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Inscrições abertas para o 19th Annual International Business Awards®

Novas Categorias Incluem Realização em Mídias Sociais e Liderança de Pensamento

FAIRFAX, Va., March 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Os Stevie Awards abriram as inscrições para o 19th Annual International Business Awards, a principal competição Stevie® para premiação de empresas que atrai indicações de organizações em mais de 60 países e territórios todos os anos.

Todas as pessoas e empresas públicas e privadas, com fins lucrativos e sem fins lucrativos, grandes e pequenas – podem enviar indicações para o The International Business Awards. O prazo para a inscrição antecipada, com taxas reduzidas, é 6 de abril. O prazo final para inscrições é 11 de maio, mas aceitaremos inscrições até 15 de junho mediante o pagamento de uma taxa de atraso. Os detalhes da inscrição podem ser encontrados em www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

Corpos de jurados com mais de 150 executivos de todo o mundo escolherão os vencedores do Stevie Award Ouro, Prata e Bronze. Os nomes dos vencedores serão anunciados em 15 de agosto e homenageados em um banquete de gala na Europa em outubro.

Os International Business Awards homenageiam as conquistas em todas as facetas do local de trabalho. As categorias incluem:

Existem muitos recursos novos e revisados do The International Business Awards para 2022:

  • Nove novas categorias de prêmios de eventos, dez novas categorias de inovação nas redes sociais, três categorias de liderança em pensamento, três categorias de vídeo, três categorias de sites e aplicativos para dispositivos móveis, duas novas categorias de produtos e categorias para a Campanha de Marketing de Diversidade e Inclusão e Influenciador do Ano
  • As indicações vencedoras nos IBAs de 2021 podem ser reapresentadas para consideração nos IBAs de 2022. Se tiverem sido atualizadas com conquistas recentes, podem ser inscritas nas mesmas categorias em que venceram. Se não tiverem sido atualizadas, devem ser inscritas em categorias diferentes das que venceram.
  • Em muitos grupos de categorias e categorias agora é possível enviar um vídeo de até 5 (cinco) minutos de duração, ilustrando as realizações do candidato, em vez do tradicional ensaio escrito para o Stevie Awards.

Os vencedores do Stevie Award nos IBAs de 2021 incluíram Ayala Land (Filipinas), Cvent (EUA), Ernst & Young Global Limited (Reino Unido), Etihad Airways Group (Emirados Árabes Unidos), IBM (EUA), Halkbank (Turquia), HP Inc. (EUA), Google (EUA), Nestle India (Índia), PJ Lhuillier, Inc (Filipinas), Rufus & Coco (Austrália), Philip Morris International (Suíça), Polish Railway Lines (Polônia), SAP SE (Alemanha) e muitos mais.

Sobre os Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards são concedidos em oito programas: Stevie Awards Ásia-Pacífico, Stevie Awards Alemão, Stevie Awards Oriente Médio e África do Norte, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, Stevie Awards para Grandes Empregadoras, Stevie Awards para Mulheres Empresariais e Stevie Awards para Vendas e Serviço ao Cliente. Os concursos Stevie Awards recebem mais de 12.000 nomeações todos os anos de empresas de mais de 70 países. Honrando empresas de todos os tipos e tamanhos, e as pessoas por trás delas, os Stevies reconhecem excelente desempenho no local de trabalho em todo o mundo. Saiba mais sobre os Stevie Awards em http://www.StevieAwards.com.

Contato:
Nina Moore
+1 (703) 547-8389
[email protected]

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Appel à candidatures émis pour la 19e édition annuelle des International Business Awards®

Les nouvelles catégories incluent les réalisations dans les réseaux sociaux et le leadership éclairé

FAIRFAX, Virginie, 08 mars 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Les Prix Stevie acceptent désormais les candidatures pour la 19e édition annuelle des International Business Awards®, le programme international de récompenses pour les entreprises le plus prestigieux au monde, qui attire chaque année des candidatures d’organisations provenant de plus de 60 pays et territoires.

