Events

Pleasanton, Calif. – – September 24, 2026 -- Aqua Medical, Inc. has closed a Series B financing round led by Nashville-based Relevance Ventures, with proceeds earmarked to complete its ongoing U.S. RESTORE-1 pilot study and prepare for a planned U.S. pivotal trial of its investigational diabetes procedure.

Series B capital targets completion of RESTORE-1 pilot and pivotal trial launch

The financing will fund the remaining stages of the RESTORE-1 pilot study, which is evaluating Aqua Medical's Proximal Intestinal Mucosal Ablation (PIMA) procedure for Type 2 diabetes under an FDA-approved Investigational Device Exemption. The company said the round will also support operational preparations, including patient recruitment infrastructure, for a larger planned pivotal trial subject to regulatory authorization.

Washington – September 24, 2026 -- Moore has been named brand agency of record for the Alzheimer's Association, expanding an existing fundraising mandate to now cover strategy, creative and media across the health organization's master brand.

Moore expands scope beyond fundraising into full brand management

The appointment follows a competitive review process and grants Moore oversight of all brand creative development, paid media planning and delivery, and marketing across the Association's master brand and national initiatives. The agency will also support select medical and scientific research communications, product launches, and campaigns aimed at reinforcing the Association's position in brain health.

New York – September 24, 2026 -- Eighty-one percent of senior living executives say resident acuity has increased over the past two years, according to a new report from Sage, an integrated Care Intelligence Platform for senior living and skilled nursing. The findings, unveiled at Sage's caregiving summit Sage Shift, draw on a survey of 510 senior living executives, community leaders and caregivers conducted between July 9 and August 31, 2026, alongside operational data from communities running Sage's platform.

Seoul – September 24, 2026 -- Hyosung Heavy Industries is scaling its proprietary voltage-source converter (VSC) HVDC technology to 2 gigawatts, building on a commercial base of 200 MW systems, as it targets a position among the world's top three power solutions providers within five years.

Hyosung began HVDC development in 2012 with a 20 MW demonstration project in Jeju

The company subsequently developed 200 MW converter valves and control systems and deployed them on live grids, building operational experience that it is now applying to large-scale 2 GW systems. Since 2012, Hyosung has pursued in-house development of core HVDC components rather than licensing external technology, part of a South Korean government push to localize converter valves, control systems and converter transformers.

Beijing – September 24, 2026 -- Honor's global smartphone shipments surpassed 71 million units in 2025, making it the fastest-growing leading smartphone vendor after the company's domestic market share had collapsed to just 3% following its November 2020 spinoff from Huawei.

Shipments climbed 25% in Q1 2026 despite market headwinds

Honor extended its recovery into 2026, with first-quarter shipments rising 25% even as broader smartphone demand faced pressure. The gains follow a period in which the roughly 7,000-person team operated without an owned operating system or manufacturing facilities.

Tokyo – September 24, 2026 -- Cellid Inc. is showcasing its binocular, full-color AR glasses reference design "Crux" at Snapdragon Summit, the annual technology event hosted by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. in Hawaii, USA, running September 22-24, 2026.

Crux pairs Cellid's proprietary waveguide with Qualcomm's Snapdragon platform

The reference design combines Cellid's proprietary waveguide and display module with a Snapdragon platform, targeting high-end AR applications. The company states the integration delivers high-quality visuals alongside a wearing experience closer to standard eyeglasses, addressing a persistent trade-off in AR hardware between optical performance and form factor.

New York – September 24, 2026 -- Trustpilot has launched dedicated Product Review Pages along with expanded Location Reviews, AI Search Market Insights, and a beta version of Trustpilot AI, targeting businesses seeking greater visibility in AI-driven search and shopping tools.

Research shows product-level pages lift AI citation rates by 12 percentage points

Independent analysis by Seer Interactive found that Trustpilot was the most frequently cited review website across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Gemini. The same research found that businesses using dedicated Product Review Pages achieved brand citation visibility 12 percentage points higher than those relying solely on a company profile page.

