics.

Simatree is building a technology ecosystem of partners that allows operating at all levels of the tech stack and across all industries. Simatree may go more in-depth with few partners and receive certifications or become implementation partners and may go lighter with other partners and maintain loose relationships. Either way, it is about expanding that ecosystem to maintain a reliable, relevant, and growing business.

Simatree currently has offices in New York and Washington, DC, and has operations in Dallas. Simatree would like to build out their Dallas presence and add another office in Boston. The expansion will follow the key markets – financial services, insurance, health care, and the public sector.

The Simatree team supports organizations as they develop their purpose-driven approach to analytics. Simatree believes that effective data and analytics programs start with a strong purpose for the use of data that yields a strategy for data and analytics. Simatree helps organizations develop this purpose and strategy and then works with organizations throughout the transition journey to execute that strategy.

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Organizations produce a lot of data but often lack the technology to adequately capture and convert that data into actionable insights. Nothing underscored this more than when all office workers across the globe were forced into a work-from-home environment.

Suddenly organizations faced the daunting task of understanding if users were struggling and what the mood of the workforce was given that they could no longer walk by people’s desks to find out.

Most companies have already transitioned their workforce to Cloud platforms like Microsoft 365 and this has really allowed them to deploy a work-from-home workforce at scale. Certain key workloads of the Microsoft 365 platform like Microsoft Teams have become business critical. This is evidenced by the exponential spike in daily active usage as reported by Microsoft in March 2020. One gap that exists is the ability to properly measure and monitor this usage not just for Microsoft Teams, but across the entire Microsoft 365 stack. This is where the tyGraph solution was able to close that gap. tyGraph was originally created to assist organizations with digital transformation by providing rich insights into usage and adoption patterns. Given these founding principles it could quickly be adapted to answer the new questions created by this surge in work-from-home users.

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“We have been inundated with calls from customers asking for analysis for key questions like ‘are people connected and who is struggling?’ or ‘what are people saying and how are they feeling?’” says Ed Senez -President and Co-Founder. To fill this gap, UnlimitedViz repurposed the data it was already collecting into new visualizations which included employee usage churn, and artificial intelligence algorithms for key word analysis and sentiment tracking. “When you cannot see your workforce, it makes it extremely difficult to assess organizational mood. Like people who have lost their vision, they need to enhance other signals to get a sense of what the world around them looks like. The data can tell you that if you have a sophisticated processing engine and the ability visualize it.” says John White, CTO and Co-Founder.

“Nothing could have prepared us for what has happened over these past few weeks.” states Ed Senez. “This data has become business critical as evidenced by the fact that it is included in daily briefings to senior leadership of some of the largest companies in the world. Given our global footprint and the fact that all customers are using a homogenous solution like Microsoft 365, we have been able to scale rapidly to meet this demand.” UnlimitedViz is currently deployed to global enterprises on five continents with major concentrations in the USA, Northern Europe and Australia and about 2MM users.

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n the last few decades, technology has always aimed to improve the quality of life but inevitably has sometimes destroyed nature in the process of advancement.

Vertical field’s technology is doing the opposite; our goal is to revive nature by using technology.

Vertical Field was established in 2006, motivated by the ambition to bring nature into the urban lifestyle.

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Over time, the company realized that there is more than just aesthetic to living walls and that nature can contribute in many intangible ways. “We understood people’s need to surround themselves with a green and healthy environment, and that’s when we started to collaborate with Bar-Ilan University and the University of Nanjing in China on a study sponsored by the National Science Foundation,” says Guy Elitzur, CEO, Vertical Field. The study aims to monitor the environmental, health and the direct and indirect economic benefits of living walls on the

u r b a n Vertical Field aims environment such as local to lead the c l i m a t e , temperature, transformation of radiation, humidity, wind, the urban and carbon and ecosystem by water fluxes.

Now, Vertical integrating Field is involved in urban planning, natural values urban renewal, building preservation, and improving construction, and interiors as well as the the quality vertical urban food supply. of city life.

Vertical Field aims to lead the transformation of the urban ecosystem by integrating natural values and improving the quality of city life. One of the main solutions that the company is focusing on is a vertical, soil-based system for urban farming in any indoor or outdoor space. The portable urban farm can be located on the roofs of buildings, in recycled shipping containers and more to offer fresh, healthy, organic and free of pesticides garden, curated for every specific space. The system allows maximum yield from a small area. Its fast plant growth cycle provides a frequent and regular supply of agricultural produce year-long for urban environments and smart cities.

The company’s primary objective is to give supermarkets, restaurants, hospitals or any other institution, the tools to grow their own produce and to provide it onsite. Most supermarkets struggle with the high costs of the supply chain and longer growing cycles dependent upon unpredictable weather conditions.