Toutes les personnes et organisations du monde (publiques et privées, à but lucratif et à but non lucratif, grandes et petites) peuvent soumettre leurs candidatures aux International Business Awards. La date limite des premières candidatures, qui bénéficieront de frais d’entrée réduits, est fixée au 6 avril. La date limite des candidatures finales est fixée au 11 mai, mais les candidatures tardives seront acceptées jusqu’au 15 juin, moyennant le paiement d’une pénalité de retard. Les détails des candidatures sont disponibles à l’adresse www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

Les jurys composés de plus de 150 cadres à travers le monde détermineront les lauréats des Prix Stevie d’or, d’argent et de bronze. Les lauréats seront annoncés le 15 août et célébrés lors d’un banquet de gala qui se tiendra en Europe en octobre.

Les International Business Awards récompensent les réalisations dans tous les aspects du lieu de travail. Les catégories incluent :

L’édition 2022 des International Business Awards propose de nombreuses fonctionnalités nouvelles et révisées :

  • Neuf nouvelles catégories pour les événements, dix nouvelles catégories pour l’innovation dans les réseaux sociaux, trois catégories pour le leadership éclairé, trois catégories pour les vidéos, trois catégories pour les sites et applications mobiles, deux catégories pour les nouveaux produits, ainsi que des catégories pour les réalisations en matière de diversité et d’inclusion et de campagne de marketing d’influence de l’année
  • Les candidatures lauréates lors des IBA 2021 peuvent être de nouveau soumises pour examen dans le cadre de l’édition 2022. Si elles ont été mises à jour avec des réalisations récentes, elles peuvent être soumises dans les mêmes catégories que celles dans lesquelles elles ont gagné. Si elles n’ont pas été mises à jour, elles doivent être soumises dans des catégories différentes de celles dans lesquelles elles ont gagné.
  • Dans de nombreux groupes de catégories et catégories, il est désormais possible de soumettre une vidéo d’une durée de cinq (5) minutes maximum, illustrant les réalisations du candidat, au lieu de l’essai écrit traditionnel des Prix Stevie.

Les lauréats des Prix Stevie lors des IBA 2021 comprenaient Ayala Land (Philippines), Cvent (États-Unis), Ernst & Young Global Limited (Royaume-Uni), Etihad Airways Group (ÉAU), IBM (États-Unis), Halkbank (Turquie), HP Inc. (États-Unis), Google (États-Unis), Nestlé India (Inde), PJ Lhuillier, Inc (Philippines), Rufus & Coco (Australie), Philip Morris International (Suisse), la société nationale des chemins de fer polonais (Pologne), SAP SE (Allemagne) et bien d’autres encore.

À propos des Prix Stevie
Les Prix Stevie sont décernés dans huit programmes : les Prix Stevie en Asie-Pacifique, les Prix Stevie en Allemagne, les Prix Stevie au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord, les American Business Awards®, les International Business Awards®, les Prix Stevie pour les grands employeurs, les Prix Stevie pour les femmes entrepreneurs et les Prix Stevie pour les ventes et le service à la clientèle. Les concours des Prix Stevie reçoivent chaque année plus de 12 000 candidatures émanant d’entreprises de plus de 70 pays. En récompensant les entreprises de tous types et de toutes tailles, ainsi que leurs collaborateurs, les Prix Stevie reconnaissent les performances exceptionnelles sur le lieu de travail dans le monde entier. Pour en savoir plus sur les Prix Stevie, rendez-vous sur le site http://www.StevieAwards.com.

Contact :
Nina Moore
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From apparel to clinical trials: Lululemon Founder Commits $100 Million to Find Cure for FSHD

Chip Wilson suffers from a rare form of muscular dystrophy and seeks scientific innovators to find a cure to help him and others

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The world’s most successful entrepreneurs are often willing to share how lessons learned and resilience have shaped their business sense, but few transcend their successes to optimistically forge a path to overcome one’s biggest challenge – their health.

Going public with his own story, Wilson, who was diagnosed with Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 2 (FSHD2) at age 32, announced he has committed $100 million and created a new venture, Solve FSHD, with the objective of finding a cure for FSHD by 2027, targeting the underlying genetic cause or improving muscle function and growth.

“Solve FSHD will accelerate the underfunded development of drugs and therapies to stop muscle degeneration, increase muscle strength and improve the quality of life for those living with this,” said Wilson, who stopped playing squash 10 years ago because he could no longer lift a racquet over his head.

At 67, the serial entrepreneur and father of five boys says his upper body is “very wasted.” His legs have lost significant muscle tissue and Wilson can see a time in the not-so-distant future when he will need the assistance of a wheelchair.