New York – September 24, 2026 -- AutonomyAI has launched Discover Mode, completing its Autonomous Product Delivery system that turns a product manager's question into a review-ready pull request without engineering handoffs. More than 170 product teams, including Datadog, Nielsen, SolarWinds and SolarEdge, already run on the platform.

Discover Mode researches product questions across company data before a single line of code is written

A product manager can ask why signups are dropping or which issue customers report most, and AutonomyAI scans product analytics, support tickets, customer calls and the codebase to return an evidence-backed brief. The system can also flag improvements on its own by monitoring usage patterns, without a prompt from a human.

New York – September 24, 2026 -- Baseline, a loan origination and servicing platform built for private real estate lenders, has integrated Xactus verification solutions directly into its workflow, allowing clients to order, track, and receive credit and flood reports without leaving the platform.

Integration eliminates manual data re-entry across separate verification systems

Private lenders previously had to log into a separate system, re-enter borrower data, and manually pull results back into the loan file to complete verification. Baseline says the new integration removes that step, embedding Xactus verification data directly into its dashboard.

Baltimore – September 24, 2026 -- Richard Huffman, founder, president and CEO of Celebree School, joined U.S. Rep. Johnny Olszewski and a local Chick-fil-A owner on a featured panel at the 2026 International Franchise Association Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C., pressing for passage of the American Franchise Act.

Record crowd of 500 franchise executives lobbies Congress

The Summit, hosted by IFA Senior Director of Federal Government Relations Haider Murtaza, drew more than 500 franchise executives, owners and Franchisees of the Year to the capital. Attendees spent the week urging lawmakers to pass the bipartisan American Franchise Act, which would establish a single, permanent federal joint-employer standard for the franchise industry after a decade of shifting rules.

Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 24, 2026 -- Discern Security has launched an integration with Jamf that turns existing device inventory data into visibility on AI and Shadow AI tools running across managed Mac fleets, the companies announced. The integration is available now on the Jamf Marketplace.

Integration requires no new endpoint software

The system uses a read-only API role and the Jamf agent already deployed on managed devices, avoiding additional installations. It draws on Jamf Pro data spanning computers, computer groups, OS X configuration profiles, patch policies, software title configurations, mobile devices, applications, users, LDAP servers, SSO, and webhooks.

New York – September 24, 2026 -- Clear Channel Outdoor (NYSE: CCO) has become the first out-of-home media company integrated into LiveRamp's Cross-Media Intelligence platform, expanding its RADAR data system to plug OOH exposure data directly into the measurement tools marketers use for CTV, social, search, digital video and audio.

The company also announced new integrations with TransUnion's Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) solutions, allowing RADAR exposure and delivery data to be resolved against identity data and folded into portfolio-level and customer-level performance models.

Irvine, Calif. – September 24, 2026 -- TCL has become a "Proud Partner of the Green Bay Packers" under a new multi-year agreement granting the consumer electronics brand in-stadium signage, video board sponsorships, and digital activations at Lambeau Field.

TCL secures branding rights across Lambeau Field and Packers digital channels

The deal gives TCL rights to use Packers trademarks in advertising and promotional materials, subject to team approval, alongside video board replay sponsorships and in-stadium signage at Lambeau Field. The partnership also extends to digital advertising and social media activations across Packers-owned channels for the duration of the NFL season.

Jacksonville, Fla. – September 24, 2026 -- LandSouth Construction, a multifamily general contractor operating across the Southeast for nearly 30 years, has launched a redesigned website at www.LandSouth.com aimed at how developers now research and vet construction partners before making contact.

New site structures project history by market, location, and construction expertise

The platform allows developers, owners, and investors to explore LandSouth's work across multifamily luxury housing, HUD/affordable housing, and other specialized development sectors in one place. The company said the redesign gives prospective clients clearer visibility into its nearly three-decade project history and the types of developments it has delivered.