With Vertical Field’s solution, organizations need not worry about the weather or external conditions. They can get a consistent in-house supply and reduce and monitor their inventory waste.

“The real challenge is to show corporations the economic and the health benefits so that they get motivated to change the way they are operating,” adds Guy. Most indoor urban farms use hydroponic growing systems and Vertical Field is the only company that

developed a unique soil-based vertical growing platform, revolutionizing the concept of planting. The idea of using a soil-based solution supports Vertical Field’s values of keeping plants in their original environment and utilizing natural values in people’s life. The vertical agriculture platform has an irrigated system that distributes air equally for perfect growing conditions, including climate control and an independently operated lighting system that simulates sunlight and optimizes the photosynthesis process.

Vertical Field’s intuitive app helps its users to control and monitor all the plant vital signs while the smart algorithms and sensors take care of the rest. The vertical portable farm is built in a recycled shipping container, can be located anywhere and is capable of growing and distributing more than 200 different crops. The vertical farm can be located near a supermarket store, in the parking lot of a restaurant, or on the roof of a hotel. The produce is fresh, healthy, pesticide-free, and super tasty. The vertical farm uses 90 per cent less water than conventional agricultural methods and consumes less electricity than any other vertical farming solution on the market.

One of Vertical Field’s projects was to build a vertical farm located on the rooftop of a building for usage by a famous restaurant in Tel Aviv located within the building. The farm provides constant and fresh produce to the restaurant on a rotating basis given that the concept of the restaurant is to have a new chef every six months with menus that are also changing. In addition, it is important that the roof is maintained for visitors to experience not only fresh food but also its beauty.

With a goal to penetrate the global market, Vertical Field has started focusing on the US market and is about to launch its new agriculture CEA (Closed Environmental Agriculture) platform this year. The company is also planning to offer a completely new business model in which they will not have distribution costs and will allow its clients to create a unique shopping experience for their customers who can walk up to the vertical wall and pick off the herbs ready to eat and at the same time create a greener and healthier environment.

Vertical Field is all about making our cities, buildings, food and our urban life greener, healthier and prettier, emphasizing nature’s value in our lives.

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A Wellness Revolution Health is ultimately your Wealth aving the resources to meet all the needs of our existence on earth can be challenging. However, when we are sick, stressed out, unhappy and exhausted this becomes even more challenging.

Ultimately avoiding illness is not good enough. We need to appreciate that possibility and learn to focus on creating a life of wellness where we feel balanced, happy and full of life and optimism.

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The year 2020 is significant as it marks a shift for the next decade of tremendous technological changes.

It is becoming evident that as a society, we are challenged to adapt, both personally and in our communities. Chronic diseases are on the rise as well as health care expenses. Health Care workers are also stressed and are having trouble managing their workloads and many are suffering a Burn-Out.

Thus, A Wellness Revolution was created to bring new information and understanding to help this transition. A Wellness Revolution is an educational company, committed to training Health and Wellness Coaches. These certified Health and Wellness Coaches become leaders who can help people coach more holistically. The students are taught the significance of the cellular level, focusing on body, mind and spirit so they can bring to their clients a much deeper, more robust definition of self-care. The company exposes them to the newly evolving and developing Sciences of Epigenetics, Neuroscience, and Glycoscience, giving a more Holistic Vision of what Wellness means.

Its innovation lies in the fact that we look to science for a better and more complete understanding of Health and Wellness. The company believes that students from any background, be it therapist, practitioner, nurse, business or lifestyle coach, parents and people who are interested in living a more conscious health-driven life can influence their path and future self by consciously living their lives. A Health Coach can help someone by coaching

their clients to reprogram the subconscious mind to effect real change in their life. Health Coaches often help clients change behaviors so that they can support them with Lifestyle changes related to eating habits, exercise routines, stress reduction practices and often taking a closer look at areas in their life that are unsatisfactory.

The company’s coaching course is online and its students are from all over the world, from Hawaii to Australia, on almost all continents. Its 6 months course runs twice a year accredited by the ICF (International Coach Federation) and upon completion of this course, students will earn 63 hours for ICF Approved Coach Specific Training Hours (ACSTH). Its uniqueness is the personal attention the company gives to its students as it offers a continuing education program. A Wellness Revolution has started a YouTube channel to help people learn about Holistic Health and Wellness, which discusses the topic of Health and Wellness and interviews someone in the field monthly.

“We want to look at what the science of Epigenetics is teaching us. The science is showing us that our Lifestyle choices matter and that we are more powerful than we ever realized,” adds Cathleen.

A Wellness Revolution is passionate about training the students to help their clients adapt to change and to find balance and true wellness on all levels within themselves We are committed to creating a ripple effect in our communities as we help people realize their potentiality and opportunity to influence their future in a new way in this new time.

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