“I can still walk, but I must be very intentional and present, or I will trip and fall. I do see a day when I will be unable to walk on my own,” said the Canadian entrepreneur and venture philanthropist. Currently, there is no cure for FSHD, a genetic disorder that has varying symptoms, severity, and progression. According to the Mayo Clinic, muscle weakness usually starts in the face, hip and shoulders. Onset usually occurs in the teenage years but can begin in childhood.

“It’s one of the most prevalent adult muscular dystrophies. The investments of Solve FSHD now to help validate biomarkers and develop new therapies will pay dividends later for any company or researcher pursuing better therapies for FSHD. These investments form the foundation to support future clinical trials and serve as a seed for further funding and investment,” adds Dr. Jeffrey Statland, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Dr. Statland has conducted clinical and research training in neuromuscular diseases, with a primary interest in FSHD.

“Solve FSHD will support projects that normally wouldn’t receive funding, including bottlenecks in the pipeline and thereby accelerating the development of clinical trials and novel therapies. We can move quickly and pursue multiple projects simultaneously,” Wilson said.

Scientists, biotech and biopharma companies, muscular degeneration specialists and other researchers working in similar muscular dystrophy fields are all encouraged to contact Solve FSHD. Solve FSHD is seeking to fund or invest in potential research partners, companies, and clinicians interested in advancing related research and clinical trials.

Solve FSHD also wants to hear from those with FSHD or who suspect they may have it, who can help by volunteering to join a contact registry for clinical trials.

“FSHD is life-altering and I know my future will be challenging,” said Wilson. “I prefer not to sit in the stands but go out on the courts with my time and money to help this important cause so very close to my heart. In this way, there is something to smile about for those touched by FSHD.”

About Solve FSHD
Solve FSHD is funding innovative biotech and biopharma research and development activities that accelerate novel treatments of Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) treatment. It is fully funded and created by Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist Chip Wilson. The founder of yoga-inspired athletic apparel company Lululemon Athletica inc. has been living with FSHD for the last three decades of his life. He has committed $100 million of his own money to create Solve FSHD and kick-start funding into projects that fit the organization’s mission: accelerate research into new therapies and find a cure for the disorder by 2027.

Future announcements for grant funding will be issued on Solve FSHD’s website – https://solvefshd.com/

For early-stage companies, contact Solve FSHD at [email protected].

If you have FSHD and want to find out about clinical trials or be included in the FSHD registry, please see Solve FSHD’s website – https://solvefshd.com/

For media inquiries or to request a media interview, please contact:
Kamran Shaikh, Account Director
PR Associates
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778-846-5406

 

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Huawei’s FusionPower6000 Wins Innovation Product Award at Data Centre World 2022

LONDON, March 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Huawei’s Smart Converged FusionPower6000 Solution, an industry-leading power supply and distribution system, won the DCW award in the Innovation Product of the Year category at the recently-concluded Data Centre World London 2022.

Data Centre World Awards, presented annually, are designed to recognize and reward innovations and achievements across the global data center sector. That Huawei brought home the innovation award this year shows the industry’s recognition of FusionPower6000 for its high density and efficiency, simplified delivery, and enhanced security and reliability.

With a patchwork model of the power supply system, most medium and large-sized data centers lack system optimization and full-link monitoring and management, suffering from low efficiency and high energy consumption. To address these pain points, the FusionPower6000 solution provides MW-level integrated power supply and distribution solutions for large data centers by integrating full-power links from the medium-voltage transformer to the load feeder. The award-winning solution has three main features:

  • Simple: With modular, hot-swappable components all prefabricated in the factory, Time To Market (TTM) is slashed by 75%, while maintenance is simplified.
  • Green: Featuring full-link convergence to reduce the physical footprint by more than 40%. Power link efficiency also reaches up to 97.8% in Super ECO mode, supplying power in an environmentally-friendly way.
  • Smart and Reliable: Operations and Maintenance (O&M) is made easy thanks to a visualized system, Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered fault prediction and proactive maintenance, life prediction of core components, online switch settings, and sound and image recognition.

As the preferred choice for large data centers’ power supply and distribution systems, Huawei’s FusionPower6000 solution has been widely used in various industries, including energy, transportation, ICT, and COLO. Compared with traditional solutions, Huawei’s solution has helped the data center facility of the CTICC Cloud, a subsidiary of the China Transport Telecommunications & Information Centre (‘CTTIC’), save more than 40% space (about 750 square meters) in the power supply and distribution system, deploy 350 more cabinets, and save more than 16,000 meters of power cables. What’s more, the prefabricated modular data center takes only two weeks to be installed on-site. The AI technology allows for predictive maintenance, strengthening the safety and reliability of the power supply system.