Seattle – September 24, 2026 -- Atossa Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATOS) announced that President and CEO Steven Quay, M.D., Ph.D., will serve as a panelist at the 13th Aging Research and Drug Discovery Meeting (ARDD 2026), scheduled for October 1-3, 2026, at the David Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard University in Boston.

Quay joins regulatory and academic leaders to discuss clinical pathways for aging-related diseases

The panel, titled "Clinical Trials in Diseases of Aging: From Evidence to New Therapeutics and Regulatory Pathways," is set for Thursday, October 1, 2026, from 11:20 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET. The session will be moderated by Sebastien Thuault, Editor at Nature Medicine, and will include Jill Lee, Director of Regulatory Policy & Intelligence at Novo Nordisk; Calum MacRae, Professor at Mass General Brigham; and Steve Horvath, Professor at UCLA.

Washington – September 24, 2026 -- The Leapfrog Group, a national watchdog organization of employers and other health care purchasers, has elected Raquel Bono, MD, MBA, FACS, as its new Board Chair, marking the first time a surgeon has led the nonprofit's board.

Retired Navy Vice Admiral brings $50 billion health system oversight to Leapfrog's board

Dr. Bono is a board-certified trauma surgeon and retired three-star Vice Admiral in the U.S. Navy, where she served as the 11th Chief of the Navy Medical Corps. From 2015 to 2019, she directed the Defense Health Agency, overseeing integration of a $50 billion global health system serving millions of service members and their families.

Toronto – September 24, 2026 -- Rock Tech Lithium Inc. (TSXV: RCK) (OTCQX: RCKTF) (FWB: RJIB) will hold 18 scheduled one-to-one meetings at the Muskoka Capital Event running September 25-27, 2026, as part of a push to deepen ties with Canadian institutional capital.

Rock Tech books 18 meetings among 47 companies and 55 investors at CEM's year-end event

The event, hosted by Capital Event Management Ltd. (CEM) at the JW Marriott The Rosseau Muskoka Resort & Spa in Muskoka, Ontario, marks CEM's final Capital Event of 2026. Rock Tech's 18 sessions, each 20 minutes, will run alongside roughly 47 other participating companies and more than 55 institutional investors, portfolio managers, investment advisors, family offices and high-net-worth investors drawn from across North America.

Washington – September 24, 2026 -- Lyntris Inc. (NYSE: LYNX) has completed qualification of a wedgelock assembly critical to Raytheon's SPY-6 radar family, closing a supply chain gap identified during the U.S. Navy program's shift to full-rate production.

Two-year effort converts a long-lead bottleneck into an in-house capability

The qualification followed nearly two years of joint work between Lyntris and Raytheon, an RTX business, after a supply chain review flagged the wedgelock -- a sub-assembly within the Radar Modular Assembly (RMA) chassis -- as a risk to build-rate targets. Lyntris established manufacturing processes, validated performance, and secured qualification as a scalable production source meeting U.S. Navy requirements.

Philadelphia and Boston – September 24, 2026 -- Minaris, a global cell and gene therapy CDMO, has partnered with synthetic biology firm Asimov to integrate proprietary OXGENE viral vector technology into Asimov's AAV Edge producer cell lines, targeting higher manufacturing titers and improved product quality for adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapies.

Stable production systems aim to replace costly transient manufacturing

Most AAV programs currently rely on transient production, requiring multiple GMP plasmids to be transfected for every batch. This method drives up costs, limits scalability, and can produce inconsistent product quality. Stable production systems have historically been difficult to develop due to the complexity and interdependency of viral genetics involved.

Los Angeles – September 24, 2026 -- MDpanel, one of the largest providers of expert medical opinions in the United States, has appointed Manish Nariwal as Chief Operating Officer and Jim Andrews as Chief Client Officer, both reporting to Chairman and CEO Jason Erdell.