Looking into the future, Huawei will continue to invest in innovation to create a more highly dense and efficient, safe, and reliable power supply system for the data center sector and drive the industry toward sustainable development.

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Inclusive growth key to address gender equality

The Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Maggie Sotyu says with women recognised as the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change, inclusive economic growth is key to addressing gender inequality.

Sotyu said this when she participated in the debate on International Women’s Day during a sitting of the National Assembly on Tuesday.

She said women are increasingly being recognised as more vulnerable to climate change impact than men as they constitute the majority of the world’s poor as they are more dependent on natural resources which climate change threatens the most.

“It is therefore important that inclusive economic growth is key to addressing unemployment, gender equality, health and other poverty-related issues,” she said.

Sotyu said government’s National Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, which was approved in 2020, defines the country’s vulnerabilities and outlines plans to reduce those vulnerabilities.

She also said that the strategy leverages opportunities and outlines required resources for such action, with demonstrating progress on climate change adaptation.

“It also outlines the set objections, interventions and outcomes to enable the country to give expression to its commitment on the Paris Agreement.

“As a guiding principle, our strategy aims to promote the participation of women, take gender differences and vulnerabilities to climate change into account and address the needs and priorities of both women and children,” she said.

Sotyu said the years 2020 and 2021 have been record-breaking for extreme weather events around the world with extreme weather that is more frequent, intense and widespread than experienced in past years.

She also said that the vulnerability to biodiversity loss and climate change impact are deeply connected to gender and sustainability interventions, responses and solutions need to consider gender issues if they are to fully meet the objects for which they were established.

“We are also promoting integration of gender issues in disaster resilient-related programmes, including promoting and requiring the generation of gender disaggregated data and analysis and the monitoring and evaluation of the specific impact these events have on women and girls.

“Furthermore, our department has developed a strategy towards gender mainstreaming in the environment 2016-2021 – the first of such sector strategy in the country – to provide strategic guidance for gender mainstreaming in the environment sector. This is with the purpose to ensure that initiatives in the sector are aimed to support the creation of policies that support gender analysis and mainstreaming during the development of new projects and including gender perspective into the whole project cycle management.”

Source: South African Government News Agency

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Department welcomes Beitbridge border fence judgement

The Department of Public Works & Infrastructure (DPWI), has welcomed the judgement handed down with regards to the Beitbridge Border fence project.

The judgment was handed down by Judge Lebogang Modiba on Tuesday.

This as the department and Special Investigating Unit (SIU) had sought just and equitable relief in terms of section 172(1)(b) of the Constitution, including an order seeking to divest the contractors (Caledon River Properties (Pty) Ltd and Profteam CC) from any profits derived from the contracts relating to the 40km long fence.

The construction of the fence was done as part of the emergency COVID-19 procurement during 2020 but soon after it was erected; it fell apart – prompting an SIU investigation.

Judge Modiba has stated that “it is just and equitable to apply the no profit and no loss principle” and dismissed the right of the contractors to retain the profits arising from these contracts.

The judgement requires that the profits accruing to the contractors from the project be repaid to the DPWI. The department also noted the statement from Judge Modiba that further corrective measures lie in holding to account “the officials who designed, approved and implemented” the project.

With regards to these further corrective accountability measures, the DPWI’s Acting Director General, Imtiaz Fazel, confirmed that in February 2022 the State concluded its case in the majority of disciplinary hearings against the implicated DPWI employees.

The defendant employees are scheduled to finalise their response to the State’s case by the 8th April 2022.

In addition to these disciplinary processes, the acting Director General, has offered the Engineering Council of South Africa the DPWI’s full co-operation to investigate the conduct of professional engineers within and contracted or sub-contracted to the DPWI in this matter.

“I wish to assure our employees and the wider public that the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure is committed to clean governance and enacting consequence management where necessary. I gratefully acknowledge the assistance and bravery of the State’s witnesses from the DPWI, SIU and National Treasury in last month’s disciplinary hearings.

“As the DPWI works to improve delivery, communication and consequence management, we are seeking to play our part in rebuilding the confidence and trust that South Africans have in their government,” said Fazel.

Source: South African Government News Agency